Developed to assist communities in mobilizing to promote health and minimize the risk of contracting, or becoming very ill from, COVID-19. Includes environmental scan of existing resources and recommendations to increase effectiveness in providing information by using seven principles: accessibility, context, distictions-based, clarity and brevity, strength-based approaches, grounding in cultural identity and knowledge, and evidence based / wise practices.
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 228-251
Description
Looks at how role reversals and racial imitations in Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre transforms the stereotypical trappings of Indian roles by redescribing and incorporating a sense of the past into the present.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, The Interconnectedness of Languages, Rivers, and Forests, December 2011
Description
Discusses how the Guatemalan community radio station plays an important role in providing information and preserving values pertaining to the various Indigenous cultures.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 35, no. 1, 2010, pp. 85-108
Description
Compares newspaper coverage of the deaths of two Aboriginal children while in care. One was placed by provincial authorities, the other by the Xyolhemeylh agency of the Stó:lö Nation. Survey looked at stories in the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Province, Abbotsford Times, Chilliwack Times and Mission City Record.
WebSci '20: 12th ACM Conference on Web Science Companion
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Chu Hiang Goh
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer
Description
Discusses the socio-cultural technological challenges for Indigenous communities by examining the use of Emojis as means of communication that does not sustain Indigenous values.
Chapter from WebSci '20: 12th ACM Conference on Web Science Companion.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, March/April 2011, pp. 9-10
Description
Looks at a web site, HealthInfoNet, which is designed for people with common interests to easily share information regarding the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians.
DIAMA (Digitizing the Inuit and Aboriginal Media Archive)
Description
DIAMA preserves archives by cleaning, reformatting, digitizing and uploading materials collected since the 1970's. The website is searchable by language/culture, topic and location.
The Media Gaze: Representations of Diversities in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Augie Fleras
Description
Comments on media coverage of Aboriginal people which portrays negative stereotypes and images.
Chapter one from The Media Gaze: Representations of Diversities in Canada.
INvoke , vol. 6, Gangs, Violence Against Women, and Medicine, 2020, pp. [14-29]
Description
Analyzes 29 articles from two highest circulation newspapers in British Columbia The Province and The Sun using four theoretical frames: pathological deviant; the Madonna and whore; spatialization of disordered behavior and deviant people; and single deranged male.
Post Script , vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 27-[?]
Description
Discusses impact two women filmmakers have had on the National Film Board of Canada's productions and their re-imagining of western cinematic traditions.
Investigates how the implementation of film censorship in British Columbia complements established legislation regarding Indigenous and Asian populations during the early twentieth century. Censorship was used to advance and maintain British-influenced values.
Early American Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, 2011, pp. 165-184
Description
Review essay of: Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900 edited by Sandra M. Gustafson and Caroline F. Sloat; Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, p. 1
Description
Introductory editorial to themed issue on how different epistemologies and cultural values inform power relations in different locations, situations and contemporary contexts.
Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Heartwork, October 12, 2020, pp. 4-7
Description
Editorial piece which introduces the new journal, Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health, describes the processes through which it was founded, and details intentions for the future of the journal.
Journal of Northern Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2011, pp. 9-28
Description
Reveals a higher degree of closeness between non-Sami and Sami than previously assumed as reflected in the attitudes and relationships between the two groups.
Teacher resource developed in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Case studies are supplemented by articles from the newspaper. Unit of study for First Nations 12 students in British Columbia.
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 94-[?]
Description
Discusses various documentary and narrative fiction films and shows how embedded historical and cultural information is meant to educate the viewer and undermine the notion of fixed genre.
Rikkyo American Studies, vol. 33, March 2011, pp. 129-145
Description
Discusses the warrior tradition in terms of a motivation for volunteering, the resurgence of ceremonies relating to the traditions, American public's perception of the "warrior" during and after the war.
Website contains links, some with access to the full text of presentations, from a conference which explores intellectual thought and cultural development of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Many of the presenters were Canadian.
Focuses on the opportunities and challenges for Nepali Canadians in their response to the two earthquakes that occurred in their South Asia country in 2015.
Examines effects of both mainstream and Indigenous cinema on Indigenous peoples, stereotyping, and concepts of geography, land, history and language.
Anthropology and Humanities Honors Paper (B.A.)--University of Colorado, 2011.