Year: 2024, 2024
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Maracle, Gabriel Karenhoton, Thesis advisor (ths): Newhouse, David R., Degree committee member (dgc): Shpuniarsky, Heather, Degree committee member (dgc): Dockstator, Mark, Degree committee member (dgc): Sinclair, Raven, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Indigenous men are disproportionally incarcerated in the Canadian criminal justice system. A disproportionate number of Indigenous men who are incarcerated have also been through the foster care and adoption system. A good deal of them are disconnected from their cultures, traditions and communities. For many the prisons are the first times that they encounter Indigenous Knowledge (IK),… more Year: 2024, 2024
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Mountain, Antoine Bear Rock, Thesis advisor (ths): McCaskill, Don, Degree committee member (dgc): Begay Jr., Manley, Degree committee member (dgc): Devine, Bonnie, Degree committee member (dgc): Jackson, Lucy, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>My research into Et'sehch'i, the Traditional Dene Burial Practices, is a comprehensive study into how smaller groups, clans, of our northern Dene understood and handled matters of funerals. The research focuses on the Dene community of Radelie Koe, Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories of Canada, my home community. In these Pre-Contact times, there weren't any of the… more Year: 2024, 2024
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Abstract: <p>Nikawiy narratives including Mother to daughter, nation to nation, spirit and intent, and Treaty Enforcement are based on nikawiy (my mother's) teachings that I interpret as my inherent role as Nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman) specifically for governance and numbered Treaty Enforcement. My methodology 1is also based on nikawiy's Circle of Life, Pimatisiwin, Calendar (Poitras, 1996)… more Year: 2024, 2024
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Abstract: <p>Contemporary struggles with Indigenous identities in Canada are deeply rooted in the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization, which have left profound and lasting effects on different geographical regions across the country. These struggles are multifaceted, encompassing complex questions surrounding who qualifies as Indigenous and what criteria are used to authenticate claims of… more Year: 2023, 2023
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Sacco, Michael David, Thesis advisor (ths): McCaskill, Don, Thesis advisor (ths): Esteva, Gustavo, Degree committee member (dgc): Zohar, Asaf, Degree committee member (dgc): Dockstator, Mark, Degree committee member (dgc): Penados, Filiberto, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This intercultural rediscovery of Indigenous cacao culture draws upon Environmental Studies, Intercultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Anthropology and Agroecology. The methodological antecedent for this kind of symbolic food study of cacao is the work done by Gustavo Esteva and others on the civilizational importance of maize. Similarly, the rediscovery of the Indigenous Knowledge of… more Year: 2023, 2023
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Davis, Catherine Anne, Thesis advisor (ths): Bruce, Cathy, Degree committee member (dgc): Sherman, Paula, Degree committee member (dgc): Bell, Nicole, Degree committee member (dgc): Crowe, Melody, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>ABSTRACTASSEMBLING THE BRAID: ALDERVILLE FIRST NATION, LEARNING FROM THEIR WALK IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Catherine Davis
Alderville First Nation is a small, dynamic Anishinaabe First Nation community in central Ontario with the distinction of having one of the first federal residential schools in Canada, established in 1838. Access to education, both on and off reserve, has been… more Year: 2022, 2022
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Abstract: <p>The purpose of this qualitative study is to investigate Anishinaabe women's Traditional Teachings and pedagogies in a contemporary context. Through this exploration, I have uncovered the tensions, challenges, and strengths that Anishinaabe gaashiyag (mothers) face when engaging with these Traditional Teachings and pedagogies. The research methodology I have used is a branch of… more Year: 2022, 2022
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Spice, Kevin Gerard, Thesis advisor (ths): McCaskill, Don, Degree committee member (dgc): Fontaine, Jerry, Degree committee member (dgc): Zohar, Asaf, Degree committee member (dgc): Shukla, Shailesh, Degree committee member (dgc): Newhouse, David, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>In the 1980's, Hollow Water First Nation citizens created a healing movement to address community issues from an Indigenous perspective resulting in the development of the Community Holistic Circle Healing (CHCH) in 1989. The CHCH organization developed a Community (Restorative) Justice process as an alternative to a Western-based Justice approach to address issues such as domestic… more Year: 2022, 2022
