Decolonization

Looks at different meanings of sovereignty and how it applies to Tribal Nations and individuals.

Traces the emergence and development of the coalition from the perspective of the Native woman.

Article aims to better inform academic librarians on the issues surrounding research in Indigenous communities and with Indigenous people. Provides strategies for avoiding harm when working with Aboriginal peoples, and reminds researchers that successful projects must include an in-depth understanding of Indigenous protocols, values, and epistemologies.

Author discusses the research outcomes and the policy influence of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); speculates on some of the factors that limited the influence of the TRC including opposition from interest groups and the structure of the commission itself.

Documents the ways Indigenous communities and research teams are benefiting from two-eyed seeing, the compilation of Indigenous and Western ways of knowing.

Case study report examines the evolution of NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC) research governance from 2006 to 2018, highlighting community consent contracts and ethical review processes and protocols.

Explores major themes identified by interviewing 15 participants regarding research and researchers. Behavioural Science Honours Dissertation --University of Notre Dame, Australia, 2008.

Discusses the shift from assimilationist efforts in education to efforts to revitalize Native languages and cultures in support of an approach that values both Native and Western knowledge.

Article discusses the basis for and challenges of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s upcoming mandate that all residency programs implement a cultural safety training component.

Canadian Studies Thesis (MA)--Carleton University, 2020.

Second edition.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2013.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queensland University of Technology, 2011.

Studies community resistance to outside exploitation through methods rooted in Indigenous tradition and values.

Discusses expansion of US military across the region and the resistance to the move utilizing social media.

Includes links to open access articles, reports, theses, videos, protocols, research, professional organizations, and social media sites.

Looks at a paper presented at the,Value(s) Added: Sharing Voices on Aboriginal Economic Development: A Practitioner/Multidisciplinary Conference, and asserts that the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) is central to decolonizing theory and practice in education and economic development.

Authors describe their experience teaching a mandatory course in Indigenous education at Western University; articulate the challenges, mistakes, and successes they experienced in hopes of further decolonizing the practice of teacher education.

Public Issues Anthropology Thesis (MA) -- University of Waterloo, 2022.

Theology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saint Paul University, 2018.

Author speaks about being "Indigenous" and strategies for organization and decolonization. Duration: 1:14:54.

Uses this meeting to illustrate the differences between Aboriginal and European ways of constructing knowledge and interpreting past events.

Discusses the text and its critical framework—title page, introduction, and other framing elements. Considers the roles of Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Chief Joe and his wife Mary Capilano as co-authors, and the decolonization of the text by reconnecting it to unceded Coast Salish lands using platform called ArcGIS Story-Map Journals,

Transpersonal Psychology: Indigenous People's Healing and Spiritual Methodology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Union Institute Graduate College, 2000.

Journey to understand why Indigenous women might identify with feminists and why Indigenousl feminists have an agenda of decolonization.

Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2010.

Counselling Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2016.

Book review: Culture, Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Africa by Munyaradzi Mawere.

Book reviews of: Captive Arizona, 1851–1900 by Victoria Smith Caring and Curing: A History of the Indian Health Service by James P. Rife and Alan J. Dellapenna Conversations with Sherman Alexie edited by Nancy Peterson Documents of Native American Political Development, 1500s to 1933 edited by David E. Wilkins Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers by Dorothy Harley Eber Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight by Shannon D. Smith Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750 by William B.

Book reviews of: 2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock. Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick. Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie. Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer. Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.

Book reviews of: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature by Paulette F. Molin. Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family by Claudio Saunt. Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society by Brian Fagan. Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer by Robert J. Conley. The Cherokee Nation: A History by Robert J.

Book reviews of: Another Attempt at Rescue by M. L. Smoker. Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment by Renée Ann Cramer. Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf, and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest by Robert R. McCoy. Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers edited by Jesus F. de la Teja and Ross Frank. Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous People of Their Land by Lindsay G.

Examines how Native American authors Winona LaDuke, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and Linda Hogan share the goal of decolonization through their writings with the objective of producing an educated reader/activist. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 62.

English and Comparative Literatures Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2001.

Comments on how the work of the writer conveys both the tragedy of colonization and the courage and optimism of recovery. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 96.

Provides a close reading with literary cricism of González’s novel which is set during the Guatemalan civil war. Author examines the Maya responses to this conflict in the context of the social, political, and economic factors, and discusses issues of cultural revitalization, Maya self-determination, education and leadership.

Looks at the life histories of six Indigenous artists who are members of the Beat Nation collective and how this musical style can be used in environmental education.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia (Okanagan), 2013.

Examines the historical context and major achievements of the national Indigenous archives movement utilizing the framework established by Native American activist, Vine Deloria, Jr.

Study interviews 20 Indigenous and non-Indigenous medical leaders in health and health policy to determine what constitutes meaningful involvement of Indigenous peoples in health policy making. Results suggest that attention to the underlying power dynamics and decolonization of the system itself is a necessary step. Authors use the results to develop a framework for meaningful involvement.

Debates who can tell Indigenous stories and explores power relations in research using case studies.

Using a virtual reality residential school to examine the logic of genocide prevention.

Fifteen images (3 shown here) of Rita Bouvier who was involved with Urban Indian Teacher Education Program in Saskatoon, December 3, 1980.

Background history about the creation of the Navajo Community College (NCC). The colleges creation represented to people the establishment of a cross-cultural brokerage intended to overcome assimilationist tendencies.

Discusses barriers to Indigenous Education reform.

Environment and Sustainability Thesis (M.E.S.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2014.