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Survey on Indigenous Teachers Manitoba Report 2017

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Teachers' Questionnaire Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Inclusion Directorate, [Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning]

Survey asked questions about ancestry, cultural-linguistic identity, participation in professional learning activities, language fluency, knowledge of specific Indigenous subject areas, and comfort level in integrating Indigenous perspectives in the classroom.

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Aboriginal Teachers' Questionnaire Report 2013

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"Survivance" in Sami and First Nations Boarding School Narratives: Reading Novels by Kerttu Vuolab and Shirley Sterling

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rauna Kuokkanen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, June 1, 2003, pp. 697-726
Asserts that colonial education has produced similar results in different parts of the world; includes history of establishing the residential schools in British Columbia.
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Table 3: Population Who Reported an Aboriginal Mother Tongue, Population Who Reported an Ability to Conduct a Conversation in an Aboriginal Language and Population who Reported an Ability to Conduct a Conversation in an Aboriginal Language That is Not Their Mother Tongue, For Selected Aboriginal Identity Categories, Canada, 2011

Alternate Title
National Household Survey, 2011
[Aboriginal Peoples and Language]
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Source: National Household Survey, 2011.
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Table 576-0009: Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Self-rated Ability to Speak and Understand an Aboriginal Language, by Aboriginal Identity, Age Group and Sex, Population Aged 6 Years and Over, Canada, Provinces and Territories

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2012
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
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Table 576-0010: Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Self-rated Ability to Speak and Understand an Aboriginal Language, by Age Group and Sex, Inuit Population Aged 6 years and Over, Canada and Inuit Nunangat: Occasional (persons)

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2012
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
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Table 576-0011: Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Primary Aboriginal Language Spoken and Self-rated Ability to Speak Primary Aboriginal Language, by Age Group and Sex, Population Aged 6 Years and Over, Canada, Provinces and Territories: Occasional (persons)

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2012
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
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Table 576-0012: Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Primary Aboriginal Language Understood and Self-rated Ability to Understand Primary Language, by Age Group and Sex, Population Aged 6 Years and Over, Canada, Provinces and Territories: Occasional (persons)

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2012
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
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Table 576-0013: Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Importance of Speaking and Understanding an Aboriginal Language, by Aboriginal Identity, Age Group and Sex, Population Aged 6 Years and Over, Canada, Provinces and Territories: Occasional (persons)

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2012
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
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Table 576-0014: Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Importance of Speaking and Understanding an Aboriginal Language, by Age Group and Sex, Inuit Population Aged 6 Years and Over, Canada and Inuit Nunangat: Occasional (persons)

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2012
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
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The Takelma Language of South-Western Oregon

Alternate Title
Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) ; 40
Handbook of American Indian Languages, pt. 2, p. 1-296
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Edward Sapir

Looks at a language study from material gathered from Mrs. Frances Johnson, the last fluent speaker of the Takelma language. Chapter from Handbook of American Indian Languages. Part 2 edited by Franz Boas.

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Tales That Dead Men Tell - J.E. Pearce.

Documents & Presentations
From foreword: "This paper was written for the purpose of aiding in the proper orientation of archaeology among the other social sciences and in the world of learning generally. It is meant for the intelligent lay reader rather than for the professional archaeologist."
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Te Ipukarea Kia Rangatira

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Upokoina Herrmann
Engia Pate
Enoa Raea
Elika Terangi
Danielle Cochran
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 2, Ngaahi Lea a e Kakai Pasifika: Endangered Pacific Languages and Cultures, 2010, pp. 155-162
Discusses the challenges of language and cultural loss by the people of the Cook Islands. Majority of text in Māori.
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[Teaching in a Cold and Windy Place]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Maisie Cardinal
Native Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 1, 2000, pp. 139-140
Book review of Teaching in a Cold and Windy Place by Joanne Tompkins.
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Teaching Indigenous Languages

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Northern Arizona University
Website has links to conferences, books and articles related to indigenous languages world wide.
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The Teaching of Greetings

