American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 103-112
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Author describes the hiring process and their first year as a Professor in the English department of University of Alaska Anchorage; offers discussion of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) hiring practices and of the process of learning “how universities work.”
Looks at the failure of the public school system to support the success of Aboriginal students due to funding, assessment, program design, training, curriculum and continuity of goals.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 412-415
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Author describes their personal experiences with profound ignorance towards Indigenous peoples and systemic anti-Indigenous racism at the small exclusive college at which they are a non-tenured member of the faculty.
Study provides a national perspective on the role of Vocational Education and Training in Schools (VETiS) using data from a survey of over 20,00 students and interviews with school staff, students and other stakeholders.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, poems, and various articles including, Two-Spirited Youth Program by Julian F. Wilson
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, poems, and various articles including, Keeping Her Family Strong by Barbra Nahwegahbow.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, interviews, poems and various articles, including Aboriginal Women: No Rights to Land or Children by Mabel Nipshank.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, poems, resources and various articles, including Breaking the Code of Silence by Isabelle Knockwood.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, poems, and various articles, including Traditional Parenting Skills in Contemporary Life by Shelley Goforth
Through personal testimonies charges that children were: deliberately exposed to disease, forced to undergo sterilization, beaten, sometimes to death and that these actions were taken with the goal of eventual elimination of the Aboriginal population.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 394-399
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Author’s details their personal experiences of discrimination and isolation while attending graduate school; and the subsequent ostracization by her home community.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 38, no. 1, 2003, pp. 116-134
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Discusses successful writing project of grade five students in Winnipeg who collaborated with parents to write about the parent's life experiences in a positive way.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 42, no. 1, Celebrating Tribal Colleges and Universities American Indian Higher Education Consortium, 2003, pp. 36-45
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Comments on the benefits of attending a tribal college and gives recommendations for a successful transition to a mainstream institution. Based on student interviews.
Project began during conferences held at site of the Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, Sioux Lookout, Ontario. On page 2: "Exercises for building children, families and communities" .