Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Scott Clark
Description
Literature review includes topics of colonialism, socio-economic marginalization, culture clash, systemic discrimination in policing, courts and corrections, and initiatives such as Gladue courts and changes to sentencing policy. Identifies gaps in efforts to reduce overrepresentation and suggests ways to improve the situation.
Physician Burnout May Contribute to Racial Bias
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lauren Vogel
CMAJ, vol. 191, no. 34, August 26, 2019, p. E951
Description
Study interviews 3380 second-year residents for self-reported symptoms of burnout; also asks participants to rate their feelings towards black or white people, and measures unconscious bias. Findings suggest that burnout in doctors might be contributing to disparity in patient care.
The Pocahontas Paradox: A Cautionary Tale for Educators
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cornel Pewewardy
Journal of Navajo Education, vol. [14], no. [1-2], Fall/Winter, 1996/1997, pp. [20-25]
Description
Looks at the misrepresentation of American Indians in media in the movie Pocahontas.
Production, Development, and Environmental Policies: Paradoxical Landscapes in Colonia Aborigen Chaco (Ex-Aboriginal Reserve of Napalpí, Argentina)
Alternate Title
Production, Development, and Environmental Policies: Paradoxical Landscapes in Colonia Aborigen Chaco (Ex-Aboriginal Reserve of Napalpi, Argentina)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carlos Salamanca
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 5, Special Issue: The Impact of Reserve and Reservation Systems on Indigenous Well-Being, November 22, 2019
Description
Author discusses the results of an Indigenous development plan carried out between 2005 and 2010 in Colonia Aborigen Chaco, an Indigenous settlement originally established in 1911 as the Aboriginal Reserve of Napalpí, discusses the ongoing effects of colonial violence and programs of assimilation.
Provincial Gang Strategy: Forum & Community Consultation Reports
Alternate Title
Building Healthier Communities: Final Report on Community Recommendations for the Development of the Saskatchewan Prevention / Intervention Street Gang Strategy
Saskatchewan Communities Speak: Provincial Gang Strategy Phase 2 Community Consultation Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Robert Henry
Dave Shanks]
Description
Reports on Phase I and II of the project. Five overarching themes emerged: infrastructure and leadership; addressing trauma, colonization, and settler colonialism; knowledge translation and mobilization; addressing systemic oppression and structural issues of poverty and homelessness; and institutional supports. Consultations took place in communities throughout Saskatchewan.
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Final Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Summary Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
A Qualitative Study on Stigma and Discrimination Experienced by Indigenous Peoples Living with HIV or Having TB at Work
E-Books
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Secretariat of the International Indigenous HIV and AIDS Working Group
Racial Equality Review of Basketball Australia
E-Books
Author/Creator
Australian Human Rights Commission
Racial Necrogeographies and the Making of White Space: The Life and Death of Nineteenth-Century Indigenous and Black Burial Places in Rural Ontario
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Felepchuk
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, pp. 73-87
Description
Looks at burial sites desecrated by settlers, how these acts represent an attempt to erase Indigenous and Black existence, and how these communities have pushed back by reclaiming and reconsecrating their scared places.
Racism Experiences of Urban Indigenous Women in Ontario, Canada: “We All Have That Story That Will Break Your Heart”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anita C Benoit
Jasmine Cotnam
Doe O'Brien-Teengs
Saara Green
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.
Racism, Popular Culture, and the Everyday Rosebud Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Biolsi
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 77-110
Description
Discusses the intricacies and nuances of Lakota performances of popular culture. Challenges perspectives which dismiss Indigenous engagement in contemporary culture as mimicry or assimilation, and that portray contemporaneity as opposed to indigeneity.
Reading Bodies, Writing Blackness: Anti-/Blackness and Nineteenth-Century Kanaka Maoli Literary Nationalism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joyce Pualani Warren
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.
Reclaiming Power and Place: Executive Summary of the Final Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Volume 1a
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Volume 1b
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place Volume 2: A Supplementary Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls; Kepek--Quebec
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reconciliation Toolkit for Business Leaders
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
Manifest Communications
Description
Discusses and recommends actions under four topics: reflection and learning, leading and transformation, inclusive workplaces, and outreach and engagement.
Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carol Muree Martin
Harsha Walia
Description
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.
Red World and White: Memories of a Chippewa Boyhood
Alternate Title
Civilization of the American Indian Series; [v. 126]
E-Books
Author/Creator
John Rogers
Civilization of the American Indian Series
Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Introduction to the Special Issue
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Devon A. Mihesuah
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 153-164
Description
Article is the Associate Editor of AIQ’s introduction to the journal’s special issue on repatriation. Discusses issues of remains and sacred objects that have been collected, used for research, and stored in museums and other cultural institutions. Discusses the different disciplines that have historically and continue to be party to the collection and repatriation of Indigenous peoples’ material culture and personal remains.
