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Fall 2021
Presented as a written form of visiting, this thesis draws from nîhiyaw pimâtisowin (Cree life and worldview) to share learning through and with beadwork. Utilizing Indigenous research methodologies, research-creation, storytelling and autoethnography, this work explores beadwork to develop an...
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Fall 2023
Indigenous self-determination in the Canadian North has and continues to be limited by the extractive and disempowering political economy of the mining industry. This thesis reports a community-based participatory research study which evaluates the perceptions of a sample of residents a group of...
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Spring 2022
Canada’s anti-discrimination legal regime is among the oldest and most established in the world. In this thesis, I examine those human rights institutions in Canada that were created to enforce anti-discrimination statutes to determine which system is more accessible to people from marginalized...
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Opioid Prescribing Patterns for Treatment of Acute and Chronic Pain in Rural and Urban British Columbia
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Throughout Canada there has been an increase in both fatal and non-fatal opioid related overdoses, with British Columbia having some of the highest rates. In response to this increase, the Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia declared a public health emergency to mobilize resources to...
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Fall 2023
Since the establishment of modern bioethics in standardized medicine in the mid-late 20th century, the paradigm of Principlism has dominated its teleological landscape. This dominance is largely attributable to the success of the book, Principles of Biomedical Ethics. The multi-faceted nature...
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Re-storying Indigenous Trauma: Considerations for Indigenous Ethics of Relational Care in Gladue Reporting
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After no reduction in Indigenous incarceration rates, the initiatives set out by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in R. v. Gladue [1999] have become a more than two-decades-long disappointment, having utterly failed in keeping their commitment to lower Indigenous incarceration rates and bring...
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Spring 2023
Even though Indigenous women are the fastest growing prison population in Canada and around the world, scholarship regarding the storytelling of incarcerated Indigenous women is extremely limited. My dissertation centers the stories of Indigenous women within Tightwire, a prisoner produced...
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Reconciliation, Repatriation and Reconnection: A Framework for Building Resilience In Canadian Indigenous Families
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LaBoucane-Benson, Patti-Ann Terra
Although there is a vast body of literature on family resilience, very little represents research from an explicitly Indigenous paradigm. This research process included an Indigenous research path and a case study informed by Indigenous worldview. The data collected in both informed the findings...
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Representations of Aboriginal women in pregnancy information sources: a critical discourse analysis
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The goal of this study is to critically examine health information sources in order to determine whether Aboriginal women are represented in these resources, and if so, how they are being presented. This research is intended to illuminate the practices around the construction of information, and...
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Reproductive Narratives: Settler-Colonialism and Neoliberalism in Alberta's Child Welfare System
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This thesis examines the contemporary crisis of Indigenous children in child welfare services in Canada, taking as its case study the Province of Alberta. I take a historical approach to this analysis, and consider the contemporary institutions that govern and manage Indigenous bodies through...