Canada protests over Indian Residential Schools expand

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Residential Schools ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Indian Residential Schools

Significance The discovery of the bodies of hundreds of children at Canada’s former Indian Residential Schools has unleashed a wave of anger and mourning across Canada’s growing Indigenous population. More discoveries are expected, posing challenges for the country’s economic and social fabric. Impacts Public works projects may slow amid intensified disputes between the Canadian state and Indigenous peoples over lands and resources. There will be more pressure to share wealth from economic activity that directly affects Indigenous communities. Indigenous communities are likely to benefit from greater control over the design and delivery of government services. Cultural and academic institutions will increasingly prioritise and amplify Indigenous voices and perspectives. Canada’s reputation as an advocate for human rights will be affected by its handling of the residential schools issue.

The development experiences of two small African and Northern European communities under globalisation

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 234-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomi Ovaska ◽  
Louw Van der Walt ◽  
Robert B. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Northern European ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Literature ◽  
Global World

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to focus on the development experience in the global world of two small communities, Viimsi in Estonia and Magog in South Africa. These two communities were chosen as exemplars because the authors were familiar with both, and understood them to be illustrative of differing outcomes of interaction of small communities with the global economy offering the prospect of generalisation of findings to the framework and theory. Twenty years ago, both were poor, since then Viimsi has become wealthy, while Magopa remains poor. It is not believed that becoming the wealthiest community in Estonia was Viimsi’s per-determined destiny. What people of Viimsi did to make their community a success relative to the surrounding peer communities is a story of the visible as much as the invisible attributes. Design/methodology/approach – These attributes are examined using a framework the authors’ originally developed to explore the participation of Indigenous communities in the global economy in pursuit of development as they defined it. A thorough investigation was done on the interactions among various community stakeholder groups in an attempt to describe the social fabric of these two communities, and this was used to explain why Viimsi was able to take advantage of globalisation, when Magopa was not. Findings – While it will be hard, no doubt, to translate all the success attributes of Viimsi to a different location and time, some of the lessons that were uncovered from the study are universal in nature, making them potentially useable for other small communities trying to find their way in the global world. Research limitations/implications – Studying only two communities means that the generalisation of the findings is limited to theory. None can be made directly to the population of similar communities, except indirectly through exploration using the theory being developed to test its validity in other circumstances. Practical implications – The findings from this paper will increase the understanding of the factors that contribute the a community’s success of lack of, in participating in the global economy. Originality/value – This is an under-researched area within development literature.

Through children’s eyes

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-460
Author(s):  
Daniela Bascuñán
Keyword(s):  
Residential Schools ◽  
Classroom Research ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Indian Residential Schools ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Student Participant ◽  
Inquiry Stance

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore young students' perceptions about the impacts of Indian residential schools. A hopeful era of reconciliation has been ushered in to confront the injustices committed to approximately 150,000 indigenous children and youth in Canada’s Indian residential schools in the not-so-distant past. Of these children, there were at least 6,000 recorded deaths; those who survived, faced the devastating impacts of forced assimilation. In the spirit of making “relation to and with the past, opening us to a reconsideration of the terms of our lives now as well as in the future” (Simon, 2006, p. 189), the author invited eight- and nine-year-olds to depict their thoughts about Indian residential schools. Design/methodology/approach A practitioner inquiry stance was used in this study. This approach takes into account that teachers are uniquely positioned to carry out highly contextualized classroom research. The data include a documentary analysis, observations of students’ work and short interview-like prompts. The data also included stimulated recall using student-participant responses to elicit feelings, thoughts, attitudes and beliefs (Freeman, 1998). A collaborative approach to the data analysis“engaging the author’s own and students’ interpretations of their work”allowed for a range of perspectives that address representativeness (Cornish et al., 2014). Findings Students’ representations reveal that even young children engage in political thought by understanding governance structures that are impinged upon young lives in Indian residential schools. The students in this study positioned themselves as “cultural citizens” (Kuttner, 2015) by contributing compelling ideas on power, relationships, displacement, assimilation and identity, in their mixed media texts. Rather than reducing what they had learned only to questions of oppression, they proposed possibilities of living a more ethical present by including teachings about living more ethically than those that have come before them. Originality/value This work aims to deepen decolonizing possibilities in classroom research, particularly in elementary classrooms.