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Wall, Barbara Moktthewenkwe, Thesis advisor (ths): Sherman, Paula, Degree committee member (dgc): Whyte, Kyle P., Degree committee member (dgc): Doerfler, Jill, Degree committee member (dgc): Borrows, John, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Indigenous Knowledges and intellectual tradition emanate from relationship with land, water, spirit, and the beings of Creation. Knowledge mobilization occurs intergenerationally and through these relationships. The Bodwewaadmii Anishinaabeg have lived in relationship with the Great Lakes since the formation of the lakes. Our stories and practices demonstrate our intimate ties to land,… more Year: 2022, 2022
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Abstract: <p>This research explores how the value of sustaining the natural world could become foundational to senior level policy decisions in Canada and how Indigenous Knowledges and Peoples could play a key role in such a paradigm shift. It is a trans-disciplinary study that draws on scholarship in Indigenous Studies, Sustainability Studies and Public Policy and existing report recommendations and… more Year: 2021, 2021
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Campos Navarrete, Marisol, Thesis advisor (ths): Zohar, Asaf, Thesis advisor (ths): Newhouse, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Magallanes Blanco, Claudia, Degree committee member (dgc): Furgal, Christopher, Degree committee member (dgc): Ibarra Mateos, Marcela, Degree committee member (dgc): Dockstator, Mark, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis shows and emphasizes the importance of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in informing collaborative efforts that promote sustainable economic development in Indigenous communities. It tells the story of a participative research study undertaken with six Tseltal communities located in the Region Selva of Chiapas, Mexico, in the context of the Covid19 pandemic of 2020 and early 2021.… more Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>This research explores key themes emerging from the question of the meaning Anishinaabe individuals attach to utilizing traditional practices and ceremonies to address their own trauma. The contributors share their stories, which are deeply rooted in relationships. The methodology of this research is also rooted within an Indigenous paradigm; storytelling is a core feature of… more Year: 2019, 2019
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Abstract: <p>Indigenous peoples' sur-thrivance in global, settler colonial, historical, and nation-specific economic contexts is a broadly studied subject that fails to emphasize Indigenous economic sovereignty. Indigenous knowledges regarding the land-based relationalities which formulate an aspect of Indigenous economic sovereignty is lacking. So too is knowledge on Indigenous womxn's… more Year: 2018, 2018
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Abstract: <p>The natural world and environmental issues present critical points of convergence</p><p>between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and their knowledge systems. This</p><p>qualitative study engaged with 18 Indigenous and non-Indigenous environmental</p><p>practitioners in interview conversations to explore their experiences in cross-cultural</p… more Year: 2018, 2018
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Abstract: <p>Indigenous peoples and organizations have a long history of incorporating cultural knowledge and teachings into program and organizational design and structure. The approach to incorporating cultures into Indigenous organizations is not uniform, nor is the ways that they are understood. This dissertation focuses on Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre, in Peterborough Ontario and their… more Year: 2017, 2017
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Abstract: <p>In our communities, we are continually challenged to reflect on effective responses to the people and events that put us at risk. This study is an examination of two distinctly different world-view responses: the colonial, dominant culture and the Indigenous world-view. The retributive understanding of the dominant culture applies assumptions about the nature of the world that are vested… more Year: 2016, 2016
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Evering, Brigitte, Thesis advisor (ths): Furgal, Chris, Degree committee member (dgc): Kuhn, Lesley, Degree committee member (dgc): Longboat, Dan, Degree committee member (dgc): Kimmerer, Robin, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>The purpose of this study was to explore the educational implications of a clearer understanding of the practice of using multiple, including Indigenous, knowledges when finding solutions to place-based environmental issues. The impetus for my research came from a growing sense of urgency to address environmental issues within both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Some have… more Year: 2016, 2016
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Abstract: <p>The Tamalko (Coast Miwok) North Central California Indigenous people have lived in their homelands since their beginnings. California Indigenous people have suffered violent and uncompromising colonial assaults since European contact began in the 16th century. However, many contemporary Indigenous Californians are thriving today as they reclaim their Native American sovereign rights,… more Year: 2016, 2016
