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Neeganagwedgin, Erica – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2020
This paper privileges the voices of Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Holders. Since time immemorial, Indigenous Elders, whether in a Canadian or global context, have been at the core of teaching and learning and have had the responsibility of transferring knowledge. However, their role in the transmission of culture has been undermined by the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Canada Natives, Transformative Learning, Older Adults
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Lerma, Michael – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2012
What is the relationship between Indigenous peoples and violent reactions to contemporary states? This research explores differing, culturally informed notions of attachment to land or place territory. Mechanistic ties and organic ties to land are linked to a key distinction between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples. Utilizing the…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Land Use, American Indians, Attachment Behavior
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Kirkpatrick, Mae – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2000
The traditional culture of the Stle7esht tribe of British Columbia has no word for art, because everything is art. Years of Eurocentric boarding schools have threatened this culture. The New Zealand Maori model of working outside the formal school system through early childhood education can be adapted by the Stle7esht to foster cultural…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Culture, Art, Art Expression
Friesen, John W.; Friesen, Virginia Lyons – 2002
This book is an appeal to First Nations leaders in Canada to promote educational integration--a mixing of ideas in which non-Aboriginal people are taught those elements of Native culture and philosophy that support a reverence for the Earth and all living things. The benefits of such an undertaking cannot be overemphasized since the very existence…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools, Canada Natives
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Cooke-Dallin, Bruce; Rosborough, Trish; Underwood, Louise – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2000
Some postsecondary programs in child and youth care for First Nations students in British Columbia are offered locally and employ elders as teachers because they understand their cultures and communities. The strengths found in the traditions of respect and intergenerational transmission of knowledge through elders are empowering to Native…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers
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Mader, Christina – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1998
A Canadian teacher-educator's research into what has meaning for Bush Cree students became a reciprocal learning-teaching relationship. What emerged is a reverence for the ordinary, and the researcher's realization that in Cree society, the medium and the message are one, just as education and culture are one. Contains photographs used in the…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Cree (Tribe)