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‘Frères et Enfants du même Père’: French-Indigenous alliance and diplomacy in the Petit Nord and Northern Great Plains, 1731-1743
(2014-04-22)
The eighteenth century French explorer La Vérendrye has been commemorated in Canadian history as the “Pathfinder of the West.” Although many historians have praised La Vérendrye for his tolerance and understanding of ...
Keepers of the Water: exploring Anishinaabe and Metis women's knowledge of water and participation in water governance in Kenora, Ontario
(2013-08-26)
The Common Land, Common Ground is a partnership between Kenora, ON, Grand Council Treaty #3, and three reserve communities in the area. This research focused on Aboriginal women’s knowledge of water and participation in ...
Assessing youth experiences of hydroelectric development in Fox Lake Cree Nation’s traditional territory
(2017)
Fox Lake Cree Nation (FLCN) is a First Nation community located in northern Manitoba, with approximately 1100 community members, of which approximately 500 reside in the traditional territory. FLCN has been highly affected ...
Critical mathematics and critical literacy for indigenous students in an urban alternative high school program: an action research study
(2016)
The purpose of this action research study was to improve the education of Indigenous students enrolled at an inner-city urban alternative high school for adolescent mothers and/or mothers-to-be. Seven adult students agreed ...
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and the pursuit of archival decolonization
(2017)
Western archival institutions have both silenced and misrepresented Indigenous peoples in Canada for more than a century. These actions have in turn assisted in the colonization and subjectification of a myriad of Indigenous ...
Indigenous youth experience with helpers: How they help and how they harm
(2018)
This thesis presents qualitative interviews with eight Indigenous youth regarding their experiences of how helpers in their lives have helped them and how they have caused them harm. The central research questions focused ...
Power in places, policies, and pedagogies: one teacher’s critical inquiry into reconciliation
(2017)
In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), this arts-informed study problematizes one un/settler teacher’s sources of dissonance and experiences of resistance engaging in processes of reconciliation. ...
Engaging indigenous urban youth in environmental learning: the importance of place revisited
(2011-04-08)
This thesis describes the evolution of an environmental learning program for Indigenous, urban youth called Bridging the Gap. A critical pedagogy of place provides a theoretical framework to engage in a practitioner-reflection, ...
Go west: urbanism, mobility, and ingenuity in western Canadian writing and everyday practice
(2015-04-16)
In early criticism of Western Canadian literature, prairie spaces were constructed as predominantly rural in order to set the region and prairie writing apart from the rest of Canada and other Canadian literature. In time, ...