Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Globalising Indigeneity: New Research Directions, 2009, pp. 1-4
Description
Keynote speaker's address opens this special issue which aims to showcase the depth and breadth of Indigenous Studies in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
SA-eDUC Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Special Edition on Education and Ethnicity, November 2009, pp. 100-116
Description
Supports the need to understand First Nations history from an Aboriginal perspective and the effects the Indian Act and residential school systems had on First Nations people in Canada.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 70, no. 11, November 2016, pp. 1096-1105
Description
Uses information from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey to link contemporary health and mental health conditions to residential school familial attendance.
Surveys "non-Aboriginal public knowledge and attitudes about Aboriginal peoples". Report shows eighty-four percent of Canadians surveyed want to be part of reconciliation process with Indigenous people and thirty percent of young people between the ages of 18-29 feel they have an individual part to play.
Dispelling Common Myths about Indigenous Peoples: Nine Myths & Realities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Bob Joseph
Description
Covers issues such as adequacy of reserve lands and resources, housing, tax exemptions, post-secondary education funding, residential schools, connection between unemployment and health and social problems, and missing and murdered women and girls.
Book review of: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Volume One by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 167.
Looks at factors relating to well-being and health in First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in relation to historical trauma and contemporary stresses.
Duration: 1:10:02.
Guide to accompany film, The Invisible Nation". Target audience students aged 15-20. Contains start and preparatory activities, reflective sharing, comparing two Algonquin communities, observation checklist and suggested questions.
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture, vol. 10, no. 2, 2016, pp. 189-207
Description
Comments on the theme of boarding-schools, and the films The Only Good Indian directed by Kevin Wilmott, and The Education of Little Tree directed by Friedenberg and Older Than America directed by Lightning.
Documentary about a landmark discrimination case filed by the Assembly of First Nations and the Child and Family Caring Society of Canada against Indian and Northern Affairs Development Canada in 2007 about the treatment of First Nations children.
Duration: 2:42:53.