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Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery: The Road to Reconciliation

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Edward John
Mark MacDonald
Jennifer Preston
Stuart Wuttke
Description
Discussion of international legal principle created and justified by ideas of European superiority; doctrine provided newly arrived Europeans with automatic property rights and entitled them to exercise governmental, political, and commercial power over the original inhabitants. Panel discussion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's closing events. Duration: 1:03:21.
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The Dispersal of the Métis

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[David Morin]
Description
Briefly explains reasons for the out-migration from Manitoba after the Red River Resistance and the 1885 Resistance, including disappearance of the bison-hunting economy, failure of agriculture, influx of settlers, racism, changes to legislation, and flaws in the Scrip system.
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Disrupted Spaces: Racism and the Lived Experience of Maori Identity Formation

Alternate Title
Claiming Spaces: Proceedings of the 2007 National Maori and Pacific Psychologies Symposium, 23-24 November, Hamilton
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Erika Te Hiwi
Description
Looks into racism in the North Island of New Zealand. Excerpt from Claiming Spaces: Proceedings of the 2007 National Maori and Pacific Psychologies Symposium, 23-24 November, Hamilton edited by Michelle Levy, Linda Waimarie Nikora, Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Mohi Rua, Waikaremoana Waitoki.
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Do Discrimination, Residential School Attendance and Cultural Disruption Add to Individual-Level Diabetes Risk among Aboriginal People in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roland F. Dyck
Chandima Karunanayake
Bonnie Janzen
Josh Lawson
Vivian R. Ramsden
Donna C. Rennie
Jenny Gardipy
Laura McCallum
Sylvia Abonyi
James A. Dosman
Jo-Ann Episkenew
Punam Pahwa
BMC Public Health, vol. 15, 2015, p. article no. 1222
Description
Cross sectional survey (2012/13) conducted with Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation and Montreal Lake Cree Nation involved 580 households and 1570 adult participants. Found that residential school attendance and cultural disruption were not predictive of diabetes, while those experiencing the highest level of racism had low prevalence. Authors suggest that the latter finding may be the result of increased interaction with off-reserve society.
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Doing Away With Treaties Would Be Two-Way Street

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, December 5, 2003, p. A15
Description
Examines the lack of respect and understanding in Saskatchewan for historical Aboriginal treaties and current constitutional rights.
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Domestic Violence

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bindy Bennett
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, July/August 1997, pp. 11-14
Description
Strives to reconcile whether feminist interventions are addressing the issues for Aboriginal women in Australian communities.
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Don McLean Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don McLean
Christine Welsh
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
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Don Nielson Interview 2

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don Nielson
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Description
One of the original organizers of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan in 1964 discusses problems within native organizations between north and south, status and non-status, Liberal and CCF.
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Donald Marshall

Alternate Title
News in Review
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
CBC-TV News in Review, September 1990, pp. 29-35
Description
Classroom lesson plan to accompany segment on DVD Best of News in Review: Native Studies.
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“A Dreadful Little Glutton Always Telling You about Food”: The Epistolary Everyday and the Making of Settler Colonial British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Ishiguro
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 2, Summer, May 2018, pp. 258-283
Description
Article examines communications between settlers in British Columbia and the United Kingdom highlighting the ways that settlers aligned themselves with metropolitan Europeans and disregarded local Indigenous and other racialized peoples in a way that reflected a broader politics of daily life that underpinned the settler colonial project.
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Dreams and Vision Quests in Janet Campbell Hale’s The Owl’s Song

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Frederick Hale
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 1, Series 2; Children’s Literature, Spring, 2000, pp. [69]-82
Description
Book essay on: The Owl’s Song by Janet Campbell Hale. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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[Drew Hayden Taylor on Using Humor Against Racism]

Alternate Title
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Drew Hayden Taylor
George Stroumboulopoulos]
Description
Brief interview with author who explains his identity and why he writes Aboriginal stories. Duration: 2:05.
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Drugs of Opulence and Drugs of Dispossession

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barbara Flick
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, September/October 1998, pp. 7-9
Description
Compares how status and wealth are linked to the drugs that are consumed by different socio-economic groups around the world.
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[Earth Wisdom: A California Chumash Women]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Brian D. Haley
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, Winter, 2016, pp. 79-82
Description
Book review of: Earth Wisdom by Yolanda Broyles-González and Pilulaw Khus.
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Eashappie Honoured for Work in Race Relations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christine Fiddler
Windspeaker, vol. 26, no. 3, June 2008, p. 18
Description

Brief profile of a national award winning First Nations man for his work in improving race relations.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.30.

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Economic Dysfunction or Land Grab?: Assaults on the 19th-Century Māori Economy and Their Native North American Parallels

Alternate Title
Economic Dysfunction or Land Grab?: Assaults on the 19th-Century Maori Economy and Their Native North American Parallels
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hazel Petrie
AlterNative, vol. 11, no. 3, 2015, pp. 283-298
Description
Investigates several prominent themes advanced by European settlers about New Zealand Māori.
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An Economy of Poverty? Power and the Domain of Aboriginality

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maggie Walter
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2009, pp. 2-14
Description
Article asserts that there are entrenched interests that maintain poverty among Australia's Aboriginal population.
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The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Alternate Title
Twentieth Century North American Drama
E-Books
Author/Creator
George Ryga
Description
Plot involves a young Shuswap woman who leaves her reserve for the city and is ultimately raped and murdered. Originally published by Talonbooks, 1970.
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The Ecstasy of Rita Joe by George Ryga: Study Guide

Alternate Title
National Arts Centre English Theatre Programmes for Student Audiences
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Deborah James
Description

Plot of novel involves a young Shuswap woman who leaves her reserve for the city and is ultimately raped and murdered. Includes overview of play, biography of playwright and director, and focus questions.

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Editorial

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Maggie Walter
David Singh
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2012, p. 1
Description
Introductory article previews articles contained in this issue related to the discipline of critical Indigenous studies.
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