The Effect of Centralization on the Social & Political Systems of the Mainland Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq: Case Studies – Millbrook 1916 & Indian Brook 1914
Architecture Thesis (MArch) -- Dalhousie University, 2010.
Architecture Thesis (MArch) -- Dalhousie University, 2010.
Examines the shift from a 70% non-Indigenous student population in 1970's to only 3% by 1991 at the Kitaskinaw school located on the Enoch reservation.
Looks at components that enhance student engagement in place based educational programs in the Yukon and Cree Nation reserve schools in northern Alberta.
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
Reflects on Florida's Pastor Terry Jones' burning of the Koran and Canadian history of First Nations treatment by the Church-run residential schools.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.
Examines the use of the words "band controlled" for schools, when in actuality the schools remains under the control of the federal government.
Scholarly, peer reviewed paper argues the idea that emphasis on "culture" will improve educational outcomes with urban Aboriginal youth is not working and that the issue of race is more important in the urban context.