Decolonization

Book review of: Amskapi Pikuni by Clark Wissler and Alice Beck Kehoe.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2000.

Sociology and Equity Studies in Education with collaborative program in Comparative, International and Development Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2011.

Highlights the continuity between extractive colonial practices such as land dispossession and biocolonial activities regarding the mining of the human body.

Discusses the use of Ancestral Knowledge Systems (AKS) to decolonize research methods and utilize many knowledge systems in academy.

Examines some of the innovative structures and processes of government found in the North and their roots in Aboriginal cultures.

Examines the links between domestication, speciesism, and other modern human-animal interactions in North America and settler-colonial expansion.

Asserts that spirituality is central to Aboriginal approaches to social work and discusses four aspects of the relevance of other-than-human animals in spirituality: as part of kinship systems, sources of wisdom and protection, ceremonial significance and historical importance. Considers the Judeo-Christian focus of most scholarship on spirituality in social work and calls for a more decolonial, anti-oppressive practice.

Three themes emerged in interviews with seven Indigenous women: personal empowerment and confidence; wellbeing for themselves, family and community; and the importance of group mentorship. Author argues that they are applying the concept of gwesayjitodoon indo bimaadiziiwin, transforming oneself into a better life.

Human Kinetics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2018.

Canadian Studies/Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Trent, 2003.

Indigenous Governance Thesis (Ph.D.)--Univerisity of Victoria, 2009.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2011.

Shows how Rinaldi's work blatantly uses and distorts Zitkala-Sa's Dakota stories published in 1901.

Annotated bibliography.

Study of Tsilhqot’in Nation v. B.C. in terms of anthropological testimony and its interpretation by the courts. Case involved forestry practices and resource extraction.

First Nations Studies (M.A.)--The University of Northern British Columbia, 2008

Explores efforts necessary to counteract European attempts to eradicate the traditional knowledge systems.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Michigan, 1997.

Reviews relevant literature focused on anxiety and Aboriginal peoples. Includes interventions, preventions and treatment programs.

Authors discuss Western, Euro-centric research traditions in which Indigenous perspectives are marginalized, use a reflexive approach to examine a project that incorporated methodologies from Costa Rica and Malaysia.

Author draws on Vine Deloria Jr.’s work on the role that a difference in worldviews plays in communication to examine the distance between what Indigenous peoples mean by self-determination and what policy makers mean by it.

Foreign Languages Thesis (M.A.)--University of Bergen, 2018 Abstract in Norwegian, thesis in English.

English Language and Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2017.

Book review of: Appropriated Pasts by Ian McNiven and Lynette Russel. Review located by scrolling to page 208.

Book review of: Appropriated Pasts by Ian J. McNiven and Lynette Russell.

Information Thesis (MI)--University of Toronto, 2015.

Article describes an Archaeological field school project for graduate students in which the authors provided instruction on methods and practices; discusses how the project promotes a framework of decolonization through community collaboration and cultural integration.

Uses a case study of an archaeological examination of the Cherokee settlement of Nynynyi to illustrate how the practice of the four Rs (relationships, responsibility, reciprocity, and redistribution) can be used to mitigate both intentional and accidental erasure of Indigenous culture through archaeology and settler colonialism.

Examines the Indigenous peoples of the region, located in French Guiana and Suriname, located in South America.

Looks at how the author critiques the colonial archive and emphasizes Indigenous ways of accessing, organizing and preserving histories.

Comments on the novel and the exclusionary and semi-colonial biases of processes to include Aboriginal literary works on academic reading lists.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Victoria, 2006.

Examines an exhibit Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life along the North Pacific Coast to evaluate how it is perceived and promoted by Native American staff and community consultants, and non-Native American staff at the Museum.

Discusses various concepts of artistic expression in Aboriginal performance art.

Uses the art of Arthur Renwick as an illustration of the environment, attitudes and efforts to resist colonization of other Aboriginal artists, including Alfred Young Man.

Nursing Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2011.

Community Health Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.

An examination of the art world's control over Indigenous art, placing the importance of art over tribal sovereignty, in regards to the Jimmie Durham Cherokee ancestry debate.

Columbus Day 1992 marks the 500th year anniversary of the landing in America, but not all think that it is a day to celebrate.

The authors describe their experience in a graduate course on arts-based research methods. Their research touches on contexts of and relationships with/as land, Indigenous peoples, settlers, environmental crisis, and personal journey and the art they created in the process of the course.

Peace and Conflict Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2014.

Explores the problems associated with authorship, the representation of Native Americans in literature, and argues that Native American people need to author their own stories to ensure that the thought, philosophy, experience and wisdom of authentic Native American voices will ensure cultural survival.

Describes the use of group efforts to help reduce the impact of historical oppression.

English and Cultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2010. Discusses works by Eden Robinson and Shelley Niro.

Studies the role of warriors in Indigenous resistance movements in contemporary Canadian society.

Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2013.

Argues that First Nations facing financial difficulty will move forward and develop more rapidly if present colonial measures are removed.