Uses the Community Well-Being Index, which combines measurements of income, education, housing and labour market participation, to evaluate whether participating First Nations have shown more rapid improvement than those who have not pursued the option.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 30, no. 1, October 1990, pp. [8-16]
Description
Study examined four aspects of instructional accommodation: what faculty were willing to provide, whether provision compromised academic integrity, had students requested it and had it been provided in the past.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 68-75
Description
Discusses Allen's many contributions as a scholar, poet, novelist, theorist, political activist, and professor.
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International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples - Part 2, October 2017, pp. 1-[3]
Description
Book review: Trickster Chases the Tale of Education by Sylvia Moore.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Summer, 1990, pp. 277-287
Description
Uses postmodern discourse and theory to discuss the realities created in Indigenous narratives; focuses on the the trickster role as one that is both comic and critical in Indigenous story telling and meaning-making.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 21-34
Description
Discusses tropes or traditions, the organizing devices societies cohere to, by comparing a book and a movie. As key elements of belief systems, tropes act as powerful mediators between the world and how we experience the world’s meaning . By structuring a shared reality cultures are created, however, sometimes tropes can structure incompatible realities across cultures and distort our ability to understand cultures different from our own.
Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Adam Muller
Description
Discusses the meaning of genocide and whether or not genocide occurred based on two underlying issues.
Chapter 3 from Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing, and Teaching Genocide edited by Scott W. Murray.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter, 1990, pp. 19-33
Description
Article examines the significance of the Gourd Dance in Kiowa culture from the 1800's on. Discusses the evolution of the dance, the meaning of the regalia used, and how it was used as a method of cultural survivance when the Sundance was outlawed.
Discusses the importance of The Paris Agreement to Indigenous peoples and how it is a step closer to the recognition of their rights in international law.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 275-296
Description
Examines the strategies used by Harry C. Hale to communicate with and gain the trust of Hunkpapa peoples following the death of Sitting Bull in December of 1890.
Process Inclusive and Transparent, Acknowledging the Emotional Difficulty of the Memory Sharing For Survivors
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andréa Ledding
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 6, June 2008, p. 23
Description
Looks at the priorities of the Commission including determining vision and making plans for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission launch.
Article located by scrolling to page 23.
Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs speaks about his background, challenges faced by community chiefs and First Nations political organizations, and the how the land plays a central role in attempts at reconciliation
Duration: 59:54.
CFLA-FCAB Truth and Reconciliation Committee Report and Recommendations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
CFLA-FCAB Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Description
Overview of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations -Federation candienne des associations de bibliotheques's Truth and Reconciliation committee's mandate, responsibilities and methodology and a list of recommendations presented to the incoming board.
Anglican Journal, vol. 134, no. 2, February 2008, p. 15
Description
Comments on the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions mandate to hear from those who have been affected by residential schools, including the Anglican Church of Canada.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, Special Issue: Inuit Art World, Fall/Winter, 1990/1991, pp. 90-93
Description
Interview with the former curator of Iqaluit's Nunatta Sunaqutangit Museum.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand
RAL-e ; no.3, 2008
Research in Anthropology & Linguistics-e ; no. 3, 2008
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Agapi Mavridis
Description
Discusses links between attempted eradication of TB with the social conditions that allow the disease to thrive.
Chapter 4 from : Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer.
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Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand
RA&L-e ; no.3, 2008
Research in Anthropology & Linguistics-e ; no. 3, 2008
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Paul Hackett
Description
Highlights several factors including inability of government and church to protect children and the conflict between economics of running the schools and medical personnel.
Chapter 10 from: Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer.
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Arctic, vol. 61, no. 5, Supplement 1, 2008, pp. 122-123
Description
Looks at the recommendations and commitments of the Coastal Zone Canada Association from statements discussed at the seventh biennial Coastal Zone Canada Conference.
Discusses the history of La Tuque School in Quebec, which ran from 1962 to 2006. It was one of the last church run schools to open before the government took over management of residential schools in 1969.
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 3, Fostering Cultural Safety Across Contexts, September 2017, pp. 142-151
Description
Looks at links between historic and contemporary rationales for interfering with Indigenous families and discusses how literary arts can foster cross-cultural and cross-generational understanding.
Anglican Journal, vol. 134, no. 4, April 2008, p. 4
Description
Discusses a speech given by Bob Watts, the interim executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, regarding residential school abuse and how it is now time to work towards healing.