Project George: An Indigenous Land-Based Approach to Resilience for Youth
Discusses using a land-based teaching approach to reconnect and strengthen Indigenous youth with their cultural identities and improve their well-beings.
Promoting Healthy Medication Use Through Indigenous Knowledge Sharing: A Coyote Story
Looks at the creation of a traditional Coyote story as a strategy to address Polypharmacy, "when multiple medications are being taken and the benefits no longer outweigh the risks", for Indigenous patients.
Psychiatric Disorders among American Indian and White Youth in Appalachia: The Great Smoky Mountains Study
Putting Indigenous Harm Reduction to Work: Developing and Evaluating “Not Just Naloxone”
Evaluates the use of more traditional holistic culturally sensitive approaches to address harm reduction for Indigenous people and communities.
Racial Equality Review of Basketball Australia
Reconciliation Through Metissage in Higher Education
Education Thesis (PhD) -- Lakehead University, 2021.
Reflections from Them Days: A Residential School Memoir from Nunatsiavut As Told by Nellie Winters, Transcribed and Edited by Erica Obendorfer: Teaching Guide
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Reflexive Reflection Co-created with Kehte-ayak (Old Ones) as an Indigenous Qualitative Methodological Data Contemplation Tool
Examine a new method of conducting research within Indigenous communities that works in collaborations with Indigenous cultural beliefs and for the benefit of the communities themselves.
Reindeer Slaughter: Meat and Flavor Production in Chukotka
Examines the connection between traditional hunter and animal relations and how it reflects on the flavour of hunting meat.
Resettlement, Resistance, and Coastal Niches on the Chukchi Peninsula
Looks at the relocation of the Siberian Indigenous populations and how they reestablished their communities in their new coastal environments.
Respecting Tobacco: Traditional vs. Commercial Use
Educational animated short (8:26 min.).
Restoring Our Roots: Land-Based Community by and for Indigenous Youth
Restoring Our Roots is research project that creates an inclusive sense of community using traditional land-based teachings to improve mental health by encourage Indigenous youth to reconnect with their own culture.
Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective
Returning to Ceremony : Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities
A Review of Literature on the Involvement of Children from Indigenous Communities in Anglo Child Welfare Systems: 1973-2018
An overview of the research on Indigenous children's overrepresentation within the welfare system.
The Right Space: The Impact of Meaningful Dialogue in Informing Culturally Safe Care in the Emergency Department in a Rural Northern Community
Looks at a project that interweaves Indigenous and Western point-of-views to improve emergency care for northern communities.
San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training as an Educational Intervention: Promoting Anti-Racism and Equity in Health Systems, Policies, and Practices
Examines an anti-racism educational program to address racism in Canada.
Seen but Not Seen: Influential Canadians And The First Nations from The 1840s to Today
Setting the Table: Traditional First Nations Foods Lesson Plans K-8: Foundational Knowledge
Lesson Plans: Food Is a Gift suitable for K-2; Gifts of the Season suitable for Grades 3-5; Gifts of the People suitable for Grades 6-8.
Shigellosis on Indian Reserves in Manitoba, Canada: Its Relationship to Crowded Housing, Lack of Running Water, and Inadequate Sewage Disposal
Sky Woman, Trickster, Windigo: Reflections of Traditional Storytelling in Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Novel
Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Thesis (PhD) -- Charles University, 2021.
Social and Economic Well-Being: A First Nations Gender-Balanced Analysis
Social Justice Picture Books: Lesson Plans for the Junior-Intermediate Classroom
Lesson plans for Grades 4--8. Indigenous Perspectives section begins on p. 329.
Social Responsibility of Mining Companies and Indigenous People of Chukotka
Discusses the social and economic impact of mining companies' policies when extracting natural resources on Indigenous land.
Special Edition by Children and Youth: Our Hopes and Dreams for Making Shannen's Dream Come True
Special issue that looks at the poor living conditions at a school on the Attawapiskat First Nation. Includes letters written by Omushkegowuk Cree children.
