Browsing by Subject "Indigenous"
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Architecture of Reconciliation on the Lachine Canal: A Story of Decolonization over Seven Generations
(2023-07-07)This thesis proposes strategies for architecture to redress the impacts of colonization and industrialization that have overshadowed and erased Indigenous narratives from public memory in lands and waters of Tiohtiá:ke ... -
A CONVERSATION PIECE ABOUT IMPLEMENTING INUIT LEGAL ORDERS INTO THE NUNATSIAVUT GOVERNMENT’S INUIT COURT
(2022-08-22)A majority of Inuit reside above the 55th parallel in 51 communities throughout Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, Nunavut and Inuvialuit. This area is Inuit Nunangat and each of these Inuit regions has their own modern treaty. The ... -
EMPTY COMMITMENTS? THE INDIGENOUS WATER CRISIS IN CANADA AND THE COMMITMENT TO ENDING ALL DRINKING WATER ADVISORIES ON FIRST NATION RESERVES
(2022-04-12)In 2016 the Government of Canada (GoC) committed to ending all long-term drinking water advisories (DWAs) in First Nation communities by March 2021. By not fulfilling the 2016 commitment the GoC fails to fulfill its promise ... -
Engaging Indigenous Youth in Community-Based Participatory Action Research: A Scoping Review
(2019-07-25)Community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) frameworks are becoming a leading strategy for conducting research with Indigenous communities and youth. Core features of CBPAR include respectful relationships with ... -
Equity in Health Care Utilization Among First Nations Populations Living Off-reserve in Canada
(2021-07-20)Background: Reducing inequities (unfair inequalities) in health and health care is a primary goal of health policy in Canada. Inequity in utilization of care is a significant issue. Inequity may be present in the utilization ... -
Fiscal Decolonization-Indigenous Fiscal Autonomy and Tax Jurisdiction
(2021-08-23)This thesis focuses on the relationship between Indigenous fiscal autonomy and self-determination. Indigenous nations’ ability to achieve self-determination is dependent upon their ability to autonomously finance ... -
FROM POLICY TO PRACTICE: PROJECTING THE IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM ACT IN COMBATING ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM IN CANADA
(2024-08-27)This thesis examines environmental racism in Canada, focusing particularly on the legislative response through the Environmental Racism Act. In Canada, communities such as Africville and Lincolnville have long suffered ... -
Healing Aquascapes
(2017-05-02)The Healing Aquascape is a strategy to remediate the Burrard Inlet of southern BC and recover the waterway as an integral site in the development of the cultural landscape. As the ecology of the inlet is impoverished by ... -
HEALTH AND SOCIAL OUTCOMES OF INDIGENOUS PARENT-CHILD SEPARATION IN THE CONTEXT OF COLONIALISM
(2024-08-31)The forced separation of Indigenous families in Canada, rooted in colonial policies, has led to profound and lasting impacts on Indigenous communities. This dissertation examines the enduring consequences of such policies, ... -
Indigenous Cultural Resurgence Through Two-Spirit Teaching and Learning Practices
(2021-09-01)Historically, Indigenous people who embodied diverse genders and sexualities (Two-Spirit) occupied sacred and integrated roles within their communities. A devastating impact of colonization is the attempted erasure of ... -
The Indigenous—White Earnings Gap and Labour Market Discrimination in Canada
(2019-12-17)Indigenous people represent four percent of the total population in Canada and are the youngest and fastest growing minority population in the country. Colonialism left Indigenous people disadvantaged in terms of education, ... -
An Inquiry of Early Childhood Development in a First Nation Community: Exploring how Families Experience Accessing Services
(2023-08-31)Healthy wholistic development of Indigenous children in Canada is important to families and communities. Early Childhood Development has been identified by a First Nation community as a priority area that requires research. ... -
Investigating Governance Enablers for Water Safety Plans in Mi'kmaq and Wolastiqjyik Communities
(2022-04-19)Despite Canada’s privileged economic status, First Nations disproportionately experience drinking water issues. In the past decade, the focus has shifted from technological to governance-based solutions, in recognition of ... -
Labour, Enslavement, and Indigenous Space: Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the Atlantic World, 1759-1812
(2022-08-30)This thesis reconceptualizes the Planter and Loyalist periods around Liverpool, Nova Scotia, from 1759 to 1812. Rather than privileging the American Revolutionary War, it emphasises Indigenous space and Black people to ... -
Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Anishinaabeg Ethnobiology: Burial Sites and Biodiversity
(2022-12-14)The present study provides a language-centered approach to a meta-analysis of Anishinaabe ethnobiology, and a burial mound detecting image recognition algorithm under the guidance of Anishinaabe place names. Ferrier lab ... -
The 'New' Development Regime in Ecuador: Implications for the Highland Indigenous Movement
(2015)Beginning in 2007, Rafael Correa’s presidency has marked a new era in Ecuadorian politics. Correa has been a vocal opponent of the Washington Consensus and has vastly expanded social spending and development programming. ... -
...of the Dead: The Rhizombie, An Indigenous-Informed Approach to Contagion
(2024-04-11)Contagion increasingly overlays other social concerns infecting our world, such as racial oppression and climate crises, and thus threatens to render all other issues invisible. This project, however, argues that contagion ... -
Re-Settling Dawson Park: An Expanded Idea of the Friendship Centre in Edmonton, Alberta
(2016-04-08)This thesis intends to expand on the idea of the friendship centre, embodying its original and current purpose - a middle ground between the city and indigenous culture. This middle ground will acknowledge damaging history, ... -
Tlilnuo'lti'k - Weji-sqalia'timk - How we will be Mi'kmaq on our land: Working together with Pictou Landing First Nation to redefine a healthy community.
(2020-09-11)For decades Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), a small Mi’kmaq community on the northern shore of Nova Scotia, has been told that the health of their community has not been impacted by a pulp and paper mill dumping 85 ...