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2018-09-01

Derek Jagodzinsky

Modern Indigenous is the title of my thesis and is a brand development project that aims to incorporate Indigenous culture, values, symbols and traditional materials with twenty-first century design thinking and product development. Through this process a number of modernized product designs will

be developed as a way of addressing the effects of colonization which has forgotten the Indigenous culture and it’s knowledge base for over a century. The general public’s perception related to Indigenous knowledge and ways of life are predominately negative. This thesis project is an attempt to

change existing perceptions about Indigenous culture and allow First Nations people to be positively impacted and redefined through design in a modern way. An additional aim is to enhance cultural awareness for both Indigenous and the general public to strengthen a new Indigenous identity while creating

2021-03-21

Montesanti, S., Barnabe, C., Fitzpatrick, K., MacDonald K., Goves, D., Robson, H., Marchand, T., Henderson, R., & Crowshoe, L.

Primary health care (PHC) is essential for promoting health and wellness and reducing health inequities. PHC plays an important role in life expectancy, chronic disease management, community health, maternal and child health, and many other aspects of health and wellness. Indigenous populations

have poorer health outcomes compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. Innovations in Indigenous PHC services arose from mainstream health services being unable to adequately meet the needs of Indigenous communities and Indigenous peoples (Harfield, et al., 2018). However, there is limited

knowledge of the characteristics that contribute to the success of Indigenous-driven models for PHC. The term ‘models of care’ broadly defines the way health services are delivered. An Indigenous model of care outlines best practice care and services for Indigenous communities and utilizes the strengths and

2018-01-06

Williams, Kenneth

SSHRC PEG awarded 2018:The project will create a partnership between the University of Alberta's Drama Department and Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, to create a methodology of dramaturgy for new plays by the Indigenous playwrights, through an innovative week-long development process. Workshop

West Playwrights Theatre (WWPT) is a well-known and respected centre for new play development in Alberta. They have recently began reaching out to the Indigenous community near Edmonton to develop new playwrights but don't have any Indigenous leadership or resources to reach larger Indigenous community

across Canada. The goal of the partnership is create an alliance between the Department of Drama and WWPT that will develop a workshop model specifically for Indigenous playwrights with dramaturges from the Indigenous community, through work on four new Indigenous plays. The project will invite an

2018-11-13

The Alberta First Nations Information Governance Centre

Alberta Indigenous Mentorship in Health Innovation (AIM-HI) Network Indigenous Health Research Principal Investigator Recruitment

2021-05-01

Ana Isabel Oliveira e Silva Bandeira de Melo

Although Brazil has an extensive body of legislation which in theory protects Indigenous linguistic rights, including access to interpreters during legal proceedings, Brazilian courts seem unwilling to allow for Indigenous languages to be spoken alongside Portuguese (the official language) within

the judiciary system. Time and time again, Indigenous people navigating the judicial system have not been afforded the rights safeguarded for them by legislation. In particular, this thesis will argue through the analysis of various case studies focusing on various Indigenous tribes of the Brazilian

state of Mato Grosso do Sul, that Article 12 of the ILO Convention 169, Article 231 of the Federal Constitution, and more recently Resolution N 287, have been systematically violated. By forcing Indigenous people to speak Portuguese and by denying them access to interpreters, the courts have been

2023-11-01

TallBear-Dauphine, Kimberly

SSHRC CG awarded 2024: Society, in the early twenty-first century, has been shaped by new knowledge of genomics, also known as the science of DNA, yet Indigenous peoples remain underrepresented in research and leadership roles in genome and other science, technology, math, and engineering fields

. To address the problem of low recruitment, support, and matriculation of Indigenous science students, researchers across Canada and the US have been working with leaders in scientific and Indigenous Peoples' communities to create the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING). SING

Canada is week-long residential program that invites Indigenous participants to engage in hands-on classroom, lab, and field training in genomic sciences and Indigenous knowledge. The curriculum includes an introduction to advances in Indigenous approaches to genomics and its ethical, environmental

09/22/2021

Foster, William M

SSHRC IG awarded 2022: The research aims to understand the importance of collective memory and collective identity to the resilience and self-organization of nine Indigenous nations and communities across Canada on Turtle Island (North America). Specifically, the research focuses on processes of

seeing as a way to balance Indigenous and mainstream approaches such as Organizational Memory Studies. The team engages in ethnography adopting a inductive, qualitative, and exploratory approach towards of the nine case studies in order to understand the similarities and differences across each community

2022-10-29

Wildcat, Matthew

Detailed Description). The database will play a vital role in Indigenous institution building because it will create new vocabularies and knowledge around how First Nations conceptualize and practice collaborative governance arrangements. The project will compile a comprehensive national picture of how

2024-04-26

Shannon L.L. Loutitt

Indigenous students deserve to feel a sense of holistic wellbeing and experience equitable educational outcomes, but Alberta’s K-12 education system is not currently meeting the needs of many of its First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students. Education should empower Indigenous students to achieve

success as is understood by them and their families. While numerous systemic changes must take place to improve the holistic wellbeing and educational outcomes of Indigenous students, the role of teachers in students’ lives is central. Through a woven approach grounded in Indigenous methodologies, this

paper answers the question: How should teacher educators approach professional learning for teachers in order to improve outcomes for Indigenous students? Teacher educators for pre-service and in-service teachers must begin with tapahtêyimisowin (humility), mâtinamâtowak (sharing), and wâhkôhtowin

2019-11-11

Lupien, Pascal

SSHRC Awarded PDG 2020: The ongoing political, social, and economic marginalization of Indigenous women exposes them to poverty, social exclusion, and violence. But Indigenous women are not victims; they are actively involved in resistance efforts and have created civil society organizations (CSOs

) to reclaim power and agency. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become an indispensable resource for civil society actors, but research suggests that numerous barriers limit the potential of technologies to support the empowerment of Indigenous women. These barriers include the

fact that technology is not designed according to their perspectives, preferences and ways of knowing. During our previous SSHRC-funded research, Indigenous women's CSOs identified two priorities for using ICTs: political communication and collaboration with other Indigenous women across the Americas