Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, vol. 4, no. 1, Indigenous Marriage, Family and Kinship in Australia:The Persistence of Life and Hope, 2013, pp. 76-91
Description
Presents personal story about the process of being adopted into an Aboriginal family.
Links to audio of interviews with over 190 Aboriginals who were taken from their families by the Australian government in an effort to assimilate them.
Comments on the historical trauma intervention model which uses four components designed to foster healing from grief: confronting the history, understanding the trauma and its effects, releasing the pain, and transcending the trauma.
Part 1 of 3.
Australasian Journal of American Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, July 2013, pp. 1-26
Description
Comments on the role of the Outing Matron who was responsible for the placement, supervision and regulation of young Native American women in domestic employment.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, Winter, 2013 , pp. 111-125
Description
Comments on novel that explores tensions and dichotomies between traditional world and European American world, emphasizing that at times there is little common ground between the two.
Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, vol. 4, no. 1, Indigenous Marriage; Family and Kinship in Australia:The Persistence of Life and Hope, 2013, pp. 103-116
Description
Film looks at three troubled mothers in protagonists life: his birth mother, foster mother and foster grandmother.
Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, vol. 4, no. 1, Indigenous Marriage, Family and Kinship in Australia:The Persistence of Life and Hope, 2013, pp. 35-47
Description
Author talks about the effects of colonialism on him, discusses historical events, and how his family thinks about masculinity, femininity and violence.
Journal of the European Associating for Studies of Australia, vol. 4, no. 1, Indigenous Marriage; Family and Kinship in Australia:The Persistence of Life and Hope, 2013, pp. 92-102
Description
Discusses the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 and the White Australian Policy.
Collection of six short videos from the Nindibaajimomin Summer Institute held at the Oral History Centre.
My Story by Eileen Clearsky.
My Mother's Love was in a Bowl of Porridge by Marlyn Bennett.
Reflections by Cheryl Morin.
Our Story by Priscilla Settee.
Heart and Mind by Dallas Good Water.
Okosisimaw by Lana Whiskeyjack.
Combined duration: 19:34.
Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation and Residential Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gerald Taiaiake Alfred
Description
Author sees reconciliation as a half-hearted measure and instead contends that massive forms of compensation including land, transfers of federal and provincial funds are needed. Essay is adapted from the author’s discussion of reconciliation in Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom.
Chapter from Speaking My Truth edited by Shelagh Rogers.