Presents stories from various First Nations in hopes that they will inspire change in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities across the country to take action on climate change and energy issues.
Paths: The Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan
Description
Four modules specifically developed for dealing with issues experienced by Aboriginal women: circular thinking, colonization and the historical context, effects of culture loss on identity, and values.
Each module includes readings and activities.
Brief video based on children's book of the same name which tells the story of a young girl taken from her family and sent to residential school.
Duration: 6:05.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 6–19
Description
Overview of an initiative to document and map Inuit sea ice use in Nunavut and Nunavik communities, with a discussion of how Inuit knowledge of sea ice is important to the climatic changes and the cultural and social changes in the Arctic regions.
Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 35, no. 1-2, Propiété Intellectuelle et Éthique / Intellectual Property and Ethics, 2011, pp. 302-304
Description
Book review of: SIKU: Knowing Our Ice. Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use by Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Gita J. Laidler, Lene Kielsen.
PBS Frontline documentary examines the sexual abuse of children committed by Catholic Church priests and employees during the late 1960s and early 1970s in St. Michael, Alaska.
Contains graphic descriptions that some viewers may find disturbing.
Duration: 28:16.
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, vol. 33, no. 4, Racism, Colonialism, and Film in Canada, 2011, pp. 306-317
Description
Argues that placing Aboriginal culture and history on parr with other groups in a multicultural context is a way to ignore their unique position and sovereign rights in Canada.
Salish Kootenai College Life Sciences Degree Focuses on Research
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Stevens
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 23, no. 2, Climate Commitment, Winter, 2011
Description
Discusses the disproportionate number of Native Americans in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and the commitment by Salish Kootenai College to ready students for mainstream graduate science programs.
A set of 16 photos of Barbara Ross of Stanley Mission smoking a moose hide. Making a raw hide into leather is a long, complicated, and skilled process: these photos show the final step in that process.
Hawai'i Medical Journal, vol. 70, no. 11, Suppl. 2, November 2011, pp. 9-14
Description
Discusses challenges faced for prenatal and infant care, obesity, mental health, smoking, infectious disease, suicide, self-perception, racism and colonialism and looks at resilience factors.
Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program, AAEDIRP
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeff Orr
Monica Diochon
Clare Fawcett
Behrang Foroughi
Alison Mathie
Leslie Jane McMillan
Description
Looked at the communities of Millbrook First Nation (Nova Scotia), Miawpukek Mi'kmawey Mawio'mi Conne River First Nation (Newfoundland and Labrador), and Tobique Mailiseet Nation (New Brunswick).
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Description
Website developed to accompany exhibition of the same name. Topics include impact of the horse, native arts and the horse, decline and revival, and the horse nation lives on.
Images of items in the exhibition.