Glimpses into the Laws and Governance of the Historic Métis Nation
Alternate Title
McKercher LLP Lecture Series
Wunusweh Lecture in Aboriginal Law ; 2022
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jean Teillet
Description
Prominent Métis lawyer and author of The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation discusses the history of Métis law-making and diplomacy.
Duration: 38:34.
Guilty by Design: A Critical Race Analysis of the Over-Incarceration of Indigenous Peoples in an Era of Reconciliation
Theses
Author/Creator
Karlie Gurski
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2017.
The Harmful Psychological Effects of the Washington Football Mascot
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael A. Friedman
Description
Discusses the mental health consequences to Native Americans caused by the derogatory use of the Washington football team's name.
[Healing Histories: Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michael Hankard
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 2013, pp. 181-183
Description
Book review of: Healing Histories by Laurie Meijer Drees.
Healing Racism in Canadian Health Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yvonne Boyer
CMAJ, vol. 189, no. 46, November 20, 2017, pp. e1408-e1409
Description
Highlights Saskatoon Health Region's external review into allegations of Indigenous women being coerced into having tubal ligations, and the interim report on the death of Brian Sinclair, who was ignored for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency department.
A History of Marginalisation: Maori Women
Theses
Author/Creator
Monique Gemmell
Description
Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2013.
History through a Native Lens
Alternate Title
Investing in Native Communities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Karina Walters
Description
Timeline of significant events, government policies, and resistance movements in the United States from 3000 BC through to 2020.
Homeless & Street-Involved Indigenous LGBTQ2S Youth in British Columbia: Intersectionality, Challenges, Resilience & Cues for Action
Alternate Title
Where Am I Going to Go?: Intersectional Approaches to Ending LGBTQ2S Youth Homelessness in Canada & the U.S.
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Saewyc
Brooke Mounsey
Jessica Tourand
Dana Brunanski
David Kirk … [et al.]
Description
Uses data collected as part of the 2014 BC Homeless & Street-Involved Youth Survey. Three types of analysis were done: descriptive data, compared Indigenous LGBTQ2S to their heterosexual Indigenous peers, and to non-Indigenous LGBTQ2S youth.
Housing Discrimination among a Sample of Aboriginal People in Winnipeg and Thompson, Manitoba
Alternate Title
Setting the Agenda for Change ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 1st, 2002
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Irwin M. Cohen
Raymond R. Corrado
vol. 1
Description
Looks at perceived housing discrimination and the reactions and effects.
Chapter six from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1, which is also vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.
Human Rights Complaints
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Schulze
Dionne Schulze
Description
Report for the PBLI Canadian Aboriginal Law 2013 Forum, held November 25 and 27, 2013 in Ottawa. Explains the Canadian Human Rights Act, sec. 67 and Aboriginal inequality.
"I Heard Your Singing": Ishi and Anthropological Indifference in the Last of His Tribe
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jay Hansford C. Vest
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 3, no. 11, June 2013, pp. 95-109
Description
Looks at historical, ideological and cultural principles in the movie The Last of his tribe.
“I Thought You'd Call Her White Feather”: Native Women and Racial Microaggressions in Doctoral Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather J. Shotton
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 56, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 32-54
Description
Looks at the cross-cultural experiences of female Indigenous doctoral students in the United States.
Identity and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Aboriginal Autobiographical Narratives in Canada and Australia
Theses
Author/Creator
Tamara Petrovic
Description
Philosophy Thesis (M.A.)--University of Niš, 2013.
"If This Great Nation May Be Saved?" The Discourse of Civilization in Cherokee Indian Removal
Theses
Author/Creator
Stephen Watson
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2013
Illustrating Racism: Challenging Canada's Racial Amnesia With Comics
Alternate Title
Review Essay: Illustrating Racism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sean Carleton
Histoire Sociale / Social History, vol. 46, no. 92, November 2013, pp. [509]-[522]
Description
Review essay of:
Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story by David Alexander Robertson and Scott B. Henderson.
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America by David H. T. Wong.
