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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.
"How Do I Put That Away" [Part 2]
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[Indian Residential School Personal Stories]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Hazel Squakin
Description
Presents a First Nations Elder speaking about her experience with residential schools and the impact on her life.
Access Part 1.
Duration: 6:22.
Hunger, Human Experimentation and the Legacy of Residential Schools
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ian Mosby
Description
Presentation on the history of a series of nutrition experiments conducted on residential school students between 1948 and 1952.
Duration: 49:34.
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic/Syndemic on Indigenous Peoples in Canada & USA
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Niigaan Sinclair
Kiera Ladner
Valerie Gideon
Evan Adams
Bonnie Healy
Courtney Skye
Kim Pate
Julliette Nicolet
Megan Minoka Hill
Damien Lee
Description
Online conference consists of two panels which address the questions "How might data better help us understand the unequal effects of COVID-19 and ensure Indigenous capacity, preparedness and resilience?' and 'How has the community experienced COVID-19?'.
Duration: 3:04:32.
Implementation of Jordan's Principle: Understanding and Addressing Disparities in Health and Social Services for Status First Nations Children Living On-Reserve
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lucyna Lach
Anne Blumenthal
Vanda Sinha
Description
Webinar covers background to the child-first principle, progress in implementation, Federal and provincial governments' operational narrowing of its application and refusal to acknowledge cases, Pictou Landing Band Council (PLBC) & Maurina Beadle v. Canada, court rulings, and description of study which will collect systems information.
Duration: 1:15:59.
Incident at Restigouche
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alanis Obomsawin
Description
Film about the Québec Provincial Police (QPP) raid on the Restigouche Reserve in June 1981 due to disputes over the salmon-fishing rights of the Micmac people. This film deal with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
Duration: 45:57.
Indian Act & You
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sarah Konwahahawi Herne
Anenhaienton
William Mitchell
Description
Discusses shared past and relationship with Canada and explains the Indian Act.
Duration: 27:32.
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.
The Indian Residential School System of Canada: The Search for Truth, the Need for Reconciliation
Alternate Title
[ISID Conference 2014: Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Presentation by the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on the history of residential schools, treaty promises, abuse in the schools and more.
Duration: 44:59.
Indigenous Rights & Resistance
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ward Churchill
Description
Lectures on colonialism.
Duration: 56:06.
Indigenous Voices in the News
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sheila North
Karyn Pugliese
Description
Award-winning journalist and former executive director of news and current affairs at the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, discusses the network's philosophy about reporting on elections from an Indigenous perspective and the mainstream media's lack of coverage about Indigenous issues.
Inquiring Minds: Understanding the Call for, Role of, and Limitations on an Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: Panel Discussion
Alternate Title
[What Does an Inquiry Mean?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
James Wilson
Niigaan Sinclair
Lorena Fontaine
Leslie Spillett
Description
Topics included Indigenous men's role in violence, activism around the issue, and international reports and Canada's duty to respond. Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 1:38:19.
Inuit Voices on Arctic Security Nilliajut
Alternate Title
Inuit Nipingit Ukiuqtarqturmit Naammaktitauniup Miksaanuz
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jordan Konek
Curtis Konek
Ian Mauro
Description
Duration: 20:35.
Companion book: Nilliajut: Inuit Perspectives on Security, Patriotism and Sovereignty
[Is Australia Big Enough for Reconciliation?]
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The Annual ANU Reconciliation Lecture ; 2014
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Fred Chaney
Description
Presenter discusses how reconciliation is about more than equality but also about recognizing the possibility of continuing difference.
Duration: 31:44.
[Is There a Traditional Perspective of Truth and Reconciliation?]
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[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.
It's Not Gonna Happen: The Indigenous Response to Capitalism in an Era of Unbridled Capitalism
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Our Home on Native Land: Native Awareness Days 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Roland Chrisjohn
Description
Introduction and complete lecture given at 2011 STU Native Awareness Days in Fredericton, Brunswick.
Introduction video: duration: 16.27
Lecture audio: duration: 2:09:11.
[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.
John "Rocky" Barrett: Constitutional Reform and the Citizen Potawatomi Nation's Path to Self-Determination
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Leading Native Nations Interview Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John "Rocky" Barrett
Ian Record
Description
Examines the self-determination, governance, and development issues facing Indian Country, including building effective governments, developing strong economies, solving difficult social problems, and balancing cultural integrity and change.
Duration: 1:02:39. Includes textual transcript.
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Jordan River Anderson: The Messenger
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
National Film Board of Canada
Alanis Obomsawin
Alison Burns
Description
Documentary about the ongoing battle faced by the families of First Nations and Inuit children to ensure that they receive the same level of services as non-Indigenous children. Until 2017 these services were not available due jurisdictional disputes between provincial and federal governments despite a stated commitment to Jordan's Principle and the decision of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Duration: 1:05:35.
