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Post-secondary Transitions Among Navajo Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aaron P. Jackson
Steven A. Smith
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 40, no. 2, 2001, p. [?]
Findings of study indicate that financial challenges deserve further attention and more transition resources are required for students to achieve success.
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Power Serge

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ian Band
The Beaver, vol. 78, no. 3, June 1, 1998, pp. 18-23
Overview of relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the NWMP (RCMP), including evolution of the Special Constable Program.
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Program Brings Indigenous Knowledge to Health Workers

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 9, December 2003, pp. 32-36

Describes the benefits of the Indigenous Community Health Worker program, or Enionkwatakariteke, that incorporates traditional medicine with Western medical practices.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.32.

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Program Designed to Encourage Business Pros

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 11, November 2010, p. 21
Describes an articulation agreement between the Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan and the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Canada which announces the organizations' goal to establish academic programs to support Aboriginal Peoples. Article found by scrolling to page 21.
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Program Prepares Students for Leadership Jobs

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sophie Littlechief-Marner
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 8, August 2007, p. 9
Describes a new program offered at the First Nations University of Canada, the Intercultural Leadership Program, designed to train people for management positions at Saskatchewan Crown Corporations. Article located by scrolling to page 9.
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Promising Practices: Increasing and Supporting Participation for Aboriginal Students in Ontario

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
R.A. Malatest & Associates
Assessed institutions' programs focused on access, healthcare, teacher education, and Aboriginal studies as well as student services. Site visits were conducted at Carleton University, Negahneewin College, Sault College, Shingwaulk Knoomaage Gamig, Trent University, and University of Toronto.
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A Proposed Master of Social Work Based in Indigenous Knowledges Program in Manitoba

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kimberly Hart
Gladys Rowe
Michael Anthony Hart
Yvonne Pompana
Deana Halonen ... [et al.]
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 2, Indigenous Knowledges: Resurgence, Implementation, and Collaboration in Social Work, December 2014
Overview of program design, foundational themes and description of courses.
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Protecting Embers to Light the qulliit of Inuit Learning in Nunavut Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanne Tompkins
Alexander McAuley
Fiona Walton
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 33, no. 1-2, Éducation et Transmission des Savoirs Inuit au Canada / Education and Transmission of Inuit , 2009, pp. 95-113
Discusses program delivered in Nunavut from 2006-2009 which produced 21 graduates. Summarizes history, development, and evaluation of program.
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Public Perceptions and the Importance of Community: Observations from a California Indian Who Has Lived, Learned, and Taught in Indiana, Oklahoma, and Wyoming

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William J. Bauer Jr.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 62-66
Author describes their varying experience attending and teaching at three different Universities, stresses that the perception and treatment of Indigenous people in these institutions is directly related to the institution's engagement with and knowledge of contemporary Indigenous communities.
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Reclaiming My Indigenous Identity and the Emerging Warrior: An Autoethnography

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natalie St-Denis
Christine Walsh
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 5, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1-17
Describes St-Denis’ journey through phases of awakening, exploring, indigenizing, reclaiming and belonging as an integral part of completion of a Indigenous social work degree. Offers a decolonizing critique of social work, its practice and its relationship to contemporary colonizing practices.
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Reconsidering Approaches to Aboriginal Science and Mathematics Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gladys Sterenberg
Michelle Hogue
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 57, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 1-15
Discusses the themes coming out of focus group discussions for approaches to Aboriginal education: assimilation, self segregation, and mutual dialogue.
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Redefined Rhetorics: Academic Discourse and Aboriginal Students

Alternate Title
First Nations, First Thoughts Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Linda-Ruth Dyck
Discusses opportunities to redefine writings in ways that allow for Aboriginal students to engage their own oral discourse with the traditional print paradigm.
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Reflections from the field: Redefining the Ojibwe Classroom: Indigenous Language Programs within Large Research Universities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mindy J. Morgan
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Indigenous Epistemologies and Education: Self-Determination, Anthropology and Human Rights, March 2005, pp. 96-103
Uses the example of a program at Michigan State University to explore issues in incorporating heritage languages into the curriculum of post-secondary institutions.
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Reflections of Indian Teacher Education Program Graduates: Considerations for Educational Policy and Research

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Randolph Wimmer
Louise Legare
Yvette Arcand
Michael Cottrell
Aboriginal Policy Research, vol. 6

Looks at the ITEP program at the University of Saskatchewan. Chapter four from Learning, Technology, and Traditions, which is vol. 6 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the third annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.

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Remember 9-11!: White Belligerency in the Academy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward C. Valandra
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 420-428
Author examines the criticism faced by university faculty in the United States who choose to vocalize any criticisms of the war on terrorism initiated by the Bush administration following the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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Reply to Regna Darnell's Toward a History of Canadian Departments of Anthropology

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Barker
Anthropologica, vol. 42, no. 1, 2000, p. 95
Discusses the development of Canadian anthropology with American and British influences and major personalities in the discipline. The related article is entitled Co-habitation and Co-optation: some Intersections between Native American and Euroamerican Legal Systems in the Nineteenth Century.
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Report Identifies $90 Billion Gap in Aboriginal Education

Alternate Title
Report Identifies Ninety Billion Dollar Gap in Aboriginal Education
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lisa Wilson
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 11, December 2011, p. 14
Looks at findings of a report by an economist, Eric Howe, which speak of the benefits to society that education makes and commends the SUNTEP program at the University of Saskatchewan. Article located by scrolling to page 14.
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Report Investigating the Learning Styles of Aboriginal Students

Alternate Title
Report (Northern Labour Market Information Clearinghouse) ; no. 105
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jim Klingle
Examines cultural and environmental influences on Aboriginal learners and distance education delivery practices. Provides recommendations for distance programming.
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Respectful Actions in Research: Aboriginal Adolescents Speaking Their Future

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Laurie Carlson Berg
Sarah Longman
Daryl Hepting
Edward Doolittle
Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, vol. 72, no. 3, Spring, 2006, pp. 23-29
Describes one part of an innovative Canadian research project in which Aboriginal high school students engaged with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from First Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina.
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Retaining Indigenous Students in Post-Secondary Programs: What Means for Whose Ends?

Alternate Title
Postsecondary Education Project: Learner Pathways and Transitions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Roland D. Chrisjohn
Argues that programs aimed at recruitment and retention are useless if they are designed simply to increase numbers of Aboriginal students without fundamentally changing the existing attitudes and context of academic institutions.
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The Retention/Intervention Study of Native American Undergraduates at the University of New Mexico

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Jiron Belgarde
Richard K. LoRé
Journal of College Student Retention, vol. 5, no. 2, 2003-2004, pp. 175-203
Study surveyed students about the use and quality of their experiences with the NASARI (Native American Studies Academic and Retention and Intervention) Program, as well as other Native and non-Native programs.
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