Narratives of Race Relations in Southern Alberta: An Examination of Conflicting Sporting Practices

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Robidoux
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Youth Hockey

In March 2001 a minor hockey league in southern Alberta (Foothills Hockey) voted in favor of banning a local First Nations Hockey Association (Kainai Minor Hockey) from league play as a result of various violations committed by officials, players, and parents over the course of the season. Since that time hockey and recreation officials from Kainai have been attempting to get Kanai Minor Hockey reinstated into the league but have, up until this point, been unsuccessful. This article explores the exclusionary practices that led to the removal of Kainai from organized youth hockey and examines the racialized discourse that permeates First Nations–Euro-Canadian relations in southern Alberta. The article attempts to communicate these meanings in the same way the author encountered them, as unfiltered personal reactions reflecting how First Nations and their neighbors perceive and talk about each other.

scholarly journals Knowledge, Attitudes and Concussion Information Sources Among First Nations in Ontario

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Hunt ◽  
Alicja Michalak ◽  
Elaine Johnston ◽  
Chrissy Lefkimmiatis ◽  
Leila Macumber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Knowledge Translation Strategies ◽  
First Nations People ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Youth Hockey

AbstractObjective: Hockey is a popular sport played by many First Nation youth. Concussion frequently goes unrecognized and unreported in youth hockey. Unintentional injuries among Indigenous youth occur at rates three to four times the national Canadian average. The study sought to examine knowledge, attitudes and sources of concussion information among First Nations people attending a provincial hockey tournament. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was undertaken. The survey by Mzazik et al. were modified to use in this study. Participants included youth (6-18 years) hockey players (n=75), parents (n=248) and coaches (n=68). The main outcome measure was total knowledge index (TKI) which consisted of the sum of correct responses to 15 multiple choice questions. Additional data gathered included demographics, concussion history, attitudes toward concussion and sources of information. Descriptive statistics included proportion comparisons. Variables were tested using χ2 and analysis of variance. Results: Overall TKI scores (out of a total of 15) were low; players (5.9±2.8), parents (7.5±2.6) and coaches (7.9±2.6). Participants with higher knowledge scores reported more appreciation of the seriousness of concussion. Sources of information about concussion differed by study group, suggesting the need for multiple knowledge translation strategies to reach youth, parents and coaches. Conclusions: Future initiatives are urgently needed to improve education and prevention of concussion in First Nations youth hockey. Collaborating and engaging with communities can help to ensure an Indigenous lens for culturally safe interventions.

scholarly journals “I Never Read Anything Like That Before:” Mapping the Identities of Blackfoot Readers

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Erin Spring ◽  
Andrea True Joy Fox
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Visual Responses ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Our research emerges out of a concern that Indigenous readers, generally speaking, are not having opportunities to read and discuss culturally relevant fiction. Children’s literature and reader response scholarship does not fully engage with what Indigenous voices could bring to our understanding of young people's responses to and engagement with fiction. We are currently conducting a community-based, participatory project with Blackfoot First Nations young adults who live on the Kainai Blood Reserve in southern Alberta. We are looking at the ways in which our participants perceive of and represent their social, cultural and place-based identities within and beyond the text. Our participants are reading and discussing several Indigenous texts, including a graphic novel set on their reserve. We are interested in the ways in which these readers reflect on their identities while discussing culturally relevant fiction, within reading discussion groups and the creation of journals (comprised of visual responses, such as maps, sketches, and photos). Within this article, we share how using culturally relevant and local, place-based fiction is spurring Blackfoot youth to have discussions about their identities within and beyond the text. We suggest that these methodological approaches are empowering the Blackfoot youth to develop their own self-representations by relating these stories to their own lives, including their memories of growing up on a reserve. In positioning our participants as experts in their own cultures and lived experiences, they are visualizing their own diversity, complexity and importance in the world.

scholarly journals “They’d Lost Everything and Were Not Qualified”: The Legacy of the Unmet Education Promises Made in Treaty 7

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarisa Dawn Little
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Tsuu T'ina ◽  
Made In

This paper provides an analysis of the education promises made in Treaty 7 by the Crown and federal government of Canada. Signed on the banks of the Bow River at Blackfoot Crossing in 1877, the treaty was desired by both government officials and Indigenous Nations in what is now southern Alberta—the Tsuu T’ina, the Stoney Nakoda, and the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Piikani, Kainai.  As this thesis will demonstrate though, Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples viewed the meaning of the treaty in conflicting ways. This paper focuses on the creation and management of the schools in the Treaty 7 territories from 1877, the year Treaty 7 was “signed”, to 1923, the year in which industrial and boarding schools were merged to form the new category of “residential school” and the decade in which government policy for schools for Indigenous peoples began to take a new, less ambitious direction. The implementation of schools by the Department of Indian Affairs and their church partners, the type of education that was being offered to First Nations peoples, as well as First Nations responses will be examined. 

AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY: SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF WINDS IN ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN

1939 ◽  
Vol 17c (1) ◽  
pp. 4-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Monthly Means ◽  
Slight Tendency ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
Minor Factor ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Range Of Variation ◽  
Agricultural Meteorology

Over a period of years, the monthly mean mileage of wind per day during the six months, April to September, at four meteorological stations in central and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan is greatest in April and May, and least in July and August. In all cases the range of variation of the monthly means is considerable, being of the order of 50%. Significant correlation in the inter-annual fluctuations at the four stations is not demonstrable from the available data, but there is some indication of correlation between the mileages at a given station in successive months of the same year. During the season as a whole, northwesterly winds predominate, but in this respect also there are pronounced annual variations.Variation in the amount of wind from day to day within months is also pronounced, and tables are presented showing for each of the six months the relative frequency of occurrence of different daily mileages.On the whole, more wind is recorded during the daytime than at night. The hourly averages for all six months show a definite diurnal trend, the maximum being in the vicinity of 3 p.m., but the actual hourly sequence on a given day may deviate markedly from this underlying regularity. There is a slight tendency for days of above-average temperature to have a higher wind mileage, but this is a minor factor in comparison with the uncorrelated variation of both quantities.

scholarly journals A First Nations Framework for Emergency Planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Montesanti ◽  
Wilfreda E Thurston ◽  
David Turner ◽  
Reynold Medicine Traveler
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Emergency Planning ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

In June 2013, a severe flooding of the Bow and Elbow Rivers affected southern Alberta, a province in Canada. The flood was subsequently described to be the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history. Among the hardest hit communities was the Siksika First Nation, located on the Bow River banks about 100 kilometers east of the city of Calgary.A community-university partnership was formed to document the Siksika First Nation community-based response to the health and social effects to their community from the flood. Our qualitative case study sought to: (1) document Siksika First Nation’s response to the health and social impacts resulting from flood in their community; and (2)develop a culturally appropriate framework for disaster and emergency planning in First Nations communities. The Siksika’s work to mitigate the impact of the flood followed a holistic or socio-ecological model that took the determinants of population health into consideration.

Those Dying Generations

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
Sean Cubitt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Old Men ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Minor Character

Like other films analysed here, No Country for Old Men (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2007) abandons humanism, but rather than offer recoding as a solution for historical impasses, it acts out two modes of history: as obligation, and as predestination. The border setting of the film’s action is more than metaphorical of these forms of history. It evokes both the fraught political-economic relations between the United States and Mexico and is acted out on a landscape whose emptiness and moral threat, the chapter argues, derives from the genocide of First Nations. This is revealed in a critical moment when a minor character tells an anecdote from the area’s history, the only mention of indigenous peoples, which reverberates in the depiction of Chigurh, the dark angel of vengeance who haunts the narrative.

The ultrastructure of the double membrane-bound bodies and endoplasmic reticulum in serial sections of wheat spot mosaic-affected wheat plants

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 694-695
Author(s):  
M. H. Chen ◽  
C. Hiruki
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Membrane Structure ◽  
Mosaic Disease ◽  
Serial Sections ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Double Membrane ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Membrane Bound ◽  
Scanning Em

Wheat spot mosaic disease was first discovered in southern Alberta, Canada, in 1956. A hitherto unidentified disease-causing agent, transmitted by the eriophyid mite, caused chlorosis, stunting and finally severe necrosis resulting in the death of the affected plants. Double membrane-bound bodies (DMBB), 0.1-0.2 μm in diameter were found to be associated with the disease.Young tissues of leaf and root from 4-wk-old infected wheat plants were fixed, dehydrated, and embedded in Spurr’s resin. Serial sections were collected on slot copper grids and stained. The thin sections were then examined with a Hitachi H-7000 TEM at 75 kV. The membrane structure of the DMBBs was studied by numbering them individually and tracing along the sections to see any physical connection with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes. For high resolution scanning EM, a modification of Tanaka’s method was used. The specimens were examined with a Hitachi Model S-570 SEM in its high resolution mode at 20 kV.

Rating Post-Operative Backs (Part I)

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
James B. Talmage
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Stenosis ◽  
Foot Drop ◽  
Neurogenic Claudication ◽  
Root Damage ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Minor Strain ◽  
Injury Model ◽  
Strain Type ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Anterior Tibialis

Abstract The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fourth Edition, uses the Injury Model to rate impairment in people who have experienced back injuries. Injured individuals who have not required surgery can be rated using differentiators. Challenges arise when assessing patients whose injuries have been treated surgically before the patient is rated for impairment. This article discusses five of the most common situations: 1) What is the impairment rating for an individual who has had an injury resulting in sciatica and who has been treated surgically, either with chemonucleolysis or with discectomy? 2) What is the impairment rating for an individual who has a back strain and is operated on without reasonable indications? 3) What is the impairment rating of an individual with sciatica and a foot drop (major anterior tibialis weakness) from L5 root damage? 4) What is the rating for an individual who is injured, has true radiculopathy, undergoes a discectomy, and is rated as Category III but later has another injury and, ultimately, a second disc operation? 5) What is the impairment rating for an older individual who was asymptomatic until a minor strain-type injury but subsequently has neurogenic claudication with severe surgical spinal stenosis on MRI/myelography? [Continued in the September/October 1997 The Guides Newsletter]

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