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Mavis J. Adams Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Mavis J. Adams
Mick Burrs
Indian History Film Project
Description
Mrs. Adams is a retired white schoolteacher and was 69 years old at the time of the interview. She tells of her induction as an honorary chief of the Blackfoot reserve and shares her experiences among the Blackfoot.
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Max Ireland Interview #2

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Max Ireland
Alex Cywink
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview where he gives accounts of storytelling amongst the Oneida; accounts of the educational system and its abuses.
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Maximizing the Potential of Urban Aboriginal Students: A Study of Facilitators and Inhibitors within Postsecondary Learning Environments: Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marie Battiste
Isobel M. Findlay
Joe Garcea
Jania Chilima
Ryan Jimmy
Description
Investigates experiences of students in four institutions in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, First Nations University of Canada, and the University of Saskatchewan. Eight factors are discussed: socio-political and cultural, programming and support services, educational infrastructure, financial, and family and community support. Data collected through nine focus groups and 13 one-on-one semi-structured interviews.
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McIvor: Justice Delayed-Again

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Eberts
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, 2010, pp. 15-46
Description
Reviews decisions of Madam Justice Ross of the British Columbia Supreme Court and Justice Groberman of the Court of Appeal.
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Mederic McDougall Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Mederic McDougall
Carol Pearlstone
Indian History Film Project
Description
Mr. McDougall is descended from French and Scottish halfbreeds and is active in the Metis Society of Saskatchewan. He gives an account of the Metis way of life and philosophy, the Riel Rebellion, shares memories of WWI, WWII and the Depression. He also talks about the discrimination against native people.
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The Media, Aboriginal People and Common Sense

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Harding
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, 2005, pp. 311-335
Description
Studies 90 news items from June 2002 and finds an emerging stereotype portrayed of Aboriginal peoples depicted as unable to manage their own affairs.
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Media and the Perpetuation of Western Bias: Deviations of Ideality

Alternate Title
Media’s Role in the Reinforcement of Negative Stereotypes of Indigenous Identity and the Manifestations of Violence toward Murdered Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Angie Tucker
Description
Argues that media portrayals of missing and murdered Indigenous women utilize stereotypes and fail to educate the public about how the marginalization produced by colonialism makes these women vulnerable to violence. Looks specifically at how the murders of Winnipeg's Selena Keeper and Calgary's Lacey Jones-McKnight were covered in the Winnipeg Free Press, Calgary Herald and National Post.
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Memory, Apology and Reconciliation

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael A. Murphy
Description
Argues that while the role of official apologies is controversial, it nevertheless plays a part in the broader reconciliation process. Uses Canadian and the Australian experience as case studies.
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Memory as Medicine: The Power of Recollection in "Ceremony"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan J. Scarberry
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, A Special Symposium Issue on Leslie Marmon Silko's , 1979, pp. 19-26
Description
An examination of the use of memory in the novel Ceremony. The main character Tayo has painful memories he is trying to forget but as the novel progresses he learns to embrace memories of his Indigenous traditions as a way to control his own life.
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Memory of Atrocity in Canada: How Do You Engage Canadian Civil Society in Truth and Reconciliation?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tricia Logan
London Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 26, Indigenous Peoples: Historical Understanding, Contemporary Challenges and Canadian Approaches, 2010/2011, pp. 9-25
Description
Argues the process should be an opportunity to change the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians, but this change hinges on the general public's acceptance of the need to redefine history and national identity.
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"A Menace Among the Words": Women in the Novels of N.

Scott Momaday

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen Donovan
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 51-76
Description
Looks at how the negative representations of women in N. Scott Momaday’s novels demonstrates a lack of harmony and balance, and an underlying of dislike, or mistrust of women. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Metaphorical Reflections on the Colonial Circus of the Drunken Indian and the Kidney Machine

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven Koptie with editorial assistance by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009, pp. 66-79
Description
Contends that First Nations community workers need to share their observations and insights of Indigenous historic trauma and unresolved intergenerational suffering to help with the healing process.
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Metis Activist Just Wanted a Fairer Deal for His People

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joan Black
Windspeaker, vol. 16, no. 12, April 1999, p. 8 s
Description

Brief profile of Howard Adams, recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for education. The article discusses what drove his academic and political aspirations.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.28.

