Key Books to Start your Research
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Inconvenient Indian by A deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada-U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and popular culture, wrestles with the history of Native American resistance and his own experiences as a Native rights activist, and articulates a profound, revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands.Call Number: E77 .K566 2012ISBN: 9780385664219Publication Date: 2012 -
Children of the broken treaty : Canada's lost promise and one girl's dream by The author Charlie Angus establishes a dark, unbroken line that extends from the policies of John A. Macdonald to the government of today. He provides chilling insight into how Canada--through breaches of treaties, broken promises, and callous neglect--deliberately denied First Nations children their basic human rights.Call Number: E96.65.O56 A54 2015 (6th floor)ISBN: 9780889774018Publication Date: 2015 -
Unsettling the settler within : Indian residential schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada by A compassionate call to action, this powerful book offers a new and hopeful path toward healing the wounds of the past. The book argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation. Settlers must relinquish the persistent myth of themselves as peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy of a society that has stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous experience.Call Number: E96.5 .R44 2010ISBN: 9780774817776Publication Date: 2010 -
Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal by From the Canadian Indian Act to Freud's Totem and Taboo to films such as Nanook of the North, all manner of cultural artefacts have been used to create a distinction between savagery and civilization. In this book the author examines the historical production of aboriginality in colonial cultural practices and its impact on the everyday lives of indigenous women, youth, and children. Adopting a materialist-semiotic approach, Emberley explores the ways in which representational technologies - film, photography, and print culture, including legal documents and literature - were crucial to British colonial practices. Many indigenous scholars, writers, and artists, however, have confounded these practices by deploying aboriginality as a complex and enabling sign of social, cultural, and political transformation. Emberley gives due attention to this important work, studying a wide range of topics such as race, place, and motherhood, primitivism and violence, and sexuality and global political kinships.Call Number: NX652.I53 E42 2007ISBN: 9780802091512Publication Date: 2007 -
Decolonizing education : nourishing the learning spirit by Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Chronicling the negative consequences of forced assimilation and the failure of current educational policies to bolster the social and economic conditions of Aboriginal populations, Battiste proposes a new model of education. Current educational policies must undergo substantive reform. Central to this process is the rejection of the racism inherent to colonial systems of education, and the repositioning of Indigenous humanities, sciences, and languages as vital fields of knowledge. We need a revitalized knowledge system which incorporates both Indigenous and Eurocentric thinking. The new model she advocates is based on her experiences growing up in a Mi'kmaw community, and the decades she has spent as a teacher, activist, and university scholar.Call Number: E96.2 .B355 2013ISBN: 9781895830774Publication Date: 2013 -
Indigenous Research Methodologies by Following the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse epistemologies, methods, and methodologies - especially those of women, minority groups, former colonized societies, indigenous people, historically oppressed communities, and people with disabilities, author Bagele Chilisa has written the first research methods textbook that situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context with case studies from around the globe to make very visible the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of research and the historical and cultural traditions of indigenous peoples. Chapters cover the history of research methods, colonial epistemologies, research within postcolonial societies, relational epistemologies, emergent and indigenous methodologies, Afrocentric research, feminist research, language frameworks, interviewing, and building partnerships between researchers and the researched.Call Number: GN380 .C494 2012 (6th Floor)ISBN: 9781412958820Publication Date: 2012
New Video in the Collection
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Hidden legacies : a film by Call Number: E96.5 .H537 2014Publication Date: 2014Profiles young people whose parents and grandparents attended government-initiated, church-run, Indian Residential Schools. In their own words, these inter-generational survivors -- a rapper, a mother, a boxer, a social work student, and others -- share their stories of struggle, resistance and resilience. They show how land, spiritual practice, and family have been sources of strength and transformation.
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Journals and Databases
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Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA)This database, with 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.
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CPI.Q Canadian Periodicals IndexCPI.Q is Gale’s award-winning full-text resource specifically designed to provide instant access to the most requested Canadian reference materials. Covering a wide range of disciplines, CPI.Q is the perfect one-stop resource for researchers in need of information from Canadian-focused journals, magazines, newspapers and reference sources.
CPI.Q features a wealth of Canadian and international periodicals, Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s weekly magazine and Canadian News Facts as well as comprehensive encyclopedic reference material. -
Frontier Life : Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial EncountersThis digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
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Informit Indigenous CollectionA unique platform for Indigenous worldviews and research from Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America and The Pacific. Interdisciplinary research : anthropology, community development, cultural studies, economics, education, health, history, human geography, law and land rights, literature, politics and policymaking, (post)colonial studies, psychology, race studies, sociology and visual and performing arts.
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North American Indian Thought and CultureThis is an American focused Database with some Canadian content.
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ProQuest Research LibraryThis is a multi-Purpose Database that contains Peer Reviewed Articles. It has articles, reports and newspaper articles from a large range of subject areas such as Business, Nursing, History, Politics, Social Work etc.,
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America : History & LifeThis is a history database that contains Peer Reviewed Articles for both Canada and the USA.
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Sociological AbstractsThis database contains Peer Reviewed articles that cover socio-cultural topics related to Aboriginal studies such as women, justice, community, children, etc.
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Social Services AbstractsProvides current Peer Reviewed research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development
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Canadian NewsstreamAccess to newspapers from across Canada.
Government and Community Reports and Statistics
Government of Canada Reports
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada - Publication Catalogue
Health Canada First Nations & Métis - Reports and Publications
Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (including Final Report)
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation - University of Manitoba, includes reports, photos and witness statements
Residential Schools: A Sad Chapter in Canadian History - From CBC.ca Curio, includes reports, witness statements and photos.
Statistics
Statistics Canada - Aboriginal Peoples
Data and statistical reports from the Government of Canada, including the:
Community and Organization Reports
Aboriginal Community Organizations
Aboriginal Healing Foundation - Publications
Centre for First Nation Governance - Reports and Publications
First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada - Reports and Publications
National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)
Political Think-Tanks
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Aboriginal Issues - Publications and Studies
Fraser Institute - Aboriginal Policy
Current Reports (2015)
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015). Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
The Jordan’s Principle Working Group (2015) Without denial, delay, or disruption: Ensuring First Nations children’s access to equitable services through Jordan’s Principle. Ottawa, ON: Assembly of First Nations.
Allan, B. & Smylie, J. (2015). First People, Second Class Treatment: The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Toronto, ON: the Wellesley Institute.
Works by Ryerson Researchers
Current publications 2015
Journey to healing: Aboriginal people with addictions and mental health issues.
By Peter Menzies., & Lynn F Lavallée. (2014)
Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Grannies, Elders, and Friends: Aging Aboriginal Women in Toronto
Cyndy Baskin , Caitlin J. Davey
Journal of Gerontological Social Work Vol. 58, Iss. 1, 2015
Ryerson Authors and their Works
Cyndy Baskin (Social Work)
Hayden King (Politics and Public Administration)
Lynn F Lavallée (Social Work )
Pamela Palmater (Politics and Public Administration)
Academic and personal support for students
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