Native Social Work Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Inaugural Edition, May 1997, pp. 87-101
Description
Brief historical background of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation; looks at the social and economic change in remote hunting and trapping communities in Northwestern Ontario; and examines how the First Nations have increased the ability to address health and social service problems locally by assuming control of their health services.
Documentary from the report, Bringing Them Home: Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children From Their Families. Survivors speak about their experiences.
Duration: 32:29.
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada) ; no. R-371
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amy J. M. Pilon
Lisa M. Jewell
J. Stephen Wormith
Patti Laboucane-Benson
Description
Located in Edmonton, Alberta, the Wellness House is a 16-bed, minimum security facility as well as a residence for offenders on release in the community. Purpose of study was to gain an understanding of the women involved and the unique model of case management. Sixteen in-depth interviews with nine offenders and seven staff members were conducted.
Building Reconciliation: Universities Answering the Truth and Reconciliation Commision's Calls to Action
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Peter Stoicheff
Bobby Cameron
Robert Doucette
Blaine Flavel
Carolyn Bennett
Perry Bellegarde
Murray Sinclair ... [et al.]
Description
Plenary event for gathering of university presidents and Aboriginal leaders from across Canada to discuss ways to close the education gap.
Duration: 1:56:45.
Examines issues related to quality education for First Nations learners; factors which are associated with First Nations control and jurisdiction; overview of how First Nations are looking to build their governments; provisions for education in their treaties; and education provisions in modern day treaties.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 265-298
Description
Literary criticism article which explores the way that Indigenous bodies appear and are used to articulate the struggles between Indigenous and Euro-American cultures in the novels Winter in the Blood and Bearhear.
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 1-25
Description
Author uses the frameworks created in Vizenor’s two 2006 poetry collections to discuss Anishinaabe concepts of belonging and citizenship separate from colonial discourses and dichotomies.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 191-209
Description
Discusses negotiations between the United States Federal Government and Native Americans, with a focus on the repatriation process set in motion by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 7-31
Description
Explores the linkages between the diversity of Aboriginal cultures and the diversity of the total collection of organisms in California. The article shows how the diminishment of one adversely affects the other.
A write up on the experiences of James Austin, a member of the Ontarian Midland Battalion involved in the suppression of the 1885 uprising. Austin relates the story of his trek west from Ontario, but missed all major actions. Austin later became a Presbyterian minister.
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 1, Cultured Queer/Queering Culture Symposium, 2015, p. article 3
Description
Looks at the normalizing subjectivities of dominate groups and the resulting identity issues such as invisibility and isolation, as well as ways to overcome these forms of adversity.
Accompanying interview.
Accompanying presentation.
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
Description
Submitted to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 55 Pre-Sessional Working Group Consideration of List of Issues, Sixth Periodic Report, Canada.
[The Tsilhqot’in Decision and Canada’s First Nations Termination Policies, pt. 1]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Russell Diabo
Shiri Pasternak
Description
Brief discussion of Canada's Comprehensive Land Claims policy in response to the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark decision in the case Tsilhqot'in v. British Columbia.
Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special Issue on Canada and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 411-431
Description
Introduction to the history of the Indian Residential School system, analysis of the history wars in the United States and Australia over indigenous genocide, and debates about genocide in Canada.
Refers to specific articles in the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), outlines concerns about Canada's implementation, and makes recommendations.
Collection of Dr. Peter Purdue, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan.
Published in [?Unknown Source], 1885.
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Sketch by T.B. Eyres.