ILO Weekly Archive

ILO Weekly – Week of February 11th

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support your Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history.

This week’s feature is a streamed video that can be viewed in your classroom, in your office, at home and can be linked into your Blackboard courses.

CLICK HERE: “ORIGINS: 1491 – The Untold Story of the Americas Before Columbus.”

In this video, Indigenous creation stories are explored as well as key discoveries by archaeologists, anthropologists, geneticists and linguists on how and when Indigenous people first arrived in the Western Hemisphere. 

If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library

ILO Weekly - Week of February 18th

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support your Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history.

This week’s feature is a Guide for Front-Line Staff, Student Services, and Advisors is part of an open professional learning series developed for staff across post-secondary institutions in British Columbia.

There are many more titles in this series and the Library will be featuring them in our up-coming posts.

ILO Weekly – Week of March 4th

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support your Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history.

This week’s featured article is entitled White Fragility.  In this in-depth exploration, author Robin DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.  

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ILO Weekly – Week or March 11th

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support your Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history.  This week’s feature is another streamed video entitled: Reclaiming our History from McIntyre Media’s: Origin Stories.

Archaeologist/Artist Kris Nahrgang, and Dancer/Activist Sarain Carson Fox share their personal origin stories and talk about where they are at in their own journey of identity. 

This video can be viewed in your classroom, in your office, at home and can be linked into your Blackboard courses. If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library

ILO Weekly – Week of March 18th

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history. 

This week’s feature is a researched article from one of the many accredited Library databases entitled:

Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and the Imperative for a More Inclusive Perspective

“The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) emerged to bring attention to the missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. It has raised awareness about systemic racism and sexism as well as social and economic conditions experienced by Canada's Indigenous population. Yet, research shows that Indigenous males are the most likely to be murdered in Canada. Since Indigenous men are going missing and are murdered in disturbing numbers, it is understandable that many in the Indigenous community wanted to include them in the inquiry. This report explores how the MMIWG have been framed in ways that limit interpretations about the root causes of problems experienced by Indigenous people, especially when they exclude an important part of the Indigenous population—Indigenous males.”

This database can be accessed in your classroom, in your office, at home and can be linked into your Blackboard courses. If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library

ILO Weekly – Week of March 25^th

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history. 

This week’s feature is an ebook from our EBSCO collection entitled, Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau : Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media

This ebook is a study on Canada’s first indigenous art star, Norval Morrisseau. The ebook focuses on the ways in which Morrisseau interacted with the media and the public, particularly around issues of race and romanticism, describing the ways in which he both challenged stereotypes and fed them.

This ebook can be accessed from your classroom, from your office, from home and linked into Blackboard.  If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library

ILO Weekly – Week of April 8th

Every April 22^nd, people all across the country recognize and celebrate the largest environmental event in the world; Earth Day.  As a nation, we also recognize that Indigenous peoples are caretakers of the earth and that they realize and respect her gifts of water, air and fire.  First Nation’s peoples have a special relationship with the earth and all living things in it.

This week’s ILO Weekly features an e-book by author Nancy Turner where she shares her unique perspective of living in balance with your environment.  Nancy has a strong and compassionate understanding of the earth and its natural systems and celebrates the connection between people of the land and their culture and how to live sustainably.

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history. If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library.   

ILO Weekly – Week of April 15th

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history. 

This week’s feature is a documentary entitled SMUDGE.  Smudging is an Indigenous, ceremonial practice of purification or cleansing.

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, SMUDGE Metis director Gail Maurice tells a story about Native women in urban settings and their efforts to incorporate traditional spiritual practices such as smudging, into their daily lives. Shot on location in offices, a park, and theatre, the film features several Native women who smudge with sweet grass as part of their everyday living.

Confederation College is proud to celebrate the opening of its own Smudging Room on campus. This room is used for traditional ceremonies, including smudging, and offers a quiet place for Elders to meet with students.

This streamed video that can be viewed in your classroom, in your office or at home and can be linked into your Blackboard courses. If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library

ILO Weekly – Week of April 22nd

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support your work related to Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history.

This week’s ILO is an article from Canadian Geographic Magazine’s Discovery Interview (May June 2019) section that highlights the 50 year celebration of the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres.  The article features Sylvia Maracle, the federation’s executive director, who has dedicated more than 40 years to improving the quality of life for Indigenous Peoples living in urban environments throughout Ontario.

Through its numerous programs and special events, Thunder Bay’s own Indigenous Friendship Centre has had a long standing relationship with the city and with Confederation College.  The centre’s staff and elders have worked hard to foster community relations, educate, strengthen and develop skills and opportunities for Indigenous people.

Canadian Geographic magazine, which has a reputation for visually stunning photography and can appeal to the more visual learner, is easily accessed using Flipster, the college’s digital magazine subscription service.  Couple this with the Library’s A to Z databases and the two work hand in hand providing staff and students with a wealth of informative research materials.  Articles from Flipster’s pages can be viewed anytime in your classroom, in your office or at home and can be linked into your Blackboard courses.  In fact, why not include Flipster as part of your summer reading program.  Let the Library show you how!

