Decolonization

Looks at the colonization of Indigenous childbirth and the possible strategies to address the impact of that particular historical trauma.

Examines the transitions in governance in the territories and Northern provincial regions; and discusses the accomplishments, challenges and opportunities facing organizations in Northern communities.

Discussion about locating Aboriginal thought in academia.

Defines the Taino Indigenous people in two rural communities in southern Jamaica.

Relates the history of educational programs in Northern Canada, the government policies of 1960s to 1970s, and the implementation of a bilingual educational policy in Nunavik.

File contains a discussion paper by Robert Doucette, Don Kossick, Marlene Larocque, and Emil Bell. The first three presenters discuss their work with CUSO, the Canadian University Services Overseas, an International Development organization confronting what they term "structural apartheid in colonial countries including Canada. Included in this discussion is public education on institutional racism. Bell discusses the particular problems faced by people in prostitution and the lack of support services available for them.

The file contains an open forum presentation by Ron-Wayne Hoekstiza. Hoekstiza, an Ojibwa man who was removed as a youth from his family by social services and raised by a Dutch couple in Europe, discusses his personal struggles to reclaim his identity, his views on the Royal Commission, and his views on Aboriginal peoples. Following the presentation Commissioner Sillett thanks Hoekstiza for his comments and discusses the situation in northern Labrador and Davis Inlet which he referenced, and where she is originally from.

File contains a presentation by Francois Trudel, Director, Department of Anthropology of Laval University. Trudel discusses how Canadian society can be decolonized in his view through knowledge of the other (via education) and building respect for the other. Following his presentation the assembled Commissioners offer some comments on it.

The file contains a presentation by Jeanette Castello. Castello states that her presentation is "based on the theme working together towards a positive change presented on behalf of the Tsimshian community of Kitselas." Castello discusses traditional self-government practices, and problems brought on by colonialism.

This file contains a presentation by Rosemary Brown focusing on education, the First Nations Chartered Lands Act and the Lubicon Lake Cree land claim. Education funding cutbacks are threatening to close the Plains Indian Cultural Survival School, an important facility for Aboriginal youth education in Calgary. The Lands Act will empower Chiefs and Council to request that reserve lands by privatized and available for mortgages, and Brown requests that the Act be scrapped.

File contains a presentation by Joan Moore, Atikamekw Health and Social Services Council. Moore delivers a presentation entitled "Autopsy of a Genocide" arguing that the current social problems faced by the Attikamek people are consequences of colonialism. Following the presentation Commissioners Dussault and Robinson discuss some of the issues raised with Moore.

Law Thesis (L.L.M.)--York University, 2000.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Regina, 2017.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 1989.

Professional Communication Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2011.

Physical Education and Recreation Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1997.

Looks at teachers adapting practices so that Sámi culturally based mathematics can be taught in the classroom.

Keynote speech from Act 4: Beyond Subject and State? Indigenous Interests in the Age of Globalization, University of Lapland, June 2006. Part of exhibition project titled: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts between March and November 2006.

Explores the problem of neoliberalism and nativist desire, and examines the possible answers to globalized neoliberalism and its reliance on multicultural difference.

Argues that scientific colonialism has led to a distortion of the language and culture used to understand African Indigenous thought.

Comments on the TRC's capacity to advance decolonization and the issues that hamper that progress.

Author discusses the violent social media response Tanya Tagaq received after having posted a photo of her daughter next to a harvested seal; uses the incident to illustrate how colonial violence disproportionately targets Aboriginal women.

Comments on three workshops in which participants were invited to learn forgotten or unheard Aboriginal, immigrant, and settler histories in their neighbourhood.

States that a comprehension of the colonial process is first needed in order to understand Aboriginal justice. Presented in part at Indigenous Peoples and Justice Program, 2005. Sample article courtesy of Native Law Centre of Canada; subscriptions available from the Centre.

Panel discussion on Native sovereignty with emphasis on education, particularly the Native studies curriculum in tribal colleges and universities.

Articles in this section look at Indigenous knowledge, philosophies and practices, and challenges to institutional practices.

Introduction to five articles that take Indigenous Knowledge and pedagogy seriously.

"... examines the conflation of American and Navajo nationalisms by scrutinizing the intersections of war, gender, and Diné tradition and the ways in which the Diné have drawn upon tradition to support U.S. militarism ...

Native Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Trent University, 2006.

Book review of: Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, 1855-1984 by David R. M. Beck.

Paper attempts to comprehend why past educational visions articulated by indigenous people remain unmet.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2003.

Briefly discusses the necessity of decolonization within the context of human rights and fundamental freedoms of Aboriginal peoples.

Contends that in order for decolonization to fully occur political, social, cultural, and economic development must be met for Indigenous women.

Describes the transformation of Home Rule from it's conception in 1979 to the appointment of a self-government commission in 1999. To access this article scroll down to page 36.

Explains the Ktunaxa concept of self-government.

Explores how participants of the program translated the training into self-sufficiency at both the personal and community levels.

Discusses the importance of contextual sentencing for Aboriginal offenders within the context of section 718.2(e) of the Canadian Criminal Code.

Book review of: A Separate Country by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.

Book review of: A Separate Country by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.

Examines a collection of past performances by James Luna and Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

Explains why settler colonialism is a structure not an event.

Peace and Conflict Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Winnipeg, 2018.

The authors suggest that a coalition of different methodologies can be used to unify Black and Indigenous colonial experiences regarding land. The coalition provide the opportunity to connect both experiences as they overlap and diverge from another.

Environmental Studies Thesis (MES)--York University, 2016.

Rethinks Indigenous deaths as being grievable and uses grief as a resource to bring about change. Case study using Residential schools and Project Heart.

Book review of: Settler by Emma Battell Lowman, Adam J. Barker.

Discussion on how settler colonial theory is being used as a starting out point in theorizing Indigeneity and Blackness with regard to sovereignty.