Video of excerpts from interviews conducted as part of the exhibition "We Were So Far Away...": The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools.
Duration: 26:07.
University of the Fraser Valley Research Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Through Students Eyes: Selected Papers From the Stó:lō Ethnohistory Field School, Spring, 2009, pp. 54-72
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Comments on the reclamation of ancestral names and the continuous ritual cycles of naming.
Discusses research project activities including literature review of family literacy, assessment of literacy programs in Saskatchewan, environment mapping, and the development of a province wide online survey tool.
Report, based on five years of research into missing and murdered Aboriginal females in Canada, explores circumstances, root causes and trends of violence, numbers of missing/murdered women, and questions why this is occurring.
Kevin Loring discusses the evolution of his play, which was featured at the National Arts Centre's English Theatre. Play focuses on the effects of residential schools.
Duration: 28:11.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 1, Celebrating Tribal College Journals 20th Anniversary, Fall, 2009, pp. 51-52
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Presents a personal narrative titled, A Whole Person, written by a student of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS.
American Theatre, vol. 26, no. 3, March 2009, p. 23
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Brief discussion of the play Battles of Fire and Water by Dave Hunsaker. The playwright used oral and written histories about battles (in 1802 and 1804) fought by Russians and the Tlingits over land, as the basis for the play.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 90-94
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Reflects on lessons learned from the authors' grandmother, such as watching and learning from spiders.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 90.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2010 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-6
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Comments on the objections to use artificial snow made from reclaimed treated sewage water, due to the sacred nature of the peaks.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 144, Theatre in an Age of Eco-Crisis, Fall, 2010, pp. 42-47
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Interview in which the artist discusses the development of her kinetic performance sculpture which won the “Best Western Entry” in the Calgary Stampede parade.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 37-50
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Comments on the usefulness of applying yarning as a research method for the gathering of data in Indigenous research using results from an Indigenous group in Australia and and in Botswana.
Video includes a compilation of conversations on the strength and resilience of Métis peoples in the context of the residential school experience and its after-effects.
Duration: 9:54.
Explores the issue of teen pregnancy among Aboriginal women by speaking with them about their experiences and perceptions on sex, protection and pregnancy and their expectations and the realities of becoming a young mother.
Published by the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence.