Images & Stereotypes

Comments on three Indigenous films, based on the road metaphor which speaks against a dominant Western viewpoint.

Art Thesis (M.F.A.)--California State University, Long Beach, 1999.

This study describes what aboriginal attitudes to the concept of development in the Mackenzie District of Canada. It shows "there are different ideas in different groups as to what 'development' is, as well as different enthusiasms about development."

Historical note:

Discusses 17th century Jesuit perception of Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples.

Examines the formation of particular symbolic associations documented and publicized by missionaries which led to misperceptions and misrepresentations.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2009.

Canadian Plains Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2012.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2001.

Journalism and Communication Thesis (MJ)--Carleton University, 2016.

Comments on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action report which calls for the integration of Indigenous Knowledge and teaching methods into the curriculum and provides better preparation of teachers to deliver Indigenous content.

Author discusses her efforts to reconcile competing expectations of her community and the academy by developing a hybrid research methodology. Chapter one from Decolonizing Research in Cross-Cultural Contexts edited by Kagendo Mutua and Beth Blue Swadener.

Looks at Māori journalism culture by examining two current affairs programs, one on radio and one in a magazine.

Seeks to add to the understanding of current stereotypes through the use of survey sampling and quantitative measuring instruments.

Note: The title and description of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. A typed transcript of an old document, "The Mixed or 'Half-Breed' Races of North-Western Canada", by A. P. Reid, Director of the Journal Of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 (1875): 45-52.

Comments on media coverage of Aboriginal people which portrays negative stereotypes and images. Chapter one from The Media Gaze: Representations of Diversities in Canada.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1995.

Looks at social and professional discussions influencing knowledge and assumptions nurses have about patients.

Analyzes 29 articles from two highest circulation newspapers in British Columbia The Province and The Sun using four theoretical frames: pathological deviant; the Madonna and whore; spatialization of disordered behavior and deviant people; and single deranged male.

Covers issues such as adequacy of reserve lands and resources, housing, tax exemptions, post-secondary education funding, residential schools, connection between unemployment and health and social problems, and missing and murdered women and girls.

Communications Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Colorado Boulder, 2013.

Atlantic Canada Studies (M.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 1992.

Paper focuses on the dynamic between Indigenous and non-Indigenous performances.

Reviews strategies used by the Sami to improve their socio-economic position. Updates assessment found in Indigenous Peoples & Poverty: An International Perspective edited by John-Andrew McNeish, Alberto D. Cimadamore and Robyn Eversole.

Discusses the negative stereotypes that American Indian mascots have on Native Americans.

Book review of: Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections edited by Colin G. Galloway, Gerd Gemünden and Susanne Zantop.

Analyzes content of New Reclamation Era and Reclamation Era magazines published by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation between 1924 and 1942 to show how it promoted settler narratives around waterways, their damming and diversion, and completely ignored the presence of the Indigenous population. Contrasts this to treatment of the subject in Lawney L. Reyes’ B Street and James Welch’s Winter in the Blood.

Media Study Thesis (M.F.A)--State University of New York [SUNY] at Buffalo, 2010.

Discusses the controversy surrounding the Lubicon's call for a boycott of The Spirit Sings exhibit mounted at the Glenbow Museum during the 1988 Olympics. Excerpt from Olympic Perspectives: Third International Symposium for Olympic Research edited by Robert K. Barney, Scott G. Martyn, Douglas A. Brown, and Gordon H. MacDonald.

Suggests that the Time Magazine's negative reports about Native American-run casinos in the United States, may affect how Canadians view First Nations-run casinos.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2008.

Book review of: Dream Wheels by Richard Wagamese.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2013.

Museum Studies Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of the Arts, 2009.

Discussion of how two novelists have brought attention to the way Caucasian people have harmed the environment. The article also suggests that Aboriginal peoples are economic and social victims of the scarred earth and its destroyed forests, a fact which has driven some insane.

Brief profile of a national award winning First Nations man for his work in improving race relations.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.30.

Examines the value of Powwow Highway and how it attempts to avoid polarities and stereotypical images within the film. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of: The Ecological Indian by Shepard Krech III. Scroll down to page 113 to read book review.

Investigates several prominent themes advanced by European settlers about New Zealand Māori.

Introductory editorial to themed issue on how different epistemologies and cultural values inform power relations in different locations, situations and contemporary contexts.

Folder containing correspondence to and from Reverend H.C. Montgomery regarding subsidization of denominational schools and discrimination, education of children in Yukon, missionary work. Comments on these letters.

Chiefly photographs, with some illustrations. Collected in the early 20th century.

Comments on the next release of Eekwol, The List, produced with her brother, Mils. Article located by scrolling to page 7.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, 2013.

Psychology Thesis (M.Sc.)--Iowa State University, 2016.

Suggests that society needs to assist HIV positive women in creating a healthier social and personal identity for themselves.

Reveals a higher degree of closeness between non-Sami and Sami than previously assumed as reflected in the attitudes and relationships between the two groups.

Curriculum Studies: Social Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2000.