Acta Paediatrica, vol. 104, no. 1, January 2015, pp. 75-83
Description
Study covering grades 6-12 found lower health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for Sami than Swedish children. A high degree of ethnicity-related negative treatment may partially explain the lower HRQOL.
Honoring the Strength of Our Sisters: Increasing Access to Human Rights Justice For Indigenous Women and Girls
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Human Rights Commission
Description
Overview of what the Canadian Human Rights Commission heard at a series of roundtables attended by individuals and representatives from Indigenous women's organizations and service organizations. Twenty-one barriers were identified as well ideas for overcoming them.
Explores the relationship between loss of food and fears about Indigenous dependency as it played out in central and northern Australia from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples Creative Leaders Symposium
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Waneek Horn Miller
thorvick's method productions
Silpa Suarak
Eva Obed
Description
Former Olympian, motivational speaker and brand ambassador for Manitobah Mukluks discusses her personal journey to success.
Followed by performance by two Inuit throat singers.
Duration: 1:15:07.
Indian Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Learning Resources for Senior Secondary
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Education Steering Committee
First Nations Schools Association
Description
Three components: setting the stage for inquiry, relationship of 150 years, and research projects.
Unit developed in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's call for development of age-appropriate educational materials.
Access Book Two.
Documents relating to the “Indian Question”, residential schools, The Bryce Report (health conditions in the schools), the McKenna McBride Commission, further restrictions imposed by the Indian Act, post-war activism, etc.
Backgrounders and primary sources for topics covered in Book One.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2015, pp. 47-59
Description
Discusses two works of importance to critical indigenous studies.
Book review essay:
The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.
Mohawk Interrruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States by Audra Simpson.
Mr. Ledoux, aged 99 at the time of the interview is of mixed French and Indian ancestry but is registered as a treaty Indian. He was present during the Riel Rebellion of 1885 and gives an account of what he saw in the Rebellion; views of the rebellion and the people involved.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, 2015, pp. 69-95
Description
Investigates the details behind Jessie Schultz's efforts to mount The Masque of the Absaroka at Montana State College and how this was at odds with the predominant gender and race norms of the time.
NOTE: Joan Stanley is a research worker with the Metis Society of Saskatchewan. Her mother was Indian and her father white. She shares her experiences of growing up Metis in a white community, of the Metis Society of Saskatchewan and her personal problems.
Talks about contrasts in world views and racism which perpetuate the problem of violence towards women starting from the historical point of contact.
Duration: 20:10.
Interview with artist about portrait series Perceptions, which addresses racism. Describes portraits taken of Aboriginal people in two lights.
Duration: 19:57.
File contains correspondence regarding the Lavell Case, discrimination in the Indian Act, and women's rights, the Supreme Court Ruling,and provincial government. Also, copies of the "Plan for Liquidating Canada's Indian Problem Within 25 Years" and articles regarding the case, Diefenbaker's disapproval of the Supreme Court Ruling.
File contains information on the Lavell Case, including the reasons of judgment by the Supreme Court of Canada, articles on the case from law journals and newspapers, notes by Diefenbaker on the case, a Factum of the Intervenants, correspondence relating to the amendment of the Indian Act, Bill C-229, Metis, and sexism.
Ms. Youens is a Metis, born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. She was brought up in a series of foster homes and is now active in both the Women's Movement and with native groups. She talks about how the Metis are treated by outside groups, her childhood, and attitudes towards women among native societies.
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, January 2015, pp. 1-17
Description
Findings and recommendations from a research project on existing policies, services and legislation that are detrimental to Aboriginal mothers with substance abuse problems.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, 2015, pp. 207-223
Description
Discusses the case of an eleven year old First Nations child whose decision to end chemotherapy and use traditional medicines instead was criticized in Canadian mainstream media.
Presentation introduces the initiative and reflects on some of the key challenges facing researchers involved with the Embodying Empathy project which seeks to construct a digital representation of a Canadian Indian Residential School.
Duration: 1:27:51.
Mr. McDougall is descended from French and Scottish halfbreeds and is active in the Metis Society of Saskatchewan. He gives an account of the Metis way of life and philosophy, the Riel Rebellion, shares memories of WWI, WWII and the Depression. He also talks about the discrimination against native people.
Consists of an interview with Mary Jacobson, the daughter of a Hudson's Bay manager. She talks about job discrimination against Indian and Metis, how welfare payments have destroyed the old way of life and tells a story of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 that her mother told her.
Looks at actions of police departments, incarceration rates, victimization, lack of prosecution for offences committed by non-Native Americans, and inadequate funding for tribes. Focus is on South Dakota.
The Sea of Identities: A Century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Andrej Kotljarchuk
Description
Chapter 3 from The Sea of Identities: A Century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender edited by Norbert Götz. Looks at state run violence against the Nordic minorities and long term results.
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 10-14
Description
Comments on a report by Rev. Jedidiah Morse to the Secretary of War in the U.S. on Indian Affairs.
Originally published in The North American Review, January, 1823.