Western Canadian Protocol Common Curriculum Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Culture Programs. Aboriginal Languages Consultation Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Proactive Information Services
Description
Looks at priorities for language curriculum development including recruitment, training and certification of Aboriginal teachers and teaching assistants.
Western Challenge: The Presbyterian Church in Canada's Mission on the Prairies and North, 1885-1925
Book Reviews
Alberta History, vol. 49, no. 1, Winter, 2001, p. 27
Description
Book review of: Western Challenge by Peter Bush.
[Western Goes East: Limonádový Joe and Its Possible Interpretations]
Theses
Author/Creator
Kateřina Juřinová
Description
[[English and American Studies?] Thesis (M.A.)--Masarykova univerzita, 2006].
Western Medicine and Australian Indigenous Healing Practices
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Don Gorman
Anne-Maree Nielsen
Odette Best
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, January/February 2006, pp. 28-29
Description
Studies the outcomes of patients treated by both western and Indigenous forms of medicine.
Wet Prairie: An Environmental History of Wetlands, Flooding and Drainage in Agricultural Manitoba, 1810-1980
Theses
Author/Creator
Shannon Stunden Bower
Description
Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2006.
Wettlaufer, Boyd N. (1914-)
Alternate Title
Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ian Dyck
Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
Description
Brief biography of Boyd Wettlaufer which describes his training in New Mexico, and his field work in Saskatchewan. Wettlaufer is regarded as the father of Saskatchewan archaeology.
Whakatipu Rawa Ma Ngā Uri Whakatipu: Optimising the "Māori" in Economic Development
Alternate Title
Whakatipu Rawa Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Optimising the "Maori" in Economic Development
Whakatipu Rawa Ma Nga Uri Whakatipu: Optimizing the "Maori" in Economic Development
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shaun Awatere
Jason Mika
Maui Hudson
Craig Pauling
Simon Lambert
John Reid
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 80-88
Description
Case-study analysis of enterprises which demonstrate successful incorporation of Maori values and socially optimal outcomes.
Whakawātea Te Huarahi Whāia Te Mātauranga: Legitimising Space for Meaningful Academic Careers for Māori in Business Schools
Alternate Title
Whakawatea Te Huarahi Whaia Te Matauranga: Legitimising Space for Meaningful Academic Careers for Maori in Business Schools
Theses
Author/Creator
Nimbus Awhina Staniland
Description
Business, Law and Economics Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, 2017.
Whales, Chiefs and Giants: An Exploration Into Nuu-chah-nulth Political Thought
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Harkin
Ethnology, vol. 37, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 317-332
Description
Looks at the Ahousat, a Central Nootkan group and the establishment of a Ahousat chieftainship.
The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Charlotte Coté
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 177-181
Description
Book review of: The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters by Edward Sapir, et al.
Whānau Hauā: Reframing Disability from an Indigenous Perspective
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
MAI Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. [82]-94
Description
Argues that Western individualized medical and social models are incongruent with the Mäori worldview, and that a wholistic, culturally appropriate approach is needed.
Whanau Whakapakari: A Māori-Centred Approach to Child Rearing and Parent-Training Programmes
Alternate Title
Whanau Whakapakari: A Maori-Centered Approach to Child Rearing and Parent-Training Programs
Theses
Author/Creator
Averil May Lloyd Herbert
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waikato, 2001.
Whanau Whakapakari: A Māori-centred Approach to Child Rearing and Parent-training Programmes
Alternate Title
Whanau Whakapakari: A Maori-centred Approach to Child Rearing and Parent-training Programmes
Theses
Author/Creator
Averil May Lloyd Herbert
Description
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waikato, 2001.
What Are Our Expectations Telling Us?: Encounters with the NMAI
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwyneira Isaac
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2006, pp. 574-596
Description
Describes four viewpoints about the National Museum of the Native American (NMAI) garnered through two personal visits and the others through newspaper articles and discussions.
What Are Warrior Societies?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Lana Lowe
New Socialist, no. 58, Special Issue on Indigenous Resurgence, Sept-Oct 2006, pp. 4-8
Description
Looks at the Mohawk Warrior Society, Red Power movement and the West Coast Warrior Society.
