Color Blindness and Basket Making Are Not the Answers: Confronting the Dilemmas of Race, Culture, and Language Diversity in Teacher Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marilyn Cochran-Smith
American Educational Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, Autumn, 1995, pp. 493-522
Description
Argues that the fundamental changes needed in the way that diversity is dealt with in the classroom could be accomplished by moving from a lesson plan-centered approach to a inquiry-centered approach.
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The Comanche Empire

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Mariah F. Wade
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer, 2009, p. 241
Description
Book review of: The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen.
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[The Comeback]

Alternate Title
Ideas (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) ; February 10, 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Paul Kennedy
John Ralston Saul
Hayden King
Description
Discussion centred around Saul's latest book The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence. Duration: 53:59.
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Coming Home

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryle Partridge
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 9, Special Edition In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the School of Indigenous Relations, February 2014, pp. 41-55
Description
The author discusses journey as a student in the Indigenous Social Work Program to a professor in the School of Indigenous Relations. Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 41 to read article.
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Coming Out From Behind the Rocks: Constructs of the Indian in Recent U.S and Canadian Cinema

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Appleford
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 1995, pp. 97-118
Description
Looks at films as social barometers of attitudes and ideologies; films discussed: Dances With Wolves, Black Robe, Thunderheart, Clearcut, Loyalties, Company of Strangers, Where the Spirit Lives, Spirit Rider, and Powwow Highway.
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Commemorating Father Pandosy: Diversification of the Frontier Cultural Complex and Continued Colonial Erasure in Kelowna

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Mudde
BC Studies, no. 207, Autumn, 2020, pp. 35-65,156
Description
Looks at the 2012 unveiling of a sculpture of Father Pandosy and how the use of Sylix knowledge both mitigates the erasure of Indigenous presence and acknowledges the Indigenous community within the framework of a settler-colonial identity.
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Commemorating John A. Macdonald: Collective Remembering and the Structure of Settler Colonialism in British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy J Stanley
BC Studies, no. 204, (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific, 01 09, 2020, pp. 89-113
Description
Article discusses the ways that place names and public cultural artifacts in the city of Victoria enforce colonial histories and the erasure of Indigenous and Chinese narratives. Uses the removal of a statue of John A. Macdonald from the entrance to city hall as a case study to examine the similarities between the arguments of apologists and the colonial practices of early Canada.
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Commentary: Aboriginal Economic Development in the Shadow of the Borg

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Newhouse
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 3, no. 1, Special Issue on Sustainability, Summer, 2002, pp. 107-113
Description
Reflects on the history of, and changes to, Aboriginal economic development, noting similarities in the non-Aboriginal sector.
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Commentary: "Inside Looking Out, Outside Looking In"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven Koptie
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 4, 2007, pp. 59-61
Description
Comments regarding two articles; Margaret Wente's article in the Globe and Mail of October 13, 2007 Section A27 titled "White Guilt, dead children in the name of political correctness" and the response to this article in the next day of the Globe and Mail by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux' titled "Inside Looking Out, Outside Looking In".
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Commentary: Knowledge Mobilization in the Real World - Seeking Wisdom

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean Lafrance
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009, pp. 80-88
Description
Discusses the need to address underlying causes of child welfare cases and physical neglect such as poverty, alcohol or substance abuse, emotional disorders and inadequate social support systems.
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Commerce de Fourrures et Competition a Betsiamites de 1850 a 1880

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacques Frenette
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 41-56
Description
(Abstract in French and English, article in French) Examines how the Montagnais benefitted from competition between the Hudson's Bay Company and independent fur traders in this region and the methods employed by the Company while trying to control the market.
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Commissions of Inquiry into Indian Affairs in the Canadas, 1828-1858: Evolving a Corporate Memory for the Indian Department

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John F. Lesiie
Description
Discusses six investigations which provided Colonial and Imperial officials with overview of Indian conditions, advice on policy issues, and suggestions on how to improve departmental administration. They were: the Darling report; the Executive Council of Lower Canada's report; Justice James Macaulay's report on Upper Canada; legislative committee of the Upper Canada Assembly's report; the Bagot study; and the Pennefather study.
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Commodifying Sámi Culture in an Indigenous Tourism Site

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen Kelly-Holmes
Sari Pietikäinen
Journal of Sociolinguistics, vol. 18, no. 4, Special Issue: Sociolinguisitics and Tourism , September 2014, pp. 518-538
Description
Examines the problem of providing an authentic, reliable and repeatable tourism experience on a reindeer farm due to language barriers. Suggests the use of scripted narratives as a solution.
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The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margo Lukens
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 96-99
Description
Book review of: The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast by Lisa Brooks. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 96.
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Communicating the Intangible: An Anishnaabeg Story

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenn Pitawanakwat
Jordan Paper
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer/Fall, 1996, pp. 451-[?]
Description
Discusses the difficulties outsiders encounter when attempting to learn about and understand Aboriginal spirituality and culture.
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Community and Child Health Services, W.A.

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gabby Willaway
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, June 1982, pp. 34-38
Description
Describes duties of the Aboriginal health coordinator for Community and Child Health Services including advising the director what Aboriginal communities' health needs and priorities are.
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Community Attitudes to Researchers

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alun Williams
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, January/February 2001, pp. 25-26
Description
Community health nurse in an isolated Australian community comments on the visiting health researchers that periodically visited the community.
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