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Fall 2023

Adesunkanmi, Maryam

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the mental health of the global population. Indigenous Peoples have been disproportionately affected by previous pandemics and already face an increased vulnerability to poor mental health outcomes due to the damaging and enduring effects of colonialism. However, the

mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Indigenous groups is not well known. This thesis aimed to improve the understanding of mental health outcomes among Indigenous Peoples during the pandemic by synthesizing the available literature on this topic and evaluating mental health outcomes among

Métis People living in Alberta during the pandemic. A scoping review was conducted to assess the scope and characteristics of the existing literature regarding the mental health outcomes of Indigenous Peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic and identify

Fall 2022

Freeborn, Chelsea E.

Quality early learning and child care can support children in both short and long-term developmental and educational outcomes. In many ways, notions of quality and related educator dispositions in early learning and child care for Indigenous children and families mirror any program. Yet for many

Indigenous families with young children in Canada, daily lived experiences continue to be impacted by colonialism, and it remains unclear how urban early learning and child care programs can be most responsive to families’ priorities and strengths. It is thus imperative for decision makers to understand how

decolonial relational-based early learning and child care contexts attract, engage, and support Indigenous children and families. The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to the limited understanding of potential indicators of quality in early learning and child care and educator dispositions of

2021-03-22

Montesanti, S., Barnabe, C., Fitzpatrick, K., Segal, A., Heyd, A., & Crowshoe, L.

for chronic diseases. Research evidence shows that when health systems are overwhelmed during outbreaks, deaths caused by lapses in routine care can increase dramatically. Indigenous PHC services arose in many countries (e.g., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, U.S) from the inability of mainstream

health services to adequately meet the needs of Indigenous communities. By Indigenous PHC services, we are referring to services designed and controlled by local communities and underpinned by the values and principles of the communities. Indigenous PHC can include a range of comprehensive programs that

incorporate treatment and management, prevention and health promotion, as well as addressing the social determinants of health (SDOH) and a focus on redressing health inequities. Therefore, given the important role of Indigenous PHC we will examine how Indigenous PHC mobilizes during a public health crisis or

Fall 2020

Semple,William

Canadian north, carried out in collaboration and direct consultation with Indigenous communities. My story is entangled with the stories of five northern communities in Canada, one northern community in the USA, and a Tibetan refugee community in India. This story is written as a self-reflection that is

and turn to the principles used and promoted by Indigenous scholars when working in their own communities to advance ideas on how architecture can be practiced differently. The decolonized approach I propose is partially a response to the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of

buildings and settlements by working with Indigenous people that live in these communities, while shifting the attitudes/beliefs of practitioners who are from outside these communities. The decolonizing architectural process I describe illustrates seven core values learned from my own work and include

Fall 2023

Skelding, Hannah S

, environmental, and political costs. The second paper chapter focuses on who is missing from the historical records of coal mining in Alberta, namely non-Indigenous and Indigenous women from 1874 to 1919. The active exclusion of non-Indigenous women, Indigenous communities, and Indigenous women raises questions

and concerns about colonial violence, intersectionality, and economic exclusions. In mining dependent communities, women are often characterized by binary labels such as “wives” and “whores”. Using critical race theory, feminist theory, Indigenous feminist theory, and settler colonial theory, this

second chapter explores how this binary has been used in Alberta’s coal mining communities and the contemporary implications this dichotomy poses for non-Indigenous and Indigenous women. The history of resource dependent communities can shape the outcomes of what is possible in the future. This thesis

Fall 2018

Letendre, Avery

continue to experience losses and trauma today? Settler colonialism is seldom considered detrimental to settlers due to their/our positional power and associated material privileges. Therefore, for many people this question has a degree of 'shock value' because it makes settler Canadians, not Indigenous

significant research gap. To explain, reconciliation efforts have largely been actions 'for' Indigenous peoples (Regan, 2010, p. 11), but this study contributes knowledge to understand the settler colonial relationship and how it can be reconciled differently. To do so, settler Canadians, and the settler

Canadian culture, values, relationships, and behaviours (Ghostkeeper as cited in Jobin & Letendre, 2017), were critically examined and nuanced from Indigenous perspectives (Innes, 2010, p. 2). The aim is to reframe settler society through Native Studies - a discipline that "conducts research that benefits

Spring 2019

Campbell, Tiffany M.

Following the call, made by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015), for government to fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the framework for reconciliation, those invested in Alberta’s consultation with Indigenous peoples have

wondered what this would mean for the future relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. This thesis draws on critical theory scholarship to investigate how the politics of reconciliation are entangled with the liberal politics of recognition and settler colonialism in Canada. I employ

techniques of discourse analysis in order to consider a set of interviews conducted with ‘Indigenous Relations Specialists’—a group of Government of Alberta colleagues working in the province’s offices for Aboriginal Consultation on land and natural resource management—to develop a better understanding of

Spring 2019

Quiroga Yañez, Patricia Cristina

The study I present here is about Indigenous knowledge and its integration with science. The purpose of working with such integration, is to propose management principles for an area in the Bolivian Amazon that is both a national park and Indigenous territory—a double category area.The Tacana

-Quechua people have been impacted by the colonial period and are currently witnessing the poor results of management plans born of international declarations and conventions. I assert that the dialogue in these organizations and institutions is insufficient and fails to include the Indigenous view of

towards the Indigenous view of nature, so I conceived a management framework in accordance with the Quechua geometric representation of space, and proposed a new organization of scientific disciplines and academic fields of study that I called evolving disciplines. The principles that I have proposed

Spring 2020

Vowel, Chelsea May

Indigenous futurisms, a term coined by Grace Dillon in 2003, and indebted to Afrofuturism, seeks to describe a movement of art, literature, games, and other forms of media that express Indigenous perspectives on the future, present, and past. This research outlines the scope of Métis futurisms as

being a specific kind of Indigenous futurism, rooted in otipêyimisiw-itâpisiniwina, Métis worldviews. Using autoethnography and research-creation, I wrote four speculative fiction short stories set within the kinscapes of Métis from manitow-sâkihikan as a form of what Scott Lyons calls rhetorical

2021-04-13

Parlee, Brenda

NFRF-T awarded 2021: The scope of the project is novel in its combined concern with the well-being of Indigenous peoples and the conservation of biodiversity; it is also unique in its intention to build capacity within Indigenous communities to document and mobilize knowledge about biodiversity

-well-being in ways that are recognized by regional-national-global institutions of biodiversity conservation. We propose a place-based participatory approach that allows for capacity-building, evidence-based research, knowledge mobilization and action in key regions globally. Led by Indigenous scholars

and an Indigenous Advisory Council, the research team will engage in collaborative community-based research within Canada and 5 other global hubs.