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.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis in Canada and Quebec / Présentation: Représentations des, 2010, pp. 315-333
Description
Discusses and compares Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation by Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard and A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada by John Ralston Saul.
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.
Global Environmental Politics, vol. 10, no. 4, November 2010, pp. 12-35
Description
Looks at the environmental justice struggles of Indigenous peoples and their demands for equity, recognition, participation, and other capabilities, looking at all of these in terms of a concern for the basic functioning of nature, culture, and communities.
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 18, no. 1, January 2010, pp. 43-60
Description
Examines the evolution of the relationship between tourism and Indigenous peoples; and discusses the proposed six-stage model and sustainability implications of the model.
Paper presented at the Under Western Skies Conference on "Indigenous Ways of Knowing" and the environmental challenges facing western Canada including global warming, endangered species and the tar sands.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 96-106
Description
The author examines his life-work of community development and healing work in northern Aboriginal communities of Ontario in a reflective and narrative way.
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.
Canadian Studies in Population, vol. 37, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 151-174
Description
Study shows that when children and parents belong to the same ethnic group, children will take their parents identity and in Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal unions, children will favor Aboriginal identities.
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.
The International Indigenous Policy Journal website contains editorials, book reviews and research. The journal also links to the most popular papers addressing issues pertaining to Indigenous peoples throughout the world.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 475-497
Description
Comments on the exchange of cultures between American Indians and Scottish-Irish settlers and the positive transformation into an intertribal community that occurred.
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 Dental Journal, vol. 60, no. 3, suppl.2, June 2010, pp. 212-215
Description
Overview revealed that inequalities exist and are on the rise in child and adult populations in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.