Decolonization

Discusses, with Elders, what constitutes an appropriate educational experience for Indigenous students.

Discusses an initiative to provide all students with an understanding and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and traditional and contemporary cultures.

Key findings of an initiative to provide all students with an understanding and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and traditional and contemporary cultures.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2009.

LeAnne Howe discusses the ongoing development and application of tribalography through the relationship between Native baseball, people and land. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 75.

Looks at a collaboration of "bringing together decolonizing pedagogies and methodologies which focus on [the authors] responsibilities from respective epistemological traditions".

Describes developments in science education since 2006 related to an agenda to decolonize the Pan-Canadian Science Framework by recognizing Indigenous knowledge as being foundational to understanding the physical world.

Describes the need for Indigenous knowledge to be retained through a curriculum supporting Indigenous languages.

Drama and Theatre Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, 2014.

Media Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2015.

Authors examine the existing guidelines for building research relationships in Arctic communities; they note the current guidelines are action centered and suggest that researchers also need a series of skills, attitudes and personal attributes if they are to be successful in building community relationships.

Looks at approaches to decolonize nursing research.

Describes several interventions being undertaken to promote emotional well being and address individual and community healing.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 2017.

Psychotherapy Thesis (MHSc)--Auckland University of Technology, 2008.

Focuses on the interpretation of Section 35 arising from the the Sparrow decision.

Compares the names and naming processes of different “White” Indigenous peoples in “Britain,” and challenges the assumptions of a cultural homogeneity, among the original peoples of Britain.

A discussion about what needs to be done to achieve decolonization of archaeology in regards to Indigenous culture.

Using cases studies to examine Indigenous feminist resistance to violence and how the resistance gave Indigenous people more agency in their own history.

Looks at three views of Sister Nations' poetry in the context of continuity, decolonization and dissemination of social discourse.

Studies the Sámi solution to addressing the political imbalance that exists in Scandinavia.

Social and Political Thought Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2014.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Université Laval, 2011.

Health Sciences Capstone Project (MPH) -- Simon Fraser University, 2018.

Discusses the absence of Indigenous ways of knowing and Indigenous worldviews in contemporary initiatives to lower the number of Indigenous children in the child welfare system. Presents two examples of Indigenous led initiatives and the evaluation of their impacts; stresses the need for intercultural, collaborative research that engages Indigenous communities.

Report uses qualitative, community-based participatory research method to evaluate a program designed to empower Indigenous youth. Highlights social, familial, and cultural aspects of the program that were found to be most impactful; recommends extending similar programming to other Indigenous communities.

Study uses a survey and a focus group to assess the effectiveness of the Indigenous Relationship and Cultural Safety (IRCS) courses mandated for Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) nurses; and the online, modulated format for its delivery.

Author examines teacher practicums set in Northern Communities as potential opportunities to disrupt colonial narratives, create an understanding of place-based and land-based learning, and to inform ethical and inclusive education practices.

Looks at storytelling as a form of resistance and healing against colonization for Indigenous women.

Examines four Native Studies programs, in four provinces, and how each University has increased its responsiveness to First Nation needs since the 1960s.

Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2010.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1997.

Adult Education Thesis (MAdEd)--St. Francis Xavier University, 2013.

Urban and Regional Planning Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2012.

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2011.

Findings suggest that media coverage perpetuated stereotyping. Honors paper towards undergraduate degree in Environment, Sustainability, and Society--Dalhousie University, 2014.

Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1999.

Discusses and analyses the physically, spiritually and mentally destructive and disruptive components of colonial education on Aboriginal peoples in Canada from a historical and contemporary perspective.

Discussion of the Wampum Research Model and its uses, including integrating traditions with contemporary and emerging areas of the arts.

Discusses how LeAnne Howe’s writing combines historic and contemporary cross-cultural interactions to bridge the gaps between sovereignty, issues of land and place, history, and culture. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 13.

Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2012.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2012.

An examination of the conflict between Canada's information management regime and Indigenous data sovereignty rights, suggesting the need for Indigenous sovereignty recognition and to treat Indigenous data with the same respect as data received from other nations.

Findings of an ethnographic study done by Aboriginal residents to explore the importance of cultural orientation for the future direction of urban development.

Canadian Plains Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Regina, 2005.

Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2014.

Museology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 2017. Three cases studies: Burke Museum and the Stó:lō Nation; the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Siksika Nation; and the Field Museum and the Haida Nation.

Family Social Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 2012.

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