Building Reconciliation: Universities Answering the Truth and Reconciliation Commision's Calls to Action
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Peter Stoicheff
Bobby Cameron
Robert Doucette
Blaine Flavel
Carolyn Bennett
Perry Bellegarde
Murray Sinclair ... [et al.]
Description
Plenary event for gathering of university presidents and Aboriginal leaders from across Canada to discuss ways to close the education gap.
Duration: 1:56:45.
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 1-25
Description
Author uses the frameworks created in Vizenor’s two 2006 poetry collections to discuss Anishinaabe concepts of belonging and citizenship separate from colonial discourses and dichotomies.
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 1, Cultured Queer/Queering Culture Symposium, 2015, p. article 3
Description
Looks at the normalizing subjectivities of dominate groups and the resulting identity issues such as invisibility and isolation, as well as ways to overcome these forms of adversity.
Accompanying interview.
Accompanying presentation.
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
Description
Submitted to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 55 Pre-Sessional Working Group Consideration of List of Issues, Sixth Periodic Report, Canada.
[The Tsilhqot’in Decision and Canada’s First Nations Termination Policies, pt. 1]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Russell Diabo
Shiri Pasternak
Description
Brief discussion of Canada's Comprehensive Land Claims policy in response to the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark decision in the case Tsilhqot'in v. British Columbia.
Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special Issue on Canada and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 411-431
Description
Introduction to the history of the Indian Residential School system, analysis of the history wars in the United States and Australia over indigenous genocide, and debates about genocide in Canada.
Refers to specific articles in the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), outlines concerns about Canada's implementation, and makes recommendations.
Peace Research, vol. 47, no. 1-2, 2015, pp. [47]-70
Description
Looks at the approach each of the four churches (United, Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Presbyterian) took in their attempt to reconcile with Aboriginal peoples.
Aboriginal Law Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 12, February 1985, p. 8
Description
Discussion on Canadian land rights, self-government including the Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act, constitutional initiatives and possible future directions.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 3, no. 2, Building a New Partnership, March 2015, pp. 32-33
Description
Speaks about the newly created partnership, Canadians For a New Partnership based on mutual respect, peaceful co-existence and equality between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Canada.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, December 1985, p. 6
Description
Brief history about origins of the first settlement south of Sydney, Australia which was located in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland.
Provides statistics on demographics, education and training levels, income, employment rates, career planning services, and Gross Domestic Product by sector, gives results of Northern Career Development Requirements Survey, and makes recommendations based on findings.