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Indigenous Astronomy As Told By The Haudenosaunee, Sasha Doxtator

2019 Cohort

Colonization has greatly reduced the extent to which Indigenous astronomy is presently known and shared. Much sky lore has become lost or fragmented, and the connections between stories, night sky observations, and their relevance is not as obvious as it once was. A detrimental spiral has ensued with many Western-trained scientists being reluctant to share sky lore out of fear of being misunderstood, disrespected, and dismissed.

Interdisciplinary Lens On Indigenous Health Iniquities: Planning, Nursing, Anthropology, Geography, Education, Chantal Francouer, Alana Kehoe, Ivy Tran, Steven Vanloffeld, Lillian Woroniuk, Jacob Renaud

2019 Cohort

Indigenous peoples experience poorer health outcomes on almost every measure of health and wellbeing, when compared to the rest of Canada. For decades researchers have been working independently on addressing health inequalities, yet little progress has been made on closing the gap. This Discipline-specific way of thinking is too narrow and neglects indigenous ideologies of holistic approaches to health. An interdisciplinary approach to indigenous health research provides a more collaborative and integrated opportunity to address the multidimensional aspects of health. This paper has the goals to contribute to the limited research on interdisciplinary indigenous health research.

Microgrid Technology And The Arctic: Green Renewable Technology Does Relate To The Land, Gerry Dell

2019 Cohort

Microgrids can take power from other energy sources and share their loads meaning there is a less reliance on diesel power generation. Wind mill power generators, solar power (for the summer) and battery storage are fantastic elements for providing consistent power in the Arctic. These power systems have been tried and proven, in all conditions, over many years. Geothermal is another green efficient way to heat homes and businesses in the Arctic. When I worked for Dome Petroleum in McKinley Bay NWT, I was fortunate to work in the most extreme winter weather the Arctic can produce. With global warming …

Real Life Sociology: A Canadian Approach, Kristin Longdo, Anabel Quan-Haase

2019 Cohort

Together, the authors have edited Anabel Quan-Haase’s previously written textbook Real Life Sociology: A Canadian Approach, a textbook used in the first year course Introduction to Sociology, to implement more Indigenous content into each chapter. Our motive with modifying the content in this textbook is to give first-year or new students a chance to learn about Canada’s history. Ideally, implementing such content into this textbook will make future students not only aware of what their fellow brothers and sisters have endured, but how they continue to suffer. We can not change the past, but we can shape the future. Young …

The Application Of Community-Based Participatory Research (Cbpr), Riley Kennedy

2019 Cohort

Community-based participatory research is a contemporary research methodology used largely in health research. Community-based participatory research works to balance power and control in research. Indigenous people around the world have had an continue to have an uncomfortable research. Community-based participatory research is viewed as a way to do ethical research with Indigenous people. This project seeks to understand factors that influence community-based participatory research on Indigenous health using a narrative literature review approach.

Examining Indigenous Learner Recruitment And Retention Strategies Through An Environmental Scan Of Canadian Medical Schools, Sebastian Deagle

2019 Cohort

The 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada’s Calls to Action Report outlined the need to better resolve the disparities in health status between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadian population. IN response, several Canadian medical schools began implementing recruitment and retention strategies to increase Indigenous matriculation. This is crucial, as Indigenous physicians are more likely to practice – and provide culturally-competent and comprehensive primary care – in Indigenous communities than physicians of other ethnicities. Therefore, enhancing Indigenous medical workforce development programs will have a strong return on investment in terms of improving the health status of Indigenous populations. However, while …

Sfns Household Economic Leakage Project, Elissa Noah

2019 Cohort

Southern First Nation Secretariat (SFNS) is an organization appointed to seven local member First Nation communities that commits to bridge programs and services for enriched communities while respecting the diversity of culture, values, and traditions. First Nations people make up 4.9% of Canada’s population with 634 communities. First Nation economy circumstances are widely diverse and often uncertain. The relationship is mostly unknown. Therefore, the purpose of the economic leakage project is to help determine how much SFNS member First Nations' governments spend outside of their communities, and how it can be recaptured to enhance their economies and well-being.

Indigenous Representation In Cinema, Nathaniel Ninham

2019 Cohort

Indigenous people are underrepresented offscreen on film-sets, and misrepresented onscreen. This has always been true in cinema and progress towards proper representation has been incredibly slow.

