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[Harvest of Hope: A Symposium of Reconciliation ; pt. 4]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Phil Fontaine
Description
Presentation by National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations focuses on the apology made to former residential school students and what it may mean for Canadian society.
Duration: 26:08.
Criminal Law Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, 1999, pp. 129-160
Description
Looks at the impact and response to the Getting it Together conference. While there has been changes in regards to restorative justice initiatives, conditional sentences, and reduced imprisonment for fine defaults, the continued over-incarceration of Indigenous people remains a concern.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring, 2013, pp. 23-25
Description
Discusses the implications of the state legislation HB 2281, which banned the books and curriculum used by Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American Studies (MAS) department and forced its closure.
Purpose of study was to design and test research design which would provide a comparison of different types of communities using education, labour force, income, and housing as indicators.
Chapter from Aboriginal Well-Being: Canada's Continuing Challenge edited by Jerry P. White, Dan Beavon and Nicholas Spence.
Symposium of the International Organization for Science and Technology ; 9th, 1999
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Glen Aikenhead
Bente Huntley
Description
Advocates a culturally responsive curriculum which is only possible with culturally-based instructional resources and teacher involvement.
Paper originally presented to 9th Symposium of the International Organization for Science and Technology.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, 1999, pp. 177-189
Description
Argues that Wampum was a historical record, containing matters that were held sacred, but when first encountered by Europeans, because it was held with such respect, Wampum was assumed by the Europeans to be money.
This file contains excerpts from Reginald Beatty's diary, correspondence about his encounters with Cree people, and letters home to his parents detailing his experience in the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Mr. Beatty was a farmer and fur trader in what is now known as the Melfort area of Saskatchewan.
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.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 24, no. 4, Autumn, 1999, pp. 383-397
Description
Looks at the reaction of teacher education students to a course in Aboriginal Children's Literature. Discusses issues surrounding stereotyping and learning in a multicultural environment.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. [66]-78
Description
Argues that King's works, Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water represent a process of challenging views held by the dominant culture and constructing a new identity which is not based on the premise of superiority/inferiority as in previous cross-cultural relationships.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Annual William Walters Symposium on Urban Education ; 5th
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ellen Gabriel
Taiaiake Alfred
Susan Dion
Description
Showcases three keynote speakers discuss issues connecting teaching and learning in an anti-colonial framework.
Showcases a film, dance, and drama by students. Duration: 2:49:36.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 185, no. 14, October 1, 2013, pp. e1201-e1202
Description
Discusses how malnourished Aboriginals in Canada served as unwitting and unprotected subjects in government-sponsored experiments in the 1940s and 1950s.
Looks at media coverage of the incident and use of the term, 'Black Velvet'.
Note from author: "Terms historicised in this article remain offensive and have continuing power to offend. This article attempts to dispel and challenge the meanings conveyed by the term ‘Black Velvet’ by tracing its use in print media and thereby intervening in the attitudes it disseminated"
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 47-61
Description
Examination of the religious and cultural responses, of two California Native American groups, to new diseases, which were of Spanish origin, and to colonization.
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Payne
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 84-89
Description
Book reviews of:
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens.
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen.
To Access Reviews, scroll to Page 84-89
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 399-401
Description
Book reviews of:
Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Brander Rasmussen.
Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause by Melanie Benson Taylor.
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 591-593
Description
Book reviews of:
On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World by Jonathan Elmer and Dislocating Race.
Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism by Robert S. Levine.