Taxation and Representation: Non-Native Leaseholders on Indian Reserves
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert L. Bish
Description
Paper provides background and suggestions for a conference regarding a equitable resolution to non-native leaseholder representation in First Nations land decisions.
Appendix A: "Market Value" on Reserve: Musqueam Indian Band V. Glass and the Implications for Property Assessments
Teacher's Guide: Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw by William Dumas; illustrated by Leonard Paul
E-Books
Author/Creator
Margaret Dumas
Deborah Schnitzer
Description
For use with picture-book which provides historical information about the pre-contact culture and language of the Rocky Cree people from around South Indian Lake in Northern Manitoba.
English text with some Cree vocabulary and phrases, and glossary and pronunciation guide.
"Teachers Amongst Their Own People": Kanyen'kehá:ka (Mohawk) Women Teachers in Nineteenth-Century Tyendinaga and Grand River, Ontario
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alison Norman
Historical Studies in Education, vol. 29, no. 1, Revisiting the Histories of Indigenous Schooling and Literacies, Spring 2017, pp. 32-56
Description
Comments on the women who persisted as teachers despite gender and material barriers.
Teaching Tools to Engage Anishinaabek First Nations Women in Cervical Cancer Screening: Report of an Educational Workshop
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ingeborg Zehbe
Brianne Wood
Pamela Wakewich
Marion Maar
Nicholas Escott ... [et al.]
Health Education Journal, vol. 75, no. 3, April 2016, pp. 331-342
Description
Workshop results indicate that an educational health promotion event for community women needed to be held prior to inviting them to the cervical screening trial.
Tears 4 Justice and the Missing and Murdered Women and Children Across Canada: An Interview with Gladys Radek
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vicki Chartrand
Gladys Radek
Radical Criminology, no. 3, 2014, pp. 113-126
Description
Background to the issue and discussion with activist and founder of the Walk 4 Justice initiative, which began in 2008 to raise public awareness and publicize the extent of ongoing violence against women.
Teen a Role Model to Other Youth
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker, vol. 19, no. 9, January 2002, p. B2
Description
Focuses on Desarae Eashappie; winner of Saskatchewan's 2001 Fresh Faces Model Search contest and 2002 SaskTel Aboriginal Youth Awards of Excellence in the education category.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.16.
"Tell Me a Woman's Story": The Question of Gender in the Construction of Waheenee, Pretty-Shield, and Papago Woman
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Colasurdo
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 385-407
Description
Author examines three different autobiographies of Indigenous women that were published between the late 1920s and mid 1930s with an eye to the ways that gender influences the construction of the text.
Telling Anishinaabe Women's Art: Piecing Together: No Stranger in the House
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Olsen Williams
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
Description
1995 Margaret Laurence lecture at Trent University by the artist and quilt maker Alice Olsen Williams. The version given here has been adapted, revised and edited.
Telling Anishinaabe women's art: Piecing Together: No Stranger in the House [Speech by Alice Olsen Williams, Margaret Laurence Lecture at Trent University]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Olsen Williams
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 1997, p. 144
Description
Transcript of speech give by quilter Alice Olsen Williams relating her background, inspirations, and spiritual beliefs.
Telling Stories Through Cloth: Chia Yang Khang
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Hannah Ellman
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, The World on Our Shoulders: Cultivating Indigenous Youth Leadership, September 2013, p. [?]
Description
A description of Hmông embroidery techniques involving both ancient traditions and more recent adaptations aquired during long years of survival in refugee camps.
Temporomandibular Disorders, Headaches, and Cervical Pain Among Females in a Sami Population
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Storm
Anders Wänman
Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, vol. 64, no. 5, October 2006, pp. 319-325
Description
Study examined adult females, registered as reindeer owners or herders or from the register of the Swedish Sami Parliament, living in northern and Arctic regions of Sweden.
The Tender and Brave Heart of a Warrior Woman
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marie White
Windspeaker, vol. 24, no. 1, April 2006, p. S3
Description
Discusses achievements of Metis broadcaster and businesswoman Suzanne Rochon-Burnett, the first woman inducted into the Canadian Council of Aboriginal Business Hall of Fame.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.21.
The Terrible Truth About Canadian Crime: No Justice for Indigenous Women
Alternate Title
Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice ; 2015
[Special Lectures (Allard School of Law), 2015-2016]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kim Pate
Description
Discusses incarcerated women, mental illness, incarceration rates and decarceration.
Duration: 1:06:07.
Thanks to the Creative Visionaries in Our Midst
Alternate Title
Introspection
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Winona Wheeler
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 5
Description
Looks at the authors' late mothers love of the arts and the impact artistic creations have on people.
Article located by scrolling to page 5.
'Their families were ... too poor to send them parcels': The Provision of Comforts to Aboriginal Soldiers in the AIF in the Second World War
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristyn Harman
Aboriginal History, vol. 39, 2015, pp. 223-244
Description
Discusses the Aborigines Uplift Society's national comforts auxiliary, which formed with the express intent of catering to the needs of Aboriginal members of the Australian Imperial Force, and Aboriginal women and girls involvement in other organizations which served the same function.
Their Spirits Live Within Us: Aboriginal Women in Downtown Eastside Vancouver Emerging into Visible
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dara Culhane
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3, [Urban American Indian Womens Activism], Summer - Autumn, 2003, pp. 593-606
Description
Comments on the "invisibility" of Aboriginal women and their desire to be included in the larger community's struggle for recognition and respect.
Theorizing the Earth: Feminist Approaches to Nature and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Orr
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 145-157
Description
Argues that ecofeminism, or those who found a connection between technological exploitation of land and oppression of women, could benefit from a careful reading of Ceremony.
There Is No Longer Time: Mphatheleni Makaulule on the agency—and urgency—of women’s leadership
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Colin Rosemont
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, The World on Our Shoulders: Cultivating Indigenous Youth Leadership, September 2013, p. [?]
Description
Describes the event for Indigenous women's participation in the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues. Comments on the role of leadership for women and the necessity of Indigenous knowledge for future generations.
There Is No Word for Feminism in My Language
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Tohe
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 15, no. 2, Autumn, 2000, pp. 103-110
Description
Describes the inherent respect and esteem that Native American women have and why. Particular reference is given here to the matrilineal culture of the Navajo.