Examines the impact of labour force attachment programs on the quality of life on participants by analyzing real life experiences Concludes health and well-being of recipients are not promoted.
[Patterns of Health and Wellbeing: An Intercultural Symposium ; 02]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Beverly Kiohawiton Cook
Description
Webcast of the keynote speaker from the Patterns of Health and Wellbeing Symposium, Beverly Cook, who speaks on child sexual abuse and the ACE program (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
Duration: 31:58.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2014, pp. 85-103
Description
Discusses how imposition of the Act's prohibitions and lack of cooperation by the Wildlife Service, affected the Band's plans for economic development.
Report summarizes what early learning means to First Nations communities, early learning key supports, early learning assets, early learning staff supports, and early learning gaps and challenges.
Performance Research, vol. 19, no. 6, On Rupture, 2014, pp. 118-120
Description
Book review of: The Winter We Danced: Voices From the Past, the Future and the Idle No More Movement edited by The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, lead editors Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tanya Kappo, Wanda Nanibush and Hayden King.
Looks at the rejection of federal Bill C-33, First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act, and an alternative education decision-making model that is more aligned with the Mi'kmaq "Talking Circle" tradition.
Overview of the changes regarding involvement of local people in the process of incorporating indigenous knowledge into resource management decision making.
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 26, no. 1, White Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in the Canadian Context: A Tribute to Patricia Monture, 2014, pp. 23-50
Description
Comments on the case, McIvor v The Registrar, that had the potential to correct the history of sex discrimination in the Indian Act but failed.
[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Karen Busby
Description
Podcast presents an overview of the "Critical Conversations Series" and outlines some of the key features of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA)
Duration unknown.
Recovering From Colonization: Perspectives of Community Members on Protection and Repatriation of Kw KW Akw Aka'Wakw Cultural Heritage (January 2005 Draft)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Catherine Bell
Heather Raven
Heather McCuaig
Description
Examines community efforts to revive cultural practices, reclaim knowledge, and get back cultural objects, specifically involving the potlatch system. Scroll to page 51
Uses the example of an Australian initiative to develop a radio network as an exercise in developing an agency capable of caring out the community's will. The author argues that the experience can be transfered to other cases where the community executes government policies of "Aboriginal self-determination".
Chapter 12 of: The Power of Knowledge: The Resonance of Tradition edited by Luke Taylor.
R.A.C.E. Network’s 14th Annual Critical Race and Anticolonial Studies Conference
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Glen Coulthard
Description
Author presents thoughts on where decolonization should take us. Podcast from the 14th Annual Critical Race and AntiColonial Studies Conference, Unsettling Conversations, Unmaking Racisms and Colonialisms.
Duration: 57:22.
Study includes: statistical overview, factors affecting industry-First Nations partnerships, details of particular issues in each province and territory, and recommendations for future partnerships.