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Spring 2020

Chen Chen

This dissertation highlights the value for researchers to visibilize settler colonialism as an important social structure and context in sport management by exploring the implication of two international Indigenous sport events, both hosted in Canada during the country’s celebration of its 150th

anniversary in 2017. Foregrounding the ongoing settler colonial processes in North America that deeply impacts all peoples – both Indigenous and non-Indigenous – at material and epistemic levels, the dissertation sheds some light on the opportunities that these events offer for non-Indigenous media

, volunteers, and sport managers in building more responsible and accountable relations with Indigenous communities as well as identifying the challenges therein, through three studies. First, focusing on the historical complicity of mainstream media in the “othering” of Indigenous Peoples as well as the

Fall 2016

Letendre, Toni Sparkling Eyes

Body image research with Indigenous women typically focuses on the concept of health and their understandings of health. However, it is necessary to acknowledge how Indigenous women’s body image has been shaped through heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism. The purpose of this autoethnography

was to understand Indigenous women’s body image. This study has been guided through an Indigenous perspective that draws from my own Indigenous background as a Nakota and the theoretical framework of Indigenous feminism(s). The guiding research question was ‘how can we create a safe space for

Indigenous women to seek empowerment and find opportunity to share their own body image narratives of heteropatriarchal colonial and sexual violence?’ Typically, in our society when individuals speak up about the violence they experience, they are victim-blamed and shunned. When Indigenous women experience

Fall 2014

Bourque, Raymonde Lisa L.

“Mâmawoh kamâtowin: Coming Together To Help Each Other: Honouring Indigenous Nursing Knowledge is the result of coming to know and understand my own Indigenous experience while working with four Indigenous nurse scholars Alice Reid, Evelyn Voyageur, Madeleine Dion Stout, and Lea Bill. Using an

Indigenous research approach I draw from the collective experience and attend to the question of how Indigenous knowledge manifests itself in the practices of Indigenous nurses and how it can better serve individuals, families and communities. This research framework centers Indigenous principles, processes

considerations. What was central to this study was that Indigenous knowledge has always been fundamental to the Indigenous nurses’ ways of undertaking nursing practice regardless of the systemic and historical barriers faced when providing healthcare for Indigenous peoples. The outcomes of this research showed

Spring 2024

Long, Keara

This thesis introduces the theory of possessive ecologies, offering a critical alternative to the dominant paradigms of knowledge integration in environmental science, grounded in Moreton-Robinson's ontology of possession and Whyte's Indigenous ecologies. I argue that the field of environmental

science plays a crucial role in shaping our understanding of race and property in the colonial context, especially in how landscapes extensively managed by Indigenous peoples have been depicted as untouched or natural. This narrative distortion, along with physical changes made to ecosystems during

colonial times, has effectively hidden the rich history and current practices of Indigenous management of these lands. I challenge the widely accepted split that places Indigenous knowledge on one side and scientific knowledge on the other as largely separate. Instead, I argue that these forms of knowledge

Spring 2020

Gallagher, Gail

Artistic expression can be used as a tool to promote activism, to educate and to provide healing opportunities for the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG). Indigenous activism has played a significant role in raising awareness of the MMIWG issue in Canada, through

the uniting of various Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. The role that the Walking With Our Sisters (WWOS) initiative and the REDress project plays in bringing these communities together, to reduce the sexual exploitation and marginalization of Indigenous women, will be examined. These two

commemorative projects bring an awareness of how Indigenous peoples interact with space in political and cultural ways, and which mainstream society erases. This thesis will demonstrate that through the process to bring people together, there has been education of the MMIWG issue, with more awareness developed

2012-01-01

Anna Wilson MEd.

Canadian history. This answer is supported by the following concepts: 1. We must learn the Indigenous names of the land to learn how to be better stewards of the land. “In Cree Canada means the land that is clean” (Cardinal, 1951, p.3). Skutnabb-Kangas (2001) argues that the preservation of global

linguistic diversity is essential to ecological biodiversity (p. 208). 2. Indigenous languages must be de-stigmatized to inspire Aboriginal students to learn them. 3. Learning the Aboriginal names of the Canadian provinces and territories prior to European contact is a good way to increase Aboriginal pride

have names that come from Aboriginal sources. My argument is that the Aboriginal names of Canada's provinces and territories must become a pillar of the Canadian school curriculum in the struggle to de-stigmatize Indigenous languages. I argue that educators must become active on the policy committee

Fall 2018

McFadyen, Krista

The United Nations’ (UN) adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in 2007 is broadly viewed as a critical occasion for Indigenous peoples, the UN system, and international law. The UNDRIP was a result of over 20 years of rigorous debate and

negotiation between Indigenous representatives, nation states, UN officials, and community organizations over issues of Indigenous survival, dignity, and well-being. Credited as being more comprehensive in substance and more extensive in scope than any other instrument dedicated to Indigenous peoples, the

UNDRIP formally recognizes Indigenous as Peoples with associated rights and is substantiated through international human rights machinery. The fervent process of the deliberations and the suspense of the delayed ratifications by Canada has perhaps negated some difficult questions regarding the

2017-10-27

Tailfeathers, Esther

Dr. Esther Tailfeathers works as a physician with Alberta Health Services in both Fort Chipewyan, in northern Alberta and Blood (Kainai) Indian Reserve in southern Alberta. Dr Tailfeathers speaks about the state of the health of Indigenous people in Alberta. She also addressed the determinants

Fall 2023

Barlow, A. F.

After no reduction in Indigenous incarceration rates, the initiatives set out by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in R. v. Gladue [1999] have become a more than two-decades-long disappointment, having utterly failed in keeping their commitment to lower Indigenous incarceration rates and bring

about justice to Indigenous people and their communities. This project is a preliminary review of R. v. Gladue [1999], Gladue scholarship, and grey literature to uncover ethical issues in re-storying Indigenous trauma through Gladue reports and presenting them to public courts. My analysis of Gladue

materials illustrates the state’s sidestepping of responsibility for Indigenous trauma by situating settler colonialism solely in the past rather than admitting its ongoing harms. I show that Gladue reporting processes, as settler-colonial operations, can, in fact, (re)provoke felt trauma for Indigenous

Spring 2014

Johnson, Daniel Morley

This thesis examines Indigenous rhetorics of resistance from the Treaty Six negotiations in 1876 to the 1930s. Using methods from Comparative Literature and Indigenous literary studies, the thesis situates the rhetoric of northern Plains Indigenous peoples in the context of settler-colonial studies

, Indigenous literary nationalism, and Plains Indigenous concepts of nationhood and governance, and introduces the concept of rhetorical autonomy (an extension of literary nationalism) as an organizing framework. The thesis examines the ways Plains Indigenous writers and leaders have resisted settler

-colonialism through both rhetorical and physical acts of resistance. Making use of archival and published works, the thesis is a literary and political history of Indigenous peoples from their origins on the northern plains to the period of political organizing after World War I.