Study involved interviews and focus groups with 32 community members and front-line service providers both in Aboriginal organizations and government. Themes which emerged were health, parenting supports, mobility, and employment, as well as three overarching issues: service gaps and barriers, funding gaps, and impermanence of programs and funding.
National Arts Centre English Theatre Programme for Student Audiences ; 2009-2010 Season
Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pamela Levac
Christopher Morris
Description
Includes synopsis of the play, information of Indigenous peoples of the North, the Inuktitut language, Pond Islet, Baffin Island, and an interview with writer/director,
Author asserts that language policies and ideologies have been at the foundation of attempts to remove Native inhabitants and create a "White America".
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 4, 2002, pp. 113-120
Description
Revisites a less well-known published linguistic study, The Discovery of California, in order to educate a diverse audience on the linkage between language and migration.
Users are able to browse and search in both Ojibwe and English; includes audio for pronunciation of most words, terminology relating to specific topics, and links to cultural galleries.
General statistics and well as more detailed for language, living arrangements of children, housing and mobility, educational attainment, and labour force.
Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2003.
Documentation in the dissertation includes narratives by Alfred Caesar, Mary Charlie, Amos Dick, Mida Donnessey, Arthur John, Rose Johnston, Liza Magun, John Martin and others.
Looks at the National Aboriginal Design Committee's (NADC) role in establishing a national organization to address issues raised in the report Knowledge Matters.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2014, pp. 19-40
Description
Looks at factors which contribute to educational gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students: history, political organization, socio-economic status, and health.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 2, 2010, pp. 42-58
Description
Looks at the challenges of publishing in the Sámi languages; the foundation of Sámi literature from oral tradition to written language; early Sámi authors; the Sámi Writers’ Association; and the emergence of Sámi publishing houses.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 42.
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 1-22
Description
Discusses examples of intellectual and aesthetic practices in Hawaiian literature that layer cultural and historic ideologies within deeper meanings and themes important to Hawaiian culture.
Looks at how First Nations and Inuit communities are using broadband networks and information and communication technologies; and discusses the broadband projects and federal broadband Initiatives in First Nations and Inuit communities.
Review of Research in Education, vol. 38, no. 1, March 2014, pp. 106-136
Description
Looks at the link between linguistic and cultural diversity and Indigenous languages to knowledge systems of the Mohawk in Canada and the United States, the Hawaiian in the Pacific, and the Hopi and Navajo in the U. S. Southwest.
Brief overview of four themes: status of language, political empowerment, economy, and higher education and research.
Presentation at the Conference: “The Regional Identity of Ethnic Groups in Europe”
Acta Borealis, vol. 27, no. 1, June 2010, pp. 1-23
Description
Studies language relations by looking at the historical, ideological, and political process used in language revitalization focusing on political and legal instruments of change.
Discusses the sacred connection between language, land and people, how language revitalization addresses spiritual needs and, argues that the loss of language represents loss of a unique way of organizing experiences.
[Resources for Teaching Aboriginal Languages in the Northwest Territories: An Annotated Bibliography]
Documents & Presentations
Description
Contains links to lists of materials available for Chipewyan, Cree, North and South Slavey, and Tlicho. Each book is keyed for language (single or accompanied by English) and grade level.