Topics discussed were collecting and collections management, and repatriation and initiatives for reconciliation; includes case studies, witness reflections and link to the webinar Museum Perspectives on the Task Force on Museums & First Peoples and the Recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Article outlines possibilities for the inclusion of Indigenous Games and Sports (IGaS) across Australian schools; authors provide details on IGaS and suggest appropriate pedagogy for teaching purposes. Authors argue that inclusion of IGaS can promote inclusive classrooms and social justice within the school setting.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples -Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-19
Description
Discusses how research in a community based Indigenous project reflected personal stories of reconciliation.
Discusses a research methodology that provides opportunity for non-Indigenous researchers to be connected to the cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings of Indigenous knowledge.
"This paper argues that the incorporation of Aboriginal principles requires some understanding of their significance via a process of cross-cultural translation that also puts conventional non-Aboriginal understandings of reconciliation under the microscope."
Position Statement for ICMM members to engage with Indigenous people in order to have constructive relationship based on mutual respect, trust and mutual benefit.
Discusses two approaches to reconciliation: one focusing on victims and perpetrators involved in residential schools as an isolated policy of the past, the other which considers the schools part of a system which perpetuates harm and discord.
Case studies of Marine Plan Partnership for the Pacific North Coast and the Great Bear Initiative and discussion of how principles involved might apply in the New Zealand context.
Findings divided into five sections: preparing the workforce for Indigenous recruitment and retention; partnerships for recruitment and retention; existing Indigenous employees as assets for recruitment and retention; workplace transformation; and Nunavut Inuit Employment Strategy. Includes annotated bibliography.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-19
Description
Argues there is still a place for a researcher to have academic autonomy over a project in non-community based research.
Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism
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Author/Creator
Tracey Lindberg
Priscilla Campeau
Maria Campbell
Description
Examines four prominent cases involving sexual violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls by white men to demonstrate how the Canadian legal system has failed both to protect Indigenous women and to properly punish those responsible.
The four cases are: R v Edmondson, R v Jordan, R v Ramsay, and R v Ramsay.
Chapter from Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism edited by Elizabeth A. Sheehy.
AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference ; 2009
Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities Symosium ; 2010
E-Books
Author/Creator
Laurel Evelyn Dyson
Fiona Brady
Daniel Featherstone
Inge Kral
Cat Kutay ... [et al.]
Description
Developed from papers presented at the 2009 AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference and the 2010 Symposium, Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 29-57
Description
Author discusses novel’s criticism of white masculinity and the way in which its nature allows white men to feel that they are offering solidarity Indigenous people while effectively controlling the narrative and undermining sovereignty.
Commission came about due to numerous allegations of police misconduct towards Indigenous women in Val d'Or, Quebec. Its mandate is to investigate causes of systemic discrimination in the provision of police, correctional, justice, health and social services.
Excerpts from author's talk discussing Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group's complaint against Canada before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and his book Savage Anxieties.
Duration: 55:17.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 3, Fall, 2013, pp. 57-85
Description
Analysis of the two novels in terms of tensions between post-colonialist and Indigenous nationalist thoughts about what reconciliation means and how it should be achieved.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 57.
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. 35-47
Description
Author talks about the effects of colonialism on him, discusses historical events, and how his family thinks about masculinity, femininity and violence.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1291868
Description
Studies the linguistic and cultural differences among medical institutions that challenge interpreters who know many of their clients at a personal level.