Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, From the Heart of the Earth, March 2014, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the connection between language and culture and the importance of saving Native languages. Includes a clip of Heenetiineyoo3eihiiho’ (Language Healers).
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 2, Special Issue 2014: Revitalizing Education in Inuit Nunangat, 2014, pp. 61-65
Description
Looks at the Nunavut Agreement and implementation specifically Article 23 dealing with employment within Government and Inuit education.
Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll to page 61 to read article.
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2010.
Focuses on The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
Article reports on a forum hosted at the United Nations Church Center by the Anglican Consultative Council, the World Council of Churches, and Canadian Anglicans affiliated with the International Anglican Women's Network (IAWN).
Looks at a three day event that brought together community healing programs and initiatives from around Australia and gave the opportunity for participants to meet the people that deliver the programs.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 2, Fall, 2010, pp. 145-154
Description
Introduces the Life Story Board as an instrument to help understand how and why domestic violence occurs and to look for ways to break this cycle of violence in Aboriginal Communities.
Summarizes and discusses data from the literature, gives brief overview of three tribally-operated programs, and looks at findings which suggest methods to improve research into and development of services for tribal members.
Summary of symposium proceedings held November 30- Dec. 1, 2010 Northwest Territories with the objectives of sharing approaches, making connections, building network strategies, and making recommendations.
E-Brief (C.D. Howe Institute). Economic Growth and Innovation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Colin Busby
Description
Argues that while Aboriginals constitute the source of most new additions to the workforce, their potential contributions will go unrealized because of the gap in educational attainment.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 4, Nation Building, Summer, 2014
Description
Introductory article to this themed issue discusses how tribal colleges and universities aim to preserve and communicate traditional native culture, provide higher education and career or technical opportunities to tribal members, enhance economic opportunities within the reservation community, and promote tribal self-determination.
Profiles Aboriginal-dedicated charities and their funders, looks at trends in funding, and reports results of ten questions put to key informants. Includes several case studies.
American Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 3, September 2010, pp. 639-661
Description
Looks at how Todd Downing appropriates and refigures Mexico's Indigenous history and culture to reveal evidence of the modern Indigenous people obscured by Indigenismo discourse. The article also anticipates the anticolonial discourses of the American Indian civil rights movement.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 1, August 2014, pp. 1-11
Description
Examines the similarities between Buddhist meditation practices and Indigenous Hawaiian wisdom and discusses how to incorporate this into contemplative/spiritual practices and social work.
Family members, entertainers and organizer of the Walk 4 Justice discuss the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.
Duration: 54:35.
Detailed chronology and analysis of police actions in case involving disappearance and murder of numerous women by serial killer Robert Pickton from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Vancouver Police Department report gives chronology of events and analysis of factors of that contributed to failure to recognize that serial killer Robert Pickton was operating in the area.