World Literatures and Cultures Major Research Paper (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2020.
Focuses on the Bentwood Box by Luke Marston, the Witness Blanket by Carey Newman and the Living and Healing Quilt.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 92, no. 3, September 2011, pp. 481-514
Description
Discusses how the mountaineers narratives associated with the Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition can offer insights to an epistemology of place where landscapes, nature and culture exist as an integrated entity.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 58, no. 2, June 1977, pp. 133-153
Description
Traces events through three time periods: limited and casual contact; withdrawal to the interior; and European movement into the area to gain access to resources.
Comments on the importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 which is meant to address the problem of children being placed outside of their families and communities.
Duration: 12:00.
Rikkyo American Studies, vol. 33, March 2011, pp. 129-145
Description
Discusses the warrior tradition in terms of a motivation for volunteering, the resurgence of ceremonies relating to the traditions, American public's perception of the "warrior" during and after the war.
Ministry of Advanced Education's 3rd Annual Post Secondary Education Forum
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marc Higgins
in education exploring our connective educational landscape, vol. 17, no. 3, Autumn, 2011, p. [?]
Description
Examines Canadian Nunavut Aboriginal students' views on Western teachings in science education and the development of a culturally responsive curriculum.
Website contains links, some with access to the full text of presentations, from a conference which explores intellectual thought and cultural development of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Many of the presenters were Canadian.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples, Part 1, 2020, pp. 89-99
Description
A discussion of community responses to the pandemic that asserted sovereignty and ensured the safety of their members by keeping infection rates low, and how this challenges the stereotype of Indigenous groups being helpless.
American Literature, vol. 83, no. 2, June 2011, pp. 449-451
Description
Book reviews of:
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England by Jean M. O'Brien
Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History by Daniel H. Usner
X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent by Scott Richard Lyons.
Book reviews found by scrolling to page 449.
Study gathered information semi-structured interviews with community leaders, knowledge keepers, Elders, academics, support workers and activists involved in both communities in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Examines effects of both mainstream and Indigenous cinema on Indigenous peoples, stereotyping, and concepts of geography, land, history and language.
Anthropology and Humanities Honors Paper (B.A.)--University of Colorado, 2011.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 104-134
Description
Examines how the media perpetuates stereotypes and inaccurate generalizations about Indigenous peoples such as the misrepresentation of racist sports mascots and related imagery; and looks at the discourses of Savagism with regard to news coverage of anticolonial direct action and the reclamation of land by sovereign Indigenous peoples and nations.
Comments on how Latin American Indigenous Peoples (LAIP) reproduce cultural practices in a transnational setting.
Comparative Ethnic Studies (B.A.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2011.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 55-58
Description
Discusses some of the issues of the beginnings of Native and Indigenous studies. The article also suggests that what one needs to look at more precisely is at what people mean when they talk about those beginnings, namely specific figures and practices within indigenous traditions.
Reports on project designed to provide guidance to public health units trying to promote productive relationships with First Nations communities in northeastern Ontario. Four key themes emerged during focus groups and interviews: positive experiences and ways of working, opportunities for collaboration, barriers to collaboration and solutions for effective engagement.
Discusses whether the forcible transfer of children should be classified genocide, or alternate terminology used, and what the legal, social, political consequences could be in either instance.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2011, pp. 43-50
Description
Explains the foundations set up for a groundbreaking project that established a partnership for collaborative research among people of diverse backgrounds.
Discussion about the controversial series of paintings entitled The Forgotten by Pamela Masik which portrayed the sixty-nine missing and murdered women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The exhibition to be held at the Museum of Anthropology was cancelled due to protests.
Duration: 31:50.