Canadian Diversity=Diversitié canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, pp. 35-42
Description
Uses the NWT Official Languages Act, as an example, to show it is possible to revitalize 55 Aboriginal languages using statutory legislation.
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Borderlands E - Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-8
Description
Explores the dichotomy between cultural relativism and universalism and examines how these tensions are used to legitimize assimilation by the Australian colonial state.
Podcast of Interview with artist about his exhibition Awareness Series which focuses on the government's policy of issuing numbered disks to Inuit rather than referring to them by name.
Duration: 6:54.
Documentary about three sisters and a brother meeting for the first time after being taken from their mother and adopted out as part of the "Sixties Scoop".
Duration: 1:19:21.
Documentary about three sisters and a brother meeting for the first time after being taken from their mother and adopted out as part of the "Sixties Scoop". Edited version of the original.
Duration: 45:00.
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Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens.
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Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
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Looks at shortcomings of the current system, provides statistical data, and advocates for changes that will reduce the number of children in care.
Follow-up to the 2016 report.
First Nation Citizenship Research & Policy Series: Building Towards Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Description
Focuses on First Nations perspectives on meaning of being Indigenous, belonging to a community, and relationship of these memberships with the institutions of the Canadian state.
The Other Declarations in Daniels: Fiduciary Obligations and the Duty to Negotiate
[Daniels: In and Beyond the Law]
[History, Jurisdiction, and Identity in Daniels v Canada]
[The Chicken and the Egg: Unanswered Questions from Daniels
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Eric Adams
Catherine Bell
Paul Seaman
Description
Three presenters discuss the Daniels decision: First looks at the decision in terms of history, jurisdiction, and identity and citizenship; second analyzes the reasons given by the court for denying two declarations that were sought in the case; and third discusses problem of who can legitimately decide if someone is part of the Métis collective.
Duration: 1:08:05.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
"Les Métis de l'Est": Outlining the Intellectual Currents at the Basis of 'Métis" Self-identification in Québec
Daniels: In and Beyond the Law
You Cannot "Blow Hot and Blow Cold": The Contradictions of Colonialism and the Disregard for Mé Agency in Daniels]
["Get your application in!: Post-Daniels Pitfalls, Self-Identification and the Rush to Become Métis]
[Promises and Pitfalls of Daniels]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Thomas Isaac
Adam Gaudry
Darryl Leroux
D'Arcy Vermette
Description
Keynote speaker discusses his report A Matter of National and Constitutional Import: Report of the Minister's Special Representative on Reconciliation with Métis: Section 35 Métis Rights and the Manitoba Metis Federation Decision.
Duration: 1:03:28.
Second part (beginning at 1:08:32) consists of panel presentations on "Promises and Pitfalls of Daniels". Speakers discuss implications of decision for Métis self-identification, Métis in Quebec, and the Métis nation.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 82-108, 263
Description
Discusses unresolved legal and political matters that question Canadian Arctic sovereignty and looks at different approaches to sovereignty by the Government of Canada, Arctic Indigenous peoples, and other Northerners.
[Métisland: Métis Settlements and the Daniels Decision]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Will Goodon
Gerald Cunningham
Description
President of the Métis Settlements General Council discusses its involvement in the Daniels case and actions of the Council since the decision. Second speaker discusses the political and historical context of the case, analyzes the court's judgement, and suggests possible future actions.
Duration: 1:15:01.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, Autumn, 2017, pp. 697-724
Description
Author explores the response from French-Canadian peoples living in the United States in the mid-1870s to the execution of Louis Riel; argues that the reaction can help to understand religious and ethnic transnationalism, and resistance to social and political forces in the Canada and the U.S. in the late nineteenth century.
Case comment on Brown v Canada (Attorney General), the class action suit in Ontario involving the removal of children from their families on reserve, and placing them with non-Indian adoptive families, and foster and group homes. At issue was whether the Federal government had breached fiduciary or common law duties to prevent loss of identity in post-placement period.
Ethnic and Racial Studies , vol. 32, no. 5, June 2009, pp. 781-801
Description
Presents interview data gained from wide range of people living in southeast Australia about what they know and how they feel about Australian Aboriginal people and issues.