State of Equity in Education Report
Examines progress on the Calls to Action published in the previous year's report and results of survey of Winnipeg school divisions and faculties of education in Manitoba with respect to school trustee representation, number of Indigenous teachers, employment equity policies, staff profile, student profile, and student enrollment in Bachelor of Education programs.
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Stolen Words Written by Melanie Florence and Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard: Teaching Guide
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather learn his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-4). Text in English with some Cree vocabulary.
Strengthening Indigenous Australian Perspectives in Allied Health Education: A Critical Reflection
Looks at ways to address health inequality for Indigenous Australian populations by adding Indigenous perspectives into health practices.
The Study of Obstetric Hospitalization Rates of Northern Saskatchewan Women and Saskatchewan Registered Indian Women in 1992/93
Taanishi Kiiya? Miiyayow Métis Saantii Pi Miyooayaan Didaan BC: Métis Public Health Surveillance Program—Baseline Report, 2021
Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn About Community & Land Stewardship through the Art of Pitseolak Ashoona
Pitseolak Ashoona is a renowned Inuk artist from Nunavut.
Designed to complement the book Pitseolak Ashoona: Life and Work.
A Teacher's Guide for Indian Shoes: A Novel by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Sample lesson focuses on one chapter in book which follows the adventures of grandfather and his grandson. Recommended grades 2-3.
Teaching with and about the Ivory Art from Chukotka and the Bering Strait
Examines the contemporary practices of craving and engraving walrus ivory.
Telling about Bear in N. Scott Monaday's The Ancient Child
Telling Our Twisted Histories
Website contains links to a series of 12 podcasts which explore the impact of words such as reconciliation, indian time, school, reserve, and savage. Host Kaniehti:io Horn engages in conversations with more than 70 people from 15 First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.
Tensions in Fostering ‘local food’ in the Northwest Territories: Contending with Settler Colonialism in Northern Research
Political Economy Thesis (MA) -- Carleton University, 2021.
"They Drink Because They Don't Have Money, and They Don't Have Money Because They Drink": Relation to Alcohol and Money Within a Chukotkan Village
Outlines the relationship between alcohol and money as a cultural and social framework in Chukotkan villages.
Three Years and Two Continents Apart: A Comparative Study of the Great Sioux War and Anglo-Zulu War
History Thesis (PhD) -- University of Waterloo, 2021.
Traditional Alaska Transition Skills: Introduction to Traditional Carving
Designed to give teens and young adults with disabilities an improved quality of life, connection to culture and increased work-related skills.
Traditional Harvesting Number 1: Wild Rose
Lesson plan for Grades 1-4 involves learning about growing and harvesting plants and their names in Michif.
Additional resources: Plant Harvesting Image Cards; Michif Terms Teacher Card.
Traditional Harvesting Number 2: Wild Rose
Lesson plan for Grades 4-7 goals include recognizing the importance of harvesting, and identifying and describing the uses of several plants using Michif and English terms.
Traditional Plants
Photographs of 20 plants accompanied by a brief description of their medicinal uses.
The Treaties and the Treaty Relationship: Celebrating 10 Years: Teacher's Guide
Set of 19 Kindergarten to Grade 12 lesson plans which focus on Manitoba.
Understanding Manitoba Inuit’s Social Programs Utilization and Needs: Methodological Innovations
Unheard Voices: Healing Stories of Reclamation and Rebuilding for Families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people who have not been involved in the National Inquiry
Indigenous Governance (MA) -- University of Winnipeg, 2021.
“United States Shall so Legislate and Act as to Secure the Permanent Prosperity and Happiness of Said Indians”: Policy Implications of the Apache Nation’s 1852 Treaty
Looks at treaties as the foundation to protect Indigenous sacred sites.
Unsettling South Dakota Literature: Countering Lionized Representations of a Frontier Fantasy Space
English Thesis (PhD) -- University of South Dakota, 2021.
Urban and Rural Homelessness in Northern Ontario: An Indigenous Lens
Indigenous Relations Thesis (M.I.R) -- Laurentian University, 2021.