The Representations of Indian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century American Anthropology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert E. Bieder
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 165-179
Description
Author offers a critical analysis of the political and ideological narratives that make up the foundations of ethnology and anthropology.
Representations of Race and Gender: The Social Construction of "White" and "Black" Women in Early British Columbian Historical Discourses: 1858-1900
Theses
Author/Creator
Beth-Naomi Ellis
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1996.
Reproductive Justice and Indigenous Women in Saskatchewan: Overview and Recommendations
Alternate Title
Policy Brief (Johnson Shoyoma Graduate School of Public Policy)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alana Cattapan
Samantha Moore
Karen Lawford
2021
Description
An examination of Indigenous coerced sterilization, forced evacuations for pregnancies, and child apprehension in Saskatchewan.
The Reverend Ernest Gribble: A Successful Missionary?
Alternate Title
Lectures on North Queensland History, no.5
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Christine Halse
Description
Discusses the sociological and psychological factors that drove Ernest Gribble to become the Anglican Church's longest serving missionary to the Aboriginal people.
Chapter from Lectures on North Queensland History, no.5 edited by B. J. Dalton.
Rickard Revisited: Native 'Participation' in the Gold Discoveries of British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel P. Marshall
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Native People in British Columbia: Recent Research, 1996, p. 91–108
Description
Discusses the conflict between Aboriginal people & the Americans, who participated in the Fraser River gold rush, and the peacekeeping efforts of Native leaders.
The RIPPLES of Meaningful Involvement: A Framework for Meaningfully Involving Indigenous Peoples in Health Policy Decision-Making
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alycia J. Fridkin
Annette J. Browne
Madeleine Kétéskwēw Dion Stout
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, September 2019
Description
Study interviews 20 Indigenous and non-Indigenous medical leaders in health and health policy to determine what constitutes meaningful involvement of Indigenous peoples in health policy making. Results suggest that attention to the underlying power dynamics and decolonization of the system itself is a necessary step. Authors use the results to develop a framework for meaningful involvement.
Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Nova Scotia Archives
Description
Website contains links to all documents relating to the inquiry: the seven-volume report, transcripts, exhibits, submissions, counsel notebooks, correspondence, etc.
San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training as an Educational Intervention: Promoting Anti-Racism and Equity in Health Systems, Policies, and Practices
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annette J. Browne
Colleen Varcoe
Cheryl Ward
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 2021, pp. 1-26
Description
Examines an anti-racism educational program to address racism in Canada.
Saskatchewan's Public Opinion on Reconciliation: Results from a 2019 Provincial Survey
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Office of the Treaty Commissioner (OTC)
Description
Sample consisted of 3,018 people. Questions were asked about shared understanding of history, authentic relationships, cultures and worldviews, and political, economic, and social systems.
Related material:
2019 General Population Survey: Results from a Saskatchewan-based Survey on Attitudes toward Reconciliation (Technical Report).
"A Scandalous Procession": Residential Schooling and the Re/formation of Aboriginal Bodies, 1900-1950
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary-Ellen Kelm
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 51-88
Description
Uses example of schools in British Columbia to illustrate that while children's health education was used as a method of assimilation, children were undernourished and conditions were unsanitary encouraging the spread of disease.
Seen but Not Seen: Influential Canadians And The First Nations from The 1840s to Today
E-Books
Author/Creator
Donald B Smith
Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resrugence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West
E-Books
Author/Creator
Heather Dorries
Nick Estes
David Hugill
Julie Tomiak
Nicholas Brown …
Chris Andersen
Adam Gaudry ...
Zoe Todd
"Shut The Province Down": First Nations Blockades in British Columbia, 1984-1995
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicholas Blomley
BC Studies, no. 111, Autumn, 1996, pp. 5-35
Description
Overview of blockades including underlying grievances, reasons for using a blockade to protest and reactions of non-Indigenous residents.
The Sioux War Panorama and American Mythic History
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Bell
Theatre Journal, vol. 48, no. 3, October 1996, pp. 279-299
Description
Exploration of the themes represented in the travelling performance popular in the 1860s and 1870s.
Social Determinants of Indigenous Health and Indigenous Rights in Policy: A Scoping Review and Analysis of Problem Representation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emma George
Tamara Mackean
Fran Baum
Matt Fisher
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Scoping review of literature on Aboriginal health, rights, and health policy highlights issues including the impact of ongoing colonialism, the role of government in rights realization, tokenism, and policies of assimilation. Notes an ongoing failure to move from rights recognition to implementation.
