Aboriginal Place Names
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian and Nothern Affairs Canada
Description
Sample of some the many geographic names with Aboriginal origins.
Extensive list of titles with the applicable grade levels and subjects.
Research involved six in-person focus groups in three cities in November 2016: Dallas, Los Angeles, and Boston.
Discusses the need for culturally meaningful changes to the criteria for hiring Indigenous scholars in university settings to combat a history of western assumptions and standards that Indigenous scholars have been up against.