Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation
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Arie Molema
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Draws on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observation at Truth and Reconciliation Commission national events and 50 interviews with former students who have been denied recognition and compensation under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
Chapter from Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation edited by Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne.
Article explores the process of integrating ethical research frameworks for engaging Indigenous communities into academic institutions. Authors use five personal vignettes to examine the potential pitfalls related to integrating Indigenous values knowledge systems with Western legal practices.
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 12-18
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Author uses personal experiences to explain the stresses involved with understanding two cultures relating to values, activities, obedience, worldview and contemporary cultural tools.
Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 40, no. 3, 1994, pp. 509-542
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Discusses photography, its use for family records and these three novels about Australian women seeking personal meaning in old pictures, which leave them to untangle the story of before and after the photo.
English Studies in Canada, vol. 43, no. 2-3, Special Issue: Transition, June/September 2017, pp. 69-90
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Also available Open Access here.
Article examines the ways in which Indigenous writers and scholars interrogate the framework of Reconciliation by creating a narrative of resurgence. Author additionally argues for the need to examine the pedagogy and process when including Indigenous literatures in educational settings.
Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2017Focusess on experiences of Madelaine McCallum, Mike Dengeli, Mique'l Dangeli, Leela Gilday, and Ronnie Dean Harris.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 507-531
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Article draws on Collier’s autobiography and other writings to explore perceptions of his ideals and and actions as an Indian Affairs agent in the USA during the New Deal era (early 1900s).
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 111-128
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Article is the transcript of a round table discussion the authors participated in at the Native American Literature Symposium at the Isleta Resort and Casino in Albuquerque, NM, on Thursday March 17, 2016. Panelists were discussing Glen Sean Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 111-122
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Description, by the author, on his experiences of attending university, being the first member in a family to attend college, and reflections regarding the three months he participated in the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz.
Book review of: Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada edited by Jeanne Perreault and Sylvia Vance ; preface by Emma LaRocque ; introduction by Gloria Bird.
An interview with Rufus Goodstriker, born in 1924 on the Blood Indian Reserve and attended a residential school. He tells of the origins and significance of the transfer of Indian names, especially within his own family. He also talks about Indian medicine and the power of faith; the Indian spiritual way vs. the Western technological way;of herbs, animal spirits, sweat bath in healing etc.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 29, no. 3, Fall, 1994, pp. 158-162
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Author laments on the decline of major institutions that once defined Canadians in such a way as to bind people together, comments on Canada's image to outsiders, and briefly mentions perspectives on First Nation peoples.
In Education, vol. 23, no. 2, Autumn, 2017, pp. 25-42
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Explores importance of individual and community stories as a method of enhancing non-Indigenous classroom teachers' understanding and success when interacting with Indigenous children and their families.
Consists of an interview that tells of an Inuit death story; a Lillooet (West coast Indian) creation myth; and an account of a man's search for his lost brother. Note: Heather Bouchard, transcriber.
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 35-54
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Discusses the Biographies of Prominent Elders project as a method for using oral histories to preserve and promote Gwich'in culture, traditional knowledge and values. Includes five short stories told by project participants.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Culture and Educating: Aboriginal Settings, Concerns, and Insights, Spring, 1994, pp. 182-192
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Looks at life histories of Maliseet and Micmac university students and Bolivian Aymara, Quechua, and Uru women to help students realize their own identity and potential.