Discusses the early years of Russian occupation and education on Kodiak Island, and the suppression of language and culture by the American education system.
Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program, AAEDIRP
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Bruce
Amanda Marlin
Mary Beth Doucette
Description
Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat (APCFNC) is a policy research organization that analyzes and develops culturally relevant alternatives to federal policies that impact on the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Innu Aboriginal communities and peoples.
Discusses a unique governance system and challenges facing tribal governments and communities.
Duration: 41:32. Includes textual transcript.
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Is This Our Canada? How Racial Discrimination in Children's Services Undermines the Potential of This Generation of First Nations Children and What You Can do to Help
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cindy Blackstock
Description
Executive Director of First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada speaks on inequities in funding for Aboriginal children, focusing on Jordan's Principle, Shannen's Dream, and the discrimination complaint lodged with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5 (slide show)
Total Duration: 41:88.
Abstracts of works in the Research Series.
Aboriginal Sexual Offending in Canada by John H. Hylton.
Mental Health Profiles for a Sample of British Columbia's Aboriginal Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System by Raymond R. Corrado, Irwin M.
Comments on the importance of maintaining traditional values, cultures and languages in the effort to close the academic achievement gap that can be found between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.
Explains suggested revisions and updates to Indian Control of Indian Education 1972 (ICIE 1972) document to reflect current challenges and changes in education.
Argues that the Federal government's Post-Secondary Student Support Program is failing in its objectives because the money is not being given directly to students and it should be replaced by a Aboriginal Post-Secondary Savings Account opened at birth for each Registered Indian.
World Indigenous Nations High Education Consortium Journal, [Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Research], 2010, pp. 11-25
Description
Overview of Indigenous ways of knowing, education assimilation policy, first Nations control of education and post-secondary Indigenous Studies programs.
Entire issue on one pdf. To read article scroll to p. 11.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 126-136
Description
Outlines various responses to trauma and race-based traumatic stress suffered by Indigenous peoples as a result of government policies geared towards assimilation, and discusses how self-governed nations with connection to culture and spirituality can result in better outcomes for Indigenous peoples.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 63-85
Description
Presents a study that looks at links between personal homelessness and intergenerational trauma through a series of interviews with Aboriginal men.
The Journey Ahead: Report on Progress Since the Government of Canada's Apology to Former Students of Indian Residential Schools: Report of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gerry St. Germain
Lillian Eva Dyck
Description
Discusses the report on the progress made on the Government of Canada’s commitments since the apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools, and the challenges that still lie ahead.
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 102, March 27, 2010, pp. [1]-21
Description
Looks at the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons minutes and proceedings from 1949 which recommended a move away from segregated to integrated schools for Aboriginal children.
Education Canada, vol. 50, no. 4, Fall, 2010, p. [?]
Description
Compares the No Child Left Behind program initiated in the United States in 2001 and Canada's First Nations Student Success Program (FNSSP) introduced in 2009.
Prairie Perspectives on Indian Residential Schools, Truth, and Reconciliation, The Forks, Winnipeg, MB, Thursday 17 June 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Christopher Powell
Description
Using historical comparisons, examines present concepts and Indian residential school policy as part of a larger government plan to assimilate Indigenous people.
Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 30, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 505-532
Description
Looks at the linguistic precursor to biological essentialism, evidence of white philologists’ reliance on Native tutors and discusses why the federal government began moving toward assimilation.
Focuses on four areas: strengthening Tribal control; investing in cultural and language revitalization; hiring Native American staff and administrators, and promoting interagency coordination.
Histories of Anthropology Annual, vol. 6, 2010, pp. 129-170
Description
Looks at how Sol Tax incorporated action anthropology, through conventional tactics, into his goals of challenging the United States government policies and also challenged assimilationist ideals found in both science and politics.
Looks at the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families and its effects and discusses the shifts in child welfare policy, and amendment to adoption laws.
Albert Journal of Educational Research, vol. 56, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 72-81
Description
Presents themes of review: lack of willingness by the federal government to honor constitutional obligations; focus of providing provincial level of special education services; limited funding; lack of respect for First Nations knowledge.
The First Nations Post-Secondary Education: Access
Opportunity and Outcomes Panel
Description
Presents a dialogue between AFN members to inform and advance a policy regarding the need to support post-secondary education and skills training for First Nations youth and adults.
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.