This has effects both on Indigenous people, and how the rest of society views them. It limits career opportunities for Indigenous filmmakers, restricts Indigenous role models on film, and reinforces cultural misunderstandings in society.

Interdisciplinary Lens On Indigenous Health Iniquities: Planning, Nursing, Anthropology, Geography, Education, Chantal Francouer, Alana Kehoe, Ivy Tran, Steven Vanloffeld, Lillian Woroniuk, Jacob Renaud

Learning with your Head & Heart

Indigenous peoples experience poorer health outcomes on almost every measure of health and wellbeing, when compared to the rest of Canada. For decades researchers have been working independently on addressing health inequalities, yet little progress has been made on closing the gap. This Discipline-specific way of thinking is too narrow and neglects indigenous ideologies of holistic approaches to health. An interdisciplinary approach to indigenous health research provides a more collaborative and integrated opportunity to address the multidimensional aspects of health. This paper has the goals to contribute to the limited research on interdisciplinary indigenous health research.

Sfns Household Economic Leakage Project, Elissa Noah

Learning with your Head & Heart

Southern First Nation Secretariat (SFNS) is an organization appointed to seven local member First Nation communities that commits to bridge programs and services for enriched communities while respecting the diversity of culture, values, and traditions. First Nations people make up 4.9% of Canada’s population with 634 communities. First Nation economy circumstances are widely diverse and often uncertain. The relationship is mostly unknown. Therefore, the purpose of the economic leakage project is to help determine how much SFNS member First Nations' governments spend outside of their communities, and how it can be recaptured to enhance their economies and well-being.

Microgrid Technology And The Arctic: Green Renewable Technology Does Relate To The Land, Gerry Dell

Learning with your Head & Heart

Microgrids can take power from other energy sources and share their loads meaning there is a less reliance on diesel power generation. Wind mill power generators, solar power (for the summer) and battery storage are fantastic elements for providing consistent power in the Arctic. These power systems have been tried and proven, in all conditions, over many years. Geothermal is another green efficient way to heat homes and businesses in the Arctic. When I worked for Dome Petroleum in McKinley Bay NWT, I was fortunate to work in the most extreme winter weather the Arctic can produce. With global warming …

Real Life Sociology: A Canadian Approach, Kristin Longdo, Anabel Quan-Haase

Learning with your Head & Heart

Together, the authors have edited Anabel Quan-Haase’s previously written textbook Real Life Sociology: A Canadian Approach, a textbook used in the first year course Introduction to Sociology, to implement more Indigenous content into each chapter. Our motive with modifying the content in this textbook is to give first-year or new students a chance to learn about Canada’s history. Ideally, implementing such content into this textbook will make future students not only aware of what their fellow brothers and sisters have endured, but how they continue to suffer. We can not change the past, but we can shape the future. Young …

The Application Of Community-Based Participatory Research (Cbpr), Riley Kennedy

Learning with your Head & Heart

Community-based participatory research is a contemporary research methodology used largely in health research. Community-based participatory research works to balance power and control in research. Indigenous people around the world have had an continue to have an uncomfortable research. Community-based participatory research is viewed as a way to do ethical research with Indigenous people. This project seeks to understand factors that influence community-based participatory research on Indigenous health using a narrative literature review approach.

Indigenous Astronomy As Told By The Haudenosaunee, Sasha Doxtator

Learning with your Head & Heart

Colonization has greatly reduced the extent to which Indigenous astronomy is presently known and shared. Much sky lore has become lost or fragmented, and the connections between stories, night sky observations, and their relevance is not as obvious as it once was. A detrimental spiral has ensued with many Western-trained scientists being reluctant to share sky lore out of fear of being misunderstood, disrespected, and dismissed.

Examining Indigenous Learner Recruitment And Retention Strategies Through An Environmental Scan Of Canadian Medical Schools, Sebastian Deagle

Learning with your Head & Heart

The 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada’s Calls to Action Report outlined the need to better resolve the disparities in health status between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadian population. IN response, several Canadian medical schools began implementing recruitment and retention strategies to increase Indigenous matriculation. This is crucial, as Indigenous physicians are more likely to practice – and provide culturally-competent and comprehensive primary care – in Indigenous communities than physicians of other ethnicities. Therefore, enhancing Indigenous medical workforce development programs will have a strong return on investment in terms of improving the health status of Indigenous populations. However, while …

Indigenous Representation In Cinema, Nathaniel Ninham

Learning with your Head & Heart

Indigenous people are underrepresented offscreen on film-sets, and misrepresented onscreen. This has always been true in cinema and progress towards proper representation has been incredibly slow.

