Discusses the interpretation of the residential school experience of the Stó:lõ people who attended St. Mary’s Indian Residential School and played in its band between 1962 and 1984.
Ethnohistory Field School, 2009.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009, pp. 57-65
Description
Looks at a personal narrative about a community-based project that explores perceptions, beliefs and experiences regarding mental health and healing from an Indigenous perspective.
Uses a story to illustrate that every action counts. Speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Restorative Practices: Widening Our Lens, Connecting Our Practice, May 31st-June 5th, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Duration: 20:53.
Looks at data from a participatory action research project to identify and analyze current and future ethical needs associated with conducting psychological research with Aboriginal youth.
Discusses the process of transcription, editorial emendation and re-writing and how it reflects the collaborator's vision of Aboriginality.
Chapter 9 from Creating White Australia edited by Jane Carey and Claire McLisky. Scroll down to read material.
American Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 2, June 2009, pp. 359-381
Description
Looks at how postnationalist American studies has largely neglected the ongoing colonization of Native America through an analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Almanac of the Dead and Shelley Niro’s multimedia installation The Border.
Poems featured are: The Vigil by Ellen Brown, Stolen Children Stolen Souls by Duke Redbird, Lost My Talk by Rita Joe (with analysis), Legacies of Stolen Hearts of Innocence: A Poem by Christopher Herodier, The Bell by Brian Tuesday, and The Gift by Tom Jackson.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 139, Summer, 2009, pp. 31-35
Description
Author reflects on the defining characteristics and current status of Aboriginal theatre, as well elements needed to ensure it flourishes in the future.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 222-232
Description
Discusses the approach to understanding Indigenous legal traditions in terms of healing, politics, epistemology, and justice in Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights; New Histories for Old: Changing Perspectives on Canada's Native Pasts; and Indigenous Legal Traditions.