Argues that the legal framework has not kept up with demographic shifts because it focuses on land-related rights and ignores off-reserve and non-status population. As such, it disproportionately affects women who have been displaced through discriminatory effects of the Indian Act.
Provides four recommendations: recognize the inherent resilience of these communities, encourage sustainable investment, understand the sources of risk, and ensure that assessment processes follow key principles.
Dr. Grace Woo, author of the book Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada, discusses the continued colonization of Indigenous Canadians enabled within the judicial system.
Duration: 28:12
Part 1 of 2. Link to Part 2 record: Ghost Dancing With Colonialism Part 2
Dr. Grace Woo, author of the book Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada, discusses the continued colonization of Indigenous Canadians enabled within the judicial system.
Duration: 30:56
Part 1 of 2. Link to Part 1 record: Ghost Dancing With Colonialism Part 1
Provides information on history of the founding people of Gitk'a'ata and lineages and territories of the Gitk'a'ata along the Douglas Channel out to Campania Island.
Tripartite Working Group of the National Aboriginal Court Worker Program
Description
"This curriculum is developed for the purposes instructing Aboriginal Court Workers on how to integrate Gladue Principles into speaking to sentence for an Aboriginal client."
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, vol. 3, no. 2, Mothering, Fathering and a Culture of Peace, Fall/Winter, 2012, pp. 49-65
Description
Comments on a community agency, WAVS, that leads the way in family violence awareness, healing intervention and prevention.
Results from competitions held at the Green Lake winter festival. Page 1: Two pictures of log cutting contests. Page 2: Flour packing, buckskin parade, trap setting.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 69-70
Description
Looks at interviews with over 100 people working in the mining sector in the Yukon Territory and their spouses to understand how they manage shift cycles that come with work of this type.
Guidelines not only address issues relating specifically to claimants in legal matters involving residential schools but also may apply to lawyers acting in cases involving other claims of institutional abuse of other vulnerable clients.
Provides an overview of tools, principles and methods to be applied when conducting research involving Aboriginal women. Includes a checklist and bibliography.
Investigates Campbell's work for anticolonial qualities and subsequent responses.
Chapter from Maria Campbell: Essays on Her Works edited by Jolene Armstrong.
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, December 2017, pp. 95-120
Description
Article looks at mission guest books from Indigenous reservations in Victoria, Australia in order to examine the mind set and fixations of visitors participating in mission tourism in the region.
BC Psychologist, Psychological Services for First Nations, Spring, 2012, pp. 14-17
Description
Offers some guidelines for non-First Nations therapists working with First Nations clients.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 14.