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2024-07-01

Raheel Malkan

Tlicho stories and their history. While I collected the stories for this project, I realized I did not know how to visually represent this community in a culturally appropriate manner. There exists a lot of Pan-Indian imagery and guidance on the web on how to represent indigenous cultures, however, very

systems to create imagery for different Indigenous nations? This question is at the center of my thesis. To address this question, I worked with the Tlicho Dene to determine how to build a community-specific visual identity guideline. While the identity guideline itself will serve as a tool for future

designers working with the Tlicho on visual projects, the process it takes to build this research will be a guide for designers who collaborate with Indigenous nations on visual communication projects.

Fall 2018

Pillay, Thashika

, economic, social, and cultural structures and systems organize the world and influence young women’s responses, both as individuals and as collectives. Young women of African descent are also influenced by African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS), a philosophy rooted in a relational worldview and

within an Indigenous hermeneutics and draws on the work of Manulani Aluli Meyer as well as Desmond Tutu’s conceptualization of Ubuntu. Using a critical qualitative research design that included focus group and semi-structured interviews with nine young women participants and analysis of relevant

between young African Canadian women? How do African Indigenous systems of knowing, seeing, and being influence young African Canadian’s women’s practices of understanding, engagement, and resistance in their local, national, and extra-local communities? What educational and activist platforms are

Fall 2023

Smith, Eric NF

colonialism in clinical healthcare. More specifically, I argue that the Principlist paradigm is foundationally entangled with colonial thought – a mindset that permits the health- based oppression of Indigenous persons in countries such as Canada under the appearance of “ethical” conduct. This entanglement

will be illustrated by presenting the core arguments of Principles of Biomedical Ethics against a backdrop of colonial wrongdoings involving medicine and Indigenous persons. The discord between these wrongdoings and the paradigm’s espoused righteousness reveal that Principlism avoids anti-colonial

2014-11-26

Campbell, Sandy, Dorgan, Marlene, Tjosvold, Lisa

This session about creating search filters to identify studies related to Canadian Indigenous people in health-related bibliographic databases was presented at the The Arctic: Prospects for Sustainable Development, Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), 26-28 November 2014

2020-01-01

SSHRC

Guidelines provided to peer adjudicators of the SSHRC Insight Development grant competition. Includes the scoring matrix and advice regarding evaluation of budgets, Indigenous research, knowledge mobilization, research-creation, research training, and other sections of the application.

2020-06-01

Karsgaard, Carrie; Mackay, Mackenzie; Catholique, Alexandria

mitigate the negative effects. This lesson exposes students to resource development projects in the Northwest Territories, introduces how Indigenous knowledge and local communities contribute to understanding of toxins, and allows students to investigate the environmental disturbances that can arise from

Fall 2016

Rose-Marie Nigli

This research, through a theology of appreciative voice, Presence and Service, used an Indigenous expressive arts-based approach in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company, to explore how a group of 15 vulnerable, immigrant and/or first generation immigrant youth live with their struggles while

Fall 2021

Tootonsab, Zahra

This research-creation questions and resists colonial technologies such as industrialization and urbanization that exploit environments and IBPOC peoples–Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour–as resources for colonial "progress." The research examines how nature and human relations intersect

expropriating and exhausting under the guise of growth and improvement. The section titled "Rupture" is a poetic unveiling of how the "improving eye" disrupts nature by inflicting violence on Indigenous and minority groups. "Rupture," therefore, explores how research-creation can be a mode of resisting and

Fall 2017

Roy Denis, Chantal A

histories of forced displacement visible, in order to challenge narratives that erase Indigenous histories, and enables a platform by which Indigenous histories and relations to the land may be reframed. Wolf Lake serves as an important reminder of the existence of Métis territory, and the importance of

Fall 2012

Del Carpio Ovando, Karla Berenice

Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, this research investigated the situation of the Tsotsil language spoken in Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico, by focusing on the implementation of a Spanish-Tsotsil bilingual elementary school. It was possible to discover that the Tsotsil language is still alive...