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Theses
Author/Creator
Alanna Cameron Beason
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--Utah State University, 2015.
Explaining Low High School Attainment in Northern Aboriginal Communities: An Analysis of the Aboriginal Peoples' Surveys
Alternate Title
Department of Economics Working Paper ; no. 2015-02
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Melanie O’Gorman
Manish Pandey
Description
Examines the importance of economic incentives, and individual-specific and school-related factors in explaining the North-South gap in graduation rates.
Family at the Heart of Chickasaw Language Reclamation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kari A. B. Chew
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 2, Spring, 2015, pp. 154-179
Description
Looks at intergenerational perspectives on loss of the Chikashshanompa language and importance to Chickasaw families.
FNLED: Quebec First Nations Labour and Employment Development Survey = EDMEPN: Enquête sur le développement de la main-d’œuvre et de l’emploi chez les Premières Nations
Alternate Title
Booklet 1: Sociodemographic Profile and Life Course
Booklet 2: Culture, Identity, Language and Wellness
Booklet 4: Education, Skills and Aspirations
Booklet 5: Occupation and Employment
Booklet 6: Income and Needs Satisfaction
Booklet 7: Methodology
Highlights
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Mathieu-Olivier Côté]
[Jasmine Sawadogo]
[Nicolas Couet]
Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
Alternate Title
New Directions in Native American Studies ; vol. 12
E-Books
Author/Creator
Louellyn White
From the Bush to the Boardroom: Economic Domains in Indigenous Language Revitalization
Theses
Author/Creator
Sean Brookfield Meades
Description
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Ph.D.)--York University, [2015]
Getting in Touch: Language and Digital Inclusion in Australian Indigenous Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Carew
Jennifer Green
Inge Kral
Rachel Nordlinger
Ruth Singer
Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. 9, 2015, pp. 307-323
Description
Discusses the detriment to Indigenous languages arising from predominance of English in the digital environment and describes the Getting in Touch project aimed at exploring how app design could meet community goals of language and cultural practices maintenance.
Gidizhigiizhwewinaanan: Our Languages: Language Transfer Practices in Urban Indigenous Communities
Alternate Title
OFIFC Research Series ; vol. 2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aleksandra Bergier
Description
Delineates patterns of language transmission based on a study conducted in four Ontario communities: Midland, North Bay, Sudbury and Timmins. Also provides guidelines for future research and initiatives.
Grade Six Treaty Education Learning Resource
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Saskatchewan Ministry of Education?]
Description
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Moving towards Fulfillment of Treaties" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
Guide to Relationships and Learning with the Indigenous Peoples of Alberta
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
College of Alberta School Superintendents
Description
Interactive resource designed to educate school superintendents. Includes written information, videos and links to supplemental material focused on the topics of identity, language, learning from the land, treaties and agreements, laws and policies, reconciliation and relationships.
Indigenous Oral History and Settlement Archaeology in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Iain McKechnie
BC Studies, no. 187, These Outer Shores: Archaeological Insights into Indigenous Lifeways Along the Exposed Coasts of Bri, Autumn, 2015, pp. 193-228
Description
Compares Nuu-chah-nulth oral histories and the place names within them to archaeological timing of settlements.
Inside Stories: Agency and Identity Through Language Loss Narratives in Nunatsiavut
Theses
Author/Creator
Martha MacDonald
Description
Interdisciplinary Program Thesis (Ph.D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2015.
International Indigenous Development Research Conference 2014: Proceedings
E-Books
Author/Creator
Heather Gifford
Amohia Boulton
Jason De Santolo
Arnja Dale
John Perrott ... [et al.]
Kanyen'kéha: Awakening Community Consciousness
Theses
Author/Creator
Callie Jane Hill
Description
Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Victoria, 2015.
Keeping Our Traditions Alive: Compendium of Best Practices in Promoting the Traditional Ways of Life of Arctic Indigenous Peoples
E-Books
Author/Creator
Arctic Council
Lighting the Way: Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College Serves as a Beacon Light for Tribal Members
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sherrole Benton
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 27, no. 1, Tribal College Communities, Fall, August 20, 2015, pp. [44-47, 7]
Description
Briefly discusses the college's history, programming, and efforts to revitalize Ojibwa culture and language.
Maps and Memes: Redrawing Culture, Place, and Identity in Indigenous Communities
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 76
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gwilym Lucas Eades
Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021: Focus on COVID-19
E-Books
Author/Creator
Minority Rights Group International
Native American Indian Cultural Risk Factors: Contact to Termination
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mato Topa
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, Fall, 2015, p. [?]
Description
Describes the psycho-social-historical events affecting use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by Native Americans.
Native Studies Keywords
Alternate Title
Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
E-Books
Author/Creator
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Michelle H. Raheja
Nandita Sharma
Mishuana Goeman
Vicente M. Diaz ... [et al.]
Nunavik in Figures 2020
Alternate Title
Nunavik Statistics Program
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gérard Duhaime
Andrée Caron
Karen Everett
Description
Related material: Nunavik in Figures 2020 -- Sources.
Reclaiming Kwak'wala Through Co-constructing Gwanti'lakw's Vision
Theses
Author/Creator
Laura Cranmer
Description
Language and Literacy Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2015.
Rooted in the Land: Taino Identity, Oral History and Stories of Reclamation in Contemporary Contexts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erica Neeganagwedgin
AlterNative, vol. 11, no. 4, 2015, pp. 376-388
Description
Defines the Taino Indigenous people in two rural communities in southern Jamaica.
Rupertsland Institute Lesson Plans
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Rupertsland Institute
Description
Video presentations accompanied by lesson plans for Kindergarten through Grade 12 arranged under the themes of Métis language, culture and traditions, homeland history, governance, and the Métis in Alberta.
School in "The Place That Never Thaws"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather McLeod
Dale Vanelli
English Practice, vol. 57, no. 1, Starting a Circle: Exploring Aboriginal Education, Fall, 2015, pp. 17-[20]
Description
Comments from a teacher and a substitute teacher about their time spent at a school in remote Grise Fiord.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 17.
Social and Economic Well-Being: A First Nations Gender-Balanced Analysis
Alternate Title
FNIGC Research Series
Author/Creator
First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC)
"Something Savage and Luxuriant": American Identity and the Indian Place-Name Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
RDK Herman
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 39, no. 1, 2015, pp. 25-46
Description
Discusses how white settler attitudes towards Native American place names evolved from ignorance and elimination to acceptance and fascination.
Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools
Alternate Title
Facing History and Ourselves
E-Books
Author/Creator
Dan Eshet
Telling Our Twisted Histories
Web Sites » Organizations
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Kaniehti:io Horn
Terre Innue
Description
Website contains links to a series of 12 podcasts which explore the impact of words such as reconciliation, indian time, school, reserve, and savage. Host Kaniehti:io Horn engages in conversations with more than 70 people from 15 First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.
We are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins
BC Studies, no. 185, Barkerville, Spring, 2015, pp. 195-196
Description
Book review of We are Our Language by Barbra A. Meek.
Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 195.