Journal of Progressive Human Services, vol. 23, no. 2, 2012, pp. 127-158
Description
Looks at institutional practices, such a physical restraints, behaviour modification and life-skills training, and questions if they serve the purpose to which they are designed.
Final Report from the Commission on First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform.
[Volume I: Leagacy of Hope: An Agenda for Change]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kearney Healy
Ronna Jevne
Rae Mitten
Gerald T. G. Seniuk
John Burrows
Paul Joffe
Willie Littlechild
Description
Content consists of selected submissions and contracted papers that reflect research and opinion of organizations and writers on critical issues in justice reform in Saskatchewan.
Volume I Legacy of Hope: An Agenda for Change.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 127-131
Description
Book review of: Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas edited by M. Bianet Castellanos, Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera, and Arturo J. Aldama.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 127.
Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Brenda J. Child
Brian Klopotek
Description
Presents introduction to the essays in Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education edited by Brenda J. Child and Brian Klopotek.
Determines six factors in need of improvement for quality of life (QoL): education and training, justice system, understanding of culture and rights, employment opportunities, community funding, spiritual spaces.
Sport in Society, vol. 15, no. 7, Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australia Sport, September 2012, pp. 987-996
Description
"This article examines the complexities of the Australian Aboriginal sporting experience including long entrenched racist barriers that denied Aboriginal participation on the sporting field".
Comments on the experiences of survivors of the Jewish Holocaust, the Japanese American WWII camps and key events affecting Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Part 3 of 3.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Autumn, 2004, pp. 33-48
Description
Article contends that the United States, as the last significant colonial power, still dominates indigenous peoples in external territories without their full consent. The paper argues that images of cowboys and Indians are a part of colonial history that asserts white supremacy and Indigenous inferiority.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2012, pp. 67-78
Description
Professor discusses revisions he has made to formal writing requirements for his classes. Changes were undertaken to force students to think more deeply about the underlying racism which perpetuates the current status of Aboriginals in Canada.
Outlines steps in the process of dehumanizing "the Other" and discusses the techniques Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars have used to counteract Eurocentric practices. Brief discussion of the matriarchal character in Maracle's works.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 182.
2004 Conference Report (Indigenous Bar Association)
Indigenous Bar Association Annual Fall Conference ; 16th, 2004
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Bar Association
Description
Outlines the need for human rights, Aboriginal rights, and economic rights to protect Indigenous peoples during the development of Indigenous economies.
Address the questions "What is the state of public discrimination against Aboriginal people in urban centres?" and "What is the nature of public understanding of discrimination against Aboriginal people in urban areas?"
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 26, no. 1, White Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in the Canadian Context: A Tribute to Patricia Monture, 2014, pp. i-iii
Description
Introduces the articles in this specially themed issue.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Indigenous Women, 2004, pp. 4-7
Description
Introduction to journal issue featuring articles on the external social pressures which affect traditional gender structures and Indigenous women.
To access this article, scroll down to page 4.
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 12, no. 1891, February 27, 2012, pp. 1-10
Description
Discusses need for respect, non-discrimination, privacy, confidentiality, competence, and daily risk-benefit analysis for general practitioners in rural Aboriginal communities.