This has effects both on Indigenous people, and how the rest of society views them. It limits career opportunities for Indigenous filmmakers, restricts Indigenous role models on film, and reinforces cultural misunderstandings in society.

Figure 7.5 Incorporated Area Population And Special Districts, Tri-County Area, 1860-2000.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: Until the 1920s, the proportion of the tri-county population living in incorporated areas generally increased as municipalities annexed suburbanizing areas. As annexation waned and more growth occurred in unincorporated areas, especially in Multnomah County, special districts proliferated. The proportion of the population living in municipalities has increased and reliance on special districts has decreased with new municipal incorporations and annexations since the 1970s.

Figure 7.4 Cumulative Number Of Special Districts In The Tri-County Area, By Type, 1917-56.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: Years in parentheses indicate when legislative authorization of each type of district occurred. The general pattern is one of rapid adoption of special districts following their authorization.

Figure 7.3 Municipal Organization And Urban Growth In Portland, 1940-60.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: While before 1940 most physical urban development had occurred within the corporate boundaries of Portland, Milwaukie, and Oregon City, extensive residential subdivision occurred in unincorporated portions of Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington Counties between 1940 and 1960. Boundaries of incorporated municipalities circa 1961 are overlaid. Municipal boundaries are approximate – comparison of contemporaneous maps suggests that the smaller municipalities undertook a number of annexations in the early 1960s.

Figure 7.2 Administrative Boundaries And Urbanization In Portland And The Willamette Valley.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

No abstract provided.

Figure 7.1 Portland Population By Zone, 1860-2010.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

The City of Portland captured most growth in the tri-county area, and in the Willamette Valley as a whole, through the 1920s. Portland’s population levelled off after the 1940s, as most growth flowed to other parts of Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington Counties, and in other communities to the south.

Figure 6.5 Regional Districts In The Lower Mainland, 1967.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: The provincial government divided the Lower Mainland into four regional districts in 1967. They assumed joint authority over the Official Regional Plan when the Regional Planning Board was dissolved in 1969.

Figure 6.4 Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board Evolving Land-Use Concept, 1963-66.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: The schematic “cities in a sea of green” land-use concept in the 1963 Chance and Challenge report (top) was the basis of the zoning in the 1966 Official Regional Plan (bottom).

Figure 6.3 Lower Mainland Municipal Boundaries, 1929.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: Municipal boundaries shown are those immediately prior to the amalgamation of Vancouver, South Vancouver, and Point Grey and the incorporation of Hope in 1929.

Figure 6.2 Administrative Boundaries, Urbanization, And Policy Areas In Vancouver.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: Since 1995 the Lower Mainland has been divided into two regional districts. The Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), established in 1973, prohibits urban development in much of the region. Urban development has been largely contiguous and compact, forming discrete settlements in the ALR’s “holes.”

Figure 6.1 Vancouver Population By Zone, 1890-2010.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: Until the 1940s, virtually all growth in the Lower Mainland occurred in the City of Vancouver, after which growth dramatically accelerated in surrounding communities. While most has occurred in the western end of the Lower Mainland – on Burrard Peninsula and elsewhere within the jurisdiction of the Greater Vancouver Regional District – better transportation accessibility has facilitated growth to the east.

Figure 5.6 New Municipal Incorporations In The Twin Cities, 1950–59.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: Forty-one municipalities were incorporated between 1950 and 1959, spurring the creation of the Minnesota Municipal Commission.

Figure 5.5 New Municipal Incorporations By Type, 1870-1970.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

No abstract provided.

Figure 5.4 Municipal Organization And Urbanization In The Twin Cities, 1900.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: Only large lakes are shown.

Figure 5.3 Municipal Organization And Urbanization In The Twin Cities, 1870.Pdf, Zack Taylor

Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor

Note: Only large lakes are shown. The northern portion of Dakota County was annexed to St. Paul in 1874, becoming part of Ramsey County in the process.