Describes the land-based university program and its role in resisting settler colonial capitalism, particularly the oil-based extractive resource economy that has defined the relationship between the Dene and the Canadian nation state.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 159, Summer, 2014, pp. 30-37
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Interviews two artists that combine emerging technologies with their art and are also featured in the Kanata Indigenous Performance New and Digital Media Art Project.
Research Ethics, vol. 14, no. 2, September 28, 2017, pp. 1-24
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Looks at ways of valuing and using Indigenous knowledge on an equal footing with Western methods, and integrating the two when appropriate. Explores issues such as disconnection from practice, unclear researcher responsibility, forms of neutrality, and overlooking participants cultural protocols.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-4
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Book review of: Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada edited by Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay and Charlotte Reading.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 29, no. 2, Fall, 2014, pp. 25-38
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Discusses development of leaders using components of language, maturity, courage, and cultural knowledge emulating traditional principles to overcome the effects of colonialism.
Designed to help traditional knowledge holders, government representatives and third-party collaborators consider issues related to intellectual property law and provide illustrative case studies.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 81-109
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Illustrates how two songs from a Indigenous philosophical framework serve as lessons for ethical behaviour.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 81.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 113-125
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Discusses how colonization has disrupted communities' relationship with the land, efforts to restore the connection on the reservation, and how ideas about tradition and sustainability are linked to food sovereignty.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Spring, 1991, p. [?]
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Argues that if the study of indigenous cultures and knowledge is used in terms of economic development, it in effect quantifies knowledge in terms of monetary value.
Looks at a collaboration of "bringing together decolonizing pedagogies and methodologies which focus on [the authors] responsibilities from respective epistemological traditions".
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-23
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Authors discuss how oral histories can influence and change collective memories and memory negotiation; argue that collective memory which includes a diversity of perspective is vital increasing human understanding of the past and a sense of belonging in the present.
Discusses the results of a cross-case study of 39 regional partnerships in the Great Lakes region. Found six factors influence willingness to stay engaged: respect for Indigenous knowledge, control of knowledge mobilization, intergenerational involvement, self-determination, cross-cultural education, and early involvement.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 38, no. 1-2, Cultures Inuit, Gouvernance et Cosmopoliqitues / Inuit Cultures, Governance and Cosmopolitics, 2014, pp. 217-238
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Looks at two case studies that demonstrate how the Inuvialuit employ multiple ways of knowing and defining fish to negotiate the complexity of the environment.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 105-130
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Examines the reoccurring flooding in Kashechewan as a case study; finds that the repeated flooding and the corresponding damage to housing and community resources is a result of colonial practices, disregard for traditional knowledge, and forced relocations of First Nations people to flood zones.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 3, Preserving and Protecting Knowledge, Spring, 2014
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Discusses how the Cultural Preservation Endowment Program supports multiple cultural revitalization projects to preserve language, history, art, music, and dance.
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, vol. 5, no. 1, MOthering, Popular Culture and the Arts, Spring/Summer, 2014, pp. 35-53
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Looks at historical maternal traditions and the empowering influences on contemporary motherhood practices.
Author uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the processes of cultural hybridization and resistance and their presence in film, music, and art. Discusses how these factors can combine to preserve and revitalize traditional knowledges and cultures in the contemporary globalized world.
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. i-xii
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Introduction to a special themed issue on the connections and relationships between art, activism, resurgence, and resistance and how Indigenous artistic creation is connected to history, land, and community.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 4, Nation Building, Summer, 2014
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Discusses how guar (industrial crop) cultivation and processing has the potential to provide higher paying jobs and help build the economy of the Rosebud Indian Reservation.