Alberta Councial of Women's Shelters in Conversation with Lewis Cardinal
Building Relations Part 2: Stories from Community
Building Relationships Part 1: Lessons From Lewis
Circle Process
Foundations of Indigenous Worldviews
Indigenous Women in Indigenous Societies
Indigenous Women's Leadership
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Inquiry and Action
Treaty Relations: Spirit, Intent, and First Nations Perspectives
[In Coversation with Lewis Cardinal]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lewis Cardinal
[Tina Fox
Stephanie Harpe
Tracy Bear
Karen MacKenzie
Betty Letendre
Cora Voyageur
Ruth Scalp Lock]
Description
Series of eight hour-long videos developed to educate women's shelter workers, but equally applicable to general audiences. Videos cover wide range of topics such as: treaty relationships; Indigenous worldviews; missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; Indigenous women in Indigenous societies; women's leadership; and building relationships.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. suppl., Aboriginal Englishes and Education, 2010, pp. 143-155
Description
Looks at a sociolinguistic view of Aboriginal English; approaches to minority dialects in institutional settings; dialectal damage; a modified immersion model to address Aboriginal English needs; and Aboriginal English in British Columbia schools.
Continuum, vol. 24, no. 1, Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering, 2010, pp. 65-77
Description
Discusses the way an archival history series, feature film and budget drama addresses politics of reconciliation and the media's obsession with violence in remote Australia.
How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
E-Books
Author/Creator
Heather Devine
Description
Chapter 10 in: How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture edited by Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, Rebecca Sullivan.
Discussion of the exhibition After the Spirit Sang and the ensuing boycott and controversy.
Go to page 217 to read the chapter.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 1-25
Description
Looks at how Cheryl Savageau’s poetry re-maps New England as Indigenous spaces and weaves traditional, personal and family stories, with stories of colonization and resistance.
Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll to page 1 to access article.
Mental Health Care Issues in America: An Encyclopedia (Vol.1)
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
William E. Hartmann
Joseph P. Gone
Description
Chapter in book: Mental Health Care Issues in America: An Encyclopedia (Vol.1) edited by Michael Shally-Jensen. Presents historical overview and key mental health issues.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 72-74
Description
Book review American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law by Matthew L. M. Fletcher.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 72.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 371-383
Description
Examines the role of American Indian grandparents who assume custodial responsibility of providing sole care for their grandchildren and the stressors and rewards of providing that care.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 111-148
Description
Discusses the way in which some members of the Society of American Indians (SAI) advocated for a model of “Americanization” of Indigenous people that allows for the “performance of both American and Native allegiances,” and enfranchised Indigenous peoples as full citizens.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 45, no. 1, 2010, pp. 9-26
Description
Examination of two documents: First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education Policy Framework and Building Bridges to Success for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Students.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 4, Indigenous Notions of Cultural Heritage, December 2019, pp. 330-339
Description
Discusses how the Apurinã community in Brazil create and maintain relationships with different non-human actors forms an intergenerational way of managing and relating to the land; critically examines how these relationships are protected by international law.
Website promotes national and international Aboriginal health research that is relevant to the well-being of Aboriginal communities, with a focus on prevention of HIV/AIDS, gender and domestic violence, and diabetes and related conditions.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 46-51
Description
Explores the historic and contemporary relationship with Aboriginal peoples in child welfare and discusses how social workers can adopt culturally appropriate service models that integrates core Aboriginal values, beliefs, and healing practices.
CBC report concerning an invitation issued by Chief Louis Stevenson to South African Ambassador Babb to visit the Reserve; invitation meant to highlight parallels between Apartheid and living conditions of Aboriginal Canadians.
Duration: 6:39.
[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.
Author draws on Vine Deloria Jr.’s work on the role that a difference in worldviews plays in communication to examine the distance between what Indigenous peoples mean by self-determination and what policy makers mean by it.
Chapter in book: Ecosystem Based Management: Beyond Boundaries. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Science and the Management of Protected Areas, 21-26 May 2007 edited by S. Bondrup-Nielsen, K. Beazley, G. Bissix, D. Colville, S. Flemming, T. Herman, M. McPherson, S. Mockford and S. O'Grady.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 6, no. 1, Traditional Medicine, January 2010, pp. 49-57
Description
Describes an outline of appropriate engagement used in a study conducted in Takla Landing, British Columbia and looks at how it can be used to work with other Aboriginal communities to improve and promote health.
Case Studies on Access Policies for Native American Archival Materials ; no. 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brian Carpenter
Description
Describes initiatives undertaken by the Society to provide meaningful and appropriate access to its collections. The initiatives included projects to digitize and more accurately describe items, assess research constituencies, and to collaborate with Indigenous communities.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 35, no. 2, Special Section: Indigeneity in Dialogue: Indigenous Library Expression Across Linguistic Divides, 2010, pp. [13]-29
Description
Comments on the novel and the exclusionary and semi-colonial biases of processes to include Aboriginal literary works on academic reading lists.
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.