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Raising the voices and experiences of Indigenous parents to create culturally relevant responses to youth suicide
(2020)
Indigenous youth suicide is very complex due to the lasting affects colonization has on the social, psychological, biological, environmental, economic, familial and structural factors that influence Indigenous youth and ...
Indigenous recognition: revisiting the recommendations for a First Nations dual-citizenship in Canada
(2015)
This thesis explores First Nations peoples’ relationship with the Canadian government and how the issue of citizenship has played into this relationship. This thesis analyses citizenship theory as it relates to First Nations ...
(Re)Presenting Indigenous women: a critical analysis of two reports on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada
(2017)
Indigenous women and girls in Canada live in a society which poses a risk to their safety because they are women and Aboriginal. The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) has been gaining notoriety ...
“especially in this free Country:” Webs of Empire, Slavery and the Fur Trade
(2021)
Predicated on a narrative of mutuality and cooperation, what has come to be known as the Canadian fur trade has long been positioned as exceptional in its relationships between colonizers and Indigenous peoples. In this ...
Honouring the grandmothers through (re)membering, (re)learning, & (re)vitalizing Métis traditional foods and protocols
(2018)
In Canada, Métis cultural restoration continues to advance. Food practices and protocols, from the vantage point of Métis women who were traditionally responsible for domestic work, qualify as important subjects worthy ...
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 ...
'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 ...
Le parcours des francophones minoritaires et des Premières Nations vers l’autonomie de gestion scolaire au Manitoba : un regard comparatif
(2018)
Cette étude, suivant une méthodologie combinée d’enquête documentaire et d’analyse comparative, avait pour objectif de comparer et d’analyser les étapes historiques majeures qui ont eu un impact sur l’autonomie de gestion ...
Class, gender, race, and resistance: the United Farm Women of Manitoba,1916-1936
(2022-08-09)
In the second decade of the twentieth century, the resistance of Canadian prairie farm women to the inequities of the Dominion government’s national policies, coupled with their growing awareness of women’s unequal rights, ...