Looks at the challenges affecting performance of Aboriginal students and the benefit of using principles which combine both Indigenous and western perspectives in the classroom.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 63-79
Description
Examines the history of Aboriginal cross-gender roles and discusses approaches to improve the quality of social work practices by including traditional Aboriginal practices and worldviews.
Comments on the need for Aboriginal peoples to be provided the opportunity to play leadership roles in their own health service provision and to create change in their communities.
Identified five themed groupings of practices based on traditional knowledge, community approaches, collaboration, training and policies for funding programs.
Canadian Journal of Urban Research, vol. 25, no. 1, Ottawa Studies Special Issue, 2016, pp. 8-21
Description
Overview of Algonquin land claims in Ontario and case studies of Indigenous activism including Chief Theresa Spence's hunger strike on Victoria Island and the Idle No More movement.
Looks at how post-secondary educational institutions are addressing the call to action n education from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) by evaluating curricula initiatives across Canada.
International Journal of the Commons, vol. 4, no. 1, February 2010, p. 36–55
Description
Looks at two joint ventures ability or inability to contribute the extra dimensions of development in forest management desired by Aboriginal communities.
American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 217-220
Description
Response to Robert McGhee's simplification and mischaracterization of Indigenous archaeology in a 2008 article, focusing on three main points of contention: insufficient sampling, caricature, and questionable treatment of colonialism and notions of "Aboriginalism".
Arctic Anthropology , vol. 47, no. 1, 2010, pp. 39-56
Description
Examines the social aspects of the mixed economy involving polar bears and how interconnected the monetary economy, subsistence economy, and cultural ideology are in Inuit society.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 83-116
Description
Looks at the experiences of the Fort Albany First Nation during the Environmental Assessment process of the proposed Victor Diamond Mine and reflects on associated social justice issues.
Provides the methodology and results of the Aboriginal traditional knowledge program undertaken by Northern Gateway Pipelines Limited Partnership. The objective of the program is to gain an understanding of and document traditional activities, project effects on traditional lands, and possible mitigation strategies.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 169, November 2016, pp. 18-26
Description
"In this paper, we develop a framework for assessing vulnerability to injury and use it to identify and characterize the determinants of injuries on the land in Nunavut".
Looks at innovative culturally responsive instructional tasks and the development of four states: survival, recovery, development and self-determination.
MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Clifford Paul
Description
Guest speaker Clifford Paul discusses using a two-eyed seeing approach to moose management. Question and answer period about the land.
Lecture begins at 22:03.
Duration: 2:45:21.
MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Danny Paul
Description
Elder Danny Paul tells a story about the creation of man and about keeping culture and cultural continuity with Aboriginal youth.
Presentation begins at 22:50.
Duration: 2:45:16
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 27-41
Description
Looks at online learning with a historical review of adult education & its lack of engagement with Indigenous knowledge. Also discusses need to create culturally sensitive technology designed to include Indigenous knowledge.
Discusses project undertaken at Charlebois Community School in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan to connect curriculum content and Ministry outcomes with Indigenous science and ways of knowing in secondary science courses.