Journal of Indigenous Research, vol. 7, no. 1, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, 2019, p. Article 3
Description
Author conducts a literature review examining resources and writings surrounding the issue of violence towards Indigenous women and the suppression of the issue; argues that media representation plays a large role, and issues a call to action from the general public to help solve the problem.
Children & Society, vol. 33, no. 5, 2019, pp. 399-413
Description
Authors conducted analysis of 4300 advertisements promoting adoption of Indigenous children which were featured in the "Today's Child" column in The Toronto Telegram and The Toronto Star from 1964 to 1982, the period known as the Sixties Scoop. Descriptions of happiness were framed in ways which conformed with white society's notions of family and nation.
Continuum, vol. 24, no. 1, Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering, 2010, pp. 65-77
Description
Discusses the way an archival history series, feature film and budget drama addresses politics of reconciliation and the media's obsession with violence in remote Australia.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 76-112
Description
Looks at the twin processes of queer and Native spheres in the film and its additional interpenetration of the Shakespearean sphere.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 76.
Teachers' guide developed in conjunction with exhibition mounted to dispel the misrepresentations of cultural beliefs created by Stephanie Myer's Twilight books.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 439-470
Description
Author examines several images contemporary to the 1904 World’s Fair, discusses the way in which Indigenous people were portrayed as "spectacle, commodity and spoil of American conquest;" articulates ways that some Indigenous Leaders both corroborated these portrayals and subverted them.
Article investigates the new/media discourses and narratives surrounding Indigenous women, specifically those living in Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, BC
Coverage investigated 319 print and online news outlets for keywords including: Indigenous, Aboriginal, First Nation(s), Northern Ontario Reserves, Métis and Inuit. Tone analysis based on inherent positivity or negativity of event, topic or issue.
Contends that Canada has failed to implements the standards required to meet due diligence obligations and has violated the rights of Aboriginal women.
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 151-176
Description
Proposes that “Indigenous futurism is a deliberate, intentional, and purpose-driven position that addresses not only inclusion but intersectionality for its protagonists and themes;” and ask the reader to consider it both an aesthetic and a framework for critical theory. Examines different dystopian YA texts in this context.
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.
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 228-251
Description
Looks at how role reversals and racial imitations in Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre transforms the stereotypical trappings of Indian roles by redescribing and incorporating a sense of the past into the present.
Results of interviews with 16 study participants grouped into five themes: identity, family and community, violence, systemic racism/colonialism, social networks/supports, and resiliency and integrity.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, January 31, 2019, pp. 65-87
Description
Authors highlight ongoing narratives in how Indigenous peoples have been portrayed in Canadian welfare policy discourse from 1867 to the present; discusses the ethical implications of representing Indigenous peoples as “non-productive” and therefor undeserving. Recommends a reformation of policy that is conscious of historic and contemporary colonial dispossession and disenfranchisement.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 75-81
Description
Illustrates the new character tropes being developed by Aboriginal Australian writers to challenge the stereotypical representation of Indigenous peoples in detective fiction.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 39, no. 3, 2016, pp. [1]-25
Description
Comments on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action report which calls for the integration of Indigenous Knowledge and teaching methods into the curriculum and provides better preparation of teachers to deliver Indigenous content.
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.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, p. 1
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Introductory editorial to themed issue on how different epistemologies and cultural values inform power relations in different locations, situations and contemporary contexts.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 4, 2016, pp. 23-48
Description
Argues that controversial film created by Dominic Gagnon reflects his colonialist attitude of white privilege. Film was a mash up of clips found on YouTube, many of which portrayed Inuit in a negative light; he also used material for which he had not gained consent.
Video of speech given by professor from the University of Victoria's Indigenous Governance Program. He argues that Aboriginals must regain their authentic cultural identity in order to truly decolonize themselves.
Duration: 01:02:12.
Analyzes how women were portrayed in 12 articles published in the Winnipeg Free Press between 2006 and 2012 and the influence of social constructions of gender, race and class.
Human Rights Thesis (B.A.)--Lunds Universitet, 2016.
Canadian Food Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, December 2016, pp. 104-126
Description
Examines coverage in two newspapers: The Globe and Mail and the National Post over a 14-year period between April 1, 1999 to September 1, 2013. Analysis suggests that reports reinforced perceptions about the Inuit as Other by focusing on issues such as hunger, poverty and income.
Comments on the negative stereotype portrayal given to Native Americans in films.
Senior Thesis completed towards an undergraduate degree in Political Science--University of New England, 2014.
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 117-150
Description
Discusses how the work of these visual artists participates in Indigenous storytelling about the future by engaging with contemporary artistic practices and mainstream popular culture; author examines the way that the artists challenge Western colonial narratives and stereotypes.