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.
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative: The Artist Herself: Broadening Ideas of Self-portraiture in Canada: The Third Conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sherry Farrell Racette
Description
Paper presented at The Artist Herself: Broadening Ideas of Self-Portraiture in Canada, Third Conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, 8–9 May 2015, Queen’s University.
Duration: 24:26.
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 describes insights gained during his eight-week research project to improve his Mi'gmaw language skills by using the Aboriginal Language Initiative and the Migmaq Online websites, and engaging in weekly meetings with a fluent speaker and Elder-in-Residence at St. Thomas University.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 30, no. 2, Fall, 2015, pp. 129-139
Description
Presents evidence, contrary to commonly held belief, that the collection of 280 word keys to at least 23 languages was not stolen and thrown overboard into the James River.
Discusses Indigenous, regional, state or territorial, and federal policy context in Canada and the U.S. At each level options and their accompanying opportunities and challenges are identified, and recommendations are made.
Author asserts that language policies and ideologies have been at the foundation of attempts to remove Native inhabitants and create a "White America".
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.
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.
Topics include: school improvement; literacy, mathematics, and science; language and culture; behavioural and social-emotional interventions; and parent, family, and community involvement.
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.
[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.