Justice is Coming: Ending Incremental Equality for First Nations Children
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Wunusweh Lecture in Aboriginal Law ; 2014
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cindy Blackstock
Description
Argues that the government of Canada has deliberately and consistently underfunded a whole range of services for children living on-reserve.
Duration: 1:00:22.
[Justice Murray Sinclair on the Royal Proclamation of 1763]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Considers implications of the Royal Proclamation and the meaning of mutual respect originally promised.
Duration: 30:50.
[Kahente Horn-Miller: Indigenous Missing and Murdered Women and Girls]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kahente Horn-Miller
Description
Talks about contrasts in world views and racism which perpetuate the problem of violence towards women starting from the historical point of contact.
Duration: 20:10.
[Kill the Indian, Save the Man]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ward Churchill
Description
Author discusses his book, Kill the Indian, Save the Man".
Duration: 55:57.
Labrador North
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Roger Hart
Description
Film explores the impact of forced relocation on the Labrador people to larger communities.
Duration: 37:33.
Land Claims [Part Two]
Alternate Title
A Framework for Recognition of Métis Rights and Aspirations
Métis Land: Rights and Scrip Conference
Métis Nation of Alberta's Registry: A Digital Approach to Connecting Historical and Contemporary Communities
MNA's Registry: A Digital Approach to Connecting Historic and Contemporary Communities
Reconciling Métis Rights: Strategies for Negotiations with the Crown
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Douglas Eyford
Ryan Shackleton
Harry Slade
Description
Three presentations: "Reconciling Métis Rights: Strategies for Negotiations with the Crown"; "MNA's Registry: A Digital Approach to Connecting Historic and Contemporary Communities"; and "A Framework for Recognition of Métis Rights and Aspirations". Followed by question and answer period.
Last Resort
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APTN Investigates ; season 10
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Christopher Read
Holly Moore
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)
Description
Investigative report on the physical and mental abuse suffered by young male offenders, most of whom were Indigenous, at a northern Saskatchewan wilderness camp run by the Ranch Ehrlo organization during the 1970s. The wilderness experience was thought to address behavioural Issues.
Duration: 23:50.
The Law's Role in Canada's Disgrace: Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls
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Shirley E. Greenberg Chair for Women and the Legal Profession Speaker Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Pam Palmater
Description
Discuses Canadian state's role in perpetuating root causes of violence against, and vulnerability of, Indigenous women.
Duration: 1:13:26.
The Legacy of Nutritional Experiments in Residential Schools
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ian Mosby
Robert Joseph
Eduardo Jovel
Gerry Oleman
Jessie Newman
Description
Panel discussion involving school survivors, Director of Indigenous Research Partnerships at University of British Columbia, dietetics student, and author of Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942-1952.
Duration: 2:02:55.
A Life Discarded
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Global 16x9 ; October 24, 2015
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Carolyn Jarvis
Claude Adams
David Dickson
Grant Charles
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Frances Robson
Description
Reports about the years of neglect by professionals and the social care system that led to the death of a young Aboriginal woman, Paige Gauchier, from a drug overdose on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Duration: 21:13.
Report by the BC Representative for Children and Youth Paige's Story: Abuse, Indifference and a Young Life Discarded.
Linking Arms Together 2013: AM Session Guest Speaker Dr. John Milloy [Part 3]
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Linking Arms Together (Part 3): Guest Speaker Dr. John Milloy
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Milloy
Description
Leading academic expert on residential schools speaks at Linking Arms Together symposium held at York University June 28, 2013.
Duration: 29:27.
Linking Arms Together 2013: AM Session Residential School Survivor Panel [Part 4]
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Linking Arms Together (Part 4): Residential School Survivor Panel
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Margaret Tourville
Michael Cheena
Murray Crow
Description
Three survivors of residential schools, Margaret Tourville, Michael Cheena, and Murray Crow speak about their experiences at panel session from Linking Arms Together Symposium held York University June 28, 2013.
Duration: 1:12:53.
Linking Arms Together 2013: PM Session Guest Speaker Chief Wilton Littlechild [Part 6]
Alternate Title
Linking Arms Together (Part 6): Guest Speaker Chief Wilton Littlechild
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Wilton Littlechild
Description
Member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Wilton Littlechild speaks at Linking Arms Together Symposium held at York University, June 28, 2013.
