Survey conducted with 19 students found that they experienced isolation, racism, lack of respect and insufficient support from the institution. Author argues that present policies address the symptoms rather than the root causes of the lack of student retention.
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Image of a pow-wow with Chief Beardy (plumes on hat) and Chief Okamesis [after] the Northwest Resistance. A group of non-Aboriginal men stand behind the Chiefs.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 12, no. 3, August 1988, pp. 15-19
Description
Contends that museums of the future will need to take the initiative in designing their relationship with Indigenous peoples regarding responsibilities in collecting, preserving, and interpreting Indigenous heritage.
Drama Review / T D R: The Journal of Performance Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, Fall, 2000, pp. 11-36
Description
Discusses the decolonization process, which the author states is accomplished by, "moving the center", in this case, from Europe to their own centers. The writer concludes that "underneath the new globalized skin" is the same Euro-defined ethnicity, carrying the same biases that are written into scripts.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, April 30, 2000, p. 119
Description
Book reviews of: Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 by Constance Backhouse and Race, Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court: Historical Case Studies by James W. St. G. Walker.
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 68-84
Description
Discusses the novel Inside Out: An Autobiography of a Native Canadian which incorporates prison confession narrative and First Nation autobiography.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 68.
Argues that the decline of marriages between European officers of the Hudson's Bay Company and Métis women before 1870 was caused by the creation of a capitalistic labour market and not racism as regarded largely due to Sylvia Van Kirk's book, Many Tender Ties.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 25, no. 4, 2000, pp. [497-515]
Description
Explores how the myth of tolerance has become part of the national identity despite evidence to the contrary; uses the results of a survey conducted on attitudes toward immigration as an illustration of this dichotomy.
Authors discuss their experiences while conducting research in communities and how this opportunity leads to increased awareness of ethical considerations.
Discusses both the technical and common meanings of the term “recognition”, and examines a number of ways in which the existence, history and contributions of the Aboriginal people of Manitoba could be recognized by the Manitoba government.
Story of the lives of both a French and a Huron boy at the time of first contact. Accompanying material: Rendezvous: Canada 1606 [Study Guide].
Duration: 29:03.
International Journal of Science Education, vol. 22, no. 6, June 2000, pp. 603-617
Description
Examines the approach taken to minority group knowledges in two recently published sets of junior secondary science texts, with a specific focus on the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge into the texts.
Rebuttal to Hoover's critique of the article written by Gloria Frank regarding the permanent First Peoples Exhibit
at the Royal British Columbia Museum.
Response to an article which critiques the permanent First Peoples Exhibit at the Royal British Columbia Museum from a Aboriginal perspective; contends that while a personal viewpoint is legitimate, article does not have the research and knowledge to support some of criticisms.