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Spring 2024

Qadri, Ali H

Background COVID-19 has impacted health and well-being globally; some populations have been disproportionately impacted. The experience of Indigenous peoples living in Northern Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic is influenced by their cultural and geographical context. Indigenous peoples in Canada

, such as housing. Thus, COVID-19 may pose a greater health risk to Indigenous peoples in Northern Canada. This thesis explores the experiences of Indigenous peoples living in Northern Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, and aims to provide high-level policy recommendations for future pandemic response

. Methods This research used a mixed methods research (MMR) study design. Components of the study design included: (1) a secondary data analysis of a GNWT COVID-19 dataset, (2) individual interviews with Indigenous Elders, using a descriptive qualitative approach; and (3) a literature review to identify

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

Fall 2013

Smyth, Brendan M.

This dissertation examines four Indigenous novels published in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 2000. Building upon Indigenous and non-Indigenous theories of literary nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and globalization, this project focuses on narrative articulations of Indigenous

cultural and political sovereignty that foreground and are cognizant of global political, economic, cultural, and environmental entanglements. One of the key intentions of this study is to underscore the importance of examining how modes of Indigenous being-in-common are articulated in fiction written

within a context of neoliberalism. Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead is foundational in terms of its critique of the practices and ideologies of neoliberal globalization, its representation of Indigenous modes of being-in-relation and resistance, its association of Indigenous sovereignty with

Fall 2013

Sinclair, Jeannette R

Abstract This work reveals the relationship between Indigenous people and land, and then speaks to the place for ancestors and Indigenous knowledge in this relationship. It engages with Indigenous Research Methodology that honours Indigenous ways of knowing and being, drawing on the lived

experiences of Indigenous people from the Lesser Slave Lake area and giving meaning and voice to the lives of the people. This study addresses the marginalization of the people, their dispossession of land, and the disconnection to Indigenous language and culture that occurred as a result of oppression

, colonization, and subjugation of their traditional territories, knowledge, history and identities. The work examines the relationship that connects Indigenous Cree identity with the sense of belonging that is essential to Indigenous ways of knowing. This work draws on ancestral relationships of the past

Spring 2023

Scheuneman Scott, Isabel MS

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

newsletter that was published between 1972 and 1995 within the former Prison for Women (P4W) in Kingston, Ontario. I aim to document Indigenous women’s storied truths and lived experiences within Canada’s prison system which include, for example, the criminalization process as it relates to Indigenous women

, the solidarity expressed by the Native Sisterhood that resulted from their experiences of inequality at P4W, as well as their dreams for Indigenous and social justice. Importantly, I balance my analyses between instances of colonial trauma (including experiences of incarceration) with stories of hope

Fall 2022

Lindquist, Kelsey

Indigenous labour market statistics are a key technology through which the Canadian nation-state reaffirms its possession of Indigenous land. Colonizing settler norms, values, and racialized understandings inform the dominant methodological approach to Indigenous labour market statistics resulting

in the persistent production of deficit-based, racialized statistical depictions of Indigeneity. The purported objectivity and neutrality of quantitative data, however, obscures the racialized origins and parameters of dominant statistical research on Indigenous labour market outcomes. This thesis

denaturalizes the dominant methodological approach to Indigenous labour market statistics. The process of denaturalizing the dominant quantitative methodology undertaken in this thesis is twofold. First, I explicate colonizing power relations at three different levels of abstraction to expose the dominant

Fall 2016

Bear, Tracy L

This dissertation explores how Indigenous articulations of sensuality, sexuality and gender form erotic expressions and act as decolonizing mechanisms. I address the question, “If this is my body, where are my stories?” by arguing for the recovery and what I call the practice of an Indigenous

eroticanalysis as a reclamation of sovereignty over our Indigenous bodies. The condemnatory language of historical settler accounts suggests that the criminalization of Indigenous sexualities and genders began at first contact. Any freedoms or diversities of Indigenous sexuality and gender were silenced with

colonial language steeped in sexual sin, shame, and perversity. The damnation of Indigenous bodies led to the colonial invocation of “terra nullius” meaning “empty lands” to justify the theft, possession, and exploitation of Indigenous territories. Today, retaining ownership of Indigenous lands depends

Fall 2021

Young, Elliott

Since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action (Canada, 2015), there has been a movement to include Indigenous voices, epistemologies, and ontologies into institutions and systems to support Indigenization. The goal of the research is to gain insight into the practices

of Indigenous scholars incorporating Indigenous knowledge into the academy, learning from the highlights, struggles, and challenges along the way. The research objectives are to: 1) capture the story of each Indigenous scholar's journey in finding their own identity and coming to know Indigenous

knowledge, 2) capture the ways Indigenous scholars foster environments that encourages learning about relationality, culture, Indigenous knowledge and identities, and 3) reflect on the ways that their stories are shaping/informing my understanding of Indigenous identities and knowledge within the academy

Spring 2021

Sokoluk, Lori-Anne

Overall, the research aimed to situate urban Indigenous perspectives and experiences within the field of community engagement and inform the practice of urban Indigenous community engagement. The research is focused on understanding the ways that urban Indigenous people in Edmonton are involved in

efforts to address the challenges they face. As well as, whether a decolonizing lens informs engagement processes in an urban Indigenous context. For several decades, Indigenous organizations in urban centers have been working to address socio-economic inequality created by the impacts of colonization

. The elimination of poverty and broader inequality is an important aspect of improving the overall wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. Public engagement is one of the tools used by government to identify issues, needs and priorities on various issues, however, this type of engagement has become a

Fall 2018

Shortt, Rebecca

For the past 400 years Indigenous peoples in Canada have actively resisted colonial impositions on their way of life (Simpson, 2011). The impact of the relationship that non-Indigenous people have had with Indigenous people during these times of resistance has been both positive and negative. The

commencement of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2008 prompted the wider conversation of Canada’s difficult relationship with Indigenous peoples and an exploration of how to begin the process of reconciliation. However, the final report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission left many

, particularly non-Indigenous people, struggling with their roles and responsibilities to achieving reconciliation, or what steps they could take to become a settler-ally. At the same time, many scholars began to critique the concept of reconciliation, calling instead for Indigenous resurgence (Simpson, 2011