Society

Atlantic Canada Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 2006.

Presents the findings of a research project for the development of a First Nations Bachelor of Social Work Program at UBC to be delivered off-campus.

Discusses how counsellours with a basic understanding of cultural values can act as advocates for community values in schools and vice versa.

Report on the feasibility of applying community development principles to the problems of the Churchill Band of Chipewyan Indians located in the Churchill, MB area. Aspects needing improvement according to the report are employment placement, band government, and animal hide tanning.

Materials and processes to train community organizers who are youth with no previous training.

Looks at the results of micro-urbanization on traditional practices for social control and levels of community involvement.

Book review of: Comparative Indigeneities of the Ameréricas: Towards a Hemispheric Approach edited by M. B. Castellanos, L. G. Nájera and A. J. Aldama.

Results from study held in Arizona using the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale.

Study done at the Standing Rock Community Elementary School, North Dakota.

Lists title, location of research, principal investigator, etc. for over ninety projects. Divided by topic area: health related, physical science, social science and traditional knowledge

Lists title, location of research, principal investigator, etc. for over ninety projects. Divided by topic area: health related, physical science, social science and traditional knowledge.

Lists title, location of research, principal researcher, etc. for over ninety projects. Divided by topic area: social sciences, traditional knowledge, medical and health, and physical and natural sciences.

Looks at colonialism and the sexual exploitation of the Chinookan woman by the newcomers.

Community and Regional Planning Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1987.

Discusses what would constitute social well being in First Nation communities.

Describes report titled Indian Conditions - a Survey prepared by the Federal government.

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.

Book review of: Conflict in Culture edited by Norman A. Chance.

Book review of: The Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri by Graham Jenkin. To access review, scroll to page 207.

Impact of settlements made in 1960-1962 between Manitoba Hydro and Cree bands to compensate for the flooding of Cree lands and the relocation of an entire village. Maintains that, as a result, these bands have changed from self-sufficiency to dependent societies with many social problems.

Analyzes how ethnic self-image is created and replicated in Netsilik daily lives in Pelly Bay, Nunavut.

Focuses on lack of Sami demographical knowledge, its importance, the reasons, and the role of Sami identity. Paper presented at the Regional Northern Identity: From Past to Future, International Research Conference.

Reviews research techniques used to measure effects of economics on Ojibwa culture; suggests the research method can influence conclusions drawn. Extensive commentaries by peers included in article.

A set of 19 photos of Napthelie McKenzie showing how a fish can be cooked upwanask style over an open fire, without a frying pan, using sticks to hold it. Birchbark can serve as a plate in the bush.

Examines the changing and dynamic nature of cosmology and mythology to suit the particular circumstances of living people.

A photograph of a camp of Cree people on the prairie, probably sometime between 1890 and 1930. Many wear western clothing, some women with formal dresses and caps. A man with his back to camera wears some traditional clothing adorned with feathers. Picture possibly taken by George Mann family who worked with Cree people in Onion Lake, Saddle Lake and Hobbema reserves between 1883 and 1916. Members of the family were known to continue to visit these areas well into the 1920s.

A photograph of an Aboriginal man, with four female children outside of a building. Picture possibly taken by George Mann family who worked with Cree people in Onion Lake, Saddle Lake and Hobbema reserves between 1883 and 1916. Members of the family were known to continue to visit these areas well into the 1920s.

Image of a large group of "Cree Indians" posing for the camera. Many are wearing ceremonial dance outfits, and six men sit around a powwow drum in the foreground.

A photograph of a Cree man and child beside three teepees, perhaps near Onion Lake North West Territories.

A photograph of a Cree wedding party travelling by wagon taken during Christina Bateman and Annie McKay's journey from Prince Albert to La Ronge, Saskatchewan. The Cree man with his back to the camera is the women's companion, Willie Bear.

An Indian Affairs book containing the annuity pay lists for the reserves of the Crooked Lake Agency for the year 1914. The book is signed by Indian Agent Arthur Boyer of Broadview, Saskatchewan. The Crooked Lake Agency was composed of four reserves: Sakimay Indian Reserve #74, Cowessess Indian Reserve #73, Kahkewistahaw Indian Reserve #72, and Ochapowace Indian Reserve #71. Included in the book are annuity figures for the Cowessess, Kahkewistahaw, and Sakimary First Nations for the year 1914.

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A crowd gathered around dogsleds at Pond Inlet, N.W.T. [NU].

Uses the Haudenosaunee concept of the Great Law of Peace to illustrate the displacement process of Aboriginal peoples.

Study compares the Navajo tribe and Chinese populations' way of learning to that of Euro-American culture.

Book review of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada edited by Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, and Melina Baum Singer. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 139.

Contends that key to understanding is to bridge gaps between providers and recipients.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 1984.

The Great Caribou Feast was held at the community's school in February with great success. Page one: two pictures of cutting up caribou meat. Page two: one picture of caribou processing, one picture of community residents. Page three: two pictures of caribou being cooked, one picture of it being eaten.

Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 1998.

Book reviews of: Danish Greenland by Henrik Rink with a new introduction by Helge Larsen. Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo by Henrik Rink with a new introduction by Helge Larsen.

Compares Ceremony to the darker version Almanac of the Dead by looking at violence and the effect it has on the characters in the novel.

Portrait of Day Walker.

Discusses problems training health workers to recognize changes in behavior and personality.

Looks at the Halchidhoma of the Colorado River and the destruction of their society.

Explores difference between Western and traditional Indigenous cultural values in the context of ideals of feminism.

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Recommends more Indigenous students in information science and increased collaboration between archives and Indigenous communities to decolonize archival methodology.

Response to a lecture given by Linda Tuhiwai Smith on the anniversary of her book, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.

Discusses how archaeology evolved from antiquarianism to the recent discipline.

Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2013.