Western Epistemic Dominance and Colonial Structures: Considerations for Thought and Practice in Programs of Teacher Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeannie Kerr
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 2, 2014, pp. 83-104
Description
Examines the many facets of colonialism in relation to teacher education programs in Canada.
[Western Goes East: Limonádový Joe and Its Possible Interpretations]
Theses
Author/Creator
Kateřina Juřinová
Description
[[English and American Studies?] Thesis (M.A.)--Masarykova univerzita, 2006].
Western Medicine and Australian Indigenous Healing Practices
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Don Gorman
Anne-Maree Nielsen
Odette Best
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, January/February 2006, pp. 28-29
Description
Studies the outcomes of patients treated by both western and Indigenous forms of medicine.
Western Perspectives
Alternate Title
Teacher's Guide: American Collection
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Baltimore Museum of Art
Description
Discusses representations of Indigenous peoples in early 20th century art.
Wet Prairie: An Environmental History of Wetlands, Flooding and Drainage in Agricultural Manitoba, 1810-1980
Theses
Author/Creator
Shannon Stunden Bower
Description
Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2006.
Wettlaufer, Boyd N. (1914-)
Alternate Title
Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ian Dyck
Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
Description
Brief biography of Boyd Wettlaufer which describes his training in New Mexico, and his field work in Saskatchewan. Wettlaufer is regarded as the father of Saskatchewan archaeology.
Whakaoranga Whānau: A Whānau Resilience Framework
Theses
Author/Creator
Jordan Te Aramoana McPherson Waiti
Description
Public Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massey University, 2015.
A Whakapapa of Whānau Ora: A New Way of Delivering Social Services in Aotearoa New Zealand?
Theses
Author/Creator
Charlotte Ellen Moore
Description
Arts Thesis (M.A.)--University of Auckland, 2014.
The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Charlotte Coté
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 177-181
Description
Book review of: The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters by Edward Sapir, et al.
Whānau Kōpepe: A Culturally Appropriate and Family Focuses Approach to Support for Young Moāori (Indigenous) Parents
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Felicity Jane Rachel Ware
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 2, December 2014, pp. 1-20
Description
Reports on lived experiences, childrearing needs, and ongoing effects of colonization on young Moāori parents.
Whānau Ora; He Whakaaro Ā Whānau: Māori Family Views of Family Wellbeing
Alternate Title
Whanau Ora; He Whakaaro A Whanau: Maori Family Views of Family Wellbeing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amohia F. Boulton
Heather H. Gifford
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, 2014, pp. 1-16
Description
Article reports on the results of two studies into family wellbeing and the differences in understanding of the term whānau ora (family wellbeing).
What Aborigines Want In A Community Worker
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Nungalinya College
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, June 1985, pp. 26-27
Description
Provides advice on what Aboriginal Australians need in a community worker.
What Are Our Expectations Telling Us?: Encounters with the NMAI
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwyneira Isaac
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 574-596
Description
Describes four viewpoints about the National Museum of the Native American (NMAI) garnered through two personal visits and the others through newspaper articles and discussions.
What Are Warrior Societies?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Lana Lowe
New Socialist, no. 58, Special Issue on Indigenous Resurgence, Sept-Oct 2006, pp. 4-8
Description
Looks at the Mohawk Warrior Society, Red Power movement and the West Coast Warrior Society.
Scroll down to page 4 to read article.
What Can We Learn From Traditional Aboriginal Education? Transforming Social Work Education Delivered in First Nations Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Harris
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 117-134
Description
Discusses the importance of context for social work education, illustrated by the First Nations Bachelor of Social Work program, which was delivered as a satellite program in a First Nations community.
What Causes Canadian Aboriginal Protest? Examining Resources, Opportunities and Identity, 1951-2000
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Howard Ramos
Canadian Journal of Sociology, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2006, p. 211
Description
Analyzes whether protest can be explained by resource mobilization, political opportunities or the construction of PanAboriginal collective identity.
What Comes From Hitting Sticks
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alice Rose Crow
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 1, Celebrating 25 Years, Fall, 2014, p. 54
Description
Short essay on celebrating Bernice Joseph's life, pursuing higher education, writing to remember, and the journey home.
What Does Aboriginal Title Mean for Mining in British Columbia
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robin Junger
Brent Ryan
McMillan Aboriginal Law Bulletin, July 2014, pp. [1]-9
Description
Looks at questions raised from the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Tsilhqot'in v. BC SSC 44.
