Racism & Discrimination

Looks at the common interest, between Native and non-Native groups, for protection of the rural environment from large-scale development.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick, 2007.

Article contends that the United States, as the last significant colonial power, still dominates indigenous peoples in external territories without their full consent. The paper argues that images of cowboys and Indians are a part of colonial history that asserts white supremacy and Indigenous inferiority.

Confronts the stereotypes that European culture has created about Native American people and the negotiation of identity.

Relates the story of the census used to determine who was regarded as a 'ward' in Australian's Northern Territory.

Comments on the link between negative social determinants and mental ill-health and how to address these issues.

Discusses the challenges associated with the way historical evidence is presented and interpreted in the court room.

This article details how Aboriginals and Metis were an essential part of the early historic period of Canada, serving as suppliers of furs and as explorers for the Europeans. After the mid-19th century, when the economy changed to industrialization and farming, aboriginals and Metis were no longer necessary. Adams foresees decolonization being achieved by building a power base through political and psychological struggle.

Historical note:

Discussion of the educational system: relative merits of day schools, residential schools, integrated schools, etc.; need for inclusion of Indian culture into the curriculum at all levels ; the role of the elder as teacher.

An account of the social and cultural characteristics of the Cree or Nehiyawak people, and the effects of colonization thereon as described by an Indian Health Services Nurse stationed with the Carlton Agency. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 41.

Discusses how officials excluded the blacks from campaigns promoting settlement in the West, resisted their attempts to take advantage of liberal customs, homestead, and citizenship regulations, and eventually closed the border to them completely.

Analysis of a photograph of a white settler child and white settler teachers around a fair entry called "Great Plains Indians".

Argues that the legal system operating in Queensland, Australia was not dealing appropriately with the problems in Aboriginal communities and as a result there was uncontrolled violence.

Discusses traditional justice systems, systemic discrimination and cultural clashes in the present act and its application of criminal law, new initiatives in law enforcement, court systems, corrections and rehabilitation, and recommendations for change.

Lengthy review (100 pages), is a background study for the Law Reform Commission of Canada's report on Aboriginal Peoples and Criminal Justice; covers wide range of topics, both historical and contemporary, concerning the Canadian justice system's treatment of Aboriginal peoples.

Looks at social and cultural inequalities between Aboriginal and non-aboriginal persons in the criminal justice system. Discusses the Indian Act, the White Paper of 1969 and Constitution Act of 1982.

Provides an overview of conviction and incarceration patterns and official attitudes towards toward Aboriginal women in Mercer Reformatory for Women.

Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2016.

Comments on the inaction of the Canadian government and the international legal obligations that have repeatedly been neglected.

Contends that Canada has not fulfilled the international human rights obligations to investigate the hundreds of missing Aboriginal women.

Professor discusses revisions he has made to formal writing requirements for his classes. Changes were undertaken to force students to think more deeply about the underlying racism which perpetuates the current status of Aboriginals in Canada.

Educational Foundations Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2017.

Shows how processes and restrictions of government affected the inclusion/exclusion of certain information based on interviews of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who worked for the Commission.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Windsor, 2013.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oregon State University, 1980.

Discusses information collected from interviews of Aboriginal patients living in Minnesota who had been raised outside of their biologic home.

The April 1995 issue of Crosscurrents, with articles on Leonard Peltier, Canadian-United States uranium land deals, and inmate treatment in Canadian prisons.

Historical note:

Crosscurrents is a journal based in Saskatoon, with offices at 134 Avenue F South.

Paper from Without Consent: Confronting Adult Sexual Violence. Looks at the unique Aboriginal customary laws which are in place to deal with violations.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Regina, 2013.

Examines the use of physical occupation and civil disobedience by Aboriginal peoples to accomplish their objectives relating to land, treaty, and other rights; and examines the impact of the Nu-Chah-Nulth First Nations’ blockade on forest practices in Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Reports on the outcome of the symposium which was energized by simultaneous release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) release of the Executive Summary of the Final Report in Ottawa.

Focuses on over-incarceration and criminalization, new approachs to prostitution, murdered and missing women inquiry, inequalities in education, and sex discrimination in the Indian Act.

Looks at Canadian and world studies at an Ontario secondary school and the need for more inclusive perceptions of Aboriginal People within geography related curriculums.

Examples include products such as tires, spring water, soap, rifles, and railway excursions.

Discusses an arts unit designed to help students develop positive attitudes towards First Nations people.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Queen's University at Kingston, 2000.

States that at present, Canadian health care for Indigenous people is not culturally safe due to attacks on Indigenous cultural identities.

Traces the ideological foundations of the residential school system back to the 1820s.

Discusses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's position on residential schools, UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide and the Canadian government's position.

Paper given at the Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future , dialog and conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, November 2-3, 2016.

Looks at Aboriginal peoples' experiences in relation to marginalization, oppression, and dominance.

Explores current literature and the implications for educating nursing students. Nursing Graduate Project (B.Sc.) --University of Victoria, 2011.

Evaluates a Montreal based program focused on developing empathy and competency around the provision of culturally safe healthcare services. Identifies challenges related to the political will of healthcare practitioners to participate in decolonizing services.