International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 12, Aboriginal Peoples and Canada, Fall, 1995, pp. [285]-289
Description
Acceptance speech by Alan Cairns delivered May 31, 1995 in Ottawa for the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies.
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Discusses meaning of political community and the relationship between it and the people who belong to it, and legal, psychological, and participatory dimensions of membership.
Of those surveyed (69), 85% were Indigenous and 57% were Indigenous females; average age for youth experiencing homelessness for the first time was 18, and most common ages were 18 and 21, which coincides with "aging out of care".
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Author/Creator
Martin [Marty] D. Irwin
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discusses challenges facing municipalities and First Nations in the formation of urban Reserves.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 159-188
Description
Looking at the journal entries from the fur trade era to discuss colonialism prior to settler colonialism.
Portions of the journals entries of traders David Lamb and Jacob Herrick are included.
Original documentary was about a two-day exercise in discrimination. Third grade students were divided into two groups, the blue-eyed and the brown-eyed. The first day one group was told they were better than the others and received special privileges; the next day the roles were reversed.
Includes additional links to follow-up documentary, interviews with producer and teacher, teacher's guide and frequently asked questions.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Author/Creator
Don Avison
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, argues to have the confrontational, adversarial and antagonistic conventional justice system change and include control by Aboriginal peoples in select areas.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1994, pp. 61-70
Description
Discusses the role of reoccurring themes and metaphors in the traditional stories of the Yup’ik people by comparing two different narratives “The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals” and “The Girl Who Returned from the Dead.”
Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development, vol. 22, no. 3, July 1994, pp. 153-164
Description
Looks at the clown characters of Kachinas, the Heyokas, and the Society of the False Faces and implications for use with nonverbal communication and learning styles.
Discusses how Crown and Indigenous governments can engage with each other on the basis of a nation-to-nation relationship to develop regimes for management of resources which ensure mutually beneficial outcomes.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 1, 2017, pp. 22-31
Description
Discussion of how members of this Russian group choose to relay stories about events surrounding Soviet confiscation of reindeer herds during the collectivization period.
Article describes the ways that colonial governments identified and signaled out “criminal tribes” in India, how the identity, language and culture of these tribes was stigmatized and consequently diminished. Describes present-day efforts to protect and revitalize these languages and cultures and provides commentary on the effectiveness of these efforts.
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens.
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Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
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Opinion piece in which the author works to document their efforts to close the spatial distance between researcher and researched through a series of vignettes, and later reflects on the results of their work.
American Educational Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, Autumn, 1995, pp. 493-522
Description
Argues that the fundamental changes needed in the way that diversity is dealt with in the classroom could be accomplished by moving from a lesson plan-centered approach to a inquiry-centered approach.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 1995, pp. 97-118
Description
Looks at films as social barometers of attitudes and ideologies; films discussed: Dances With Wolves, Black Robe, Thunderheart, Clearcut, Loyalties, Company of Strangers, Where the Spirit Lives, Spirit Rider, and Powwow Highway.
Research Project Report (Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network) ; 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John R. Sylliboy
Tuma Young
Description
Through 20 in-depth interviews project gathered information on socio-cultural context, state of mental health and well-being during process, and supports which were relied upon.