This resource directory includes linguistic resources, language-specific resources, adaptable resources, language revitalization resources, language teaching journals, further education opportunities, funding sources for Indigenous language revitalization programs, as well as a list of scholarships and bursaries available for Aboriginal students and students in the field of Education, and a list of governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Development and Customary Law, 2010, pp. 16-21
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Discusses customary law’s contribution to addressing areas where ordinary criminal or civil laws have failed particularly in reference to mass violence .
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University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, vol. 11, no. 1, Durability and Transience: Cultural Borders of Temporality, 2009, pp. 74-80
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Discusses how the author shifts the story between past and present while fusing Aboriginal oral traditions with Western literary forms.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 100, no. 1, January/February 2009, pp. 51-54
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Looks at a study to determine the independent effects of Aboriginal income and cultural status on the smoking prevalence in the Saskatoon Health Region.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 10, October 2010, p. 13
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Discusses how the Dakota Dunes reinvests gaming profits to various communities which target youth, elders and the disadvantaged.
Article found by scrolling to page 13.
Artist's own experiences as a hybrid subject influence her work and represents the reality of most Aboriginal people today. Includes annotated photographs from exhibition.
Analyzes the use of Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee references in Alexie's works.
Chapter 1 from Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush.
Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses the way that story shapes our understanding of people and places, and how only having one narrative about a place or a people leads to a stereotypical and incomplete understanding.
Duration: 18:33.
Environmental Research Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, April-June 2009, pp. 1-9
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Argues that an immediate, concerted effort to develop policies is necessary to enhance the resilience and reduce vulnerability of the Inuit population .
Looks at relationship between colonialism and gender violence as it is manifested in federal, non-profit, and Native initiatives to eliminate violence.
American Studies (B.A.)--Wesleyan University, 2009.
American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 287-325
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Argues that the bow and arrow were present in the early Holocene and that atlatls, bows and arrows were used, in varying frequencies, at the same time.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 35, no. 2, Special Section: Indigeneity in Dialogue: Indigenous Library Expression Across Linguistic Divides, 2010, pp. [53]-75
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Comments on a play that focuses on the contemporary situation of youth in Montreal and the imaginary community of Kinogamish.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 81-101
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Promotes the cohesion of Haudenosaunee people on both sides of the United States/Canada border by sharing history, clan research and linking clan relatives.
Comments on the alleged slaughter of Inuit sled dogs by the RCMP, in the 1950s to the 1970s, and the Qikiqtani Truth Commissions' investigation of the allegations.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 19
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Comments on One Earth Farms, the largest corporate farm in Canada, and its intent to initiate job training programs for First Nations people.
Article located by scrolling to page 19.