Describes how the author models her character in the novel after the mythological trickster Nanabozho who is a healer, storyteller, jokester, and shapeshifter..
Entire volume on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 178.
Looks at partnership with the University of Manitoba and the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation to help with detailed planning and capacity building for high priority housing.
Discusses issues involved in the withdrawal from the Assembly of First Nations with indications that Treaty issues and land claims were central precipitating factors.
Case studies of Chiefs Poundmaker and Big Bear compiled by Blair Stonechild using oral history and original source materials. A curriculum intended to "enable the student to review the circumstances surrounding Indian involvement in the Resistance and to arrive at his or her own conclusions about the culpability of the Indian people."
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 3, March 2011, p. 8
Description
Looks at the Step Into Health Careers program and its goal to train and recruit Aboriginal youth into the Health Region in entry-level positions.
Article found by scrolling to page 8.
Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Herb George]
Description
Satsan (Herb George), President of the National Centre for First Nations Governance, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011.
Duration: 5:06.
Part 1 of 5.
Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Herb George]
Description
Satsan (Herb George), President of the National Centre for First Nations Governance, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011.
Duration: 4:37.
Part 3 of 5.
Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Herb George]
Description
Satsan (Herb George), President of the National Centre for First Nations Governance, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February 2011.
Duration: 4:47.
Part 4 of 5.
Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Herb George]
Description
Satsan (Herb George), President of the National Centre for First Nations Governance, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011.
Duration: 4:33.
Part 5 of 5.
Symposium on Reconciliation ; Toronto, Ontario February, 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Herb George]
Description
Satsan (Herb George), President of the National Centre for First Nations Governance, speaks at the Symposium on Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario, February, 2011.
Duration: 4:15.
Part 2 of 5.
American Anthropologist, vol. 113, no. 4, December 2011, pp. 606-618
Description
Looks at the feeling of displacement the residents of Anishinaabek First Nations community in Ontario experience on their ancestral landscape due to extraordinary levels of pollution.
Delves into the ancient history as well as the colonial era of the Scowlitz Band using existing records and original interviews with community members.
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 16, no. 4, Special issue: Materializing identities, December 2011, pp. 416-428
Description
Examines the conflicting ways in which artifacts and cultural heritage of First Nations are understood and how contradictory positions are to be reconciled.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 1988, pp. 73-105
Description
How the Sechelt Indian Band of British Columbia, in 1984, became the first to develop its own constitution and to withdraw from the authority of the Indian Act.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 4, April 2011, p. 5
Description
Comments on the accomplishments of Indigenous artists, writers, musicians and dancers and the honourable way in which they have led Aboriginal people.
Article found by scrolling to page 5.
Looks at how movie Avatar has been used by activists as representative of Indigenous imperialistic struggles.
Gender and Cultural Studies Honours Thesis--University of Sydney, 2011.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 2011, pp. 101-131
Description
Discusses strategies for building local economies that can support Indigenous development and foster the exchange of knowledge and experience between researchers, policy analysts, and Aboriginal communities.
Podcast of interview with authors of book which deals with representations of Aboriginals in coverage of events such as signing of Treaty 3, the North-West Rebellion, Bill C-31, death of Pauline E. Johnson, and the Oka Crisis.
Duration: 34:42.
Speaker talks about violence experienced by Aboriginal women (both within and outside the community), reasons perpetrators go unpunished, and need for continued advocacy.
Duration: 24:22.