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Spring 2021

Askin, Courtney

Little is known about how and why Indigenous peoples are engaged in wildland fire management particularly in the areas of wildfire prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery abilities in the event of a threatening wildfire. This qualitative study explored how and why Indigenous

peoples in six case study jurisdictions in Canada and New Zealand are engaged with government fire management agencies in wildfire management, barriers to engagement, and identifies opportunities to increase engagement between governments and Indigenous peoples. This research used a qualitative research

agencies and Indigenous peoples predominantly occurs when agencies respond to a wildland fire affecting Indigenous land and in the employment of Indigenous peoples. The key barriers identified by Indigenous leaders were a lack of trust towards the government, and limited financial support by the federal

Fall 2020

Hawkins, Cole

The impacts of the transatlantic movement of Indigenous Peoples and goods has yet to be fully realized by scholars of the early modern world. Beginning in the sixteenth century, thousands of Indigenous Peoples and an immeasurable amount of goods and technologies moved eastward to Europe. Upon

arrival, Indigenous Peoples, goods, and technologies transformed European cultures and peoples on the continent. While part of a larger phenomenon, this thesis focuses on the physical and material presences of Indigenous Peoples in early modern England as articulated by expressions of Haudenosaunee

diplomacy and diplomatic tobacco use in London. Rooted in Indigenous methodologies, material culture analysis, and Indigenous perspectives of diplomacy and identity, this work shows how formal and informal expressions of Haudenosaunee diplomatic protocols and the Kayanerenkó:wa (The Great Law of Peace) were

Fall 2014

Pelletier Cisneros, Brigitte

Recent studies have examined the roles and politics of human rights in relation to Indigenous peoples. An analysis of the negotiation of rights discourse by Indigenous women in a comparative framework is however lacking in critical scholarship. This study examines how Indigenous women in Canada and

Mexico mobilize rights to challenge the cultural and systemic injustices they endure. With the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and K'inal Antsetik (Mexico) as case studies, this study seeks to explore how Indigenous women in both places perceive and use human rights. The appropriation and

redeployment of rights according to Shannon Speed et al.’s analysis is a useful tool for Indigenous women to apply this discourse to their local realities. A comparative analysis of Indigenous women’s organization’s use of human rights contributes to the establishment of a sustainable, effective and equitable

Fall 2018

Dawson, Leslie

Indigenous people in Canada suffer disproportionately from health disparities, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, and I have explored these health disparities among Indigenous peoples through the lens of embodiment. Framed within the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) model, and

applying a biocultural ethnographic approach combining colonial histories, published epidemiological and anthropometric data, and thematic analysis of Tlicho pregnancy and birth stories, I investigated the impact of the injustices of patriarchal colonialism on Indigenous maternal bodies. I have revealed

that diabetes as a health disparity among Indigenous peoples reflects the maternal embodiment of colonial injustices and reproductive oppressions. These embodied colonial oppressions are manifest in compromised reproductive biologies and, subsequent intergenerational maternal health disparities, which

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McFarlane, Peter, Schabus, Nicole

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TallBear-Dauphine, Kimberly

SSHRC CG awarded 2024: Society, in the early twenty-first century, has been shaped by new knowledge of genomics, also known as the science of DNA, yet Indigenous peoples remain underrepresented in research and leadership roles in genome and other science, technology, math, and engineering fields

. To address the problem of low recruitment, support, and matriculation of Indigenous science students, researchers across Canada and the US have been working with leaders in scientific and Indigenous Peoples' communities to create the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING). SING

Canada is week-long residential program that invites Indigenous participants to engage in hands-on classroom, lab, and field training in genomic sciences and Indigenous knowledge. The curriculum includes an introduction to advances in Indigenous approaches to genomics and its ethical, environmental

Fall 2022

Lightning, Inez L.

designed to engage youth in addressing issues of inequality and poverty through community development. In this thesis I argue that out of the work of the CYC, Indigenous leaders emerged to become catalysts of change, and in addition, the CYC became the vehicle for these youthful volunteers to promote

Indigenous rights and identity. The thesis will also examine the CYC and its relationship with Indigenous Peoples in Western Canada, specifically in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories. In the many CYC projects, relationships and interactions did occur with Indigenous organizations

, such as the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA), the National Indian Council (NIC), the Metis Association of Alberta (MAA) and the Canadian Indian Youth Council (CIYC). These will be discussed. In Alberta, Indigenous and non-Indigenous members of the CYC soon became embroiled in a host of causes

Fall 2017

Gurski, Karlie J

In the decade since the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) went into effect, governments have been promoting, discussing and celebrating the idea of reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and the state. However, in many policy arenas, governments are continuing practices that

reinforce the colonial relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state, casting doubt on the potential of the current reconciliation framework in transforming that relationship. This is particularly evident in the criminal justice system, where an Indigenous person living in Canada is ten times more

likely to be incarcerated in a federal penitentiary than a non-Indigenous person. This disproportionate rate of incarceration is dramatically higher in some provinces and has been climbing steadily over the last few decades. This thesis argues that the over-incarceration of Indigenous peoples is a

Fall 2023

Fankah-Arthur, Hilda

This study explains the influence of African Indigenous Knowledge in the education and identities of Black African Immigrant students within Canada’s Multiculturalism. Black African immigrant student’s identities are formed and shaped by their Indigenous experiences, which influences their socio

-cultural development in Canada. Canada recognizes and promotes diversity and inclusion through the Federal Multiculturalism Act (1988), which preserves and enhances the multicultural heritage of all Canadians. This exploratory research explains how the exclusion of African Indigenous knowledge in the

education of Black African Students impacts them; whether a shift to acknowledge and validate African Indigenous Knowledge would create a better educational impact for Black African Immigrant students; and how multiculturalism enables the diverse population to understand their Human Rights and support the

Fall 2018

Ground, Mackenzie

This thesis examines narratives associated with the city and Indigenous people, knowledge, and culture and it then imagines the creative possibilities of new ways of being in the city. This thesis conceptualizes the beginnings of a culturally grounded Indigenous identity that flourishes in the city

. I critique narratives that associate Indigenous identity as deficient and inauthentic in the city and the colonial narrative that imposes a binary of civil and the uncivil and that denies Indigenous people a sense of belonging in the city.From my research, I argue that there are Indigenous-led ways

to conceptualize the city by seeing the city as animate and from the cosmological view point inherent in Indigenous spiritual practices. My primary argument on the city’s animacy centres on rocks, a living and animate being from a nehiyaw understanding, and to see these rocks as teachers to guide our