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"Two-Eyed Seeing": Moving From Paralysis to Action in Understanding the Legacy of Indian Residential Schools in British Columbia, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cheryl Kay
Journal of Dance Education, vol. 17, no. 3, Reflective Practice in Dance Education, 2017, pp. 106-114
Description
Describes the steps the author used to understand the legacy of the residential school experience and how to teach a new curriculum.
>UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Canadian Government Positions Incompatible with Genuine Reconciliation
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Joffe
National Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 26, no. 2, March 2010, pp. 121-229
Description
Concludes that Canada's position is out of sync with constitutional and international obligations and is undermining international human rights system.
UN Will Support Aboriginal Women by Studying the Violence That Surrounds Them
Alternate Title
United Nations Will Support Aboriginal Women by Studying the Violence That Surrounds Them
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shari Narine
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 6, September 2012, p. 11
Description
Comments on murdered and missing women, the epidemic of violence against Aboriginal women, and the lack of federal government support.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Uncertain Counts: The Struggle to Enumerate First Nations in Canada and the United States, 1870-1911
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamin Hoy
Ethnohistory, vol. 62, no. 4, October 2015, pp. 729-750
Description
Looks at reasons why Indian agents and national census takers often could not obtain accurate information, including: linguistic and cultural differences, distrust, uncertainty of racial categories, geographic mobility, and isolation of communities.
Understanding Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in the Northwest Territories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations
Government of Northwest Territories
Description
Provides overview of the history of rights negotiations and how the roles and responsibilities of Aboriginal governments relate to the territorial government. Includes specific information on each of the negotiations underway with the Inuvialuit, Gwich'in, Sahtu, Dehcho, Acho Dene Koe First Nation, and the Métis.
[Understanding Our Treaties]
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Gordon Foundation
Description
Contains links to five sets of educational videos and accompanying illustrated texts and "Treaty Talks" with participants in the Gordon Foundation's treaty negotiation and implementation simulations.
Understanding the Environmental Assessment Process for Energy and Mining Projects: A Toolkit for First Nations Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Energy and Mining Council
Description
Designed to help communities and their leaders: understand the environmental assessment process, how First Nations can be effectively involved, regimes under agreements and acts, and regulatory processes. Some information is specific to the British Columbia context.
Understanding the Impact of Self-Determination on Communities in Crisis
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kiera L. Ladner
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 5, no. 2, First Nations Communities in Crisis, November 2009, pp. 88-101
Description
Explores the relationship between governance and communities in crisis and discusses what can be done to build strong healthy, resilient communities.
Understanding the Indian Act
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Frances Abele
Roger Jones
Douglas Sanderson
Description
Speakers discuss how the Act has defined the government's and Crown's relationship with First Nations peoples; how it has impeded development of communities; and how fundamental changes are needed to give First Nations' control over governance and the ability to develop mechanisms to improve access to capital.
Duration: 1:09:15.
Understanding the New BC Resource Revenue Sharing Policy With First Nations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Keith E. Clark
Description
Discusses the resource revenue sharing policy that will provide a process where one or more Aboriginal groups will receive a negotiated share of the mineral tax revenue from certain new mining projects.
Understanding UNDRIP: Choosing Action on Priorities over Sweeping Claims about the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Canada and the Natural Resource Economy Series ; 10
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ken S. Coates
Blaine Favel
Description
Discusses UNDRIP's origins and evolution and how its key articles might interact with Canadian laws and policies. Looks at a selection of 46 articles.
Unfinished Business: Aboriginal Peoples and the 1983 Constitutional Conference
Alternate Title
Discussion Paper (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations) ; no. 15
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Norman K. Zlotkin
Description
Discussion paper topics include Aboriginal participation in constitutional reform, the Constitution Act of 1982, and the issues likely to be raised at the 1983 conference.
An Unfinished Nation: Completing the Devolution Revolution in Canada's North
Alternate Title
[Aboriginal Canada and the Natural Resource Economy]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
Greg Poelzer
Description
Examines issues and implications related to the transfer of political authority to the governments of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Issues include autonomy, integration, responsibility, accountability and capacity.
