Decolonization

Looks at the Greenlandic Home Rule which was founded in 1979.

Author, and guest editor of the section on Critical Engagements with the NMAI (National Museum of the American Indian) discusses the varied response to the museum since its opening two years prior, and introduces the article contained in this section.

Article introduces the Special Issue: Decolonizing Archaeology and the articles it contains. Describes problematic practices within the field and the work being done to change them.

Explores different ways that Indigenous relationships to land and place have been disrupted by settler-colonialism; offers suggestions for disrupting and unsettling neocolonial and neoliberal frameworks surrounding land and place.

Discussion about band Gyibaaw’s song "Gyitwaalkt", which expresses “warrior-ness” through traditional language, instrumention and heavy reverb, and the ‘audiopolitics’ of the genres of metal and black metal. Audio File.

English Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, 2009.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2013.

Literary criticism essay which examines Mathew Kaopio’s novels. Highlight the construction of an Indigenous world through the subversion of settler–colonial expectations; discusses frameworks of resurgence and Chadwick Allen’s notion of purposeful Indigenous juxtapositions.

Examines the ways that Hawaiian graffiti artists and art interrogate and resist the influences of colonial and military occupation. Author uses a process of socio-historical contextualization to draw parallels between the time of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the present and to examine the expression of ancestral knowledge in aerosol art.

Social Policy Thesis (M.A.)--Massey University, 2014.

Māori Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2011.

Cultural Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2015.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Victoria, 2011.

Canadian Studies (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2014.

Looks at three geographical areas and several groups including Sami, Tsimshian, and Niisitapi and where initial colonial violence has given way to other forms of violence. Chapter from The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilians edited by Stanley Krippner and Teresa M. McIntyre.

Paper states that legal disputes between Manitoba Métis Federation and Treaty 1 peoples leave neither party in a better position.

Explores how teachers engaging with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, teach about residential schools, how students understand themselves as Canadians while learning the history, and how classrooms can become a space for reconciliation.

Looks at two musical forms which use music as a political expression against empire and colonialism.

Discusses the significance of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's long-awaited apology to residential school survivors.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2018.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2013.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2011.

Describes relationship-building process which led to the creation of the Hodul'eh-a: A Place of Learning gallery at the Exploration Place Museum and Science Centre in Prince George, BC. The gallery, a collaboration between the city and the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation, received a Governor General's Award in Community Programming. The Gallery “serves as a model for how Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities can work together to reclaim traditional spaces, protect cultural assets, and promote a greater understanding and respect for Indigenous history and experiences.”

Explores the well-being and health of First Nation's communities and suggests an holistic healing approach to counter pressures brought on by colonization.

Global Indigenous Nations Studies (M.A.)--University of Kansas, 2011.

English Language and Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2002.

A discussion about the link between violence against Indigenous women and embedded colonialism within social structures.

Examines the efforts of Latin American researchers to combat scientific colonization among the palaeontological community.

Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2008.

Uses Fort Vancouver National Historical Site in Portland, Oregon and the Meewasin Valley Authority in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as case studies to discuss how urban parks might contribute to reconciliation if they support Indigenous identities and cultural activities.

Reviews how the assertion by Aboriginal peoples that they define their own histories served to interrupt and redefine the western idea of scholarly privilege, as it applied to several public representations of indigenous languages and cultures at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology.

Drama Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2000. Focuses on four playwrights Suzan-Lori Park, Daniel David Moses, and filmmakers Midi Onodera and Julie Dash.

A look into print culture, its connection with land and discussion on how to decolonize print culture.

Argues that Northrup's comical writings help the Anishinaabeg recover from the effects of postcolonial stress.

Discusses how western colonial ideals, that form the basis of the current education system, must be replaced with Indigenous philosophical systems as a foundation.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Alberta, 2001.

Reports on study that looked at how leading Canadian health researchers enact their programs of Indigenous health research "in a good way" at Canadian universities.

Demonstrates how Indigenous women often rely on their knowledge of the lives of other women, which can both strengthen individual writings and give back to the collective. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 88.

Examines the ways to build community and improved open research relations practices between Indigenous and Western paradigms.

American Studies and The Center for the Americas Thesis (Ph.D.)--The State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007.

A discussion of how colonialism created the conditions that were used to justify the removal of Indigenous children from their families, both historically and in modern times. The author use her own personal story as means to discuss its effects.

Interview in which Larocque talks about her work and her focus on collaborative practices; includes discussion of representations of Aboriginal Canadians, identity, post-colonial criticism, decolonization, resistance and resurgence, and colonial schooling of Indigenous peoples.