First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 2, 2009, pp. 10-17
Description
Discussion of how narratives of frontline child protection social workers with Cree First Nation worldviews and Western perspectives can be used to help improve child welfare services.
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.
Researcher uses "photovoice" method; three participants were given disposable cameras to document negative reminders of residential schools and strengths existing in the community for continuing the healing process. Later they discussed their motivations and thoughts about the photos. Researcher then expanded and interpreted their responses.
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.
Presentation by the United Church General Council Officer for Residential Schools in British Columbia on taking responsibility for the forced assimilation of First Nations through residential schools.
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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter, 2009, pp. 90-93
Description
Book review of: The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 90.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 91-118
Description
Discusses the legal and political fights for water in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community, and the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, and looks at the impact of water-rights in those communities.
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
James Miller
Description
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces the history of treaty-making from its early beginnings with the Peace and Friendship Treaties through to the present day.
Lecture given at Dalhousie University.
Duration: 41:17.
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Speaker discusses the initial relationship between Aboriginals and Europeans, the motives behind the numbered treaties, the two parties' differing interpretations of the agreements, and the modern situation.
Lecture given at the University of Victoria.
Duration: 40:16.
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces history of treaty-making in Canada, with particular reference to Ontario.
Lecture given at the University of Waterloo.
Duration: 44:36.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 224-257
Description
Comments on the work done by activist, Clyde Warrior, noting that his focus was always what could be done by and for American Indians, rather than focusing on what was being done against American Indians.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 67-83
Description
Discusses the development of the syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible, and looks at how present-day efforts of reading and writing with the syllabary and speaking Cherokee contribute to language perseverance.
Geoforum, vol. 40, no. 6, November 2009, pp. 991-1001
Description
Discussion on union strategies to engage with Aboriginal peoples by drawing connections between their present-day relationships to work and their prior occupancy of, and dispossession from, lands and resources.
Presents brief address from the President of Quebec Native Women recommending actions to take against Canada and other member states that do not support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 1, 2009, pp. [204]-226
Description
Looks at the use of storytelling and humour to explore connections between the traumatic experience of Aboriginals' past and their problems in the present.
Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19–21 June, 2008.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 119-136
Description
Discussion, at the structural level, about the kind of education that is provided to Canada’s Indigenous peoples. The article also discusses a social activist, Shannen Koostachin, and her campaign to engage in social action in order to pressure the federal government to build a new school.