Mexican indigenous strategy will not reduce poverty

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Public Event ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
Total Coverage

Subject The ineffectiveness of the government's strategy for helping the indigenous poor in either tackling inequality or raising them out of poverty. Significance During a public event to mark the International Day of Indigenous Peoples on August 11, President Enrique Pena Nieto unveiled his government's so-called 'Total Coverage Strategy', which seeks to address the lack of basic services -- in particular drinking water, sanitation and electricity -- in small indigenous localities. The programme will benefit an estimated 2 million people living in 3,250 localities. The announcement came a few weeks after official figures showed that poverty -- which overwhelmingly affects the country's indigenous population -- remained largely unchanged between 2012 and 2014. Impacts The likelihood of another indigenous uprising such as that of the Zapatistas in Chiapas in 1994 remains low. Nevertheless, the government's lack of progress on indigenous issues will fuel tensions. Conflicts over investment projects and environmental issues in indigenous areas will also increase. The government will appease locals and seek votes through clientelist tactics.

scholarly journals Folk midwifery in change. The case the Tarascan Indians' Region

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Anna Helena Wądołowska
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
Public Clinics

The article was originally published without an abstract. Short description: The article relates to the role of folk midwifery in social processes among indigenous communities in Michoacán. In the 1970s the Mexican government decided to include practitioners of traditional medicine as assistants in public clinics. The intention was to facilitate acceptance of western medicine among the indigenous population. The article describes the practice of integrating traditional healers and midwifes in Michoacán, and the indigenous peoples’ and doctors’ opinions on it. Short description written by Michal Gilewski

scholarly journals Turning Indios into Nationals. The Field of Indigenism in Brazil and Paraguay From the Beginning of the 19th to the End of the 20th Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (9) ◽  
pp. 131-149
Author(s):  
Darius Piwowarczyk
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
National Society ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

Indigenism is a particular Latin American version of cultural field (in Bourdieu's sense) whose various participants (most notably government agencies, missionaries, anthropologists, media people, members of non-governmental organizations, as well as political and religious leaders of indigenous communities) vie for the prerogative to determine and enforce a historically specific notion of “Indigenousness” as part of the process of defining the national self. This process includes, among other things, efforts to “convert” and incorporate indigenous population into national society in reference to four narratives: universalism, citizenship, ethnicity, and − beginning in the 1970s − the (frequently subversive) voice of indigenous peoples themselves. This article is a comparative analysis of this process in Brazil and Paraguay, in the period extending from the early 19th to the end of the 20th century.

scholarly journals Locating a Theoretical Framework for the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Charles Taylor or Nancy Fraser?

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin S. Petoukhov
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Residential Schools ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Indian Residential Schools ◽  
Nancy Fraser

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada was established to uncover and acknowledge the injustices that took place in Indian residential schools and, in doing so, to pave the way to reconciliation. However, the TRC does not define reconciliation or how we would know it when (and if) we get there, thus stirring a debate about what it could mean. This article examines two theories that may potentially be relevant to the TRC’s work: Charles Taylor’s theory of recognition and Nancy Fraser’s tripartite theory of justice. The goal is to discover what each theory contributes to our understanding of the harms that Indigenous peoples suffered in residential schools, as well as in the broader colonial project, and how to address these harms appropriately.

scholarly journals Reviewing Inequities in Primary Care Received by Indigenous Peoples in Ontario

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Heba Shahaed ◽  
Guneet Sandhu ◽  
Eric Seidlitz
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Quality Of Primary Care

Research has shown that Indigenous peoples in Canada experience health inequities when compared to the non-Indigenous population. High quality primary care has been described in literature; however, this has not been explored through the lens of Indigenous health. A scoping review was performed in order to investigate the quality of primary care received by indigenous peoples in Ontario. To conduct this review, a search of current literature on primary care in Indigenous communities in Ontario was performed. The studies examined in this review were derived from four different databases and many evaluated specific communities using a qualitative and quantitative approach. Several themes were identified including inadequate preparation and training of health care providers, physician and nursing shortages, strategies associated with improved quality of care, management of mental health, disparities in health service delivery station types and ineffective primary care impacts on hospitalizations. This literature search demonstrated a clear gap in the literature on the quality of primary care received by the Indigenous population in Ontario. Thus, further research is necessary in order to outline the current state of primary care being delivered to Indigenous populations in Ontario, and develop strategies to enhance the quality of care for this population.  

scholarly journals Rights of Indigenous Children: Reading Children’s Literature through an Indigenous Knowledges Lens

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Shelley Stagg Peterson ◽  
Red Bear Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Residential Schools ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
United Nations Declaration

Indigenous children’s literature supports Indigenous communities’ rights to revitalization, and to the transmission to future generations, of Indigenous histories, languages, and world views, as put forth in the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Drawing on Indigenous teachings that were given to him by Elders, an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper, Red Bear, interprets 10 Indigenous picture books published in Canada between 2015 and 2019 by mainstream and Indigenous publishing companies. These books were selected from the International Best Books for Children Canada’s list of Indigenous books and websites of four Canadian Indigenous publishers. We discuss the Knowledge Keeper’s interpretation of books that are grouped within four categories: intergenerational impact of residential schools, stories using spiritual lessons from nature, autobiography and biography, and stories using teachings about relationships. Recognizing the richness, authenticity, and integrity of Red Bear’s interpretation of the books, we propose that all teachers should strive to learn Indigenous cultural perspectives and knowledge when reading Indigenous children’s literature.

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