Looks at Canada's "in-principle" agreement regarding compensation from residential schools and compares this to Australia's compensation recommendations from the "Bringing Them Home" report.
Rekindling Traditions: Cross-Cultural Science & Technology Units
Stories from the Field: Experiences and Advice from the Rekindling Traditions Team
[McDowell Foundation Research Project ; no. 51]
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Glen Aikenhead
Gloria Belcourt
Morris Brizinski
David Gold
Keith Lemaigre ... [et al.]
Description
Project focuses on integrating Indigenous knowledge of science and technology into the Saskatchewan provincial science curriculum.
Includes links to teacher guide, summary, minutes of meetings, and stories from the field.
Discusses the development of Canadian anthropology with American and British influences and major personalities in the discipline. The related article is entitled Co-habitation and Co-optation: some Intersections between Native American and Euroamerican Legal Systems in the Nineteenth Century.
Background Paper (Parliamentary Research Branch) ; PRB 99-24E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary C. Hurley
Jill Wherrett
Description
Overview prepared by Research Services, Library of Parliament of the seven-volume Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Report (RCAP).
"Revised 2 August 2000."
International Journal of Science Education, vol. 22, no. 6, June 2000, pp. 603-617
Description
Examines the approach taken to minority group knowledges in two recently published sets of junior secondary science texts, with a specific focus on the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge into the texts.
Canadian Journal of School Psychology, vol. 21, no. 1/2, December 2006, pp. 18-32
Description
Uses psychological research and theory to explain the consequences of the school system in terms of: poor academic performance and inability to continue education, which in turn affects employment opportunities and future income.
Transcription of radio program about the United Church. Tape 1 - Apology given by the United Church of Canada in 1986; Tape 2 - Residential Schools: The Past and Present; Tape 3A - WBAI Interview - Economics and Politics (2/15/98); Tape 3B - WBAI Interview: 6/18/98.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 265-286
Description
Summarizes research project, Traditional Pathways to Health developed in partnership with teachers to help Aboriginal youth identify factors impacting their health and wellness using video as a tool of understanding.
Describes one part of an innovative Canadian research project in which Aboriginal high school students engaged with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from First
Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina.