April 2007

CBC reports that Sheila Watt-Cloutier has been chosen as the recipient of a United Nations lifetime achievement award for human development.

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Chief Joseph pleased with interim arrangements planned by FSIN and Canada. Indian Affairs will continue its discussions with Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN). OTC Office mandate and work term of Commissioner ended March 2007. Earlier related statement by FSIN Chief Lawrence Joseph. (PDF)

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Aboriginal Women Mentoring Aboriginal Girls: a volunteer based mentorship & empowerment program in Winnipeg. Phone, Email

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B.C. couple bequeath Oak Bay property to the Xaxe Tenew Sacred Land Society for use as an educational and cultural centre.

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The Tyee, an independent alternative daily newspaper, is publishing a series on B.C.'s First Nations and the B.C. treaty process.

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First Perspective: the Drum: Manitoba and Ontario News reports that the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (FNCFCS), along with the Assembly of First Nations, filed a human rights claim in the name of the 27,000 Aboriginal children currently in state care.

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Article in Globe and Mail by Andy Hoffman. reports that Attawapiskat First Nation argues that the Ontario province's 13% levy on diamond mining revenue is excessive.

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The first batch of twenty three theses have been digitized and made available online from the library catalogue and Indigenous Studies Portal:

• Iskwekwak--Kah' Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak: Neither Indian Princesses Nor Squaw Drudges by Janice Acoose

• Specialized Training in the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program: A Case Study by Rita E. Bouvier

• The Experience of Aboriginal Nursing Students with the Native Access Program to Nursing in the Nursing Education Program of Saskatchewan by Sandra Elaine Brown

• Man's Mission of Subjugation: The Publications of John Maclean, John McDougall and Egerton R. Young, Nineteenth-Century Methodist Missionaries in Western Canada by Sarah Alexandra Carter

• Community Development at the Department of Indian Affairs in the 1960's: Much Ado About Nothing by Robert Craig Cunningham

• Aboriginal Goals of Education in Lac La Ronge, Montreal Lake and Timber Bay, Saskatchewan: A Case Study by Allan Andrew James Ducharme

• Critical Examination of the Ethics in Research Involving Indigenous Peoples by John Ermine

• The Indian in Saskatchewan Elementary School Social Studies Textbooks: A Content Analysis by Jerome Alvin Hammersmith

• P.G. Laurie: The Aspirations of a Western Enthusiast by Walter H. Hildebrandt

• Analysis of the Aboriginal Government Provisions of the 1992 Charlottetown Accord: Self-Government in the “Post-Charlottetown” Era by Thomas Isaac

• Factors Related to Teacher Mobility in Schools of the Northwest Territories and Arctic Quebec, 1971-72 by Delores Mary Koenig

• Being a Métis Woman: Our Lived Stories by Louise Marie Legare

• Treaty Land Entitlement in Saskatchewan: Conflicts in Land Use and Occupancy in the Witchekan Lake Area by Brenda V. McLeod

• Leadership In First Nations Schools: Perceptions Of Aboriginal Educational Administrators by Pauline Muskego

• Autonomy in Nicaragua and Nunavut: A Comparative Study in Self-Determination by Rodolfo Pino

• The Fourth World: Aboriginal Women’s Activism and Feminism by Grace Josephine Mildred Wuttunee Ouellette

• Paternalism and Identity: The Role of Personal Labour Organization in the Formation of Group Identity Among the Métis in the Rupertsland Fur Trade and the Aboriginal People in the Northern Australian Cattle Industry by Leanna Parker
  
  
• Prairie First Nations and Provinces: Is There a Fiduciary Relationship That Gives Obligations by Merrilee Denis Rasmussen
  
  
• Marvellous Times: The Indian Homemaking Program and Its Effects on Extension Instructors at the Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan, 1967-1972 by Dorina Mae Stahl

• Labour Relations and Indian Self-Determination: A Fort Alexander Case Study by Brian Anderson

• Teacher Perception of Education Program Suitability in Northern Saskatchewan by Joseph Leon Handley

• Barriers to Implementing Holistic, Community-Based Treatment for Offenders with Fetal Alcohol Conditions by H. Rae Mitten
  

It is our hope that making these resources available online will facilitate accessibility and enhance scholarship.
We have many more graduates to contact requesting permission to mount their work. If you have written a thesis or dissertation with Aboriginal content and have not received a letter requesting permission, and would like to be contacted, please email us at twyla.hinther@usask.ca.

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