aboriginal policy studies
Dados do Periódico
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editora | Aboriginal Policy Studies |
| ISSN | 1923-3299 |
| Wikidata | Q50771036 |
| OpenAlex | S4210174853 |
| MAG | 4210174853 |
| Site | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/aps/index.php/aps/index |
| Total de publicações | 153 |
| Período coberto | 1969 - 2023 |
| País | CA |
| Idioma | EN |
| Acesso | Open Access |
| Citada por | 21 |
| Fator de impacto | 0.344 |
| Índice h | 1 |
| Índice i10 | 1 |
This journal focuses on aboriginal policy studies, directly aligning with indigenous studies and postcolonial studies, which are explicitly listed as closely cognate areas. It publishes work highly relevant to social anthropologists engaged with Indigenous issues and policy
American Constitutional Law and Politics · Canadian Identity and History · Canadian Policy and Governance · Child Abuse and Trauma · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
Naisa Council Statement on Indigenous Identity Fraud
Indigenous Identity Fraud
Remaining Unreconciled
While the Income Tax Act provides structure to philanthropic activity in Canada, an Indigenist reading of it shows that it is also a part of state-building at the expense of inherent Indigenous governance systems. By shaping philanthropic gift giving, this paper shows, the act plays a role in precluding inherent Indigenous leaders from accessing fiscal support based on their own political authority
Indigenous Genocide and Reanimation, Settler Apocalypse and Hope
The Case of the Americas and Australia Pacific Region" symposium. 2Talks at the symposium unflinchingly documented the systematic application of diverse UN-defined genocidal techniques on Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Pacific.As a reminder, Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a natio…
From Reconciliation to ‘Idle No More’
How do different discourses lead to changes in understandings of the world, identity, meaning and practice in Indigenous politics in Canada? This article introduces the poststructuralist theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe to Canadian Indigenous studies and demonstrates that it is a unique and effective theory for understanding this question. It finds that in the last few decades, two principal discourses regarding Indigenous peoples and …
Analysis of Crime, Incarceration, Victimization and Employment of Indigenous Persons in Canada from 2015 to 2021
This study investigated involved a review of trends from five Statistics Canada databases on criminality, victimization, custody in correctional services, adult admissions to community services, and general labour force levels in the 6 years following the release of the December 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report. Although there did not appear to be a general decline in criminality, victimization, or overall custody of Indigenous per…
Why Race Still Matters by Alana Lentin
“Persistence and Pride
Organizational histories in Canada have traditionally been written by longstanding members or devoted employees, or, alternatively, by historians or other academics interested in the corporate, institutional, and organizational history of Canada. These organizational histories have been written predominantly by and about white males, and usually describe through a self-referential, white, male, middle-class lens how privileged members of Canadian…
Indigenous Studies Programming in Academia
The IGP Program is a uniquely positioned research and teaching unit---. This article describes the philosophy, principles, pedagogy, and practices of the IGP Program, its fourteen-year history, and its most recent contributions in the subject area of Indigenous governance. The IGP governance framework and the IGP research method emerge from community responsive research and custom programming partnerships. These models and related learnings are i…
Determining the “Core of Indianness
In light of Bill C-92, which establishes a framework for delegating child and family service provision to Indigenous communities, this article addresses the contested regulation of employment and labour relations in Indigenous social service workplaces. It approaches this subject by looking back at NIL/TU,O Child and Family Services Society v. B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union, a case in which employees at a First Nations child and fam…
The Food Police
Grocery shopping is one of the most necessary everyday practices when it comes to being food secure. Food security is frequently spatially imagined along two axes – access and health. I highlight the specific conditions of existence for food insecure citizens in Winnipeg to demonstrate the incommensurability of how food insecurity is imagined and intervened upon, or not, through municipal policy. Drawing on Critical Indigenous Studies scholar Ail…
Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak Bylaws
Founded in 1999, Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak (LFMO) raises the voices and interests of Métis women across the Métis Motherland. With steadfast work by
Easing the culture shock of being in a space dominated by the educated
I want to share my unique perspective on being the first (and thus far only) Mtis Inclusion Coordinator in a post-secondary institution, even though Mtis make up 40%-55% of Indigenous students on campuses across the Mtis homeland, which ranges from Ontario through to British Columbia. I begin
Some Preliminary Considerations for a Métis-Catalan Comparison
This paper argues for the value of a comparison of the Métis national movement with the Catalan national movement. It pays special attention to the matter of federalism (especially the writings of Harry Daniels and the recent court rulings about Catalonia's status and bid for independence), of small communities that have been "carved out" (especially the Métis Settlements of Alberta and the microstate of Andorra) and the existence of communities …
How Can Urban Parks Support Urban Indigenous Peoples? Exploratory Cases from Saskatoon and Portland
In Anglo settler states, parks and Indigenous peoples interact in myriad ways, given the tight connection between Indigenous peoples and land and that parks are manifestations of settler control of land and heritage. Current park–Indigenous research is limited by a focus on rural locales, despite that more than half of Indigenous peoples live in urban areas. This exploratory paper draws connections between literature rooted in urban Indigenous st…
Over-qualification in the Workforce
Using data from the 2016 Census, this study examined the level of education–job mismatch (over-qualification, in particular) in the Canadian labour market among Indigenous women workers aged 25 to 64 who received post-secondary education. Their rate of over-qualification was compared with that of Indigenous men as well as non-Indigenous workers. In doing so, this study aimed to shed some light on the effect of post-secondary education on labour m…
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I Want To Tell You A Story
The Privilege of Not Walking Away
The release of the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report titled “Honouring the Truth and Reconciling for the Future” has evoked a persistent call within learning institutions to Indigenize education, decolonize systems of power, and reconcile Indigenous–settler relations and knowledge. Within this context, the TRC’s “Calls to Action” are frequently invoked by institutions attempting to achieve just action. While reconciliation rem…
No Past, No Name, No Place? Urban Sámi Invisibility and Visibility in the Past and Present
Smi society is an undergrowth in Alta society You got to know the codes, know people. If you don't know it, then you don't see it. You need knowledge to recognize the signs. People who aren't familiar with this, they don't understand what's being talked about. Smi in Alta often know about each other. I observe that people can say they knew about us, about our family-but we didn't necessarily know about them. The Smi also know about those who, for…
Federally Sentenced Aboriginal Women in Maximum Security
National Revival or National Burden
The dominant Canadian narrative of Indigenous fertility has been told largely from the perspective of non-Indigenous Canadians. Politicians, healthcare professionals, demographers, and economists consistently characterize Indigenous fertility as too high and required to conform to Eurocentric norms. This has resulted in a wide variety of colonial interventions into the reproductive lives of Indigenous peoples. This article will provide a brief ov…
Freins à la mise en œuvre en contexte canadien de la Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des Peuples autochtones
Cet article propose une revue de littérature des enjeux freinant la mise en œuvre de la Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des Peuples autochtones en contexte canadien. Adoptée en 2007, cela fait plus de dix années que des processus de mise en œuvre ont été initiés un peu partout au pays. Cet article constitue ainsi l’opportunité de revenir sur ces dix années et d’en dresser un bilan. Trois types d’enjeux ont été répertoriés, liés à la …
Canative Housing Corporation Certificate of Incorporation
Does the Indian Act Influence the Income and Education Outcomes of Manitoban Urban Indian People
This article answers the question, 'is the influence of the Indian Act associated with worse economic income and education outcomes in Manitoba? This investigation focuses on the category of Aboriginal persons who self-reported as First Nations and compared the economic outcome of Status Indians (those affected by the Indian Act) with those of non-Status Indians. This paper's principal contribution to the field is that it assesses empirically the…
