The Northern Review, no. 41, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, 2015, pp. 3-12
Description
Introduction to special issue covering research on the best way to increase benefits that northern communities receive from resource development. Features research from the Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA) Project.
Identifies barriers to doing business or becoming employed, opportunities for employment, companies directly employing Aboriginal women, what is being done to facilitate participation, impacts of development, and types of training needed.
Website has links to: community businesses, information on duty to consult, economic development, tax programs and bulletins, initiatives, directory, federal benefits and rights, and treaty land.
Education lead for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation discusses ways in which everyone can incorporate reconciliation into daily life.
Duration: 41:56.
Presents examples of how reconciliation can be enacted in everyday life and talks about the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation, Project of Heart and the film Students in the Classroom.
Duration: 41:56.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 47-68
Description
Interviewed 75 Cree and Stoney women and found a feeling of loss and geographic separation from elders, family and community as pregnancy care moved out of the community.
BC Studies, no. 188, Winter, 2015/2016, pp. 108-111
Description
Book reviews of: Return to the Land of the Head Hunters edited by Brad Evans and Aaron Glass.
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To read this review scroll to p. 108.
Revisiting RCAP: Towards Reconciliation: The Future of Indigenous Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute on Governance
Description
Summary of conference discussions which focused on six themes: state of reconciliation; imaging possibilities, assessing priorities for immediate action, identifying best practices, restoring trust to relationships with governments, and building relationships with industry.
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Caroline Laurent
Description
Comments on the ways the museum has been actively promoting culture and creating connections between visitors and the Mile Lacs Band.
Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013.
Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.
Speakers discuss their background, collaboration, and the difficulties encountered when trying to locate examples of the facial tattoos historically worn by Inuit women once they had come of age.
Duration: 26:48.
Tool to help advocates, educators and communities develop a vision for language education, understand their current situation and resources, and create a comprehensive plan to execute their vision.
Journal of Western Archives, vol. 6, no. 1, Native American Archives Special Issue, 2015, p. article 2
Description
Examines the historical context and major achievements of the national Indigenous archives movement utilizing the framework established by Native American activist, Vine Deloria, Jr.
Looks at the traditional role of grandparents and options available for maintaining a connection when a grandchild is in the care of the Alberta Government.
Duration: 21:20.
General Meeting of the Royal Society of Canada ; 2015
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kathleen Mahoney
Description
Argues that Canada must correct the mythology that it was founded by two nations and acknowledge the place of Indigenous peoples in the formation of the country.
Duration: 58:45.