What Does Ainu Cultural Revitalisation Mean to Ainu and Wajin Youth in the 21st Century? Case Study of Urespa as a Place to Learn Ainu Culture in the City of Sapporo, Japan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kanako Uzawa
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 168-179
Description
Article draws on author’s work with youth who are learning new ways to practice Indigenous Ainu culture in an urban center in Japan; focuses on cultural practice and revitalization, decolonization and self-determination.
What Good Condition? Reflections on an Australian Aboriginal Treaty 1986-2006
Alternate Title
Aboriginal History Monograph ; 13
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter Read
Steven Churches
Ravi de Costa
William Jonas
Roderic Pitty ... [et al.]
Aboriginal History Monograph
What Influence do the Old Sámi Noaidi Drums From Lapland Play in the Construction of New Shaman Drums by Sámi Persons Today?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Francis Joy
Folklore, vol. 56, 2014, pp. [117]-158
Description
Study results show that making drums for a Sámi person is a way of sustaining culture, heritage, and identity.
What is Native American Literature?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janette K. Murray
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1985, pp. 151-166
Description
Reviews trends in literature, examines oral traditions, and looks at Euro-American authors in comparison with Indigenous authors.
“What is the proper word for people like you?”: The Question of Métis Identity in In Search of April Raintree
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sharon Smulders
English Studies in Canada , vol. 32, no. 4, December 2006, pp. 75-100
Description
Discusses the significance of identity in the novel due to varying definitions of the term Métis.
What is Working, What is Hopeful: Developing Suicide Prevention Strategies With Indigenous Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Masecar
Description
Shares portions of stories and comments collected from representatives from a number of Indigenous communities that have overcome suicide.
Phase II Report.
What is Working, What is Hopeful: Phase II: Supporting Community-Based Suicide Prevention Strategies Within Indigenous Communities: A Proposal
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Masecar
Description
Discusses the three components of the project: resources, research, and training.
Phase One Report.
What It Takes to Support a Loved One with FASD: A Photovoice Project for the CanFASD Research Network Family Advisory Committee
Alternate Title
What It Takes to Support a Loved One with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothy Reid
Simon Laplante
Ray Marnoch
Tammy Roberts
Jennifer Noah ... [et al.]
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 13, no. 2, Special Audiovisual Edition, 2019, p. [14]
Description
Caregivers supporting a family member with FASD speak about their experiences, challenges, and resiliency.
What it Takes...
Duration: 10:19
What Needs to Change? Leaders in Aboriginal Education Share Their Insights
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marlene Brant Castellano
Blair Stonechild
Darren McKee
Education Canada, vol. 54, no. 3, [Aboriginal Student Success], Summer, 2014, p. [?]
Description
Three leaders offer their answers which include indigenization of education, adding spiritual teachings to the classroom, and offering hope.
What Nurses Should Know When Working in Aboriginal Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caroline H. Foster
Canadian Nurse, vol. 102, no. 4, April 2006, pp. 28-31
Description
Argues that nurses need to understand the specific history, culture and the concept of respect, in Aboriginal terms, within a particular community and then apply this knowledge to their relationships in that community.
What's Killing the Reindeer
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eli Kintisch
Science, vol. 346, no. 6210, November 7, 2014, p. 685
Description
Presents brief background on ecological data that could help with a new compensation system for Sami Reindeer herders.
What's the Score?: A Survey of Cultural Diversity and Racism in Australian Sport
E-Books
Author/Creator
Paul Oliver
What's to Be Done with the Fox? Inuit Teachers Inventing Musical Games for Inuit Classrooms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joan Russell
Curriculum Inquiry, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 15-33
Description
Discusses music course offered at the Nunavut Arctic College's Teacher Education Program (NTEP) which incorporated Inuit culture as a central theme.
What’s Up at FNUC?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wiona Wheeler
Denise Henning
Canadian Dimension, vol. 40, no. 1, January 2, 2006, p. [?]
Description
Commentary on the events surrounding the financial crisis at the First Nations University of Canada.
What's ya Story: The Making of a Digital Storytelling Mobile App with Aboriginal Young People
E-Books
Author/Creator
Fran Edmonds
Christel Rachinger
Gursharan Singh
Richard Chenhall
Michael Arnold ... [et al.]
What Shall We Do with the Bodies? Reconsidering the Archive in the Aftermath of Fraud
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mario A. Caro
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 41-54
Description
A re-evaluation of Jimmie Durham's work, taking into account the artist's fraudulent claims to Cherokee ancestry and discussion of the implications for scholars, art critics, collectors, and viewers of his works.