ILO Weekly – Week of April 22nd

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support your work related to the Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to increase your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history.

This week’s feature is a literature review prepared by Dr. Marie Battiste, which focuses on the work that has gone into preparing an outline for integrating Indigenous knowledge into the classroom.  This paper discusses Indigenous knowledge and how it is handed down from generation to generation and concludes with the educational frameworks that are needed to provide a firm basis for action and guidance in relation to ILOs. 

Dr. Battiste’s work has been quoted by numerous Indigenous authors and researchers and her work has been hailed as the ultimate authority on Indigenous Learning Outcomes. 

This paper entitled: Indigenous Knowledge and Pedagogy in First Nations Education can be viewed in your classroom, in your office, at home and can be linked into your Blackboard courses. If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library

ILO Weekly – Week of May 13th

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support your work related to Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history.

This week’s feature is a video entitled After the Last River.

The recent Kashechewan First Nation community flooding has again brought to light the on-going fight of First Nations leaders demanding action from the federal government for help in saving their communities.  This documentary serves to raise awareness of a similar on-going fight for indigenous lands and their usage.

This video is available on Kanopy, the Library’s streaming video platform server that houses a large collection of award-winning films and documentaries.

After the Last River can be viewed in your office, at home and can be linked into your Blackboard courses. If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library.

ILO Weekly – Week of May 20^th       

ILO Weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support your work related to Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history.

This week’s feature is a paper from The Canadian Journal of Native Studies entitled “The Construction of “Trauma” in Canadian Residential School Survivors and Impacts on Healing Interventions and Reconciliation Initiatives.”

This study presents a critical appraisal of the paradigms used to frame "trauma" in residential school survivors to assess which mental health, community, structural, and institutional interventions and changes have the potential to be most effective. Through a critical appraisal of relevant literature, three main trauma paradigms and their subsequent healing methods are explored and analyzed: "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder," "Residential School Syndrome," and "Historical Trauma."

This paper can be viewed by linking to the Library’s databases which can be accessed from your office, home or classroom.  The paper can also be linked into your Blackboard courses. If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library

ILO Weekly – Week of May 27th

ILO Weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support your work related to Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history.

This week’s feature is a link to the Robinson Treaty made in the year 1850 with the Ojibwa Indians of Lake Superior and the handing over certain lands to the Crown.  This treaty is commonly referred to as the Robinson Superior Treaty and occupies the northern most shores of Lake Superior.

Treaties are the foundation of this country and are recognized and affirmed in the Canadian Constitution, making them part of the law of the land. Because all citizens benefit from a Treaty, it is important for all citizens to know about the Robinson-Huron Treaty and its principles, intentions and content in both the written and oral context.

Through this Treaty, the Lake Huron Chiefs and leaders of the Anishinabek signatory First Nations intended to protect the territory and establish relations. Contrary to what many believe, nothing has been given to the First Nations. In fact, it was our First Nations who agreed to share the resources with the newcomers, now called Canadians.

The Robinson-Huron Treaty intended to provide economic benefits for the First Nations parties of the Treaty in perpetuity. Significant wealth has been and continues to be generated from resource development within the Robinson Superior Treaty territory.

This treaty can be viewed by linking to the Library’s databases which can be accessed from your office, home or classroom.  The treaty can also be linked into your Blackboard courses. If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library

 

ILO Weekly – Week of June 3rd

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting authoritative learning resources that can be used to support Indigenous Learning Outcomes.  These resources can also be used to grow your knowledge of Indigenous and Canadian history. 

This week’s feature is an article from MasterFILE Elite one of the many accredited Library databases entitled:

Facing the Monumental: Confronting the Legacies of Colonialism written by Ellyn Walker as a review of Rebecca Belmore’s impactful art exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2018.  Belmore’s artwork and performance pieces touch issues like missing and murdered Indigenous women with “sensitivity and care” as she addresses the suffering of others without “exploiting or demeaning their experiences.”

This article has been selected because The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will officially present its Final Report to federal government officials at a Closing Ceremony on June 3, 2019 at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau.

This database can be accessed in your classroom, in your office, at home and can be linked into your Blackboard courses. If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library

ILO Weekly – Week of June 10th

ILO weekly is a regular Library feature highlighting learning resources that can be used to support Indigenous Learning Outcomes (ILOS). 

This week’s feature is an eBook from DesLibres one of the many Library databases entitled:

Seven Sacred Teachings of White Buffalo Calf Woman by David Bouchard & Dr. Joseph Martin 

This children’s book is a quick read with captivating and colourful illustrations that navigate the reader through the Seven Sacred Teachings.  These teachings are at the core of Anishinaabe spirituality and beliefs. Knowing and understanding these teachings are the perfect way to apply Indigenous Knowledge to every single career field, as the principles in the teachings detail the very traits that make a positive and harmonious workplace. Furthermore, they are codes of conduct that can guide our personal and professional lives in a healthy, balanced way.

This database can be accessed in your classroom, in your office, at home and can be linked into your Blackboard courses. If at any time you require more details or assistance, please contact the Library

ILO Weekly – Week of June 17th​