Scroll down to page 4 to read article.
What Can the College of the Rockies do to Create a More Meaningful and Successful Learning Environment for Mature Aboriginal Women?
Theses
Author/Creator
Robyn Daphne True
Description
Leadership and Training Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2001.
What Can We Learn From Traditional Aboriginal Education? Transforming Social Work Education Delivered in First Nations Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Harris
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 117-134
Description
Discusses the importance of context for social work education, illustrated by the First Nations Bachelor of Social Work program, which was delivered as a satellite program in a First Nations community.
What Causes Canadian Aboriginal Protest? Examining Resources, Opportunities and Identity, 1951-2000
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Howard Ramos
Canadian Journal of Sociology, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2006, p. 211
Description
Analyzes whether protest can be explained by resource mobilization, political opportunities or the construction of PanAboriginal collective identity.
"What Choice Do We Have, There's No Place For Us To Go": Young Women's Emotional and Mental Health Study
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Audrey Deemal
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 5, September/October 2001, pp. 28-31
Description
Examines the factors behind the excessive amount of young women displaying stressful behaviour and what treatment options should be pursued.
What Good Condition? Reflections on an Australian Aboriginal Treaty 1986-2006
Alternate Title
Aboriginal History Monograph ; 13
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter Read
Steven Churches
Ravi de Costa
William Jonas
Roderic Pitty ... [et al.]
Aboriginal History Monograph
What Happens After the Traditional Knowledge Study? Some Issues to Consider About Ownership and Confidentiality
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Senwung Luk
Description
Looks at Canadian laws surrounding traditional knowledge data collection and issues that should be sorted out before a project is started.
What Is an Indigenous Perspective?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lewis Cardinal
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 180-182
Description
Provides understanding of Indigenous research methods including ways of gathering indigenous knowledge.
What is Indigenous Research?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cora Weber-Pillwax
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 166-174
Description
Suggests that the methodologies involve "...those that enable and permit Indigenous researchers to be who they are while engaged actively as participants in research..."
What is Indigenous Research Methodology?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shawn Wilson
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 175-179
Description
Study of how Indigenous graduate students were successful at university and still maintained their Indigenous culture and identity.
“What is the proper word for people like you?”: The Question of Métis Identity in In Search of April Raintree
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sharon Smulders
English Studies in Canada , vol. 32, no. 4, December 2006, pp. 75-100
Description
Discusses the significance of identity in the novel due to varying definitions of the term Métis.
What is Working, What is Hopeful: Developing Suicide Prevention Strategies With Indigenous Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Masecar
Description
Shares portions of stories and comments collected from representatives from a number of Indigenous communities that have overcome suicide.
Phase II Report.
What is Working, What is Hopeful: Phase II: Supporting Community-Based Suicide Prevention Strategies Within Indigenous Communities: A Proposal
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Masecar
Description
Discusses the three components of the project: resources, research, and training.
Phase One Report.
"What Makes the Indian Tick?": The Influence of Social Sciences on Canada's Indian Policy, 1947-1964
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hugh Shewell
Histoire Sociale / Social History, vol. 34, no. 67, 2001, pp. [133]-167
Description
Looks at how social sciences influenced a more humane approach to assimilation.
"What Matter Who's Speaking?": Authenticity and Identity in Discourses of Aboriginality in Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carolyn D'Cruz
Jouvert, vol. 5, no. 3, Summer, 2001, p. [?]
Description
Comments on the protocol of speaking rights by examining a specific debate about Aboriginal identities that took place in the journal Oceania in the 1992 and 1993 issues.
What Nurses Should Know When Working in Aboriginal Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caroline H. Foster
Canadian Nurse, vol. 102, no. 4, April 2006, pp. 28-31
Description
Argues that nurses need to understand the specific history, culture and the concept of respect, in Aboriginal terms, within a particular community and then apply this knowledge to their relationships in that community.
What's in a Price?: An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Haidy Geismar
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 6, no. 1, March 2001, pp. 25-47
Description
Provides an overview of the tribal arts auction market and discusses the series of processes for the valuation and sale of tribal art objects.
