Fugitive Indigeneity: Reclaiming the Terrain of Decolonial Struggle Through Indigenous Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jarrett Martineau
Eric Ritskes
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. i-xii
Description
Introduction to a special themed issue on the connections and relationships between art, activism, resurgence, and resistance and how Indigenous artistic creation is connected to history, land, and community.
[Full Interview: Group Discussion]
Alternate Title
Group Conversation, Ceremonial Hall, First Peoples House, University of Victoria
Indigenous Law Videos on Demand Project
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Brock Roe
Rebecca Johnson
Kirsty Broadhead
Val Napoleon
Johnny Mack
Gillian Calder
Adrienne Macmillan
Kamala Todd
Emily Snyder
Renée McBeth
Description
Group discusses questions such as, what are some of the biggest challenges regarding gender, sexuality, and Indigenous law?
Duration: 1:13:22.
Fundamental Considerations: The Deep Meaning of Native American Schooling, 1880-1900
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Wallace Adams
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 58, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 1-29
Description
Discusses deeper meaning of assimilation policies as factors of Indian schooling based on 3 perspectives; Protestant ideology, civilized versus savage paradigm, and land quest of whites.
Fundamental Considerations: The Deep Meaning of Native American Schooling, 1880-1900
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Wallace Adams
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 58, no. 1, February 1988
Description
Examines three perspectives that were factors in the campaign to assimilate aboriginal people through schooling: the Protestant ideology, the civilization-savagism paradigm, and the quest for land by Whites.
The Fundamental Laws: Codification for Decolonization?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lloyd L. Lee
Decolonization, vol. 2, no. 2, 2013, pp. 117-131
Description
Discusses how ancestral law and traditional practices of the Diné are understood and applied by the Navajo Nation Council and other cultural and environmental organizations.
Fur, Freight and Furore: The Longmores and the Saskatchewan
Alternate Title
Fur, Freight and Furor: The Longmores and the Saskatchewan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Victor Whotbread
Saskatchewan History, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter , 1992, pp. 1-16
Description
A biographical piece about the Longmore family and the roles they played in the history of Western Canada, including as freighters, soldiers, guides and explorers.
The Fur Trade
Alternate Title
[Our Canada: Origins, Peoples, Perspectives]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[David Rees]
[Darrell Anderson Gerrits]
[Gratien Allaire]
Description
Intended for use in Grade 7 Social Studies classes.
Chapter from Our Canada: Origins, Peoples, Perspectives by David Rees, Darrell Anderson Gerrits, and Gratien Allaire.
The Fur Trade
Alternate Title
Booklet Series (Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project) ; no. 2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rachel B. Juen
Michael S. Nassaney
Description
Overview of fur trade history and relationship between the traders and the Indigenous population.
The Fur Trade and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism
Alternate Title
The Fur Trade and 18th Century Imperialism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W. J. Eccles
William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 3, July 1983, pp. 341-662
Description
Discusses economics of the fur trade and missionary activity.
Fur Trade Game
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
McCord Museum
Description
Goal of role playing game is to teach students about the importance of bartering between Europeans and First Nations in the fur trading activities of New France.
Trading Cards
Game Cards
Fur Traders in Conversation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura J. Murray
Ethnohistory, vol. 50, no. 2, Spring, 2003, pp. 285-314
Description
Discusses the customs of talking, silences and etiquette especially from records of Daniel Harmon, a Northwest Company (NWC) trader from 1800-1819.
Further Reading: [Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Governance of Aboriginal Health, January 2004, pp. 26-27
Description
Book reviews of 2 books:
Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young and
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand by Andrew Armitage.
The Future in the Past of Native and Indigenous Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Warrior
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 55-58
Description
Discusses some of the issues of the beginnings of Native and Indigenous studies. The article also suggests that what one needs to look at more precisely is at what people mean when they talk about those beginnings, namely specific figures and practices within indigenous traditions.
Future of Indigenous Knowledge Research in Development
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Sillitoe
Mariella Marzano
Futures, vol. 41, no. 1, Futures of Indigenous Knowledges, February 2009, pp. 13-23
Description
Looks at the challenges facing the growth of research incorporating indigenous knowledge (IK) and recommends the continued promotion of a holistic approach.
The Future of Mining in Canada’s North
Alternate Title
Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 13-201
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; January 2013
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gilles Rhéaume
Margaret Caron-Vuotari
Description
Discusses the social and economic impacts, both positive and negative, of mining in Canada’s Northern regions and Aboriginal communities.
The Future of the Indian Question (January 1891)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nelson A. Miles
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 75-78
Description
Contends that frontier problems are largely caused by civilian mismanagement.
Originally published in North American Review, January 1891.
Gaming: The Apex of a Long Struggle
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne J. Stein
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 73-91
Description
Focuses on gaming and gambling, discussing economic effects on the Native American communities and the neighbouring non-native communities as well as the variables that make an enterprise a success or failure.
Gate Keeping of Research in Aboriginal Communities
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lyn Backhouse
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 5, September/October 1999, pp. 20-25
Description
Examines the control exercised by individuals or groups over the research process Australian Aboriginal communities.
Gathering and Sharing Learning with First Nations Communities
Alternate Title
Talking Together to Improve Health
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Christ Bowes
Sheila Cote-Meek
Hilary Cutler
Shannon Labre
Suzanne Lemieux
Description
Reports on project designed to provide guidance to public health units trying to promote productive relationships with First Nations communities in northeastern Ontario. Four key themes emerged during focus groups and interviews: positive experiences and ways of working, opportunities for collaboration, barriers to collaboration and solutions for effective engagement.
Gathering Held to Help Heal the Spirit
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Laura Stevens
Debora Steel
Windspeaker, vol. 24, no. 6, September 2006, p. 12
Description
Reports on leadership exchanges at the fifth global Healing Our Spirit Worldwide (HOSW) conference held in Edmonton that discussed healing initiatives, traditional solutions to health concerns, and aboriginal youth issues.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.
Gathering of Pioneers, 1883-1889.
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
John W. Gibson
Description
A photograph taken on August 8, 1933 at the Saskatoon Exhibition of a gathering of pioneers from the 1883-1889 era. Lieutenant Governor Hugh Edwin Munroe is making an address. An Aboriginal woman is seated at the centre, while a group of seven Aboriginal Chiefs in head-dresses stands at the right. There is a full orchestra behind the group and they are all on an elaborately decorated stage.
Gathering Strength: Canada's Will to Reconcile, Recover and Repair
Alternate Title
[First Nations, First Thoughts Conference]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Robert Kristy]
Description
Explores healing potential of the Canadian government's Aboriginal Action Action Plan by examining Indigenous philosophy, Canada's multicultural legacy and motivation to recover.
Gathering, Telling, Preparing the Stories: A Vehicle for Healing
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sandra Starks
Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi
M. Jenise Comer
Carmen Ortiz-Hendricks
Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work, vol. 1, no. 1, February 2010, pp. 1-18
Description
Summarizes lessons learnt from a project that facilitated the discussion on issues of survival in the academy and social work programs; and discusses experiences of personal and collective healing.
Gender and Indian Masquerade in the Life of Grey Owl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Chapin
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 91-109
Description
Article examines the ways that cultural expectations and gender roles intersected with Grey Owl's performance of Indigeneity and permitted/inhibited his work as a conservationist.