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Spring 2013

Nakagawa, Satoru

Undertaken on Tokunoshima, an island colonized by Japan in the 17th century, this research speaks to the critical question of the loss of Indigenous languages and the resultant loss of ethnic pluralism. In general, people on Tokunoshima claim that Shima-guchi (language), Shima-culture, and Shiman

Indigenous people within a colonized territory, this mixed methods study was undertaken within and shaped by an Indigenous Tokunoshima research paradigm, one which honours the voices of the participants and elicits particular reciprocities and obligations on the part of the Indigenous researcher

Fall 2023

Schmaus, Lucas

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

northern Indigenous communities to the combined impacts of extractive resource development and climate change through individual semi-structured interviews with mine workers, Elders, and local government officials. The Tłı̨chǫ, Dene peoples residing in the Northwest Territories have built capacities, but

self-determination continues to be challenged by historical and ongoing colonialism, including the unequal recognition of Indigenous rights, the social and environmental impacts of industrial development and most recently, the impacts of climate change. Taking a political economy focussed approach to

Spring 2024

Jones, Lisa Joelle Knisley

Background: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has drawn attention to the inequalities and systemic harms experienced by Indigenous Peoples in Canada, calling on the Canadian government and healthcare professionals to close the gap in Indigenous communities’ access to appropriate healthcare

services. A fundamental step in achieving this objective is engaging Indigenous families in developing health information that: (a) adequately and respectfully engages Indigenous families and serves their information needs; and (b) includes Indigenous knowledge and practices as core and robust sources of

information. The Canadian Constitution recognizes Métis, First Nations, and Inuit Peoples as the three Indigenous groups and first peoples of Canada. Métis have expressed a need for reliable health information, emphasizing that health systems have left many of their information needs unmet. This research

Fall 2012

Kolopenuk, Jessica

While scholarship has recognized the role that sex discrimination has played in the naming of “Indians” in Canada, one aspect of this depiction has been minimized. In addition to the gendering of Indigenous subjectivities, Canada has consistently racialized us/them through practices of juridical

categorization. The latest court case dealing with Indian registration, McIvor v. Canada, (re)produced this practice. This thesis explores McIvor to understand the relational struggles, limitations, and authority the courts engender when existing constructions of Indigenous legal recognition are challenged. I

racialized and racializing state. I seek to demonstrate how Canadian sovereignty is (re)produced through racialized constructions of Indigenous legal recognition in McIvor.

2019-03-31

Tanya Ball, Anne Carr-Wiggin, Kayla Lar-Son

The University of Alberta Libraries (UAL), along with eleven other institutions across Turtle Island / North America and Hawai’i, participated in a research project to explore the research practices and needs of scholars in Indigenous Studies with a view to improving library services. The UAL

research team conducted semi-structured interviews with thirteen faculty members and graduate students in the Faculty of Native Studies and other faculties, providing for diversity in areas of research and career stages. Indigenous and mainstream research methodologies were used in the study. Relationships

metadata; support for research data management; support for discovery and research; hiring and retention of Indigenous staff; and library staff learning about Indigenous perspectives.

2019-02-08

Borys, Christina, Cowley, Kendra, Plesuk, Tabatha

This presentation speaks to the curation of “Dispatch from the Frontlines: Water Protection and Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence Along the Athabasca River,” a display created for LIS 598: Indigenous Contexts for Library and Information Studies in Canada. The questions that guide the display

, and thus this presentation, include: how do we use library space and resources for reconciliatory education? What learning might facilitate understanding of Indigenous relationality to the land while fostering a sense of land-connectivity for all of us dependent on the survival of the planet? Our

display speaks to both a history of Indigenous resistance to colonialism and contemporary (and urgent) manifestations of Indigenous lead climate justice action. “Dispatch from the Frontlines” is informed by the idea that stories, relationships, and direct action, fuel a fundamental connectivity to water

2021-02-01

Wildcat, Matthew Caldwell

SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: The objective of the Relational Governance Project (RGP) is to study how First Nations create shared jurisdiction with each other to deliver governmental services.A second objective of the proposed research is examining policy making within Indigenous led institutions ­ what

I am calling Critical Indigenous Policy Studies. I anticipate the RGP will last 10­15 years and will be guided by two research questions: i) Where and how do First Nations successfully create forms of shared jurisdiction with each other in the delivery of governmental services? ii) What methods and

theories are needed for policy research that focuses on Indigenous led institutions? This proposal outlines two pressing research needs. First, the RGP will create a database on the governance of First Nations education authorities in the prairie provinces. Second, the RGP will lead an interview process on

Spring 2023

McMillan, Bethany

eighteenth century. Fidler and Thompson developed different conceptions of the Rocky Mountains from their eastern slope, which is evident in their fur trade and exploration journals. Several factors influenced their conceptions of the mountains. Indigenous inhabitants of the Plains shared maps and

navigational knowledge of the landscape with Fidler, who did not have the opportunity to survey the region himself, as trade was the top priority for the HBC. Thompson, surveyed for the NWC, and employed Indigenous people, as hunters and guides, to help him expand the reaches of the NWC into new territory as

he surveyed the landscape along the way. Ultimately, Thompson demonstrated a tenaciously European and western view of the Rocky Mountains whereas Fidler’s conception of the Rocky Mountains portrayed an early appreciation for Indigenous knowledge as well as a hybrid style of mapping that married

2014-01-01

Anderson, Jalene T, Collins, Damian

A scoping review was carried out to investigate the prevalence and causes of urban homelessness among Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Relevant information was sought from both academic and grey literatures. Data on prevalence were sourced from homeless count reports

. Analysis reveals Indigenous peoples are consistently over-represented within urban homeless populations, often by a factor of 5 or more. Literature addressing causation is limited, with just 35 relevant studies identified. These were reviewed to build a thematic and contextual account of urban Indigenous

homelessness. Eight key themes were evident, which encompass different cultural understandings of housing and mobility, as well as complex and often traumatic relationships between settler states and Indigenous peoples. Individually and collectively, these factors greatly complicate Indigenous peoples

Spring 2019

Purcell, Kaitlyn

In the introduction to my thesis, I discuss how I use a writing technique in my creative work in order to cope with the process of writing autobiography. As an Indigenous scholar and creative writer, I have been influenced by Indigenous research methodologies that support the practice of

was inspired by my experiences as a troubled adolescent to write these stories, and as an Indigenous scholar it was crucial that I wrote these stories to come to terms with myself, and consequently making myself a better academic and creative writer. The first section of this collection begins with