Paper assesses the impact the Protocols have had on issues and concerns relating to Indigenous materials and services to Indigenous peoples in libraries.
Studies in the Novel, vol. 40, no. 1/2, Spring/Summer, 2008, pp. 203-223
Description
Discusses, by way of two novels, the idea of an historic traumatic "event" that has negatively impacted First Nations peoples and argues that not all events are singular, easily recognizable or chronologically-bounded.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 21-34
Description
Discusses tropes or traditions, the organizing devices societies cohere to, by comparing a book and a movie. As key elements of belief systems, tropes act as powerful mediators between the world and how we experience the world’s meaning . By structuring a shared reality cultures are created, however, sometimes tropes can structure incompatible realities across cultures and distort our ability to understand cultures different from our own.
Anglican Journal, vol. 134, no. 4, April 2008, p. 4
Description
Discusses a speech given by Bob Watts, the interim executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, regarding residential school abuse and how it is now time to work towards healing.
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 41, no. 1, 2008, pp. 75-79
Description
Looks at two essays by Richard Wagamese titled, What It Comes To Mean which discusses the legacy of forced adoption, residential schools and racism, and Learning Ojibway which looks at how learning Ojibway opened the door of discovery, homecoming, reclamation and rejuvenation.
Comments on the arrival of François Gravé du Pont and Samuel de Champlain in what is now Quebec, and the relationship between the French and First Nations.
International Journal of Multicultural Education, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Education, 2008, pp. 1-15
Description
Contends that using multicultural education (MCE) to promote equality and unity in teacher education programs and schools can help to stop the propagation of colonization.
Paper (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute) ; no. 12
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rowland Atkinson
Elizabeth Taylor
Maggie Walter
Description
Discusses how the non-Indigenous population contributes to serious socio-economic disparity of the Indigenous population by ignoring their exclusion and political marginalization.
Urutahi Koataata Maori: Working with Maori in Film & Television
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bradford Haami
Description
Intended to provide information to guide local film and television production community, visiting internationals, broadcasters, funders, and educational institutes in their engagements with Māori content and communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, Autumn, 2008, pp. 412-442
Description
The author explores different expressions of conversion to Catholicism in the daily practices of the different Indigenous peoples in the San Francisco Bay area; considers where people chose to give birth or die and the practice of various traditional protocols.
Consists of an interview where he tells of life in a foster home and cultural suppression; gives a description of suppression on reserves in the 1950's; and gives a description of native values and philosophy and the role of sweat lodges.
Native Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-23
Description
Examines how, in spite of increasingly hostile Colonial, then Canadian government relations toward First Nations people, they still maintained a strong attachment to the monarchy.
Journal of Film and Video, vol. 60, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 15-25
Description
Examines the role of visual anthropology in creating and interpreting cultural images and discusses how documentary video techniques could be used for cultural preservation.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 11, November 2008, pp. 1-2
Description
Discusses the lack of discrimination in the army during the war towards Aboriginal soldiers and the discrimination they faced upon their return.
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Prairie Forum, vol. 8, no. 2, Fall, 1983, pp. 147-155
Description
Examines evidence, from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, on how the involvement in the fur trade altered the social and economic lives of the Western James Bay Cree.
Research project investigated the challenges associated with dealing with politically and culturally sensitive subject matter in the post-secondary classroom. Contains links to student and instructor interviews, discussion topics, and workshop materials.
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Discusses the political apologies and responses to the consequences of the Indian residential schools policy, and questions whether the acts for which the apologies are offered represent a change in the relations between government and Aboriginal peoples.
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Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and the University, 2008, pp. 198-207, 318-319
Description
Argues for increased inclusion of Indigenous peoples, stating that there is much to gain by doing so. The article proposes a variety of suggestions to solve the power imbalance between the academic world and Indigenous peoples.