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.

Book review of Native American Fiction: A User's Manual by David Treuer.

Discusses some of the prejudicial views of Native Americans held by general population of the United States and demonstrates how they are based on false assumptions. Chapter from Education for Action: Selected Articles from Indian Education 1936-43.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 1998.

Paper presented at the Symposium on the Politics of Race, Culture, and Health, Ithaca College, Nov. 13-14, 2002.

Looks at the self image of urban Aboriginals from their ancestral perspective and how this is reflected in their lives. Presents three cases.

Results of interviews with 16 study participants grouped into five themes: identity, family and community, violence, systemic racism/colonialism, social networks/supports, and resiliency and integrity.

Looks at the court transcripts of the White Earth Chippewa Reservation land allotment fraud cases. Anthropological Professors Albert Jenks and Ales Hrdlicka provided testimony regarding "mixed blooded" and "full Indians" status based on physical characteristics.

Discussion on racism between health care professionals and Native patients.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Saskatchewan, 2005. Includes analysis of works by Susan Power, Drew Taylor, Joy Harjo, Beth Cuthand, Louise Halfe, Patricia Monture-Angus, and Annharte.

Book review of: Dances with Dependency: Indigenous Success Through Self-Reliance by Calvin Helin. Scroll to page 203 to read review.

Book review of: Dancing with a Ghost by Rupert Ross.

Educational Administration Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2011.

Parallels drawn between Native Alaskans and Americans since colonization and the Jewish community in Nazi Germany.

Argues that despite government rhetoric, Australia has failed to confront the racism shown in its past and current treatment of Aboriginals, and little progress has been made toward creating a new relationship.

Authors highlight ongoing narratives in how Indigenous peoples have been portrayed in Canadian welfare policy discourse from 1867 to the present; discusses the ethical implications of representing Indigenous peoples as “non-productive” and therefor undeserving. Recommends a reformation of policy that is conscious of historic and contemporary colonial dispossession and disenfranchisement.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University at Kingston, 1995.

Apologia: There is no intention to offend, insult or embarrass by inclusion of this article. The author examines the possible origins, diverse uses, and meaning of the term "squaw" and asserts that the struggles of its usage are centered in indigeneity, femininity, and sovereignty in a post-colonial America.

Comments on the lived experience of being a 'half-breed' in Canada with reference to the story In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton.

Book review of: Deadliest Enemies by Thomas Biolsi

Focuses on the history of the State/Church relationship in terms of the administration of Canadian schools and the reparations for survivors. Compares the Australian experience. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 59. Paper presented at "ACSANZ (Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand) 08".

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.

Overview of residential boarding school history as an instrument of genocide and the lack of governmental response to this system.

Liberal Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Minnesota, 2004.

Discusses the changes needed to the structure and funding of educational services to meet the needs of Aboriginal students.

Discusses issues surrounding the establishment of sovereignty beginning at First Nation community level.

Political Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.

Book review of Decolonizing Education by Marie Battiste.

Aboriginals involved in the media discuss their experiences, present day issues, and possible future directions. Duration: 1:00:01.

American Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2012.

Researchers are working to reduce barriers in academia by incorporating Indigenous worldviews, and building relationships and capacity with research partners.

Reprint of articles from Humanities.

Looks at the physical and mental health disparities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick, 1994.

Looks at an anti-racism strategy adopted by Indigenous academics and students as a tool to address racist language in a manner that avoids the emotive or combative nature of unstructured discussions about the impacts of racism.

Discusses historical and contemporary factors which contribute to high rate of homeless found in the Indigenous population and looks at 12 different dimensions: historic displacement, contemporary geographic separation, spiritual disconnection, mental disruption and imbalance, cultural disintegration and loss, overcrowding, relocation and mobility, nowhere to go, escaping or evading harm, emergency crisis, and climatic refuge,

Outlines steps in the process of dehumanizing "the Other" and discusses the techniques Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars have used to counteract Eurocentric practices. Brief discussion of the matriarchal character in Maracle's works. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 182.

Compares newspaper coverage of the deaths of two Aboriginal children while in care. One was placed by provincial authorities, the other by the Xyolhemeylh agency of the Stó:lö Nation. Survey looked at stories in the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Province, Abbotsford Times, Chilliwack Times and Mission City Record.

English and American Literature and Language Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2001.

Looks into captivity stories where infants and children are highlighted and the focal point of the story.

Study shows the long term effects that government policy has had on Indigenous people, particularly the youth.

Results from in-depth semi-structured interviews with 72 participants.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University in St. Louis, 2005.