Racism & Discrimination
Understanding the Indian Act
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Frances Abele
Roger Jones
Douglas Sanderson
Description
Speakers discuss how the Act has defined the government's and Crown's relationship with First Nations peoples; how it has impeded development of communities; and how fundamental changes are needed to give First Nations' control over governance and the ability to develop mechanisms to improve access to capital.
Duration: 1:09:15.
Understanding the Ways Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women are Framed and Handled by Social Media Users
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Taima Moeke-Pickering
Sheila Cote-Meek
Ann Pegoraro
Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, vol. 169, no. 1, 2018, pp. 54-64
Description
Argues that sexualized violence against Indigenous women is both gendered and racialized and originates in ongoing colonialism. Examines social media (SM) narratives that perpetuate violence; discusses how Indigenous online communities are working to mitigate these narratives. Uses Sysomos MAP analytic software to gather information on posts containing #MMIW, #MMIWG and #inquiry between 1 September 2016 and 29 July, 2017.
Understood Through Story: A Time Serious Analysis of Male and Female Employment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hussein Al-Zyoud
Carolyn Leblanc
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 39, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-24
Description
An analysis of employments trends and how they affect Indigenous employment opportunities, in particular Indigenous women.
Unequaled Acts of Injustice: Pan-Indigenous Encounters with Colonial School Systems
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Simone Bull
Valerie Alia
Contemporary Justice Review, vol. 7, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 171-182
Description
Uses a review of the film Rabbit Proof Fenceas a starting point for a discussion of the residential school system in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and India.
Unfinished Business: The Australian Stolen Generations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Antonio Buti
Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 7, no. 4, December 2000, p. [?]
Description
Looks at the responses of the Commonwealth Government to the demands for reparations and recommendations of the National Inquiry.
The Unforgotten: A Five-Part Film Exploring the Health and Well-Being of Indigenous Peoples Living in Canada
Alternate Title
The Unforgotten Toolkit: An Educational Guide to Learn About, Reflect on and Dismantle Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Care
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Build.Films
Networked Health
Ewan Affleck
Description
Five vignettes explore effects of colonialism and systemic discrimination from birth through to elderhood. Accompanied by Educational Guide. Duration: 35:51.
A Unique College Nickname or Another White Man's Indian? George Helgesen Fitch and the Case of Siwash College
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane M. Stangl
Journal of Sport History, vol. 35, no. 2, Indigenous Sport, Summer, 2008, pp. 195-220
Description
Discusses the elimination of school nickname "Old Siwash" from from Knox College in 1993 due to its ambiguous meaning.
United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 80th Session 13 February - 9 March 2012 Geneva: NWAC Shadow Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description
Describes issues such as missing and murdered women, education, health care, and over-representation in the criminal justice system and gives statement of action required by Canada to address each problem.
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples For Indigenous Adolescents
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Cindy Blackstock
UNICEF
the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (SPFII)
Global Indigenous Youth Caucus.
Description
Presents the Declaration for young audience by explaining rights of protection by governments around the world.
United Nations Seminar on Indigenous Peoples and States
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russel Lawrence Barsh
American Journal of International Law, vol. 83, no. 3, July 1989, pp. 599-604
Description
Discusses recommendations from a United Nations conference on effects of racism and discrimination on social and economic relations between Indigenous peoples and countries they live in.
Universality: What Space Exists For Aboriginality?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Irene Watson
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 15-25
Description
Article examines the challenges of discrimination and the exclusion of Aboriginal views from mainstream Australian society.
Unmasking, Exposing, and Confronting: Critical Race Theory, Tribal Critical Race Theory and Multicultural Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeanette Haynes Writer
International Journal of Multicultural Education, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Education, 2008, pp. 1-15
Description
Contends that using multicultural education (MCE) to promote equality and unity in teacher education programs and schools can help to stop the propagation of colonization.
Unmet Health Needs and Discrimination by Healthcare Providers among an Indigenous Population in Toronto, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Tjensvoll Kitching
Michelle Firestone
Berit Schei
Sara Wolfe
Cheryllee Bourgeois ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 111, no. 1, February 2020, pp. 40-49
Description
Cross-sectional study draws on information from 836 participants who completed the Our Health Counts Toronto (OHCT) comprehensive health survey. Results indicate a 28.5% prevalence of discrimination by a healthcare provider and found it to be positively associated with unmet health needs (prevalence: 27.3%).
The Unnatural History of American Indian Education
Alternate Title
Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
K. Tsianina Lomawaima
Description
Looks at the legacy of colonial education and the roots of some stereotypical assumptions associated with Native Americans.
Chapter one of Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education edited by Karen Gayton Swisher and John W. Tippeconnic.
Unsettling Ourselves: Reflections and Resources for Deconstructing Colonial Mentality: A Sourcebook Compiled by Unsettling Minnesota
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Derrick Jensen
Wicanhpi Iyotan Win
Scott Demuth
Waziyatawin
Dee Brown ... [et al.]
Description
Collection of commentaries based on excerpts from works such as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, What Does Justice Look Like, Indians 'R' Us: Culture and Genocide, The Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.