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jan Abbott
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 2, no. 3, October 1962, pp. [25-29]
Suggests English manners and customs should be taught to children whose first language is not English; includes a sample lesson.
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Team Translates Bible into Inuktitut

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 128, no. 6, June 2002, p. 18
Inuit Anglican clergy and Canadian Bible Society completes monumental task.
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Telling Our Twisted Histories

Web Sites » Organizations
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Kaniehti:io Horn
Terre Innue

Website contains links to a series of 12 podcasts which explore the impact of words such as reconciliation, indian time, school, reserve, and savage. Host Kaniehti:io Horn engages in conversations with more than 70 people from 15 First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.

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Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures. Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson and Malcolm A. Nelson, eds.

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Greg Salyer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 75-78
Book review of: Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures edited by Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson and Malcolm A. Nelson. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Text Analyses of Three Yana Dialects

Alternate Title
Phoebe Apperson Hearst Memorial
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.20
E-Books
Author/Creator
Edward Sapir
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp261-294).
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(The) Hopi-Tewa of Arizona

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.44, no.3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Edward P. Dozier
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 44, (pp259-376).
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Theses / Dissertations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, Espaces-Lieux-Noms / Spaces-Places-Names, 2004, pp. 249-264
Compiles and briefly reviews relevant theses.
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"They Had a Chance to Talk to One Another ...": The Role of Incidence in Native American Code Talking

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William C. Meadows
Ethnohistory, vol. 56, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 269-284
Distinguishes between code talkers who were specifically trained by the military and used codified vocabulary, from those who were discovered by accident. Discusses the role of the second group in World War I and World II.
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They Killed the Word

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Reid Gómez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 3-4, Series 2; [Indigenous Intersections], Fall-Winter, 2003-2004, pp. 64-95
Discusses how words are used to label and fit ideas neatly into boxes. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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[Think Indigenous 2016: Saskatoon, SK, Treaty 6 Territory: Conference Opening]

Alternate Title
Think Indigenous Education Conference ; 2016
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Blaine Favel
Bobby Cameron
Robert Doucette
Michelle Prytula
Curtis Peeteetuce
Johanna Angus
Chris Scribe
Welcoming remarks and keynote presentation by artistic director of the Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre and a participant in the theatre's Circle of Voices program. Duration: 1:09:19.
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Third Graders and Reading Dictionaries

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Crater
Annis Flake
Ethel Mills
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 2, no. 3, October 1962, pp. [15-17]
Explains relationship between reading problems and English as a second language.
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Third Report of the Committee, Consisting of Dr. E.B. Tylor, Dr. G. M. Dawson, General Sir J. H. Lefroy, Dr. Daniel Wilson, Mr. R. G. Haliburton, and Mr. George W. Bloxam (Secretary): Appointed for the Purpose of Investigating and Publishing Reports on the Physical Characters, Languages, and Industrial and Social Condition of the North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada

Alternate Title
Report - 1887 on the North-Western Tribes of Canada
Report on the Blackfoot Tribes
E-Books
Author/Creator
Horatio Hale
Edward Francis Wilson
Designed to be a record of characteristics and condition of First Nations people prior to intermarriage, dispersion, or contact with Europeans. An attempt to retain knowledge regarding the arts, customs and beliefs.
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Ti wa7 szwatenem. What We Know: Indigenous Knowledge and Learning

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lorna Williams
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 31-44
Author uses a personal essay to discuss basic tenets of Indigenous knowledge, ways of knowing, and ontological constructs; uses Líl̓wat language concepts to help illustrate her points. Highlights experiential and action based teaching and learning, relational understanding, and the concepts of flux, balance.
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Tlingit

Alternate Title
Countries and Their Cultures
World Culture Encyclopedia
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Diane E. Benson
Broad cultural overview of the Tlingit peoples including location, history, oral history, language, housing, clothing, healing practices, and social customs. Also includes brief bibliography.
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