Sociocultural Determinants of Health and Wellness: Qanuilirpitaa? 2017: Nunavik Inuit Health Survey
Alternate Title
Nunavik Inuit Health Survey 2017: Qanuilirpitaa? = How are we now?
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gina Muckle
Christopher Fletcher
Mylene Riva
Mireille Desrochers-Couture
Camille Pepin … [et al.]
Description
Solution Model for Enhancing the Experiences of Urban First Nations and Métis Patients Accessing and Navigating the Health System for Inflammatory Arthritis Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cheryl Barnabe
Jean Miller
Sylvia Teare
Casey Eaglespeaker
Brenda Rolan ... [et al.]
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Researchers work with Indigenous patients to record and examine their experience of seeking and receiving care for inflammatory arthritis in an urban Alberta community; make recommendations for improving patient care and patient experience.
Special Edition by Children and Youth: Our Hopes and Dreams for Making Shannen's Dream Come True
Alternate Title
Special Edition by Children and Youth
Letters from Shannen Koostachin and the Students of Attawapiskat First Nation to Marie-Claude Côté-Villeneuve
My Hopes and Dreams for How to Make Shannen’s Dream Come True
Our Hopes and Dreams for Making Shannen's Dream Come True
Articles » General
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 16, no. 1, Special Edition by Children and Youth, 2021, pp. 1-48
Description
Special issue that looks at the poor living conditions at a school on the Attawapiskat First Nation. Includes letters written by Omushkegowuk Cree children.
Success in Closing the Socio-Economic Gap, But Still a Long Way to Go: Urban Aboriginal Disadvantage, Trauma, and Racism in the Australian City of Newcastle
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deirdre Howard-Wagner
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, January 14, 2019
Description
Article presents research from a four-year place-based project which investigate the success of Aboriginal communities in addressing the disparity faced by Aboriginal people; participants redefine this disparity as symptom of colonial structures and cultural exclusion and develop trauma informed approaches.
A Syllabus for History after the TRC
Alternate Title
A Syllabus for History After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Historical Association
Description
Goal of document is to "gather together materials on Indigenous history in and around Canada that might be useful for people teaching, researching, writing history or working in public history".
Current as of 2019.
Teacher Guide for K.C. Adam's Perception: A Photo Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Reuben Boulette
Description
The Perception series features pairs of photographs which challenge stereotypes of Aboriginal peoples.
Teacher's Guide: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Natalie Martinez
Description
Includes lesson discussions, activities, and suggestions for extension. Designed for middle grades and young adult students.
Teaching Young Children about Native Americans
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Debbie Reese
Description
Presents positive strategies and practices to avoid to counter stereotyping of Native Americans.
Touring Strange Lands: Women Travel Writers in Western Canada, 1876 to 1914
Theses
Author/Creator
Pernille Jakobsen
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1996.
Truth and Reconciliation in Postcolonial Hockey Masculinities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Cairnie
Canadian Literature, no. 237, House, Home, Hospitality, 2019, pp. 103-199, 183
Description
Compares Stephen Harper's A Great Game and Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse portrayals of the game and discusses what they reveal about Canada's violent socio-political history.
Truth Respect and Recognition: Addressing Barriers to Indigenous Maternity Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet Smylie
Wanda Phillips-Beck
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 191, no. 8, February 25, 2019, pp. E209-E215
Description
In response to the study “Prenatal Care among Mothers Involved with Child Protection Services in Manitoba.” Authors note several biases in the study including: failure to discuss negative stereotypes resulting in differential care, and a disregard of resurgent community-led models of care.
Understanding and Countering Racism with First Nations Children in Out-of-Home Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sally Palmer
Walter Cooke
Child Welfare, vol. 75, no. 6, November-December 1996, pp. 709-725
Description
Suggest ways in which social workers and foster parents can combat racism.
Understanding and Finding Our Way: Decolonizing Canadian Education
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Verna St. Denis
Alison Duke
Description
Film highlights Canada's history of racism and injustice toward Indigenous peoples which persists to this day in both the larger society and the educational system and how Indigenous culture and perspectives must be taught and valued in the classroom in order to address inequities and change the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
Duration: 32:29.
Understood Through Story: A Time Serious Analysis of Male and Female Employment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hussein Al-Zyoud
Carolyn Leblanc
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 39, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-24
Description
An analysis of employments trends and how they affect Indigenous employment opportunities, in particular Indigenous women.