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Métis-Astute Social Work: Shining the Light on Some Helpful Practices

Alternate Title
Metis-Astute Social Work: Shining the Light on Some Helpful Practices
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cathy Richardson/Kinewesquao
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 1, 2016, pp. [82]-99
Description
Argues that Métis children are both unrecognized and over-represented in provincially managed child welfare systems throughout Canada; critiques social work practices that marginalize families and explores issues of identification, identity, and advocates for social work practices which dignify, rather than further alienate Métis families.
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The Métis in the Canadian West

Alternate Title
Guide to the Holdings of the Archives of the Ecclesiastical Province and Dioceses of Rupert's Land
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Frits Pannekoek
Prairie Forum, vol. 12, no. 2, Fall, 1987, pp. 327-330
Description
Book reviews of: The Métis in the Canadian West by Marcel Giraud ; translated by George Woodcock. Guide to the Holdings of the Archives of the Ecclesiastical Province and Dioceses of Rupert's Land by Wilma Macdonald.
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The Métis of Lethbridge: A Microcosm of Identity Politics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russel Lawrence Barsh
E. Ann Gibbs
Tara Turner
Prairie Forum, vol. 25, no. 2, Fall, 2000, pp. 283-295
Description
Describes the difficulty of defining the term Métis and how most Métis people in Lethbridge, Alberta choose to remain invisible due to identity ambivalence or in an attempt to avoid possible discrimination.
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Métis Women’s Health and Wellbeing

Documents & Presentations
Description
Discusses the concerns, ideas and recommendations of Métis women regarding health and well-being, from their own perspectives as Métis women.The paper also discusses the making of policy and research to ensure that they are more relevant to Métis women, their families and communities.
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Mi'kmaq Family (Migmaoei Otjiosog)

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Catherine Anne Martin
Description
Catherine Anne Martin examine the traditions of her Mi'kmaq family, and during a visit home for the annual St. Anne's Feast Day at Chapel Island, she explores values which have endured, adapted, and evolved. Accompanying material: Study Guide. Duration: 32:28.
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[Micheal Mascarenhas: White Privilege and Neo-liberalism]

Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Micheal Mascarenhas
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with the author of the book, Where the Waters Divide: Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada. Duration: 29:45.
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Militarization and the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chandra Roy
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Militarization, 2001, pp. 14-19
Description
Article chronicles the military occupation of the mountainous area of Bangladesh. To access this article scroll down to page 14.
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Militia to North-West Fifty Years Ago Today - Newspaper clippings. - 5 July 1923.

Articles » General
Description
Folder of clippings relating to the 50th anniversary of the Northwest Resistance. All clippings from the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix except where noted. Clippings glued to paper: 1. Almighty Voice's Prison; 2. Poundmaker's Surrender Highlight of Rebellion; 3. Last Buffalo Herds Seen On Western Plains in 1881; 4. Poundmaker's Forces Had Advantage at Cut Knife; 5. Surrender of Big Bear Marked End of Rebellion. Loose clippings: 6. Back in the Bone Age (clipping and photograph); 7. Bloody Massacre, Fifty Years Ago, at Frog Lake Climax of Indian Revolt; 8. Mounties in Riel Rebellion (photograph); 9.
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Minnesota Chippewa: Woodland Treaties To Tribal Bingo

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gerald Vizenor
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter, 1989, pp. 30-57
Description
Considers the influence of both federal administration and personal vision on the translated responses of tribal people who testified before the committee that investigated fraudulent land allotment at the White Earth Reservation at the turn of the century.
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Minority Health Care Remains a Problem for Canada's Leaders

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Webster
Lancet, vol. 365, no. 9470, April 30, 2005, pp. 1531-1532
Description
Examines the promise of doubling the amount of Federal funding for health care and looks at some of the grim and stark realities for Aboriginal people in Canada.
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Misconduct, Missing, and Murdered: The Experiences of Anti-Indigenous Racism in Reproductive Healthcare among Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Transgender, and Gender Diverse People, and the MMIWG2S+ Genocide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description

Five cases studies involving sexual health, pregnancy and after-birth care to illustrate the connections between MMIWG2S+ and systemic racism in the healthcare system.

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