Genocide, Indian Policy, and Legislated Elimination of Indians in Canada
The primary objective of early Indian policy was to ensure the eventual disappearance of Indians - a goal which has not changed in hundreds of years. The registration provisions in the Indian Act will achieve this goal through entitlement criteria, which ensures legislative extinction after two generations of marrying out. This has resulted in two separate legal categories of federally recognized registrants: status and non-status Indians, where …
Descent, Culture, and Self-Determination
Canada's concept of "status" - the definition of who is an Aboriginal person under the Indian Act - has its analogies in the administrative practices of many countries. However, the European colonial expansion produced great variety, with contemporary states now relying on multiple categories of definition; descent from an enrolled historical population is often arbitrarily combined with particular cultural or demographic attributes. Effective ac…
Descent, Culture, and Self-Determination
Canada's concept of "status" - the definition of who is an Aboriginal person under the Indian Act - has its analogies in the administrative practices of many countries. However, the European colonial expansion produced great variety, with contemporary states now relying on multiple categories of definition; descent from an enrolled historical population is often arbitrarily combined with particular cultural or demographic attributes. Effective ac…
Homelessness, Urban Aboriginal People, and the Need for a National Enumeration
The growing rate of urban Aboriginal homelessness is a concern in Canada, yet, to date, no national enumeration of the homeless community has been attempted. Consequently, policies implemented to guarantee vulnerable populations access to housing are being struck in the absence of reliable data. Obtaining good data on the prevalence of this homeless community is one step in improving our collective understanding and response to urban Aboriginal h…
The Triumph of Maori Entrepreneurs or Diverse Economies
Tuaropaki Power Company is the first Maori geothermal power company—a successful power company that built its own power station and sells electricity to the national grid in Aotearoa, New Zealand. After wresting their lands back from government control, the people of the Tuaropaki Trust are now an inspiration for other tribes when it comes to charting an independent direction. Tuaropaki Power Company is not only celebrated for charting an indepen…
The Political Economy of Tribal Citizenship in the US
aboriginal policy studies Vol. 1, no. 3, 2011, pp. aboriginal policy studies is an online, peer-reviewed and multidisciplinary journal that publishes original, scholarly, and policy-relevant research on issues relevant to Métis, non-status Indians and urban Aboriginal people in Canada. For more information, please con-tact us at [email protected] or visit our website at www.ualberta.ca/nativestudies
Finding Voice in a Changing Ecological and Political Landscape—Traditional Knowledge and Resource Management in Settled and Unsettled Claim Areas of the Northwest Territories, Canada
The Traditional Knowledge Policy (1994) of the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) provides the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples of the NWT with a useful basis for influencing the management of land, water, wildlife, and other valued resources. The mechanisms of such influence are not always clear, however, particularly for those unfamiliar with the details of the bureaucratic process. This paper developed around the question, “…
The Métis-ization of Canada
The historical narrative around Métis political leader Louis Riel has undergone a extraordinary change since the 1960s—once reviled by Anglo-Canadians, Riel is now paradoxically celebrated as a Canadian hero, and this “Riel-as-Canadian” narrative has become a common trope in contemporary Canadian political culture. Emanating from the Canadianization of Louis Riel is a parallel colonial discourse that distances itself from past attempts to assimil…
Aboriginal Languages in Selected Cities In Canada
This article is the second of a two-part series by the author, the first of which appeared in aboriginal policy studies 1(2), that explores the issue of Aboriginal languages in urban areas from a demographic perspective. The series presents findings and indicators on the state, patterns, and trends of Aboriginal languages in urban areas over a decade, based on 1996 and 2006 Census data.. The first part of the series addressed urban areas in gener…
