North-South Partnership for Children in Remote First Nations Communities (Mamow Sha-way-gi-kay-win)
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Assessment focuses on six key areas: livelihoods, infrastructure, community participation, education/recreation, children and parents and mental and physical health.
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.
Issue Analysis, no. 86, April 04, 2007, pp. [1]-[20]
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Contends that the best results come from a combination of good teaching and management on the school side, and support and determination on the community side.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 27-41
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Looks at online learning with a historical review of adult education & its lack of engagement with Indigenous knowledge. Also discusses need to create culturally sensitive technology designed to include Indigenous knowledge.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 119-136
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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.
Our Schools, Our Selves, vol. 19, no. 3, Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action, Spring , 2010, pp. 275-289
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Comments on the need to increase the knowledge about Aboriginal peoples for Canadian students, many who graduate high school with less than adequate levels of information.
Kevin Loring discusses the evolution of his play, which was featured at the National Arts Centre's English Theatre. Play focuses on the effects of residential schools.
Duration: 28:11.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 9, September 2007, p. 12
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Comments on a youth camp, held at White Bear Lake Resort, which focused on discovering the beauty of the land and natural resources.
Article located by scrolling to page 12.
Mrs. Trudeau talks about being adopted and the schooling she received as a child. Mr. Trudeau talks about growing up on the farm, and later working in the lumber and fishing industries. Interpreter : Ernest Debassigae ; transcriber : Joanne Greenwood.
Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 15, no. 1, Supplement, February 2007, pp. S80-S84
Description
Looks at a learning needs analysis which revealed adolescent mental health workers ranked their learning needs as high and their knowledge and skills in working with depression and other disorders as low.
Video includes a compilation of conversations on the strength and resilience of Métis peoples in the context of the residential school experience and its after-effects.
Duration: 9:54.