Survey conducted to measure Canadian's baseline awareness of the residential school system and the long-term, intergenerational consequences for the Aboriginal population.
Reports results of document search and interviews with representatives from regional First nations data governance centres. Focus of environment scan and research included: state and history of initiatives, regional considerations around the government-First Nation relationship, and regional data sovereignty, Nation building and intergovernmental relationships.
HealthCare Policy, vol. 4, no. 2, 2008, pp. 101-112
Description
Researches concepts, initiatives, common themes, regional differences, jurisdiction, and challenges faced by First Nations health management organizations.
Race, Ethnicity and Education, vol. 20, no. 4, 2017, pp. 446-462
Description
"Article provides guidance to curriculum designers, textbook writers, teachers and administrators participating in the decolonization of education in Canada".
FNQLHSSC [First Nation of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission] Research Department
Description
Topics included external environment, housing and infrastructure, nutrition, employment and economic development, education, justice and safety, health and social services, identity, and governance.
AFN [Assembly of First Nations]-INAC [Indian and Northern Affairs] Joint Technical Working Group
Description
Includes: brief history of issues, observations on the current state of affairs, review of existing research and information, and identification of areas for future investigation.
Discusses proposed changes to the law covering oil and gas activity on First Nations reserves which will enable more bands to get involved in the petroleum industry.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: The Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Metis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 208-212
Description
Author recalls her childhood in a small, isolated Vancouver Island community and some of the changes that lead to the death of a 13 year old resident.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 2008, pp. vii-x
Description
Introductory essay to articles in this issue, plus a commentary on the former Prime Minister's life experiences and on what he sees as the challenges facing Aboriginal Canadians.
[Harvest of Hope: A Symposium on Reconciliation ; pt.6]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Victor Montejo
Description
Speaker discusses the genocide of Mayan people committed by military forces during the thirty-year civil war and efforts to engage in a process of reparations and reconciliation.
Duration: 21:12.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 18-19
Description
Book review of: From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation: A Road Map for all Canadians by Greg Poelzer and Ken S. Coates.
Several book reviews on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 18.
Plan for promoting educational success of Native American students focuses on measuring the progress of relationships between government, tribes and schools districts and supporting a curriculum based on tribal history, culture and government.
Looks at issues of Indigenous constitutional visions, treaty constitutionalism and decolonization through a gendered lens. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, UBC, June 2008.
Argues that the legal framework has not kept up with demographic shifts because it focuses on land-related rights and ignores off-reserve and non-status population. As such, it disproportionately affects women who have been displaced through discriminatory effects of the Indian Act.
Tripartite Working Group of the National Aboriginal Court Worker Program
Description
"This curriculum is developed for the purposes instructing Aboriginal Court Workers on how to integrate Gladue Principles into speaking to sentence for an Aboriginal client."
International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 10, no. 2, 2008, pp. 216-233
Description
Discusses violence against Indigenous women resulting from global economic restructuring based on two cases: missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, and the death of Private Piestewa, a Hopi woman.
Discusses the changes that have taken place when the findings of the 2008 study are compared to those of the 2002 study on the academic biases and government policies toward American Indian criminal justice and criminology literature.
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Australian Indigenous Law Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2008, pp. 41-59
Description
Gives overview of the events leading to the Settlement Agreement including: history of the system, criminal, civil, and class action cases, the Official Apology, Settlement Agreement and the establishment of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As well, discusses lessons that may be learned when considering a resolution with Australia's Aborigine population.
Website provides learning materials about the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia before the province was created. Contains links to complete collection of correspondence from 1846 to 1871. One section of teacher material deals with question "Were the Douglas Treaties and the Numbered Treaties Fairly Negotiated?"