International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, vol. 2, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1-14
Description
Looks at a study that examined undergraduate nursing students in innovative clinical placements, and how they bear witness to poverty, inequities, critical awareness, critical engagement, and social change.
Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Arie Molema
Description
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.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 37, no. 3, Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, September 2005, pp. 273-280
Description
Outlines the overlap between sexual, physical and substance abuse and increased HIV risk behaviours amid urban Native women in the San Francisco Bay area.
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.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 16-36
Description
Discusses the texts Halfbreed (Campbell, 1973) and Prison of Grass (Adams, 1975), contrasting their treatments of gender in the discussion of colonial violence; calls on contemporary scholars to consider in their works “the way gender is animated in a decolonizing political movement.”
Documentary about artist Carey Newman's large-scale art installation made from artifacts from residential schools, churches, government buildings and traditional and cultural structures. Commemoration project was commissioned by The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Duration: 1:26:52.
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 12-18
Description
Author uses personal experiences to explain the stresses involved with understanding two cultures relating to values, activities, obedience, worldview and contemporary cultural tools.
Looks at the challenges accessing Canadian residential school records and how the decision to destroy certain survivor accounts regarding abuse in residential schools is a threat to the memory of cultural genocide in Canada.
Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 40, no. 3, 1994, pp. 509-542
Description
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
Description
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.
American Theatre, vol. 22, no. 6, July/August 2005, pp. 20-23, 80
Description
Interview with William S. Yellow Robe Jr., an Assiniboine playwright, who wrote Better-n-Indians, Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and The Independence of Eddie Rose.
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
Description
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
Description
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.
Examines the role that the setting and the audience play in a telling of an oral history, the Nenet way of storytelling, and the differences between the Nenet oral history of participation in the Second World War and the public discourse surrounding the same.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 312-330
Description
Author uses perspectives from school teachers and Indigenous writers to argue that “Indigenous literary arts can foster relational understandings between readers and Indigenous communities.” Encourages educators to draw on Indigenous literatures for inspiration and motivation in this work.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 111-122
Description
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.
Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jordan Coble
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 23-26
Description
Discusses author's perspective and experience building an Indigenous-led and -focused museum.
Extract from author's presentation at “Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together” symposium, March 2017.
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 81-94
Description
Author--who is an anthropologist specializing in Coast Salish culture, a member and chair of the collections committee, and a board member of the Museum--discusses several examples of repatriating objects, and the process of developing a formal policy.
Environmental Education Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2018, pp. 50-66
Description
Examines the importance and implications of land-based approach and discusses how this particular community has taken control of programs, gained leadership in wisdom traditions and taught respect for the land and its inhabitants.
Early American Literature , vol. 40, no. 2, 2005, pp. 375-385
Description
Book reviews of seven books:
American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of
African-American and Native American Literatures by Joanne Brooks.
Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America by Kristina Bross.
The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter Edited by Michael Clark.
Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature by Gordon Sayre.
The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility by Laura M.