Cross-Cultural Relations

Provides advice on what Aboriginal Australians need in a community worker.

Physical Education Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2013.

Describes four viewpoints about the National Museum of the Native American (NMAI) garnered through two personal visits and the others through newspaper articles and discussions.

Article shares findings from interviews with Swampy Cree Elders from Northern Manitoba in which they discussed their worldviews and knowledge systems. Authors argue that Indigenous knowledge offers a philosophy and practice that should serve as a model for mitigating severity of climate change.

Authors examine the policy frameworks relating to education implemented by provincial and territorial governments in response the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) calls to action; find that Indigenous knowledge systems remain subordinate to Western frameworks which undermines the goals of the process of reconciliation.

First Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2002.

Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission discusses its unique mandate, problems with defining and contextualizing reconciliation, how schools affected children, and intergenerational trauma. Duration: 1:03:16.

Article draws on author’s work with youth who are learning new ways to practice Indigenous Ainu culture in an urban center in Japan; focuses on cultural practice and revitalization, decolonization and self-determination.

Presents an invited response and commentary to Colin Tatz's article entitled Aboriginal, Maori and Inuit Youth Suicide: Avenues to Alleviation?

Discusses culture, learning styles and conflict with mainstream teaching styles.

Compares Indigenous rights cases in Canada, United States, Australia and Sweden and discusses the outcomes.

Investigates four approaches to research: descriptive literature, world view perspectives, cultural brokering and transcultural world view. The article further discusses implications these have in terms of nursing education, research and practice.

Explores the question rather than attempting to answer it.

In speech, noted author uses a coyote story as a springboard for a discussion on European-Aboriginal relations throughout the history of Canada and United States. To listen to this audio, scroll down to Part 5. Duration: 54:22.

Study that looks at the link between Māori cultural identity and concern for the environment.

Discusses the political apologies and responses to the consequences of the Indian residential schools policy, and questions whether the acts for which the apologies are offered represent a change in the relations between government and Aboriginal peoples. Scroll down to access article.

Comments on J. Edward Chamberlin's book entitled If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground.

A story about identity and accepting who you are.

Story about accepting who you are.

Draws on the authors' experience in teaching a cross-cultural course to a predominantly non-Aboriginal class to identify attitudes that cause resistance to admitting racism is a problem.

Comments on the protocol of speaking rights by examining a specific debate about Aboriginal identities that took place in the journal Oceania in the 1992 and 1993 issues.

Learning positive alternatives from Native Americans about preservice teacher education.

Argues that nurses need to understand the specific history, culture and the concept of respect, in Aboriginal terms, within a particular community and then apply this knowledge to their relationships in that community.

Committee heard that a desirable goal of the Commonwealth Department of Health (Australia) is more Aboriginal health care workers.

Resource Management and Environmental Studies (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.

The author analyzes terms and labels used to identify First Nations peoples and discusses how terms can become a powerful means of controlling and manipulating identities.

Book review of: Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval.

Comments on cross-cultural and all-Indigenous productions of various Shakespearean plays performed in Australia.

Overview of treaties, the treaty making process and the role of the BC Treaty Commission.

Presents a look at Native American sports through the years, including traditional, boarding school, reservation, and professional sports.

Critical analysis of This Bridge Called My Back, relating classroom experience and sense of responsibility held by a lone Indigenous woman student in a mainstream classroom.

A re-evaluation of Jimmie Durham's work, taking into account the artist's fraudulent claims to Cherokee ancestry and discussion of the implications for scholars, art critics, collectors, and viewers of his works.

Discusses the three main roles that Aboriginal health workers in Western Australia should play

Argues that lack of speaking by children may cause intercultural communication problems which are detrimental to the learning process and outlines how some teachers have dealt with the problem.

Comparative Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2010.

Conflict Studies and Human Rights Thesis (M.A.)--Utrecht University, 2019.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998.

Looks at concerns and themes presented to the Royal Commission almost a century ago, which continue to be concerns today, including secure access and control of the traditional resource base and participation in the economy.

Looks at the culture of celebrity in the early nineteenth century focusing on Black Hawk, a Sauk Indian war chief.

Looks at Apess's historical address given in 1836 in which he uses the power of the role as a Christian minister and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement to argue for Native rights.

Executive Director of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation outlines historical background to the formation of the Commission; professor of law explains various aspects of the Settlement Agreement, the meaning of restorative justice and the need for establishing and maintaining a new relationship between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals. Duration: 55:52.

Book review of: What We Learned by Helen Raptis with members of the Tsimshian Nation.

Detailed lesson plan (two class periods) for intermediate/senior level.

Contends that the work of Sioux writer Alexander Eastman reflects not only an assimilationist perspective but also examines Native Americans within the oppressive socio-cultural context of 19th and 20th century. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 105.

Short story follows narrator as he tries to raise money to retrieve his grandmother's powwow regalia from a pawn shop. Questions what it means to give and receive, and what obligations we have to those we give to and/or serve.

Discusses how the Canadian government inflicted damage on First Nations cultures by the suppression of language and learning, and the enforcement of schooling in "civilized" culture.

Discusses how an Aboriginal researcher analyzes the effects of "authentic Indianness" and "white privilege" on the research process.

Comments on racialized identities.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1992.