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Abstract: <p>The residential school legacy is one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history. From the mid-1850s to 1996, thousands of Aboriginal children were taken from their homelands and placed in residential schools. Taken against their will, many dreaded attending these schools. Some attended for as long as ten to fifteen years, only to be strangers in their own communities upon their return.… more Year: 2015, 2015
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Abstract: <p>Since the end of the Second World War, artists of Native descent have engaged with the Fine Art world where their work has come to be placed in the category of Native art. As a result of my journey, I have come to realize that in the Fine Art world the term Native art tends to be associated with the practices of our ancestors in times past obscuring our contemporary nature. In the… more Year: 2015, 2015
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Abstract: <p>Environmental factors play a critical role in the health and well-being of people worldwide and the distribution of the burden of disease associated with environmental causes is disproportionately high in marginalized populations, including First Nations. In this way, environmental health problems are as much social and political problems as environmental and must be addressed as such.… more Year: 2015, 2015
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Abstract: <p>This dissertation offers the dibaajimowin (personal story) of my beading project, which I undertook to understand the enactment of Anishinaabe women's knowledge in graduate research. Framed through the concept of a collective self, which is embedded within the Anishinaabe traditions of storytelling and beading, and drawing further from the aesthetics, processes, and teachings of… more Year: 2014, 2014
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Sojourn, Willis Judson, Thesis advisor (ths): McLeod, Neal, Degree committee member (dgc): Lacombe, Michelle, Degree committee member (dgc): Longboat, Dan, Degree committee member (dgc): Cariou, Warren, Degree committee member (dgc): McKegney, Sam, Degree committee member (dgc): Sherman, Paula, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>maskihkîyâtayôhkêwina- </p><p>mashkikiiwaadizookewin: </p><p>Cree and Anishnaabe Narrative Medicine </p><p>in the Renewal </p><p>of Ancestral Literature</p><p>Jud Sojourn</p><p>This work represents an experiment in developing Cree and Anishnaabe nation-specific approaches to understanding Cree and Anishnaabe texts.… more Year: 2014, 2014
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Robbins, Julian A., Thesis advisor (ths): Newhouse, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Dockstator, Mark, Degree committee member (dgc): Thrasher, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Andersson, Neil, Degree committee member (dgc): Brascoupe, Simon, Degree committee member (dgc): White, Jerry, Degree committee member (dgc): Zohar, Asaf, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Abstract</p><p>Maintaining Balance in Times of Change: An Investigation into the Contemporary Self-Regulatory Dynamics that Operate in and around First Nations Traditional Healing Systems</p><p>The evolution of health regulation processes in Canada has focused on the development of standards of practice premised upon the principle of `do no harm' and the… more Year: 2013, 2013
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Abstract: <p>Assimilative policies limit and disrupt the inclusion of Aboriginal values in most Aboriginal services today. This art-based, qualitative research study approaches that issue, and using symbolism and story a sample scenario was created to demonstrate the impact of assimilative policy on Aboriginal service delivery in a storyboard format. The storyboard was then presented to four… more Year: 2013, 2013
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Abstract: <p>ni' o-nah-ko-nah ah-di-so-kah-nahg zhigo di-bah-ji-mo-wi-nan g'dah mi-kwe-ni-mah-nahn obwandiacbun (nigig), tecumthabun (mizhibizhi), miinwaa shingwaukbun (ah-ji-jawk) </p><p>(I ceremonially call upon the stories, the sacred and spiritual narratives and stories of personal experience... In the spirit of obwandiac, tecumtha and shingwauk) </p><p>gi-mi-ni-… more Year: 2013, 2013
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Turmel, Theresa, Thesis advisor (ths): Davis, Lynn, Degree committee member (dgc): Williams, Shirley I, Degree committee member (dgc): Sherman, Paula, Degree committee member (dgc): Jones, Susie, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>ABSTRACT</p><p>Gaagnig Pane Chiyaayong: Forever, We Will Remain </p><p>Reflections and Memories:</p><p> `Resiliency' Concerning the Walpole Island Residential School Survivors Group</p><p> Theresa Turmel</p><p>From 1830 to 1996, Canada pursued a policy of removing Indigenous children from their families and educating them… more