Aboriginal Voter Turnout in Northern Saskatchewan
Research to date on Aboriginal electoral participation - and the participation of Métis and off-reserve First Nations in particular - remains quite limited, leaving those policy makers and groups seeking to increase Aboriginal voter turnout to make assumptions about Aboriginal voter turnout that may or may not be valid. Drawing on original quantitative survey data collected in northern Saskatchewan, the authors of this paper demonstrate that Abor…
Digging Beneath the Surface of Aboriginal Labour Market Development
This paper provides an analysis of policy discourse as it concerns Indigenous labour market development in Northern Alberta. In the process, the authors unearth the manner in which current federal and provincial government policy obscures a long history of attempted colonial domination with respect to Indigenous peoples in Canada more generally. Typically, economic booms are spoken of as an opportunity to democratize labour opportunities, through…
Vol 2 Issue 2 Editor's Introduction
Interview with Dr. Jennifer Reid
For the Record … On Métis Identity and Citizenship Within the Métis Nation
1 mentioned the Native Council of Canada, the Mtis Nation of Ontario (MNO), and me a number of times while citing unresolved "issues, " the existence of which he blamed on the MNC's "failure to reach consensus on the Homeland boundaries and a national acceptance process
A Humble Commentary on the Topic of Elders, Honoraria, and Protocol
Survey of Employment and Payroll Wages
This paper tracks the rise of First Nations
The Urban Aboriginal Middle-Income Group in Canada
Recent research suggests that there is an emerging urban Aboriginal middle-income group in Canada but little is known about it. This paper examines the demographic profile of the urban Aboriginal middle-income group (excluding First Nations living on-reserve) from the 2006 Aboriginal Peoples Survey in comparison to the non-Aboriginal population from the 2006 Census. Results showed that there is a definite urban Aboriginal middle-income group in C…
Slice of Heaven
Urban Aboriginal Accord and Declaration
The Mysterious Ways of Statistics for Aboriginal People in the Yukon
Housing and Aboriginal People in Urban Centres
This paper explores the current state of urban Aboriginal housing in Canada, by providing an up-to-date mapping of national urban Aboriginal housing conditions. This paper demonstrates that home ownership helps to reduce the gap between mainstream and Aboriginal rates of core housing need, for Aboriginal renters are substantially worse off than their non-Aboriginal counterparts in terms of core housing need and overcrowding. Métis and Non-Status …
National Association of Friendship Centres (Nafc) Incorporation Document
Charting the Statistical Distinctiveness of Edmonton’s Aboriginal Community
As part of the Wicihitowin process of building space for Edmonton's urban Aboriginal community to speak to issues that concerned them, a massive consultation process was conducted and published in the Your City, Your Voice report. From July 2005 to early December 2005, the dialogue process engaged over 1800 people from across the city of Edmonton's various Aboriginal communities. The purpose of the dialogue process was to create opportunities for…
Aboriginal Women’s Movement; A Quest for Self- determination
Aboriginal Policy Studies - Editor's Introduction
White Paper
To be an Indian is to be a man, with all a man's needs and abilities.To be an Indian is also to be different.It is to speak different languages, draw different pictures, tell different tales and to rely on a set of values developed in a different world.Canada is richer for its Indian component, although there have been times when diversity seemed of little value to many Canadians.But to be a Canadian Indian today is to be someone different in ano…
Away from the Indian Act - Treaty Governance at Tsawwassen First Nation
I am very pleased to write here on moving away from the Indian Act, and on Treaty governance at Tsawwassen First Nation. In my view, Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) has made significant progress in these areas-though much more work remains-since the Effective Date of our Final Agreement on 3 April 2009. Our modern treaty provides for constitutionally protected self-governance, which has removed the Indian Act from our community
Seeing like a Circle
Since the early 1970s, Aboriginal communities, policy analysts, and researchers have constructed “urban Aboriginal economic development” as both a domain of strategic intervention and a field of tactical contestation. An integral part of this project has been the creation of a body of academic knowledge about urban Aboriginal peoples and their relationship to the economy. This article surveys the current state of knowledge about urban Aboriginal …