26 Indigenous Studies
Pulling Together: Manitoba Foundations Guide (Brandon Edition)
The Manitoba Foundations Guide (Brandon Edition) is the first Manitoba adaptation of an open professional learning series developed for staff across post-secondary institutions. This guide is intended to support the systemic change occurring across post-secondary institutions and beyond through Indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation.
Indigenous Information Literacy
This book outlines best principles for working with Indigenous print and oral sources in academic research. Topics include evaluating Indigenous print sources for credibility and authenticity, finding Indigenous authors, and respectfully working with Elders. Please note that while free to read, this resource is not licensed for editing or remixing.
Includes: Reflection exercises
Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
This edited volume covers self-determination for Indigenous peoples around the world.
Northern and Indigenous Health and Healthcare
The provision of northern health care entails many unique challenges and circumstances that are rarely represented in mainstream health sciences education. This textbook provides accessible content on health and health care from a northern perspective for the growing number of health professionals being educated in northern communities.
Includes: Reflection questions
Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science, Book 1 and Book 2
From the description, these books are “far more than a set of research papers or curriculum studies. The project outputs include both, but they are incorporated into a theoretical structure that can provide the methodological basis for future efforts that attempt to develop culturally responsive Indigenous Science curricula in home places.” There is a focus on Northwestern North America. Reviews can be found on the Campus Manitoba website.
Includes: Appendices, examples, selected resources
Economic Aspects of the Indigenous Experience in Canada
This text explores the economic history and potential of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Includes: Summary, reflection questions, suggested activities
Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
While not a textbook, this open book explores the means used to facilitate and justify colonization, their effects on Indigenous economic, political, social, and spiritual lives, and how they were resisted.
Living on the Land: Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place
This edited volume examines how patriarchy, gender, and colonialism have shaped the experiences of Indigenous women as both knowers and producers of knowledge. From a variety of methodological perspectives, contributors to the volume explore the nature and scope of Indigenous women’s knowledge, its rootedness in relationships both human and spiritual, and its inseparability from land and landscape.
Memory and Landscape: Indi