Looks at the support offered by the library to the teacher education program, the integration of First Nations history, content and world-views, and the commitment to inquiry and research oriented education.
Duration: 1:08:10.
Speaker discusses the history of the relationship between the disciplines of anthropology and natural history, and the treatment of American Indians as specimens and a "vanishing" race.
Duration: 26:23.
Early American Literature, vol. 47, no. 3, 2012, pp. 685-698
Description
Book reviews of 4 books:
Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature by Jim Egan.
So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism by James R. Fichter.
Empires and Indigenes: Intercultural Alliance, Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World edited by Wayne E. Lee.
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History by Emma Rothschild.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Les Peuples de l’Arctique et le Bois / Arctic peoples and Wood, 2012, pp. 211-213
Description
Review of Middle Dorset Variability and Regional Cultural Traditions: A Case Study from Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon by Sylvie LeBlanc.
Review in French.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, Les Peuples de l’Arctique et le Bois / Arctic peoples and Wood, 2012, pp. 214-217
Description
Review of: Je Veux que les Inuit Soient Libres à Nouveau: Autobiographie (1914-1993) by Taamusi Qumaq, introduction, notes and chronology by Louis-Jacques Dorais.
Review in French.
Annual Forum on Aboriginal Law, Consultation and Accomodation ; 6th, 2012
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nancy Kleer
Description
Presented at the 6th Annual Forum on Aboriginal Law, Consultation and Accommodation, February 22-23, Toronto, Ontario. Discusses how duty to consult and accommodate is being affected by recent case law.
Recommends that focus should be on increasing access to alternative financing options, strengthening capacity to leverage different sources of financing, and comprehensive community planning for capital assets.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 4, 2012, pp. 1-19
Description
Article explores the perception of Indigenous families' lack of interest in their children's education and finds socio-economic reasons that challenge conventional engagement.
Reports ongoing improvements of the Reconciliation Action Plan Program (RAP) to lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people through education, employment and business.
Presenter discusses how people are adopting global solutions to global problems and how the nature of reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and other Australians is influenced by these trends.
Duration: 47:06.
West Coast Line #74, vol. 46, no. 2, Reconcile This!, Summer, 2012, pp. 40-47
Description
Author defines conciliation and reconciliation and argues that neither will be possible until the situation changes and Aboriginal peoples are treated as equals, rather than someone to be subjugated.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
Record of Discussions of the Honouring Our Strengths: National Renewal Forum ...
Documents & Presentations
Description
Discussions centred actions taken as a result of the Honouring Our Strengths: A Renewed Framework to Address Substance Use Issues Among First Nations People in Canada.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter, 2012, pp. 100-102
Description
Book review of: Records of the Moravians Among The Cherokees. vol. 1. Early Contact and the Establishment of the First Mission, 1752-1802. vol. 2. Beginnings of the Mission and Establishment of the School, 1802-1805 edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck.
Comments on the Qik'rtarmiut Alutiit Regional Language Advisory Committee and the work they are doing to ensure preservation of the Alutiiq language for future generations.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 15, no. 6, June 2012, pp. A-9
Description
Comments on community of Lestock that built a traditional Red River Cart using a Sask Culture Métis Cultural Development Fund grant.
Articled located by scrolling to page A-9.