Identifies factors, issues, challenges and programmes that may enter into discussions about learning priorities among First Nations reserves and communities in order to provide guidance and direct potential actions.
ITK [Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami] Socio-Economic Department
Description
Provides information on historical background and current context of education, issues, and success stories. Submitted as input to the Canadian Council on Learning's Knowledge Centres.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Shifting Cultivation, 2005, pp. 30-37
Description
Discusses transformation of livelihood systems, disruption of communities and survival of cultural heritage and identity.
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Variety of statistics dealing with demographics, characteristics of preprimary, elementary, high school, and postsecondary students, and educational outcomes.
Report on mental health and addictions services provides background information, lists, mental health and addiction research, and explanation of recommendations.
Reviews literature about family-centered services and family preservation services. Concludes with recommendations for "best practices" for policy makers.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 50-64
Description
Contends that Native American gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender authors are creating works that facilitate healing the erotic wholeness of those who have suffered historical trauma.
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Speaker discusses Amnesty International report, Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada and her part as an independent researcher contributing to it.
Duration: 1:08:26.
Narratives of historical events impacting the Haida Gwaii villages in British Columbia and the preparation to repatriate ancestral bones from the Field Museum in Chicago back to the Haida Nation.
Duration 1:14:12.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall, 2004, pp. 105-125
Description
Osage perspective on the consciousness of rocks and trees and their ability to speak. Comparison of Western scientific thought with the relationship between Native Americans and nature.
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 118, no. 470, Fall, 2005
Description
Viewpoint of the author is to infuse new life into a British Columbia historiography that until now has not paid enough attention to Aboriginal interpretations of the past.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 51-53
Description
Reflects on the significant contributions Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz has made to Native American literature.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 51.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 71-91
Description
Looks at how works by writers such as Jim Northrup, Heid Erdrich, Linda LeGarde Grover, and Gerald Vizenor illustrate the connection between story, culture, and knowledge.
In Education, vol. 23, no. 2, Autumn, 2017, pp. 25-42
Description
Explores importance of individual and community stories as a method of enhancing non-Indigenous classroom teachers' understanding and success when interacting with Indigenous children and their families.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 34-46
Description
Illustrates how the works of Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz focus on the power of the land and the goal of reuniting people with it politically, historically, and spiritually.
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From Health Worker to Health Worker...Across Australia The Story of Our Kids Need Dads Who...Posters and the Skills and Strengths of Indigenous Dads, Uncles, Pops and Brothers DVD
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Author/Creator
Craig Hammond
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 5, September/October 2004, pp. 8-11
Description
Describes the evolution of the project from a poster campaign to a video for Australian communities with Indigenous fathers.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 61-67
Description
Contends that the writings of Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz cannot be examined by the limitations of a traditional mainstream critical approach.
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