Education

Focuses on residential schools and assimilationist policies.

Educational Administration Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2015.

A copy of an oral history research project report that was designed to help Trent University develop a class in Oral history research methods. Appendix one is the proposed outline for such a class. The report outlines the issues encountered in their oral history research and suggests ways of solving problems.

Conference highlighted the importance of diversity in gender, social realities, education, economics and cooperation between public and private sectors and living conditions of men and women in the Circumpolar North.

Goals of the conference were to share stories, discuss what is being done and what can be done in Aboriginal communities and discuss plans and priorities for lasting change with each other and government leaders. Conference held March 13-15, 2006.

File contains 6 images from a Confirmation ceremony for students at the Prince Albert Indian Student Residence. Scanned image shows sixty nine students posed with clergy (presumably Anglican or Roman Catholic) in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on April 20, 1969.

Psychology Thesis (M.Phil.)--Massey University, 2009.

Discusses project dealing with Aboriginal women's health and traditional birthing practices.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1991.

Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2009.

Presents a developmental framework.

Discusses the ethical, cultural & political dilemmas and struggles that non-Hawaiian students present when included as learners in Indigenous studies.

Comments on five major concerns: tourism, substance abuse and crime, cultural maintenance, education, and land use planning and wildlife management.

Looks at the fluidity of epistemic constructs using viewpoints by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Michael Foucault.

Course improvements have been undertaken after feedback from participants to be more responsive to the client's needs.

Culture and Value Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2000.

Cora Sanderson and Archdeacon J.E. McKay tell of their lives in the bush and in La Ronge.

From foreword: "This paper deals with one of the four or five unique and characteristic flint implements of Central Texas. One may assume that these artifacts did not spring into existence with the suddenness of a biological mutation, but, like all human implements, were gradually developed from some basic tool, which in turn had been perfected throughout the ages of man's history." Included are numerous illustrations of flint artifacts.

Looks at the social and economic development responsibilities of Cameco and the mutual benefit of the Aboriginal and corporate relationship to Cameco and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band.

F. Laurie Barron's notes on Joseph Couture's paper , "Philosophy and Psychology in Native Education" in One Century Later: Western Canadian reserve Indians since Treaty 7 / edited by Ian A.L. Getty and Donald B. Smith.

Book review of: Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing: Coming Home to the Village by Peter Cole.

Presents a story to show Native American perspectives on time, teaching, and learning.

Looks at early influences on art education for boys.

Chapter six in book: Place-Based Education in the Global Age: Local Diversity edited by Greg Smith and David Gruenewald.

Compares two anthologies, Feminist Genealogies and Dangerous Territories and examines the idea and role that anthologies play as socially interested text.

Book review of: Creating Choices: Rethinking Aboriginal Policy by John Richards.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--Mount Saint Vincent University, 2017.

A photo of several Cree boys in front of the old Anglican Mission school at La Ronge in August 1919. This school was destroyed by fire in March 1920 and a new one built. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

Elders discuss: payment for chiefs; conduct of and assistance at ceremonies; need for respect towards ceremonies and ceremonial locations. No date given, probably in the early 1970's.

Discussion by Elders who express regrets at loss of traditional customs and values and desire a return of schools on reserves ; a need to preserve Indian ceremonies and Indian medicines ; concerns about problems with alcohol recur throughout.

Wide-ranging discussion among elders touching on many topics including kinship; illegitimate children; ceremonialism; therole of the elder; financing the elder who incurs some costs associated with the organization of a ceremony.

Elders discuss a variety of matters relating to Indian culture and traditions and what can be done to retain or regain these. Most topics are touched on only briefly

Loss of Indianism through white education.Founding of White Fish Lake Reserve. Problems on reserves as a result of electing 'young' chiefs. Loss of Indian ceremonies and healing.

Elders discuss contemporary problems. Recurring themes are: problems with alcohol; education by whites from an early age; need to return to traditional teaching by elders in combination with white education.

Elders discuss concerns regarding: loss of Indian culture and traditions; failure to educate young Indians in traditionalways; young well-educated chiefs who will not take advice from elders.

Elders speak of their concerns regarding leadership on the reserves; new young leaders with education but no experience who ignore the elders and their advice; the failure to educate the young in traditional Indian ways.

Discussion of the educational system: relative merits of day schools, residential schools, integrated schools, etc.; need for inclusion of Indian culture into the curriculum at all levels ; the role of the elder as teacher.

Discussion of: Role of elders in setting young people on the right road ; Importance of breast-feeding and giving up alcohol ; Need for a tipi on each reserve, to be kept for prayer, pipe ceremonies and the counselling of the young.

Analysis of a photograph of a white settler child and white settler teachers around a fair entry called "Great Plains Indians".

Report submitted to the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry Implementation Commission. Summarizes various reduction strategies and gives examples of successful programs.

Related material: Research Summary.

Discusses how poverty contributes to high drop-out rates among Aboriginal youth.

Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Thesis (D.Ed.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

Indian and Northern Program Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2000.

Overview of the International Conference on Cross-Cultural Education in the North held in Montreal, August 18 to 21, 1969.

Book review of: Crossed Purposes by Ralph Folds. Scroll to page 282 to read review.