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Caring Across Boundaries: Is This Our Canada?
Alternate Title
Is This Our Canada? How Racial Discrimination in Children's Services Undermines the Potential of This Generation of First Nations Children and What You Can do to Help
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cindy Blackstock
Description
Executive Director of First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada speaks on inequities in funding for Aboriginal children, focusing on Jordan's Principle, Shannen's Dream, and the discrimination complaint lodged with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5 (slide show)
Total Duration: 41:88.
Creating a Market for Inuit Art: 1949-1967
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Susan Rowley
Description
Speaker uses examples from the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia to illustrate talk which focuses on federal government's involvement in creation and marketing of Inuit art.
Duration: 1:13:11.
Crisis on Tap: First Nations Water for Life
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
University of Victoria Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
Description
Documentary takes a critical look at the environmental public health challenge as expressed by First Nations peoples living in Canada.
Duration: 30:15.
Current Health Services, Chapter 3
Alternate Title
[Implementing the Vision] ; Chapter 3
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
First Nations Health Council
Description
Chapter 3 of series looks at the health care system including limitations in decision making and governance.
Duration: 5:52.
Duty to Consult
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gerald Heckman
Description
Discusses the right of Aboriginal title and duty to consult. Presents examples where Aboriginal people and the Crown have come together to reach an agreement.
Duration: 7:30.
[Episode 8. Part 1: Calvin Helin]
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David Berner: Ending the Dependency Trap ; episode 8, part 1
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Calvin Helin
David Berner
Description
Interview with the author of two books which discuss First Nations reliance on the government and the need for self-sufficiency.
Duration: 14:18.
Part II.
[Episode 8. Part 2: Calvin Helin]
Alternate Title
David Berner: Ending the Dependency Trap ; episode 8, part 2
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Calvin Helin
David Berner
Description
Continuation of an interview with the author of two books which discuss First Nations reliance on the government and the need for self-sufficiency.
Duration: 14:13.
Part I.
History of Aboriginal Child and Family Service
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Wendy Whitecloud
Description
Discusses the history non-native social workers within Aboriginal communities and the beginning of First Nations' control of child welfare.
Duration: 7:11.
Indian Residential School Litigation
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Karen Busby
Description
Looks at suits filed by residential school survivors against the Canadian government for loss of culture, spirituality and physical and sexual abuse.
Duration: 7:13.
[Is There a Traditional Perspective of Truth and Reconciliation?]
Alternate Title
[Indigenous Knowledge Seminar Series, University of Manitoba]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission speaks about background, mandate and approach of Commission. Also explains the history of governments' attempts to eradicate Aboriginal culture by forced assimilation of children through the residential school system.
Duration: 1:39:29.
[James Bartleman on Challenges Faced by Aboriginal Kids]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cheryl Jackson
James Bartleman
Description
Ontario's first Aboriginal Lieutenant-Governor and author of the book As Long As the Rivers Flow discusses the legacy of residential schools.
Duration: 18:57.
Joseph Boyden and John Ralston Saul. Part Two
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Joseph Boyden
John Ralston Saul
Description
Joseph Boyden and John Ralston Saul discuss their books from the Extraordinary Canadians series.
"October 12, 2010, Toronto Reference Library."
Duration: 9:57.
[Kevin Annett: The Truth About the Canadian Residential School Massacres]
Alternate Title
Face to Face
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jack Etkin
Kevin Annett
Description
Discusses the genocide of indigenous children and the film, Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide.
Duration: 54:41.
Passamaquoddy Peoples: Canada's Denial of Recognition as Just Another Path to Extinction
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Native Awareness Days ; 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Hugh Akagi
Description
Speaker discusses the implications of the Federal government's refusal to recognize the First Nation.
Part 1: 23:48.
Part 2: 22:55.
[Professor Castellano on Reconciliation. Part 1]
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Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marlene Brant Castellano
Description
Marlene Brant Castellano, Professor Emeritus at Trent University, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011.
Duration: 4:49.
Part 1 of 5.
Qimmit: A Clash of Two Truths
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ole Gjerstad
Joelie Sanguya
Description
Documentary examines the controversy surrounding the decline in the sled dog population between 1950-1970. Many Inuit believe that dogs were killed as part of government policy, while officials deny this claim.
Some images may be disturbing to viewers.
Duration: 68:08.
Reconciliation, Recognition and Resentment in Indigenous Politics
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Glen Coulthard
Description
Duration: 1:17:38
[Satsan on Reconciliation. Part 4]
Alternate Title
Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Herb George]
Description
Satsan (Herb George), President of the National Centre for First Nations Governance, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February 2011.
Duration: 4:47.
Part 4 of 5.
[Treaties: Pimacihowin ... the Future]
Alternate Title
Framing the Future
[Growing Saskatchewan Conference; 2010]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Milton Tootoosis
Description
Video of representative from the Office of the Treaty Commissioner speaking at the 2010 Growing Saskatchewan Conference.
Five parts. Viewer is automatically sent to next part.
Total duration: 59:10.
We Are All Treaty People: Maritime Beginnings
Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
James Miller
Description
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces the history of treaty-making from its early beginnings with the Peace and Friendship Treaties through to the present day.
Lecture given at Dalhousie University.
Duration: 41:17.
We are All Treaty People: New Models for a Shared Future
Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Speaker discusses the initial relationship between Aboriginals and Europeans, the motives behind the numbered treaties, the two parties' differing interpretations of the agreements, and the modern situation.
Lecture given at the University of Victoria.
Duration: 40:16.
We are All Treaty People: Redefining the Relationship
Alternate Title
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces history of treaty-making in Canada, with particular reference to Ontario.
Lecture given at the University of Waterloo.
Duration: 44:36.