An examination of the politicization of "ugliness" through colonial ideology that creates victim blaming of Indigenous women that experience violence. These ideals of "ugliness" has led to the increase violence of Indigenous women and allowed inaction against crimes committed against them.
Chapter from On the Politics of Ugliness edited by Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo.
Looks at the reports Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women and Out of Sight: A Summary of the Events Leading Up to Brian Sinclair's Death and the Inquest That Examined It and the Interim Recommendations of the Brian Sinclair working Group.
Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, vol. 169, no. 1, 2018, pp. 54-64
Description
Argues that sexualized violence against Indigenous women is both gendered and racialized and originates in ongoing colonialism. Examines social media (SM) narratives that perpetuate violence; discusses how Indigenous online communities are working to mitigate these narratives. Uses Sysomos MAP analytic software to gather information on posts containing #MMIW, #MMIWG and #inquiry between 1 September 2016 and 29 July, 2017.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-21
Description
Looks at Choctaw mythology involving self-discovery and the false divisions between this world and the spirit world in Louis Owens’s The Sharpest Sight.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
French Colonial History, vol. 11, 2010, pp. 109-129
Description
Examines how gender and race in the social, economic, and political structures played a role in the lives of Marie Josephe Le Borgne de Belisle and Marguerite Guédry.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 254-275
Description
Longstanding teacher-education team who teach a specialized Honours BEd course, entitled Indigenizing Perspectives and Practices in Education, outline the obstacles and struggles in settler teacher education; discuss legacies of colonialism in education and systemic racism in curriculum.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 276-293
Description
Discusses “shame” in different contexts and explores the experience of shame for individuals and groups. Describes how shame was used as a tool of colonization in Indian Residential Schools and how it might be a transformative influence in the process of reconciliation following the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2018.
Focuses on the work of Wendy Red Star, Ken Gonzales Day, Meryl McMaster, Chris Bose, Kent Monkman and Da-ka-xeen Mehner.
Looks at how the Province of British Columbia handles duty to consult and accommodate First Nations when activities impose on treaty rights or aboriginal title. Based on case law as of April 2010. To be used in conjunction with Guide to Involving Proponents When Consulting First Nations.
Canadian Political Science Association Conference; 82nd, 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joanne Heritz
Description
Looks at the movement between reserve and city (labelled as 'churn') and the concerns submitted to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People and the Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study.
Discusses the case in which a White farmer was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter in the killing of a 22-year-old Cree man. The accused's lawyer used peremptory challenges to exclude 4-5 visibly Indigenous potential jurors, while the prosecution failed to question White candidates about any racial bias which would prevent them from making an impartial decision. Looks at the systemic racism in the judicial system starting with the execution of "the Battleford Eight" in 1885.
Using the Lokahi Wheel: A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Engage Native Hawaiians in Research Contexts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tammy Kaho‘olemana Martin
Meripa Godinet
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 7, no. 2, 2018, pp. 22-40
Description
Authors examine the Lōkahi Wheel’s potential as a culturally sensitive tool for use with families engaged in non-voluntary involvement with Hawai’i’s child welfare system.
Article examines the German fascination with North American Indigenous peoples and contemporary Indigenous responses; considers the works of Drew Hayden Taylor and Kent Monkman as practices of survivance and resistance to the “Indianer,” a romanticized German imagining of Indigenous people.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 317-342
Description
Looks at the research on dementia and the relationships between the community and the health care system, from the perspectives of First Nation peoples.
Looks at the concepts of gendered disposability and Indigenous dysfunction which underlie acts of violence, analyzes how this manifests itself in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, and discusses the story of Sara de Vries, a woman who was murdered by Robert Pickton.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 10-14
Description
Modified speech by Chief Wayne Christian talking about the history of his community, and how state policies, legislation and laws have affected a way of life for his people. The article also illustrates, through narrative, the importance of re-learning cultural practices.
Opening Up about Oppression Through Forum Theatre: Teacher's Guide
Teaching and Learning Research Exchange
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Melissa] Marley
[Carol] Fulton
McDowell Foundation Research Project
Description
Looks at a Grades 10-12 student drama project about living and going to school in a culturally mixed community. Included is a teachers guide with lesson plans.
Scoping review investigated academic, government and community knowledge about the role of institutional Research Ethics Boards in advising researchers working with Indigenous individuals and communities.