The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, September 2019
Description
Qualitative interview study which engages 22 non-Indigenous Canadians from one city, explores how knowledgeable and how engaged participants are about the issues surrounding drinking water in Indigenous communities. Found that most participants had minimal understanding of the issue and faced barriers to engagement including racism and a lack of resources, capacity, and personal responsibility.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 3, Fall, 2017, pp. [29]-63
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Reviews alumni/ae publications free of boarding school censorship, supplemented by archival information to place students in Robert Warrior's nonfiction tradition.
Speaker discusses stereotypes of both Indigenous men and women, Canada 150 celebrations, and reactions to the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald erected on the Wilfred Laurier University Waterloo campus, including the video she made, Canadian Conversation.
Duration: 34:22.
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. 76-91
Description
Presents personal story about the process of being adopted into an Aboriginal family.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, January 31, 2019, pp. 88-98
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Author discusses their experience as a Canadian Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Well-Being, Community-Engagement, and Innovation at McMaster University. Considers the role that Indigenous scholars are currently playing in decolonization and Indigenization efforts in the Canadian academy and the personal cost to those scholars.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 5, Special Issue: The Impact of Reserve and Reservation Systems on Indigenous Well-Being, 11 22, 2019
Description
Author offers a critical perspective on the perspectives in discussion papers being released by municipal government agencies in response to reserves being created within and adjacent to urban centers; argues that many of the perspective within these documents reinforce settler colonialism and ignore Indigenous sovereignty.
Practices based on experiences shared by First Nations leaders and managers, lawyers specializing in Indigenous law, and previous reports. Primary focus is British Columbia, but information generally applies across Canada.
Updated version of Best Practices for Consultation and Accommodation by MNP.
Guide outlines general considerations, practices and procedures, and provides step-by-step instructions for community engagement sessions. Topics include establishing and earning community support, engagement and consultation activities, communicating with the media, presentation skills, and addressing opposition effectively and respectfully.
Podcast of Interview with artist about his exhibition Awareness Series which focuses on the government's policy of issuing numbered disks to Inuit rather than referring to them by name.
Duration: 6:54.
Annual William Walters Symposium on Urban Education ; 5th
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ellen Gabriel
Taiaiake Alfred
Susan Dion
Description
Showcases three keynote speakers discuss issues connecting teaching and learning in an anti-colonial framework.
Showcases a film, dance, and drama by students. Duration: 2:49:36.
Book review of: Bibliometric Analysis of Soviet and Post-Soviet Histiography of the Native Population of Alaska of the Russian-American Period by A. V. Grinëv, translated by Richard L. Bland.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 185, no. 14, October 1, 2013, pp. e1201-e1202
Description
Discusses how malnourished Aboriginals in Canada served as unwitting and unprotected subjects in government-sponsored experiments in the 1940s and 1950s.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 58-83
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Author discusses the 1846 translation and annotation of Black Hawk’s autobiography by the Dutch pastor Rinse Posthumus; offers critical commentary on Posthumus’ station and politics as an influencing factor in his additions to and translation of the text.
Looks at media coverage of the incident and use of the term, 'Black Velvet'.
Note from author: "Terms historicised in this article remain offensive and have continuing power to offend. This article attempts to dispel and challenge the meanings conveyed by the term ‘Black Velvet’ by tracing its use in print media and thereby intervening in the attitudes it disseminated"
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 46-48
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Discusses Brian Moore's fiction Blackrobe, and the use of obscene language, stereotyping and racial discrimination.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Adapted for the Alberta context from the KAIROS Blanket Exercise, an interactive learning experience focusing on the historical and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada. Themes explored are: assimilation, discrimination, Indigenous rights and reconciliation.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 28, no. 3, 1993, pp. 491-493
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Book review of: Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia by Isabelle Knockwood.
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 399-401
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Book reviews of:
Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Brander Rasmussen.
Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause by Melanie Benson Taylor.
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
American Literature, vol. 85, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 591-593
Description
Book reviews of:
On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World by Jonathan Elmer and Dislocating Race.
Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism by Robert S. Levine.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 439-470
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Author examines several images contemporary to the 1904 World’s Fair, discusses the way in which Indigenous people were portrayed as "spectacle, commodity and spoil of American conquest;" articulates ways that some Indigenous Leaders both corroborated these portrayals and subverted them.
Links to audio of interviews with over 190 Aboriginals who were taken from their families by the Australian government in an effort to assimilate them.
Article reframes the discussion surrounding mental health recognizing that Indigenous peoples have a holistic view of health that encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and environmental spectrum of wellbeing. Notes implications for government policy and for frontline practice.
Examines the trends, news spikes, and total print and online media coverage of Aboriginal people, culture, and issues by Ontario-based media organizations.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, June 25, 2019
Description
Conceptual article argues that Indigenous sovereignty remains valid throughout the Americas and that the settler colonial laws are therefore illegitimate and illegal; all systems that function on the assumption of settler colonial sovereignty must be re-centered around Indigenous laws and ethics.
Indigenous lawyers and law students from British Columbia recount their experiences with stereotyping, race-based assumptions, and discrimination within the legal profession and while practicing in the justice system.
Duration: 25:43.
Related material: Part 2.