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2021-01-01

Hoek, Lindsay Vander

This paper demonstrates the increasing recognition and need for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) in Canada, for reasons related to biodiversity protection, reconciliation, and cultural connection. While awareness of this need is increasing at a national level, this paper questions

whether themes found and suggested by the 2018 Indigenous Circle of Experts Report We Rise Together are present in Northern Alberta conserved and protected areas. A conceptual framework is developed using themes from the national Indigenous Circle of Experts Report and literature, highlighting the need

for Indigenous leadership, and for Western style protected area management to create the space for Indigenous leadership and Traditional Knowledge in the care of conserved and protected areas. The conceptual framework uses themes of Ethical Space and Paradigm Shift to analyze four representative case

2017-03-01

Parlee, Brenda

Tracking Change is a six year, SSHRC funded, interdisciplinary research project co-led by Indigenous communities and researcher partners across the Mackenzie, Mekong and Amazon basins. The project foregrounds local and Indigenous knowledge about the impacts of climate change and development on

Spring 2020

Howard, Lindsey L

disadvantage, caregiver mental health, family functioning, and children’s social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes are less clear, particularly in vulnerable families, such as Foreign-Born Immigrants, Foreign-Born Refugees, Canadian-Born Indigenous, and those families with a lone caregiver. Previous

was found consistently across groups and children’s outcomes. An exception was that caregiver’s mental health was not predictive of children’s adaptive skills in Canadian-Born Indigenous families. In the overall sample, there were small effects found between family functioning with children’s

externalizing and internalizing problems but stronger relationships were found with behavioral symptoms and adaptive skills. Within represented groups, family functioning was a stronger predictor of children’s outcomes in Canadian-Born Indigenous and Canadian-Born Non-Indigenous Families, than for the Foreign

2024-06-01

Brinston, Allyson

revitalization in action, part of a research project involving Indigenous youth in actively using their Indigenous languages. Through such community-based activities, this work aims to create immersive environments where language is taught and lived. The words scattered across the lower part of the image are

greetings in different Indigenous languages, illustrating the research's focus on everyday usage as a vehicle for learning. This approach emphasizes communication and connection within the community, fostering a natural and functional language acquisition. Documenting youth participation in language

underscores the essential role that younger generations play in the survival and thriving of Indigenous languages. The image shows how language revitalization efforts can engage young minds in the vital task of cultural preservation.

2024-06-13

Campbell, Sandy

The Sámi people (also Sami and Saami) are Indigenous people who live in Sámpi, the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Northwestern Russia. Their flag has existed since 1986.

Fall 2019

Nikkel, Jacob

oppression of Indigenous people and other people of colour. The central argument of the thesis is that ethnicity plays an important role in constructing the myriad forms of white settler dysconsciousness present among white settlers. I draw on literature in the fields of settler colonial studies, critical

race and whiteness studies, and critical Indigenous studies, as well as the example of Mennonite settlers in the prairies in Canada, to support this work.

2022-05-16

Ethan Reitz

Canada, a nation-state founded on colonialism, “a form of structured dispossession,” (Coulthard, 2014, p. 7) has made efforts to amend for harms caused to First Peoples by its racist policies. Yet conflicts around Indigenous sovereignty continue to play out, often in remote territories where

mainstream media seldom ventures. At the same time, a resurgence of Indigenous Nations has found expression in a movement to reoccupy traditional territories never ceded to the state, revitalizing Indigenous relationships with the land and increasing the potential for conflict with extractive industry. My

Capstone Project examines these tensions through the lens of communications and technology. First, I present a review of contemporary, predominately Canadian, literature on the subject of conducting research ethically with Indigenous communities in the evolving context of Indigenous resurgence and struggle

Spring 2011

Sockbeson, Rebecca Cardinal

This research focuses on documenting the efforts of the Waponahki people to design and pass legislated policy that effectively addresses racism and the process of colonization in school curriculum. The Waponahki, Indigenous to Maine and the Maritime Provinces, set precedent in both Canada and the

justice policy-making model. This work also contributes to the emerging discourse on Indigenous Research Methodologies as critical to the transformation of policy development theory and practice amongst Indigenous peoples. In Alberta, Canada, the Aboriginal student population is the fastest growing of

policy from the lens of an Indigenous Waponahki researcher. The project is also unique because it specifically articulates a Waponahki epistemology and ontology as its foundational research methodology. Guided by the essence, practice, and principles of Waponahki basket weaving and creation story, the

Fall 2017

Parent, David NB

. While FRED and Legassé may have framed Halfbreed life in impoverished terms, this thesis is about more than what government had to say about Halfbreeds in postwar Interlake Manitoba. Through the application of Indigenous Studies theorizations of immediacy by Brendan Hokowhitu and density by Chris

Spring 2024

Haines, Emily L.

Indigenous peoples in the region during the fur trade, this presence wanes as “Edmonton Settlement” arises; if Indigenous peoples are included in the story past 1870, they are being dispossessed of their lands, rights, and cultures, while simultaneously, European immigrants take the spotlight to form a true

precursor to the Euro-Canadian city that would emerge. This story ignores a significant presence of the Métis, an Indigenous people who were among the chief inhabitants of Edmonton Settlement, and who remained throughout the nineteenth-century, into the twentieth, and continue to call the city home. This is

“counter-mapping,” a practice used to visualize marginalized knowledge. The final result is a series of counter-maps illustrating the materials and spaces associated with historical Métis peoples and the relational networks, demonstrating and adding to the story of Métis Indigenous knowledge, history