Book reviews of:
Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women by Amber Dean.
That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shenher.
Entire section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 179.
Comments on the status of eight strategic directions.
Collaborative initiative of the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC), Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA), The Independent First Nations (IFN) and the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO)
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, January 2016, pp. 1-26
Description
Study shows differences in use of language, tone, information sources, and information left out when media portrays First Nations and non-First Nations individuals and communities.
Our Schools, Our Selves, vol. 19, no. 3, Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action, Spring, 2010, pp. 255-273
Description
"This article reviews and analyzes Richards' policy ideas to illustrate his attempts to incorporate neoliberalism into the field of Aboriginal education."
Traces Pete Standing Alone's last round up of his horses and how his life has changed in the last twenty years. Accompanying material: An Integrated Educator's Guide.
Duration:18:02.
Reports that Saskatchewan's power structure does not support the changing demographics. Survey looks at 265 most powerful people in government, justice, business and education.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 101-118
Description
Interprets the relationships between the settler colonizer, the Indigenous colonized, and a variety of differently categorized exogenous "Others" and how they interpenetrate and overlap, but remain separate as they co-define each other.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, 2010, pp. 59-93
Description
Looks at archival evidence of Shab-eh-nay's life and experiences to challenge the racial stereotyping utilized by Chief Justice John Marshall regarding American Indian law and policy.
Policy Paper Series (Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria (FVPLS Victoria)
Description
Looks at key law and justice issues: funding services in rural areas; national women's legal program; and women's law and justice policy development and funding issues.
Study conducted to discover how to better promote and support the success of Aboriginal education in public schools, and how to create an on-going dialogue regarding learning within teacher organizations and the broader educational community.
Argues that practice of "carding" i.e. stopping, questioning, and demanding proof of identity, promotes racialized policing which in turn leads to over-incarceration of Aboriginal peoples.
Frank Paul Inquiry: William H. Davies, Q.C. Commissioner Appointed under the Public Inquiry Act, S.B.C., 2007, c.9
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
A. Cameron Ward
Neil Chantler
Description
Inquiry looked into circumstances surrounding the death of a Mi'kmaq man who was removed from Vancouver Police Department lock-up, left in an nearby alley and subsequently died of exposure and hypothermia.
Canadian Art Review, vol. 41, no. 1, 2016, pp. 26-31
Description
Explores racism in the Quebec art institutions and in Dominic Gagnon's film Of the North, Adam Chandler's The Ridiculous 6 and exhibition The Rebel Yells: Dress and Political Re-dress in Contemporary Indigenous Art.
Indigenous Working Group of the British Columbia Association of Social Workers
Description
Objectives: encourage dialogue, raise awareness regarding history and future of First Nations peoples in Canada, promote recognition of impacts of colonization, work towards respectful and meaningful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, and promote the Commission's recommendations to advocate for systemic change.
First National Trudeau Fellow discusses the Canadian art establishment's failure to recognize continuum of Aboriginal art or its aesthetic.
Duration: 1:08:05.