Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 1, August 2014, pp. 1-15
Description
Discusses how western colonial ideals, that form the basis of the current education system, must be replaced with Indigenous philosophical systems as a foundation.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 2, December 2014, pp. 1-17
Description
Author uses a Muskego Inninuwuk (Swampy Cree) methodology based on principles of relationality to study experiences of identity in herself and others of Cree and non-Indigenous ancestry.
Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, vol. 27, no. 1, January 2014, pp. 213-223
Description
Looks at different evaluations of the idea of reconciliation that mask assimilation or governmental efforts to look good and why the real concept should not be abandoned.
[ISID Conference 2014: Whose Truth? What Kind of Reconciliation?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Presentation by the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on the history of residential schools, treaty promises, abuse in the schools and more.
Duration: 44:59.
Discuss views by Aboriginal scholar Taiaiake Alfred, theorist on Aboriginal self-governance, and Andrea Smith feminist and activist against violence against women.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 53, no. 3, Examining and Applying Safety Zone Theory: Current Policies, Practices, and Experiences, 2014, pp. 1-10
Description
Introduction to three papers delivered at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Philadelphia.
Uses traditional stories to illustrate fundamental principles of Indigenous education and argues that it must take place in the context of a relationship with the land.
Describes the land- and culture-based healing program developed by the Cree Nation of Chisasibi which promotes personal, family and community wellness rooted in the Cree way of life. Participants spend two- to three-weeks at a bush camp located 500 km east the community.
First part of presentation is April Iris Charol discussing concepts such as ownership, developing consciousness and the way words are interpreted.
Second part of presentation is Khelsilem Rivers discussing how colonization shaped identity and indigenous lanaguages.
Duration: 1:56:23.
Introduces the special Issue and argues that decolonization requires forms of education that reconnect Indigenous peoples to land and land-based knowledges, languages, and social relations.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 40-54
Description
Discusses how tribalography's literary capacity can bridge time, space, and place and be beneficial to tribal peoples and sovereignties.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 40.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 65-74
Description
Discusses the scholarly relevance of using the concept of tribalography as a research methodology and the risks and rewards associated with it.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 65.
Proceedings of the IDEAS: Rising to Challenge Conference
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Yvonne Poitras Pratt
D. Lyn Daniels
Description
Looks at what significant Indigenous memories are missing from official histories and what it might mean to hear these memories.
Chapter from Proceedings of the IDEAS: Rising to Challenge Conference edited by Paulino Preciado Babb.
Author asserts that language policies and ideologies have been at the foundation of attempts to remove Native inhabitants and create a "White America".
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 1-22
Description
Discusses examples of intellectual and aesthetic practices in Hawaiian literature that layer cultural and historic ideologies within deeper meanings and themes important to Hawaiian culture.
R.A.C.E. Network’s 14th Annual Critical Race and Anticolonial Studies Conference
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Glen Coulthard
Description
Author presents thoughts on where decolonization should take us. Podcast from the 14th Annual Critical Race and AntiColonial Studies Conference, Unsettling Conversations, Unmaking Racisms and Colonialisms.
Duration: 57:22.
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol. 28, no. 6, Materialities, 2014, p. 850–861
Description
Discusses the unconventional filmmaking style of Rolf de Heerthe and his collaboration with the Yolngu community when approaching two different cultures.