Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism
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Lucinda Vandervort
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Examines the case in which three non-Aboriginal men were accused of sexually assaulting a twelve-year-old Aboriginal girl.
Chapter from Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism edited by Elizabeth A. Sheehy.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples, April 2017, pp. 1-20
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Using experiences from a research project on social transformative social justice, talks about ethical tensions felt and how they were overcome.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-17
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Looks at a community project to get safe drinking water through source water protection and water management.
Argues that several bylaws should be removed because they represent social and racial profiling, and are overly and wrongfully used, affecting the well-being of a venerable population..
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-30
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Analyzes books in OCLC Worldcat with Library of Congress subject heading "Indians of North America", with keywords genocide, holocaust or extermination.
British Columbia Historical News, vol. 22, no. 2, Spring, 1989, pp. 6-9
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Explains how two groups of girls, one made up of First Nations and the other made up of white, could share the same boarding school for years and not talk to one another.
Argues that expectations of white, Eurocentric, and middle class versions of mothering, combined with the state's role in producing conditions of material and social marginalization and inequality have resulted in structural risk factors for "neglect" and normalization of Aboriginal child apprehensions.
Entire book on one pdf. Scroll to p. 48.
Chapter from Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance edited by Michelle Hughes Miller, Tamar Hager, and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 93-114
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Compares two different editions of Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell’s book Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy (1967 and 2004) and discusses how the readers' perceptions of the same text can be influenced by introductions and forewords.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 79-110
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The authors explore the ways that the design of two different Indigenous video games compels players to enact survivance, and how that experience of survivance creates a space for teaching and learning about culture and for decolonizing perspectives.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 30-57
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Considers the influence of both federal administration and personal vision on the translated responses of tribal people who testified before the committee that investigated fraudulent land allotment at the White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 2, 2017, pp. 1-16
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Examines using the Indigenous Cultural Responsiveness Theory as a decolonizing way to research health, education, governance and policies.
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, December 2017, pp. 47-70
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Article examines oral histories and archival content to reveal the lived experiences of Aboriginal women in Australia who formed relationships with the allied service men stationed there during WWII. Discusses how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and African American, Native American and other servicemen of colour were often drawn together in the face of shared experiences of colonial discrimination and oppression.
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, no. 1, December 2017, pp. 23-45
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Uses the prosecution of Henry Valette Jones and Henry Thomas Morris for the murder of an Aboriginal man to illustrate the shortcomings of the colonial legal system in Australian when it came to prosecuting settlers for violence towards Indigenous peoples.
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, pp. 97-113
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Examines the research project on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal use of western health care systems and summarizes the viewpoints and research on the utilization patterns.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 28, no. 3, May 1989, pp. [1-13]
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Findings, consistent with earlier studies, indicate stereotypes being reinforced by unbalanced and under-represented Indigenous writers in literature textbooks.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-28
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Article examines some of the barriers to the engagement and participation of urban Indigenous communities in municipal policy-making. Author asserts that racial and cultural stereotyping and discrimination against Aboriginal peoples and communities are key issues.
Author of Neoliberal Apartheid discusses commonalities between two states, including the patterns of extreme inequality, racialized poverty and advanced securitization which are symptomatic neoliberal regimes.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 22-44
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Article examines the use of gaming and other communication technologies as strategies for resistance, survivance and cultural resurgence; discusses practices of re/mapping, kinship-making and relationality.
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
Article explores the process of integrating ethical research frameworks for engaging Indigenous communities into academic institutions. Authors use five personal vignettes to examine the potential pitfalls related to integrating Indigenous values knowledge systems with Western legal practices.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 5-29
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Authors use bills of sale for horses from 1909-12 as primary documents to explore the roles women on the Yakima reservation played in their nation’s economy and their resistance to conforming to Western or Christian gender roles.
Author examines the ongoing conflicts between Indigenous peoples and state government in Brazil, notes that at the root of the conflict is a profound difference in worldview and what is an appropriate use of resources. Where Indigenous perspective advocate for subsistence use, state governing bodies are tied to extractive practices and focus on growth centered economies.
Focuses on desired outcomes rather than current practices in the areas of intention, behaviour, community and systems fit in each of six post-secondary staff groups: front line staff / student services / advisors; leaders / administrators; curriculum / educational developers; educators / teachers / instructors; and researchers.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 1, no. 3, 1975, pp. 22-28
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Chronicles the events which led to the establishment of a tutoring program in collaboration with St. Lawrence University and cultural centre on the St. Regis Reserve in upper New York.
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, December 2017, pp. 3-21
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Article examines textual descriptions from the letters and journals of Australian settlers of painted story boards depicting colonially prescribed behaviors and threatened consequences for not conforming. The journals and letters also describe how these picture boards were installed in various wilderness locations where known to be frequented by Indigenous peoples.