The Klondike by Zach Worton.
Examines the merits of comics as historical depictions.
The Impact of 'Doomed Race' Assumptions in the Administration of Queensland's Indigenous Population by the Chief Protectors of Aboriginals from 1897 to 1942
Theses
Author/Creator
Robin C. Holland
Description
Research and Commercialisation Thesis (M.A.)--Queensland University of Technology, 2013.
The Impact of Learning about Historical And Current Injustices, Individual Racism, and Systemic Racism on Anti-Indigenous Prejudice
Theses
Author/Creator
Iloradanon Efimoff
Description
Psychology Thesis (PhD) -- University of Manitoba, 2022.
Imperialism in a Wool Blanket? Aboriginal Iconography and Canadian Paper Monies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sandy Ross
Description
Compares depictions of First Nations peoples on paper monies from three time periods.
[Improving the Healthcare System]
Alternate Title
[White Coat, Black Art]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
[Marcia Anderson-DeCoteau
Brian Goldman]
Description
Past-president of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada discusses the treatment her father received in an emergency ward and racism in the health care system.
Duration: 25:29.
Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
E-Books
Author/Creator
Thomas King
Indian School, Company Town: Outing Students from Sherman Institute at Fontana Farms Company, 1907-1930
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin Whalen
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 2017, pp. 290-321
Description
Argues that while school officials regarded the practice of placing male students as farm labourers during the summer months as a method of assimilation, many used their employment to serve their own purposes.
Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility and Anti-racism Learning
Resources
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia
Description
Brief list of articles, reports, webinars, and books.
Indigenous Genocidal Tracings: Slavery, Transracial Adoption, and the Indian Child Welfare Act
Theses
Author/Creator
Soma de Bourbon
Description
American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2013.
Indigenous Health Research
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sheila Laroque
Kevin Read
Description
A playlist of videos providing context and resources for conducting research about Indigenous people in the Canadian healthcare.
Indigenous People, Mental Health, Cognitive Disability and the Criminal Justice System
Alternate Title
Research Brief (Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse) ; no. 22
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ruth McCausland
Elizabeth McEntyre
Eileen Baldry
Description
Looks at reasons for over-representation of Indigenous people in the criminal system.
Indigenous Peoples and United Nations Human Rights Bodies: A Compilation of UN Treaty Body Jurisprudence, the Recommendations of the Human Rights Council and its Special Procedures, and the Advice of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Volume 5, 2011-2012
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fergus MacKay
Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Herman Warden
Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 2013, pp. 163-164
Description
Book review of: Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War by Timothy C. Winegard.
Indigenous Rhetorics and Kinship: Towards a Rhetoric of Relational Word Bundles
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mareike Neuhaus
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013, pp. 125-145
Description
Studies the relational word bundles in, The Republic of Tricksterism and how they can be applied in approaches to national/tribal specificities.
Indigenous Women and Sexual Assault in Canada
Alternate Title
Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Tracey Lindberg
Priscilla Campeau
Maria Campbell
Description
Examines four prominent cases involving sexual violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls by white men to demonstrate how the Canadian legal system has failed both to protect Indigenous women and to properly punish those responsible.
The four cases are: R v Edmondson, R v Jordan, R v Ramsay, and R v Ramsay.
Chapter from Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism edited by Elizabeth A. Sheehy.
Indigenous Women's Voices: 20 Years on from Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologiesk
E-Books
Author/Creator
Karen Fisher
Jennifer Evans
Jacinta Vanderfeen
Donna Moodie
Liz Cameron ... [et al.]
The Indigenous World 2022
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Belkacem Lounes
Robert K. Hitchcock
Judith Frost
Patrick Kulesza
Hawe Hamman Bouba ... [et al.]]
Initial Brief of the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) / Cree Nation Government to the Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Quebec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)
Cree Nation Government
Description
Commission came about due to numerous allegations of police misconduct towards Indigenous women in Val d'Or, Quebec. Its mandate is to investigate causes of systemic discrimination in the provision of police, correctional, justice, health and social services.
Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives in Education: Perceptions of Pre-Service Teachers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Deer
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 36, no. 2, Indigenous Education: Pathways to (Re)membering, 2013, pp. 175-211
Description
Looks at challenges faced and some approaches used for integration of Aboriginal culture into teacher practices.
The Intersection of Plural Citizenship and Indigenous Rights: Interview with Cultural Survival Board Member Duane Champagne
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Erin McArdle
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, The Seventh Generation: Spotlight on Indigenous Youth, June 2013, p. [?]
Description
Brief biography of Duane Champagne and his views on the problems Native American Indians are facing to restore political and cultural autonomy.
Into the Photo Box: An Alternative Way of Approaching the Aboriginal Family
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen Butler
Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, vol. 4, no. 1, Indigenous Marriage, Family and Kinship in Australia:The Persistence of Life and Hope, 2013, pp. 35-47
Description
Author talks about the effects of colonialism on him, discusses historical events, and how his family thinks about masculinity, femininity and violence.
Ipperwash: The Tragic Failure of Canada's Aboriginal Policy
E-Books
Author/Creator
Edward J. Hedican
[Ipperwash: The Tragic Failure of Canada's Aboriginal Policy]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Eldon Yellowhorn
Native Studies Review, vol. 22, no. 1/2, 2013, pp. 207-210
Description
Book review of: Ipperwash by Edward J. Hedican.
Issues Surrounding Cyber-Safety for Indigenous Australians
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Catryna Bilyk
Alex Hawke
Michael Danby
Nola Marino
Graham Perrett ... [et al.]
Issues Surrounding Cyber-Safety for Indigenous Australians
E-Books
Author/Creator
Catryna Bilyk
Alex Hawke
Michael Danby
Nola Marino
Graham Perrett ... [et al.]
Jim Thorpe: The Greatest Athlete Ever?
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Katie Goodson
Description
Discusses athlete's achievements and personal troubles. Sample paper for elementary classes.
"Just Do It!" Self-Determination For Complex Minorities
Theses
Author/Creator
Janique F. Dubois
Description
Political Science Thesis (Ph,D.)--University of Toronto, 2013.
Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Neil Andrews
Aboriginal History, vol. 37, 2013, pp. 163-166
Description
Book review of: Justice by Fiona Skyring.
Scroll down to page 163 to read review.
[Kim Tallbear]
Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Kim Tallbear
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
Duration: 28:06.
Kinàmàgawin: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom : A Resource Guide
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carleton University
Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education
Description
A guide to accompany the film Kinàmàgawin: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom to help instructors and facilitators deal with Aboriginal issues in the classroom and provides techniques and objectives for enhancing classroom dynamics.
Lateral Violence within the Aboriginal Community in Adelaide, South Australia: From Dilemmas to Strategies
Theses
Author/Creator
Yvonne Clark
Description
Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, 2017.
Lawful Subversion of the Criminal Justice Process? Judicial, Prosecutorial, and Police Discretion in Edmondson, Kindrat, and Brown
Alternate Title
Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Lucinda Vandervort
Description
Examines the case in which three non-Aboriginal men were accused of sexually assaulting a twelve-year-old Aboriginal girl.
Chapter from Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism edited by Elizabeth A. Sheehy.
[Letter about discriminatory City of Montreal policies involving homeless Indigenous people]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nakuset
Rachael Deutsch
Véronique Picard
Description
Argues that several bylaws should be removed because they represent social and racial profiling, and are overly and wrongfully used, affecting the well-being of a venerable population..
A Library Matter of Genocide: The Library of Congress and the Historiography of the Native American Holocaust
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Q. Dudley
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-30
Description
Analyzes books in OCLC Worldcat with Library of Congress subject heading "Indians of North America", with keywords genocide, holocaust or extermination.
Listening to Lives: Lessons Learned from American Indian Youth
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Donna Deyhle
Description
Visions from Native American youth against racial discrimination, the importance of a culturally-based educational experience, and the hope of achieving equity in education.