• Kiyosewin 

  Keepness, Shane (2023-05-03)

  The main objective of this research is to provide Indigenous nations and communities with practical solutions to strengthen their nationhood and contribute to community health through the praxis of hunting and land-based ...
• Indigenous women's governance & the doorways of consent 

  Bird, Christine (2020-05-08)

  The purpose of this research is to identify models of Indigenous governance: that respects Indigenous women’s ability to govern, are grounded in a sacred relationship with the land and water, and engage language and culture ...
• Turning relatives into resources (and back again?): towards a decolonial marxism 

  Bonet, Sebastian (2019-12-24)

  To be meaningfully in solidarity with Indigenous liberation struggles, Marxism must bring Indigenous values of consensual intimacy, relational autonomy and responsibility to its centre, by (1) plucking out premises in ...
• The education of an indigenous woman: the pursuit of truth, social justice and healthy relationships in a Coast Salish community context 

  Underwood, Mavis Kathleen (2018-05-07)

  In 1951 British Columbia public schools opened their doors to First Nations children furthering federal government goals of assimilation. First Nations learners entered provincial public schools as a "billable commodity" ...
• Seeking justice beyond legalism: cultural appropriation of totem poles on the Pacific Northwest Coast 

  Lefroy, Isabelle (2018-04-11)

  This thesis attempts to illuminate and problematize the marriage of capitalism and colonialism that results in the widespread appropriation of Indigenous expressions of culture, and in particular, totem poles. This project ...
• Becoming Onikaniwak: Defending Nehithaw-Askiy from Saskatchewan's Uranium Industry 

  Scansen, Kristen (2018-02-07)

  Colonialism and uranium mining in Saskatchewan
• From Xwelítem ways towards practices of ethical being in Stó:lō Téméxw: a narrative approach to transforming intergenerational white settler subjectivities 

  Heaslip, Robyn (2018-01-02)

  What must we transform in ourselves as white settlers to become open to the possibility of ethical, respectful, authentic relationships with Indigenous peoples and Indigenous lands? Situating this research in Stó:lō Téméxw ...
• Beyond rights and wrongs: towards a treaty-based practice of relationality 

  Starblanket, Gina (2017-12-22)

  This research explores the implications of the distinction between transactional and relational understandings of the Numbered Treaties, negotiated by Indigenous peoples and the Dominion of Canada from 1871-1921. It ...
• Structuring the Bidassigewak Native Way School Governance Model: Assembling Organizations in our Anishinaabe Ododemiwan 

  Jewell, Eva (2017-06-05)

  Wegimaawadizid is a word used by Mitaanjigamiing First Nation in Northern Ontario to describe their process of reinstating traditional methods of Anishinaabe governance. It was first introduced to me at my community’s ...
• Biidaaban: The Aim is Liberation 

  Whetung, Estrella (2017-06-05)

  "Biidaaban: The Aim is Liberation" is a graphic novel that details a futuristic alternative universe, though one much like our own in terms of colonial processes, in which indigenous peoples are fighting for liberation. ...
• The Yinka Dini Resurgence Alliance: A Community Proposal 

  Lewis, Carla (2017-06-05)

  This community governance project is intended to be an intermediary between knowledge and action. Indigenous governance and leadership require that our ideas move into the realm of action to better our lives as Indigenous ...
• Alternatives to the British Columbia Treaty Process: Community Perspectives on Aboriginal Title and Rights 

  Blankinship, Jennie (2017-06-05)

  The ownership of Indigenous territories, once occupied exclusively by Indigenous Nations, has never been surrendered, sold or bartered to colonial powers. Indigenous nations in what is called the province of British Columbia, ...
• Guiding Philosophy and Governance Model of Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society 

  Jobin, Shalene (2017-06-05)

  Indigenous peoples are increasingly migrating to urban centers where they are faced with social, economic, and political disadvantages while continuing to battle with stereotypes in society. Currently Edmonton has the ...
• Tla-o-qui-aht Nation Building Strategy: Ha'wiih and Ma'uas (Chiefs and Houses) 

  Masso, Marc (2017-06-05)

  For one hundred and fifty years, Canada has tried to assimilate and deconstruct the identity of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations people. Their family based governance structure was replaced with tools of the oppressor, and ...
• Filling Up the Land with Pilalt: Countering the British Columbia Referrals Process and Reclaiming Stolo Ways of Being on Land 

  Tomkins, Erin (2017-06-05)

  George Manuel, renowned Secwepemc leader, once said, “I would rather hand over to my children the dignity of the struggle than to sign a deal they cannot live with.” This quotation can be found posted all around the Cheam ...
• Mamoweenene: Constituting Shinnecock Values to Perpetuate Togetherness 

  Chase, Erika (2017-06-05)

  Although we have not had a fluent, native speaker of the Shinnecock language since the early 1800’s, revitalization efforts of our Algonquian language have been made a priority by man people over the past decade. However, ...
• Pawnee Nation College: A Candidate for Accreditation 

  Grant, Deanne (2017-06-05)

  I have previously worked with tribal colleges while employed with the American Indian College Fund and reached out to the Pawnee Nation College (PNC) for my community governance project because I knew they had not yet ...
• Recapturing the History and Rights of First Nations Peoples of British Columbia: A Political Analysis of Past and Present Relationships with the Dominion of Canada 

  Pascoe, Anita (2017-06-05)

  The recognition of aboriginal title and rights has continued to evolve in federal and provincial policies. The constant flux of recognition and renunciation has created a unique First Nations and European history.1 This ...
• Protecting the sacred cycle: Xwulmuxw Slhunlheni and leadership 

  Thomas, Qwul'sih'yah'maht Robina Anne (2017-03-30)

  Xwulmuxw Slhunlheni (Indigenous Women) have, since time immemorial, played critical leadership roles in Indigenous communities. However, with the imposition of racist/sexist colonial policies, indigenous women’s roles ...
• Creative Combat: Indigenous Art, Resurgence, and Decolonization 

  Martineau, Jarrett (2015-09-17)

  This dissertation examines the transformative and decolonizing potential of Indigenous art-making and creativity to resist ongoing forms of settler colonialism and advance Indigenous nationhood and resurgence. Through a ...

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