McMillan Aboriginal Law Bulletin, January 2010, pp. 1-3
Description
Discusses the Crown's obligation to consult whenever their actions could impact Aboriginal right or title interests that are recognized by section 35 of the Constitution.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 27-41
Description
Looks at online learning with a historical review of adult education & its lack of engagement with Indigenous knowledge. Also discusses need to create culturally sensitive technology designed to include Indigenous knowledge.
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dinghy Kristine B. Sharma
Ellen D. S. Lopez
Deborah Mekiana
Alaina Ctibor
Charlene Church
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, Supplement 1, 2013, p. article no. 21180
Description
Findings from 6 focus groups conducted with 26 Alaska Native college students, identified 8 quality of life domains which will be integrated into programing promoting academic success.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 119-136
Description
Discussion, at the structural level, about the kind of education that is provided to Canada’s Indigenous peoples. The article also discusses a social activist, Shannen Koostachin, and her campaign to engage in social action in order to pressure the federal government to build a new school.
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; October 2013
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 14-091]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alison Howard
Jessica Brichta
Description
Examines why food literacy matters, the state of food literacy in Canada, current efforts to develop food literacy, and recommends strategies to further improve Canadian household attitudes, skills, and knowledge about food.
Report, based on five years of research into missing and murdered Aboriginal females in Canada, explores circumstances, root causes and trends of violence, numbers of missing/murdered women, and questions why this is occurring.
American Literature, vol. 82, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 673-699
Description
Looks at Apess's historical address given in 1836 in which he uses the power of the role as a Christian minister and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement to argue for Native rights.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 1, Summer, 2010, pp. 125-149
Description
Discussion on the frustration felt, by northern Aboriginal peoples, that research conducted in the north is invariably not relevant to the people or to pubic policy.
Special Report (Representative for Children and Youth)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Description
Critiques government spending, mainly channelled through the Ministry of Children and Family Development, on initiatives that have not produced concrete, successful outcomes through delivery of front-line services.
American Educational Research Journal, vol. 39, no. 2, Education and Democracy, Summer, 2002, pp. 279-305
Description
Analyzes past policies and practices in American Indian Education by looking at what was meant to provide equatable education through standardization has marginalized Naive American people.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Native Activism, Fall, 2010, pp. 46-47
Description
Presents the short story, Where Are We Going by Brian Sloan, that discusses the viewpoint that each generation seems to be moving further away from nature.
Our Schools, Our Selves, vol. 19, no. 3, Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action, Spring , 2010, pp. 275-289
Description
Comments on the need to increase the knowledge about Aboriginal peoples for Canadian students, many who graduate high school with less than adequate levels of information.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Autumn, 2002, pp. 526-558
Description
Author explores the United States Government’s termination movement and the resulting resistance from the Menominee people situating the response within the context of the American Indian Movement (AIM), the Red Power Movement, and the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Kevin Loring discusses the evolution of his play, which was featured at the National Arts Centre's English Theatre. Play focuses on the effects of residential schools.
Duration: 28:11.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, Summer, 2002, pp. 93-129
Description
Explores the historical role scientists played in debates about wildlife management in Wood Buffalo National Park and examines four distinct periods of wildlife science in the park.