The Deconstruction Exercise: An Assessment Tool for Enhancing Critical Thinking in Cultural Safety Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Sjoberg
Dennis McDermott
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016, pp. 28-48
Description
Looks at an anti-racism strategy adopted by Indigenous academics and students as a tool to address racist language in a manner that avoids the emotive or combative nature of unstructured discussions about the impacts of racism.
The Defeat of Assimilation and the Rise of Colonialism on the Fort Belknap Reservation,1873-1925
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael A. Massie
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 4, January 1983, pp. 33-49
Description
Investigates U.S. Federal Government Indian strategy of removing tribal resources, particularly water, from Native control.
Dene and Western Medicine Meet in Image-based Storytelling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alison Crawford
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 36, September 10, 2018, pp. E1085-E1086
Description
This personal essay describes the author’s experience and learning which resulted from co-teaching about narrative medicine with a Dene colleague. Discusses issues of consent, colonialism and Indigenous world-views.
Describing the Process of Ethical Conduct of Research in an Ontario-wide First Nations Diabetes Research Project
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer D. Walker
Robyn Rowe
Carmen R. Jones
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. Suppl, November 7, 2018, pp. S19-S20
Description
Project engaged Elders, First Nations patients, care-providers, and researchers to create a community-based, participatory research project which functions within the OCAP (ownership, control, access and possession) research principles. Researchers found that the collaborative approach allowed greater understanding of the complexity of diabetes, and a focus on strengths-based interventions.
Designing and Sharing Relational Space Through Decolonizing Media
Alternate Title
Proceedings of the IDEAS: Designing for Innovation
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Yvonne Poitras Pratt
Solange Lalonde
Description
Looks at building educator capacity for media.
Chapter from Proceedings of the IDEAS: Designing for Innovation edited by M. Takeuchi, A. P. Preciado Babb and J. Lock.
Detours Homeward: Indigenizing the Road Movie
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wendy Gay Pearson
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2011, pp. 139-159
Description
Comments on three Indigenous films, based on the road metaphor which speaks against a dominant Western viewpoint.
Different Knowings and the Indigenous Humanities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Coleman
Marie Battiste
Sákéj Henderson
Isobel Findlay
Len Findlay
English Studies in Canada, vol. 38, no. 1, 2012, pp. 141-159
Description
An overview of interviews conducted by Daniel Coleman with Indigenous humanities scholars to examine the historical role that the humanities had as a tool for colonialism.
Digital Decolonization and Activist Tagging in the Post-Apology Residential School Database
Alternate Title
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS ; 2018
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Danielle Allard
Shawna Ferris
Kiera Ladner
Carmen Miedema
Description
Database is a collection of news media responses to and representations of the schools since the Canadian government's official apology in 2008. Authors describe their approach to archival description and outline how project members and "guest taggers" describe, organize and display records to promote decolonization.
Digital Ethics and Reconciliation: Digital Ethics Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Karine St-Onge
Description
Report offers 26 recommendations for library staff and researchers seeking to decolonize their services in regards to collaborative research with Indigenous communities, the products of that research, and previously acquired archival materials. Multiple case studies included; majority are Canadian, but also includes cases from Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and the United States.
Digital Technology Innovations in Education in Remote First Nations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Beaton
Penny Carpenter
In Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Indigenous Education, Spring, 2016, pp. 42-60
Description
Study explores how technology is supporting the decolonization of education in remote First Nations.
Disability and Native North American Boarding School Narratives: Madonna Swan and Sioux Sanitorium
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Penelope Kelsey
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, [Special Issue: Disability and Indigeneity], 2013, pp. 195-211
Description
Analyzes Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story by Mark St. Pierre, the only book-length narrative of a tuberculosis survivor.
Disrupting Literature: Facilitating Indigenous Book Clubs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deniz Ozgan
Emily Kroeker
Pathfinder: A Canadian Journal for Information Science Students and Early Career Professionals, vol. 1, no. 1, Proceedings of the 2020 Forum for Information Professionals: There and Back Again: Resilience and Li, March 27, 2020
Description
Authors discuss subverting the historically mainstream and assimilative culture of book clubs through preparatory research and community collaboration in order to create a space for engaging with Indigenous literatures.
Do You Recognize Who I Am? Decolonizing Rhetorics in Indigenous Rock Opera Something Inside is Broken
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shannon Claire Toll
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 2, December 5, 2019, pp. 1-22
Description
Article discusses the different ways that Something Inside is Broken brings attention decolonization and how the language and music in the piece are both made to serve this purpose.
Dream Weaving as Praxis: Turning Culturally Inclusive Education and Anti-Racist Education Into a Decolonial Pedagogy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Danielle Lorenz
In Education, vol. 19, no. 2, [Indigenous Education] in Education, Pt. 1, Autumn, 2013, pp. 30-54
Description
Author asserts this pedagogy will come to fruition as more Indigenous teachers graduate from university and more settler teachers commit to decolonizing themselves.
Dreams and Nightmares in First Nations Fiction
Theses
Author/Creator
Lena Ruwoldt
Description
Philosophy Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Greifswald, 2017.
Focuses on Robert Arthur Alexie's Porcupines and China Dolls, Cherie Dimaline's Red Rooms, Richard Van Camp's "On the Wings of This Prayer" and Richard Wagamese's Ragged Company.
Economic Development a Priority in Nation
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 3, July 2002, p. 17
Description
Highlights the treaty talks between the First Nations people and the provincial government in British Columbia.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.
The Economics of Reconciliation: Tracing Investment in Indigenous-settler Relations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robyn Green
Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special issue on Canada and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 473-493
Description
Looks at three periods of reconciliation: Section 37 Constitutional Talks, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, restitution for Indian Residential School Survivors.
Editorial
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Maggie Walter
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2009, p. 1
Description
Introductory editorial to themed issue on citizenship and Indigenous sovereignty.
Editorial: Challenges, Possibilities and Responsibilities: Sharing Stories and Critical Questions for Changing Classrooms and Academic Institutions
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lynne Davis
Jan Hare
Chris Hiller
Lindsay Morcom
Lisa K. Taylor
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 40, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1-12
Description
Looks at pedagogical approaches to promote positive changes for Indigenous student in post-secondary institutions.
Editorial: First Nations Education in Mainstream Systems
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stan Wilson
Peggy Wilson
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 26, no. 2, 2002, pp. 67-68
Description
Discusses difficulties in grafting Indigenous content onto current curricula and suggests a redefinition and restructuring of education may be needed to successfully integrate the two.
Editorial-Indigenous Pedagogies: Resurgence and Restoration
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tracy L. Friedel
Jo-Ann Archibald
Ramona Big Head
Georgina Martin
Marissa Muñoz
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 35, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-6, 221, 223-224
Description
Editorial introduction to this issue on decolonizing systems of teaching and learning, educational spaces and the enactment of culture, and pedagogies of wholeness.
Educating Bodies for Self-Determination: A Decolonizing Strategy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denise Nadeau
Alannah Young
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 87-101
Description
Focuses on a program developed for urban Aboriginal women, which the uses the principles of "remembering, reclamation and collective witness" in the process of decolonization.
Educating for Activism: The Gadugi Program
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James A. Bryant
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 56, no. 3, Fall, 2017, pp. 59-78
Description
Looks at the Gadugi Program, which offers two university level classes to Indigenous high school students through Appalachian State University.