First Peoples Worldwide, an Indigenous-Led Development Organization
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Rebecca Adamson
Description
Website dedicated to equipping Indigenous Peoples with assets (physical, natural, financial, etc.), resources and strategies to help put an end to injustices. The website includes links to programs, grants, resources and more.
Looks at the city of Winnipeg's policy frame work for engagement with the Aboriginal community in the areas of employment, economic development, safety, quality of life, out reach and education.
Examines a joint management scenarios between traditional Aboriginal caribou hunters, government managers and biologists to share multiple perspectives on what is known about caribou systems and to identify the kinds of changes that are culturally and socially acceptable to traditional caribou hunting societies.
Examines the discriminatory policies Canadian governments have imposed on Aboriginals and Japanese Canadians, and the way the two writers respond to those practices in their novels.
English Paper (B.A)-- University of Iceland, School of Humanities, 2010.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 3, Winter, 2010, pp. 61-83
Description
Study reviewed ten interventions that have been used, identified common and dissimilar themes, and looked at ways to continue decolonization efforts around the world.
Video of speech given by professor from the University of Victoria's Indigenous Governance Program. He argues that Aboriginals must regain their authentic cultural identity in order to truly decolonize themselves.
Duration: 01:02:12.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 62, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 22-35
Description
Examines the history, structure, and practice of the missionary schools (and the later public schools) and their role in providing colonial education to Métis and settler students with the intent to civilized them, and by extension their families.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 22.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 181-197
Description
Looks at the challenges of incorporating Aboriginal spirituality into the helping process, and examines how to explore and integrate spirituality with individuals, families and communities.
Based on five principles: recognition, partnership, comprehensiveness, capacity and accountability. Developed as a result of the findings of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry.
Discusses how ancestral law and traditional practices of the Diné are understood and applied by the Navajo Nation Council and other cultural and environmental organizations.
Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work, vol. 1, no. 1, February 2010, pp. 1-18
Description
Summarizes lessons learnt from a project that facilitated the discussion on issues of survival in the academy and social work programs; and discusses experiences of personal and collective healing.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, 2013, pp. 177-180
Description
Book review of: Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 edited by Sandra Slater and Fay A. Yarbrough.
Review located by scrolling to page 177.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 1, Fall, 2010, pp. 42-54
Description
Presents research from Understanding the Strengths of Indigenous Communities project which focused on strengths of the First Nation communities and the processes used to develop that strength from a holistic approach .
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 3, Fall, 2013, pp. 33-56
Description
Examines strategies and techniques used to sway American public opinion in three Atlantic Monthly articles: Impressions of an Indian Childhood, School Days of an Indian Girl, and An Indian Teacher Among Indians, and in the report Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 33.
Scholar, teacher and historian looks at the mystery of the vanishing Aboriginals and how colonialism affected Indigenous space in urbanizing Victoria.
Duration: 1:17:58