What Strikes a Chord?: The Construction of Resonance in Collective Action Frames on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Lisa Menke
Description
Conflict Studies and Human Rights Thesis (M.A.)--Utrecht University, 2019.
What We Don't Know Can Hurt Them: White Teachers, Indian Children
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bobby Ann Starnes
The Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 87, no. 5, January 2006, pp. 384-392
Description
Looks at impact of cultural and historical misunderstandings and the effect on Native students. Provides recommendations.
What We Talk about When We Talk about Indian
Alternate Title
Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Yvette Nolan
Description
Playwright discusses her experience developing and mounting Death of a Chief, Native Earth Performing Arts' adaptation of Julius Caesar.
Chapter 12 in: Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas edited by Helen Gilbert and Charlotte Gleghorn.
What Works: Effective Policies and Programs for Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Natasha Caverley
Description
Overview of a project intended to identify effective human resource management strategies, practices and programs (specifically, within the areas of recruitment and career development).
What Works: The Work Program, Improving Outcomes for Indigenous Students: Successful Practice
Alternate Title
Successful Practice
E-Books
Author/Creator
Geoff Ainsworth
David McRae
What Writer Would Not Be an Indian for a While?: Charles Alexander Eastman, Critical Memory, and Audience
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gale P. Coskan-Johnson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 105-131
Description
Contends that the work of Sioux writer Alexander Eastman reflects not only an assimilationist perspective but also examines Native Americans within the oppressive socio-cultural context of 19th and 20th century.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 105.
"Wheeler, Arthur O."
Archival » Archival Items
Description
File contains a photocopy of Arthur O. Wheeler's daily diary from March to July, 1885. Wheeler served in the Survey (scout) Corp for the Government, and was present during some of the battles of the 1885 rebellion.
When a Native "Goes Researcher" : Notes from the North American Ingenious Games
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle M. Jacob
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 50, no. 4, Indigenous Peoples: Canadian and U.S. Perspectives, December 2006, pp. 450-461
Description
Discusses how an Aboriginal researcher analyzes the effects of "authentic Indianness" and "white privilege" on the research process.
When Aboriginal and Métis Teachers Use Storytelling as an Instructional Practice
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Melanie MacLean
Linda Wason-Ellam
Description
Study involved in-depth interviews with seven teachers from two Saskatchewan school divisions about their classroom practices and experiences.
When Consultation Becomes a Checkbox, What's the Fracking Point?: Colonial Constraints on Social Learning Processes in Northeast BC and the Fort Nelson First Nation's New Approach to Resource Governance
Theses
Author/Creator
Rosanna Breiddal
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2006.
When Consumerism and Art Collide: A Question of Identity
Alternate Title
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Brian Jungen
Kitty Scott
Nam Kiwanuka
Description
Artist Brian Jungen and a curator from the Art Gallery of Ontario discuss his art and the exhibition Brian Jungen: Friendship Centre.
Duration: 26:39.
When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jen Manion
Early American Literature, vol. 49, no. 3, 2014, pp. 811-815
Description
Book review of: When Did Indians Become Straight? by Mark Rifkin.
When Disaster Strikes: Emergency Management in the Arctic
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sara French
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 2, no. 3, Arctic Search & Rescue, July 2014, pp. 32-36
Description
Roundtable identified two major barriers to addressing the North's search and rescue operations: a complex jurisdictional landscape and cost.
When Disinformation Turns Deadly: The Case of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canadian Media
Alternate Title
Disinformation and Digital Democracies in the 21st Century
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Elisha Corbett
Description
Argues that the way women are framed in mainstream news suggests that they are to blame for the violence against them because they indulge in "high-risk" lifestyles and discusses how initiatives like #MMIWG are combating stereotypical representations and raising awareness.
Paper from Disinformation and Digital Democracies in the 21st Century edited by Joseph McQuade, Tiffany Kwok, and James Cho.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper scroll to p. 19.
When Do Ideas of an Arctic Treaty Become Prominent in Arctic Governance Debates?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen
Arctic, vol. 72, no. 2, June 19, 2019 , pp. 116-130
Description
Article identifies and examines the social and geopolitical factors and questions which contribute to the prominence of the idea of an international Arctic governance treaty over time; author traces the evolution of the Arctic treaty debate from 1970 to the current moment.