Duration: 24:16
Linking Arms Together 2013: PM Session Guest Speaker Dr. Marlene Brant Castellano [Part 5]
Alternate Title
Linking Arms Together (Part 5): Guest Speaker Dr. Marlene Brant Castellano
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marlene Brant Castellano
Description
Professor of Native Studies speaks at Linking Arms Together symposium held at York University, June 28, 2013.
Duration: 32:10.
Linking Arms Together 2013: PM Session Keynote Address Grand Chief Edward John [Part 8}
Alternate Title
Linking Arms Together: (Part 8): Keynote Address Grand Chief Edward John
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Edward John
Description
Speaks about Indigenous human rights internationally and within Canada at Linking Arms Together symposium held at York University, June 28, 2013.
Duration: 46:40.
Linking Arms Together 2013: PM Session Un Declaration Panel [Part 7]
Alternate Title
Linking Arms Together (Part 7): UN Declaration Panel
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Craig Benjamin
Ellen Gabriel
Jennifer Preston
Romeo Saganash
Paul Joffe
Description
Panel speaks about the UN Declaration of Human Rights at the Linking Arms Together symposium held at York University June 28, 2013.
Duration: 1:56:55
The Mace Runner Ceremony
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cynthia Block
Description
Comments on two historic events that occurred on May 29, 2006 in the Saskatchewan legislature; the 100th anniversary of the first sitting and the first recognition of treaties and treaty relationships.
Duration: 14:03.
The Métis Status Decision
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
William Wicken
Description
History professor discusses the significance of Daniels v Canada with regards to identity of non-status Indians.
Duration: 5:16.
Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls: Revealing the Numbers Game
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lillian Dyck
Description
Speaker talks about how some of the data has been misinterpreted or ignored by the RCMP, federal government, and media. Implication has been that most women were murdered by their spouse, family member, or intimate partners on-reserve and disregarded the role of acquaintances.
Duration: 45:34.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A Digital Story
Alternate Title
Interdisciplinary Dialogue Student Conference 2018
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Mikhayla Patterson
Louise Speakman
no. 1
Description
A short film depicting the effects of colonization on Indigenous women in Canada.
Duration: 5:48.
Mistress Madeleine
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Daughters of the Country
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Aaron Kim Johnston
Description
Tells the story of a Métis woman who appears to be quite happy and content in her common-law marriage to a Hudson's Bay Company clerk until he deserts her because of her background and company policy.
Duration: 57:01
Montreal Premiere of Birth of a Family: Q & A with Director Tasha Hubbard
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Q & A with Tasha Hubbard
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tasha Hubbard
Description
Director of documentary about four siblings separated through adoption during the infamous "Sixties Scoop" answers questions from audience.
Duration: 23:06.
[Moving Through the Post-Colonial Door]
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[ANU] Annual Reconciliation Lecture ; 2016
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jody Wilson-Raybould
Description
Presenter discusses the links between Canadian and Australian reconciliation experiences.
Duration: 41:07.
[The Native American Apology Resolution]
Alternate Title
[Harvest of Hope: A Symposium on Reconciliation ; pt. 5]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Description
Senator speaks about the need for an apology from U.S.government to tribal governments and native people nationwide for past mistreatment, and the difficulties involved in getting the bill passed.
Duration: 22:21.
No Turning Back
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gregory Coyes
Jordan Wheeler
Description
Documentary about the formation and process of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
Duration: 47:28.
[Northern Politics in Northern Manitoba]
Alternate Title
U2011: Understanding the Manitoba Election
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Bonita Beatty
Description
Bonita Beatty discusses the political culture found in the north.
Duration:10:02.
[Nowhere to Go: Homeless in Saskatoon] [Part Two]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marjorie Beaucage
Description
Campaign towards a Housing First policy with Passion for Action Against Homelessness presented to the City of Saskatoon. Part 2 of 2.
Duration: 9:48.
[Opening Remarks and Keynote]
Alternate Title
[Patterns of Health and Wellbeing: An Intercultural Symposium ; 02]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Beverly Kiohawiton Cook
Description
Webcast of the keynote speaker from the Patterns of Health and Wellbeing Symposium, Beverly Cook, who speaks on child sexual abuse and the ACE program (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
Duration: 31:58.
Our Generation
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sinem Saban
Damien Curtis
Description
Award-winning documentary about Aboriginal rights and the response to the Australian Federal Government's Northern Territory Intervention which exerts compulsory control over 73 communities.
Duration: 1:13:42.
Accompanied by Study Guide
The People of the Kattawapiskak River
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alanis Obomsawin
National Film Board (NFB)
Ravida Din
Description
Documentary examines the housing crisis facing Attawapiskat First Nation, which precipitated Chief Theresa Spence's declaration of a state of emergency.
Duration: 50:14.