Unintended Consequences: Satellite Policy and Indigenous Television
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ellie Rennie
Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, no. 149, Indigenous Media Practice, November 2013, pp. 92-103
Description
Comments on the introduction of the Viewer Access Satellite Television platform in 2010 and the introduction of AUSSAT in the mid-1980s.
Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Aboriginal Title Curriculum Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Law Foundation of British Columbia
Description
Covers topics such as Indigenous perceptions of land ownership, relationship with newcomers, Federal responsibilities, Douglas Treaties, and significant court decisions.
For use with secondary school students.
United by the Problem, Divided by the Solution: How the Issue of Indigenous Women in Prostitution Was Represented at the Deliberations on Canada’s Bill C-36
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Zoë Goodall
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 31, no. 2, 2019, pp. 232-265
Description
An analysis of the discussion regarding Indigenous sex workers during deliberations for Bill C-36, calling for the eventual abolition of prostitution in Canada. Both those for and against the proposed bill acknowledged the issue of Indigenous women in the sex trade.
United Church, Feds Both Liable (For Atrocities at the Port Alberni Indian Residential School)
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Wiwchar
Windspeaker, vol. 16, no. 3, July 1998, pp. 1-2
Description
Justice Donald Brenner (BCSC) found the United Church of Canada legally responsible for the abuse suffered by the students at the Port Alberni Indian Residential School.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.
United Church Named in Residential School Suit
Articles » General
Anglican Journal, vol. 122, no. 3, March 1996, p. 6
Description
Briefly discusses the lawsuit launched by former students of Alberni Indian Residential School in January 1996, now jointly and severally naming United Church of Canada and the Federal Government.
United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 80th Session 13 February - 9 March 2012 Geneva: NWAC Shadow Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description
Describes issues such as missing and murdered women, education, health care, and over-representation in the criminal justice system and gives statement of action required by Canada to address each problem.
Unjust Compensation: Grand Coulee Dam, Indian Claims, and the Colville Nation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Holly Sprague
Description
Looks at lawsuit filed by the Colville Indian Reservation in 1951 against the United Sates government regarding lands used for the building of the Grand Coulee Dam.
History Capstone Thesis--Commonwealth Honors College, 2011.
Unsettling Cures: Exploring the Limits of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robyn Green
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 27, no. 1, 2012, pp. 129-148
Description
Discusses the effectiveness of the reconciliation processes, and the equitable reconciliatory practices needed for the healing process.
Unsettling Spaces: Grassroots Responses to Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women During the Harper Government Years
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Samira Saramo
Comparative American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3-4, 2016, pp. 204-220
Description
Contends that colonialism and patriarchy have attempted to marginalize Indigenous womanhood thus allowing racialised and gendered violence to flourish.
Unveiling the Rhetorics of Apology: Strategies of Reappropriation in First Nations Literatures
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Henzi
London Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 26, 2010/11, pp. 91-116
Description
Looks at how literary recontextualizations and renegotiations enable the retelling and reclaiming of Indigenous peoples' histories.
Urban Housing and Aboriginal Governance
Alternate Title
National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
J. D. Crookshanks
Description
Analyzes two programs, the Wichitowin in Edmonton and Aboriginal Visioning in Winnipeg, in terms of their ability to determine and carry out community goals.
Excerpt from Well-Being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, Daniel Jetté.
Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.
Urban Indigenous Wellness Report: A BC Friendship Centre Perspective
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres (BCAAFC)
Description
Divided into six sections: context and background; policy landscape; friendship centre movement; process for collaborative report development; findings and recommendations; and conclusion.
Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ben Segel-Brown
Caroline Nicol
Description
Reports on housing need and homelessness, spending and counts for federal and provincial government programs, and unit costs.
Accompanying material: Supplementary Information.
Urgent Need for More Inuktitut Instruction in Nunavut Schools
Alternate Title
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Paul Berger
Description
Comments on the findings from interviews with 74 Inuit adults regarding what they like about schooling and what they would like to see change.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.