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In Search of Indigenous Educational Sovereignty
(2018-08-30)
Completing a comprehensive survey of the education clauses in forty-one self-governance agreements between different First Nations and the Canadian government regarding educational sovereignty demonstrates that these ...
Mino Bimaadiziwin Homebuilder program’s impact on sustainable livelihoods among youth in Garden Hill and Wasagamack First Nations: an evaluative study
(2022-01-21)
Housing in most First Nation communities is in a state of crisis. Federally-run programs cannot sufficiently address the housing crisis in these communities. Could a project-based, community-led education program offer a ...
SD Nelson: artist and storyteller
(2022-03-24)
SD Nelson has written and illustrated numerous award-winning children’s books, most of which focus on his rich Lakota culture. Nelson has a passion for sharing his Indigenous culture and providing his readers with historically ...
Gypsies, tramps, and thieves: the contrapuntal rantings of a halfbreed girl
(2019-05-10)
Abstract This thesis investigates issues of representation and the social identity of the colonized by conducting a textual analysis of a fictive, construct that I dub the
halfbreed girl, and of the ways in which selected ...
‘Far asunder there are those to whom my name is music’: Nineteenth-century Hudson’s Bay Company families in the British imperial world
(2019)
The Hudson’s Bay Company’s (HBC) establishment of trading posts throughout Rupert’s Land, the vast territory it claimed in British North America, provided the context in which marriages ‘in the custom of the country’ between ...
Building bridges: dismantling eurocentrism in archives and respecting Indigenous ways of doing it right
(2020-01-01)
When I was five, my family moved to a farming community in Germany. My mother regularly wrote home to her parents, telling them about our lives and sending them gifts, which they put in their modern curiosity cabinet. This ...
"Never say die": an ethnohistorical review of health and healing in Aklavik, NWT, Canada
(2010-09-08)
The community of Aklavik, North West Territories, was known as the “Gateway to the North” throughout the first half of the Twentieth Century. In 1959, the Canadian Federal Government decided to relocate the town to a new ...
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, ...
Rupturing the myth of the peaceful western Canadian frontier: a socio-historical study of colonization, violence, and the North West Mounted Police, 1873-1905
(2010-09-08)
Recently there has been more critical attention given to the violent role of the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) in the unfolding of settlement and colonial laws in western Canada. However, few have offered a comprehensive ...
'I think I'm Canadian': spatial un-belonging and alternative home making in Indigenous and immigrant Prairie literature
(2014-09-09)
This thesis questions the connection between Indigenous and immigrant Prairie literature, taking six contemporary texts as a case study. Aboriginal texts include Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed, Beatrice Mosionier’s In Search ...