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Unsettling: How Euro-whiteness was portrayed to Indigenous school children as superior to Indigeneity through the textual construction of the “Indian” in Missionary texts during the 1830s to 1845 in the Great Lakes Area.
(2019-08-29)
During the mid-1800s, a small influx of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionaries set up in the areas of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota where the Anishinaabe people lived and travelled. A nuanced ...
Settler Canadians and racism in Winnipeg
(2018)
It is no secret that the Indigenous community in Winnipeg has faced many challenges. In analyzing this social issue, we have the option of studying the victims of racism and attempting to understand their suffering. ...
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. ...
Decolonizing the Colonial mind: A Personal journey of intercultural understanding, empathy, and mutual respect
(2020-08-25)
While a reflection on a personal journey of decolonising, this theses is definitely not simply autobiographical. Chapter Two deals with the attitudes prevalent in European Christian nations at contact. Chapter Three examines ...
The autoethnography of an Ininiw from God's Lake, Manitoba, Canada: First Nation water governance flows from sacred Indigenous relationships, responsibilities and rights to aski
(2020)
The Ininiw of Manitou (God's) Sakahigan (Lake), now known as God's Lake First Nation (GLFN), are an Indigenous people of Turtle Island, now called North America. As a GLFN Ininiw, I tell my autoethnography, drawing on a ...
From colonial legacies to promising futures? Unpacking the Daniels v. Canada decision and the future of the Métis
(2020-09-18)
After years of existing in jurisdictional limbo, the Métis have finally been handed down a Supreme Court declaration affirming that they too, alongside the Inuit and First Nations peoples, fall under the federal government’s ...
War stories: voices of Indigenous veterans post-Korean conflict
(2020)
Ethnographic and storytelling methodology is crucial in the representation of Indigenous veterans and their experiences because these narratives reside at the intersection where military and Indigenous cultures meet. There ...
Genocide and the maintenance of power: settler colonialism, carcerality, and the new liberal order, 1950 - 1970
(2018-08-24)
This thesis is situated in theories of settler colonial genocide that define the settler colonial project—the building of a new society of settlers that necessitates the erasure of Indigeneity—as a genocidal process. By ...
AYO!MovementTM: an ethnographic exploration of agency-focused social determinants of health with/in/on an urban indigenous youth movement
(2018)
The social determinants of health movement has admirably shaped the way research theorizes health inequalities between and within populations. However, discourses this movement has re-created inadequately conceptualize ...