Matika Wilbur shares photographs and stories from Project 562, her multi-year project to document members of federally recognized tribes in the United States.
Duration: 1:42:58.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Mixed methods research study explores how Indigenous women in two Canadian urban centers experience racism. Findings indicate that participants experience racism in ways that can be classified as individual, collective or institutional, and cultural and rage from historical events to contemporary manifestations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], 2019, pp. 49-72
Description
Uses the writings of historical Hawaiian leaders to analyze how they embraced their blackness to challenge settler-colonial ideology that their perceived blackness made them unfit for sovereignty. Maoli literature used includes: Prince Alexander Liholiho, Samuel Kamakau, King Kalakaua, and Queen Lili‘uokalani.
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.
New Internationalist, no. 440, March 2011, pp. 44-45
Description
Presents an interview with Murray Sinclair, chair of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, who discusses various testimonies from residential school survivors.
New Internationalist, no. 440, March 2011, pp. 44-45
Description
Presents an interview with Murray Sinclair, chair of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and discusses various residential school policies of assimilation.
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.
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.
A comprehensive report on the participatory research project funded by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG, MMIW) facilitated through the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC). Project engaged 113 Indigenous and 15 non-Indigenous women drawing on their experience and expertise as survivors of gendered colonial violence.
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies , vol. 33, no. 4, Racism, Colonialism, and Film in Canada, 2011, pp. 318-332
Description
A question and answer period on the 'Saskatoon freezing deaths' and the problem of police brutality and abuse of power with respect to Aboriginal people.
Research Report (Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business) ; Fall, 2015
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
Environics Research
Description
Project explored how relationships develop, how they are structured, what stages they go through, and obstacles they face. Results based on three focus groups and eight in-depth interviews conducted in Toronto, Ottawa and Sudbury, Ontario.
Looks at the challenges faced by Aboriginal youth who are trying to find a balance between maintaining cultural roots and living in the mainstream world.
Duration: 31:30.
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 91-97
Description
In this review essay the author examines three difference sub-genres of Indigenous peoples’s Autobiographies, and then describes how My Body is a Book of Rules challenges all three of them.
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
James Bartleman
Description
Video of speech given at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ontario's first Aboriginal Lieutenant Governor discusses the epidemic of youth-suicide in First Nations communities.
Duration: 1:11:17.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 47-68
Description
Interviewed 75 Cree and Stoney women and found a feeling of loss and geographic separation from elders, family and community as pregnancy care moved out of the community.
BC Studies, no. 188, Winter, 2015/2016, pp. 108-111
Description
Book reviews of: Return to the Land of the Head Hunters edited by Brad Evans and Aaron Glass.
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To read this review scroll to p. 108.
"Literary License" or "Mutated Plagiarism"?: Additional Comments about Ann Rinaldi's My Heart Is on the Ground
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Debbie Reese
Beverly Slapin
Barb Landis
Marlene Atleo
Naomi Caldwell
Jean Mendoza
Deborah Miranda
LaVera Rose
Cynthia Smith
Description
Criticism of book, aimed at 9-12 year old girls, on basis of: cultural appropriation, lack of historical accuracy, lack of cultural authenticity, stereotypes, and stereotypical language.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 159-212
Description
Book reviews of:
Captive Arizona, 1851–1900 by Victoria Smith
Caring and Curing: A History of the Indian Health Service by James P. Rife and Alan J. Dellapenna
Conversations with Sherman Alexie edited by Nancy Peterson
Documents of Native American Political Development, 1500s to 1933 edited by David E. Wilkins
Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers by Dorothy Harley Eber
Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight by Shannon D. Smith
Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750 by William B.
Speakers discuss their background, collaboration, and the difficulties encountered when trying to locate examples of the facial tattoos historically worn by Inuit women once they had come of age.
Duration: 26:48.