Unsettling Settler Belonging: (Re)naming and Territory Making in the Pacific Northwest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amanda Murphyao
Kelly Black
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 45, no. 3, The Nature of Canadian Studies in the United States, 2015, pp. 315-331
Description
Demonstrates the use of white settler privilege and how re-naming practices can harm cross-cultural relations.
Unsettling Spaces: Grassroots Responses to Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women During the Harper Government Years
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Samira Saramo
Comparative American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3-4, 2016, pp. 204-220
Description
Contends that colonialism and patriarchy have attempted to marginalize Indigenous womanhood thus allowing racialised and gendered violence to flourish.
Unsettling the Politics of Exclusion: Aboriginal Activism and the Vancouver Downtown East Side
Alternate Title
Beyond Statistics: Urban Indigenous Politics
[Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 82nd, 2010
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Donna Schatz
Description
Discusses the history, demographic composition, social problems of the area and the community groups that seek to address these issues.
The Unspeakability of Racism: Mapping Law's Complicity in Manitoba's Racialized Spaces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sheila Dawn Gill
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 15, no. 2, Law, Race and Space, August 2000, pp. 131-162
Description
Discusses a series of events that took place between May and November of 1995 leading up to the eviction of Oscar Lathlin, a Cree member of the opposition from the Manitoba's Legislative Assembly.
The Unspoken Genocide: Canada's Residential Schools and Australia's Stolen Generation
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Zachary Fargher
Te Tai Haruru, vol. 4, 2013, pp. 57-78
Description
Contends that sufficient evidence exists that Indigenous peoples of Canada and Australia have been victims of "genocide".
Entire journal on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 57.
The Unsustainable Nature of Ignorance: Measuring Knowledge to Effect Social Change First Results of an On-Line Survey of Aboriginal Knowledge at Queen's University
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Godlewska
Jennifer Massey
Jones K. Adjei
Jackie Moore
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013, pp. 65-94
Description
Findings based on over 3000 students argues that unawareness about Aboriginal people in Canada is the biggest problems for Native Education.
Unveiling Truths: 2SLGBTQQIA+ Experiences
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP)
Description
Includes brief discussion of the history of Two-Spirit people in Indigenous society, examination of the intersection of factors which produce the extreme marginalization facing them, and linkages to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Unveiling Truths: Policing
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP)
Description
Briefly looks at traditional methods of social control, and current law enforcement practices with respect to Indigenous women and girls, and their connections to females being murdered and going missing.
Unveiling Truths: Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP)
Description
Looks at how factors such as involvement in the child welfare system, systemic poverty and racism, and trauma have contributed to sexual violence experienced by Indigenous women and girls
Up through the Shining Gate of False Dreams: Foundational Images of Native People in the Epic Literature of Western Civilization from Vergil’s Aeneid
Alternate Title
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Joseph M. Faulds
Description
Discusses how Aeneid can still speak to the false images projected upon Native peoples today.
Upper Yukon Native Customs and Folk-Lore - Ferdinand Schmitter. - Booklet. - May 1910.
Alternate Title
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections ; vol.56, no. 4
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Ferdinand Schmitter
Description
Booklet of a study of Vuntakutchin people living at Fort Egbert, Alaska. Topics include habitations, annual movements, food, fishing and hunting, government, funeral ceremonies and names.
Urban Aboriginal People in Toronto: A Summary of the 2011 Toronto Aboriginal Research Project (TARP)
Alternate Title
National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Kevin FitzMaurice
Don McCaskill
Jaime Cidro
Description
Focuses on seven of the fourteen research topics: general demographics; poverty and social services; the emerging middle class; the two-spirited community; law and justice; racism; and the arts.
Chapter from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté.
Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.
Urban Aboriginal Task Force: Barrie/Midland/Orillia Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joint Steering Committee
Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
Don McCaskill
Kevin Fitzmaurice
Description
Study focused on: demographic and mobility patterns, service delivery, culture and identity, issues specific to children, youth, and women, racism, health, and income and poverty.
Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey. Sample size of 288 respondents.
Urban Aboriginal Task Force: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joint Steering Committee Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
Description
Study undertaken to provide information for development of strategic resource allocation, understanding of current policy approaches and legislative frameworks, and on-going issues faced by the population in the cities of Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Barrie/Midland/Orillia, Sudbury and Kenora.
Urban Aboriginal Task Force: Kenora Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Don McCaskill
Kevin Fitzmaurice
Tara Letwiniuk
Joint Steering Committee
Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
Description
Study focused on: education, income, employment, housing, culture and identity, racism, health, issues specific to youth, women and men and provision of social services. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey.
Sample size of 280 participants 96 percent of whom were Aboriginal.
Urban Aboriginal Task Force: Ottawa Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joint Steering Committee
Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
Don McCaskill
Kevin Fitzmaurice
Description
Study focused on: education, culture and identity, political representation, housing, economic development, racism, health, economically successful residents, youth issues, and gaps in social services. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey.
Sample size of 340.
Urban Aboriginal Task Force: Thunder Bay Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joint Steering Committee
Urban Aboriginal Task Force (AFT)
Don McCaskill
Kevin Fitzmaurice
Description
Study focused on: demographics and mobility patterns, service delivery, culture and identity, issues specific to youth and women, racism, and health.
Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey. Sample size of 425.