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.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Culture and Education: Aboriginal Settings, Concerns, and Insights, 1994, pp. 165-181
Description
Outlines motivations for bilingual instruction, curriculum, and difficulties involved in implementation, and argues that such a program will eventually lead to a hybrid language and culture.
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.
Related material:
Mini-Lesson.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 3, 2009, pp. 111-165
Description
Book reviews of 20 books:
The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard by Charles E. Trimble, Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan.
Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology edited by Stephen W. Silliman.
Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit by John H.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2009, pp. 143-192
Description
Book reviews of 20 books:
American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 by Deborah A. Rosen.
Architectural Variability in the Southeast edited by Cameron H. Lacquement.
Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1994, pp. 1-31
Description
Book review of 10 books:
Indians Are Us: Culture and Genocide in Native North America by Ward Churchill.
Thresholds of Differences: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory by Julia Emberly.
Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada edited by Diane Englestad and John Bird.
Arctic Dreams and Nightmares by Alootook Ipellie.
The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories: The Original Tsimshian Texts of Henry Tate by Ralph Maud.
Ethnophilosophical and Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on the Huron Soul by Michael Pomedli.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 14, no. 1, Physical Activity and Cultural Safety, May 28, 2019, pp. 107-125
Description
Describes the research process and results of a participatory project on how Indigenous girls and the female family members that care for them. Results show that flexible design that allows for intergenerational involvement can prove beneficial for both participants and for researchers.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, January 2019, p. Article 2
Description
Explores the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry (MMIWG), and questions the exclusion of Indigenous males. Discusses the need for a more comprehensive and holistic model of inquiry that honours the voices of Indigenous communities.
Survey conducted online between March 22 and April 29, 2019, with stratified samples of 682 Indigenous and 695 non-Indigenous youth (ages 16 to 29), distributed across the 10 provinces and three territories.
Related material:
Detailed Data Tables: Indigenous Youth.
Documentary about a community radio station and the important role it plays in the Teetl'it Gwich'in town of Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories.
Duration : 1:06:11.
Identifies community-level research initiatives and demonstrations of cultural and practice-based strategies for prevention and intervention. Findings are organized around models, and strengths and challenges are listed for each model.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities, 2019, pp. 37-40
Description
The author examines the creation of the Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World exhibit at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California, his supporters questioning of tribal denial of his claim to Cherokee ancestry and its importance regarding Indigenous identity and sovereignty.
Examines the different definitions of Indigeneity used by the different nation-states in the Arctic regions. Finds that Russian definitions exclude large Indigenous groups (Sakha & Komi) and shows that not all Arctic Indigenous groups are included in the Arctic Council.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 123-132
Description
Discusses successful children's writers that falsely claim Indigenous ancestry and the effect their success had on maintaining stereotypes that fit the popular conception of what constitutes an Indigenous person. The four of the writers profiled are: Jamake Highwater Anpao, Paul Goble, Sharon Creech, and Asa Carter.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 115-122
Description
Discusses how decreased funding for museums and art galleries has lead to an increased effort to secure Indigenous art in order to acquire grants. Uses Jimmie Durham as a case study and an examination of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 to illustrate how the art community's haste to secure Indigenous art has allowed those with a fraudulent identity to benefit.
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.
Scroll down to read paper.
Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
Scroll down to read paper.
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 5, June 2019, pp. 41-75
Description
Discusses the traditional knowledge and skills used by Maasai women in their creation of accessories and other handcrafted goods; explores how these skills might be translated into income in both domestic and tourist markets.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 142-163
Description
Based on analysis of transcripts of Hirsekorn case in which judges had to render a decision on the Métis identity of the accused and his membership in a rights-holding Métis community.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 61, no. 2, Glimpses of Métis Society and History in Northwest Saskatchewan, Fall, 2009, pp. 18-28
Description
Two-part paper first examine the history of Île-à-la-Crosse in the context of mainstream histories, then examines how local community histories have become markers of Aboriginality.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 18.
Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Gregory M. Brass
Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Description
Contends that mental health services and health promotion must be directed at both individual and community levels.
Chapter 20 from Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Gregory M. Brass, and Gail Guthrie Valaskakis.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism, 2019, pp. 1-40
Description
A discussion of Indigenous feminist politics and the relationship between Indigenous women and water using the Flint water crisis and NoDAPL action at Standing Rock to illustrate.