BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 53-79
Description
Levell interviews Jisgang, discussing his work and experiences working in museums and galleries; Jisgang gives an account of his learning and his path to his current work.
Author combines academic theory and personal experience at the Oceti Sakowin, Standing Rock water protectors' camp to discuss the phenomenon of protest camps and their social, political and educational characteristics.
Harry Daniels and the Daniels Case: A Son's Perspective on the Man, His Legacy and Vision for a United Métis Nation
Threading the Constitutional Needle with Sinew of Métisland and Métis
[What Brought It On - and Did We Get What We Wanted?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tony Belcourt
Elmer Ghostkeeper
Gabriel Daniels
Maria Campbell
Description
Speakers discuss struggles for Métis rights and recognition which led to Daniels case and the Supreme Court's ruling that Métis and non-Status individuals fall within the definition of "Indian" in section 91(24) of the Constitution Act,1867; Maria Campbell reminisces about leader Harry Daniels, who initiated the court action.
Duration: 1:59:52.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. [23]-49
Description
Explores collective documentary filmmaking as an instrument of decolonizing storytelling, describes the consensus-based work of a diverse group including both Indigenous and settler artists involved in the Stories of Decolonization project's first short film Stories of Decolonization: Land Dispossession and Settlement.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018, pp. 115-130
Description
Discusses decolonizing the research process, beginning with how researchers engage with Indigenous communities; challenges the mainstream scientific idea that there is a “single truth to be discovered and that scientific knowledge is far more valuable than subjective or experiential knowledge.”
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 36, September 10, 2018, pp. E1085-E1086
Description
This personal essay describes the author’s experience and learning which resulted from co-teaching about narrative medicine with a Dene colleague. Discusses issues of consent, colonialism and Indigenous world-views.
Contains links to thousands of Métis historical documents, personal accounts, genealogical information and Hudson's Bay Company, Census, and Church missionary records.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 2, Summer, May 2018, pp. 258-283
Description
Article examines communications between settlers in British Columbia and the United Kingdom highlighting the ways that settlers aligned themselves with metropolitan Europeans and disregarded local Indigenous and other racialized peoples in a way that reflected a broader politics of daily life that underpinned the settler colonial project.
Plot involves a young Shuswap woman who leaves her reserve for the city and is ultimately raped and murdered.
Originally published by Talonbooks, 1970.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 183-207
Description
This project examines a collection of digital stories created by urban Indigenous youth, parents and educators; using theories of self-determination, sovereignty and survivance article argues that urban living can contribute to the strength and endurance of Indigenous identities and ways of being.
International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Teresa E. Dana
Liisa Remes
Description
Interviews reveal the various ways Sámi people in Finland are supplementing their reindeer herding income.
Chapter 22 from International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship edited by Léo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson.
Entire e-book on one pdf. To access chapter, scroll to page 287 or select chapter 22 on side bar.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-23
Description
Authors discuss how oral histories can influence and change collective memories and memory negotiation; argue that collective memory which includes a diversity of perspective is vital increasing human understanding of the past and a sense of belonging in the present.
Examining a Community-Based Theater Program as a Source of Resilience and Well-being among Indigenous Youth in Saskatoon
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andrew R. Hatala
Description
Report on the Circle of Voices program at the Gordon Tootoosis Nīkābīwin Theatre. Includes discussion of program goals, explanation of research process and evaluation, and results and initial themes from interviews with eight youth participants.
Museology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 2017.
Three cases studies: Burke Museum and the Stó:lō Nation; the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Siksika Nation; and the Field Museum and the Haida Nation.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the process of theorizing life experience through storytelling. Asserts that the stories told by Indigenous women about their lives should be considered as theories for the purposes of research, writing, and living.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 4, 2007, pp. 8-12
Description
Author reflects on three years of teaching at the First Nations University of Canada. Discusses what she learned about herself and in the academic setting, by applying an Aboriginal model of social work education.
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2017, pp. 76-96
Description
Interviews with five First Nations Elders to gain a better understanding of health, healthy eating and ideal body image and the relationship to the well-being of youth.
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 157-184
Description
Author analyzes the field notes of the ethnographer Franz Boas, arguing that while he wanted to create a more authentic understanding of Indigenous people, he ignored many of the aspects of his interactions with them that would have led to such and understanding.
Following the Trails of Our Ancestors: Re-Grounding Tlicho Knowledge on the Land
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John B. Zoe
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 1, The Pan-Territorial on-the-Land Summit, July 2018, pp. 18-23
Description
Author uses traditional stories of Yamozha to talk about the relationship that the Tłįchǫ (Tlicho) have historically had and are rebuilding with the land; draws on teachings of Elders to discuss the importance of language, sacred place names, and people “living in spirit with the environment, with the animals.”
Video of conference presentation: Trails of our Ancestors
Duration: 47:22
From Ambivalence to Revitalization: Negotiating Cardiovascular Health Behaviours Related to Environmental and Historical Trauma in a Northwest American Indian Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ramona Beltrán
Katie Schultz
Angela R. Fernandez
Karina L. Walters
Bonnie Duran … [et al.]
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 2, 2018, pp. 103-128
Description
Uses narrative analysis to explore attitudes toward protective cardiovascular health behaviours. Findings highlight contributing factors such as historical trauma, discrimination and forced urbanization. The authors suggest that health promotion and interventions should contextualize historic traumas and integrate Indigenous knowledge and cultural practices.