Reconciliation & Collaboration

Examines the use of community-based archaeology in response to the destruction of archaeological heritage sites due to climate change.

Social Sciences Thesis (MCP) -- Vancouver Island University, 2023.

Using interviews from the Jasper Indigenous Forum (JIF) the authors examines the struggle for Indigenous representations into how their culture is presented.  

Argues that the Canadian Indigenous condition is not related to colonialism rather it is based on an European socioeconomic structure.  

Environmental Studies Major Project Report (MES) -- York University, 2020.

Examines workshops create by Indigenous elders and academic researchers to improve cultural safe research practices amongst Indigenous populations.

Examines the use of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research guidelines to guide the collaboration between researchers and  Indigenous communities.  

Independent Study Project -- Duke University, 2010

Canadian Studies Thesis (MA) -- Carleton University, 2019.

Brief discussion of how schools functioned, abuses that took place, churches and government's response to law suits, settlement agreements and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Chapter eight from A History of Treaties and Policies, which is vol. 7 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the third annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.

Comments on the twentieth anniversary of the Oka Crisis and the healing and reconciliation done by the sister of slain police officer Corporal Marcel Lemay.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.

Examine a new method of conducting research within Indigenous communities that works in collaborations with Indigenous cultural beliefs and for the benefit of the communities themselves.

Topics include: teacher reflections, preparing for difficult conversations, the role of media coverage, daily life in residential schools, reconciliation through revitalization, and making reconciliation real.

For use with Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022

Magazine-style publication features short articles about residential schools in general, as well as specific schools and highlights examples of reconciliation in action in the education system.

Related Material: Educator's Guide.

Examines the collaborations between archeology and educators as a means of teaching Indigenous history in schools.  

Political Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2019.

Includes links to series of brief lesson plans highlighting themes of awareness, acknowledgement, atonement, action and understanding and accompanying power points, student workbook and residential schools project.

Designed for use with the graphic novel and movie about Charlie Wenjack, a twelve-year-old who died while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario in 1966.

For use with junior high school students.

For use with the book by Monique Gray Smith. Includes summary, essential questions, key concepts, vocabulary and learning activities for each chapter of book. Recommended for ages 9-13.

Each month children take part in an activity which fosters cross-cultural understanding.

Looks at the results of an educational program created through a collaboration between Indigenous communities and education officials.