What's Killing Our Children? Child and Infant Mortality Among American Indians and Alaska Natives
Alternate Title
NAM Perspectives ; March 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Teshia G. Arambula Solomon
Felina M. Cordova
Francisco Garcia
Description
Presents information on negative social, behavioral, and environmental factors affecting the mother and child.
What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Consciousness, Politics and Knowledge Production in Chela Sandoval’s Methodology of the Oppressed
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ruby C. Tapia
American Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 4, December 2001, pp. 733-743
Description
Book review of: Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval.
What's Next? Three Ways to Add Money to Indian Health and Bigger Fights Ahead
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mark Trahant
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Reprinted from Trahant Reports, March 23, 2017.
What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know about Horses?
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ronald Jobe
School Library Journal, vol. 44, no. 10, October 1998, p. 116
Description
Book review of: What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know about Horses? by Richard Van Camp and illustrated by George Littlechild.
What's the Score?: A Survey of Cultural Diversity and Racism in Australian Sport
E-Books
Author/Creator
Paul Oliver
What's to Be Done with the Fox? Inuit Teachers Inventing Musical Games for Inuit Classrooms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joan Russell
Curriculum Inquiry, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 15-33
Description
Discusses music course offered at the Nunavut Arctic College's Teacher Education Program (NTEP) which incorporated Inuit culture as a central theme.
What’s Up at FNUC?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Wiona Wheeler
Denise Henning
Canadian Dimension, vol. 40, no. 1, January 2, 2006, p. [?]
Description
Commentary on the events surrounding the financial crisis at the First Nations University of Canada.
What the Grandchildren Learned: The Relationship Between English and Indigenous Languages in North American Indian Autobiography
Theses
Author/Creator
Leslie M LaChance
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998.
What the People Said: Findings From the Regional Roundtables of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jill Milroy
Pat Dudgeon
Adele Cox
Gerry Georgatos
Abigail Bray
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 2, September 2017, pp. 16-32
Description
Looks at the common themes which emerged from the project including the need for self determination and local leadership, the need to consider the social determinants of health, and more.
What We Don't Know Can Hurt Them: White Teachers, Indian Children
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bobby Ann Starnes
The Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 87, no. 5, January 2006, pp. 384-392
Description
Looks at impact of cultural and historical misunderstandings and the effect on Native students. Provides recommendations.
'What We Heard': Report to Employment and Social Development Canada on the Feedback Received Regarding the
E-Books
Author/Creator
Virgina Gluska
What We Know and Don't Know about Risk Assessment with Offenders of Indigenous Heritage
Alternate Title
Research Report (Public Safety Canada) ; 2017-R009
E-Books
Author/Creator
Leticia Gutierrez
L. Maaike Helmus
R. Karl Hanson
Research Report (Public Safety Canada)
Description
Related material:
Research Summary.
What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sean Carleton
BC Studies, no. 194, 2017, pp. 217-218
Description
Book review of What We Learned by Helen Raptis with members of the Tsimshian Nation.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 217.
What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect On Tsimshian Education And The Day Schools
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dave Obee
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 1, February/March 2017, pp. 55-55
Description
Book review of: What We Learned by Helen Raptis with members of the Tsimshian Nation.
What Works: Effective Policies and Programs for Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Natasha Caverley
Description
Overview of a project intended to identify effective human resource management strategies, practices and programs (specifically, within the areas of recruitment and career development).
What Works: The Work Program, Improving Outcomes for Indigenous Students: Successful Practice
Alternate Title
Successful Practice
E-Books
Author/Creator
Geoff Ainsworth
David McRae
What Writer Would Not Be an Indian for a While?: Charles Alexander Eastman, Critical Memory, and Audience
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gale P. Coskan-Johnson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, Summer, 2006, pp. 105-131
Description
Contends that the work of Sioux writer Alexander Eastman reflects not only an assimilationist perspective but also examines Native Americans within the oppressive socio-cultural context of 19th and 20th century.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 105.
When a Native "Goes Researcher" : Notes from the North American Ingenious Games
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle M. Jacob
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 50, no. 4, Indigenous Peoples: Canadian and U.S. Perspectives, December 2006, pp. 450-461
Description
Discusses how an Aboriginal researcher analyzes the effects of "authentic Indianness" and "white privilege" on the research process.