Children's Use of Speech and Repetition in Oral Storytelling: The Role of Cultural Patterning in Children's Retellings of First Nations Oral Narrative

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Allen ◽  
Christopher E. Lalonde
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Cultural Patterning

Designing an Indigenous Voice that empowers: How constitutional recognition could strengthen First Nations sovereignty

2021 ◽  
pp. 1037969X2110096
Author(s):  
Jason O’Neil
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
First Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Voice

This article considers how a First Nations Voice to Parliament, if carefully designed, could strengthen the land-based sovereignty and autonomy of First Peoples in Australia. It critiques the proposals presented in the Indigenous Voice Co-design Process' Interim Report released January 2021 for its emphasis on the role of government and existing structures. It responds to Indigenous critiques of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, while arguing for a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament that respects and defers to First Nations' Country-based authority.

scholarly journals “Les copains *dit au revoir”: On Subject–Verb Agreement in L2 French and Cross-Linguistic Influence

Languages ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Malin Ågren ◽  
Marie-Eve Michot ◽  
Cyrille Granget ◽  
Sonia Gerolimich ◽  
Pascale Hadermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Verb Agreement ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
L2 Development

This study focuses on the production of subject–verb (SV) agreement in number in L2 French and investigates the role of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in this particular morphosyntactic domain. CLI is a well-known phenomenon in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research but it has rarely been investigated systematically in relation to SV agreement in French. The participants of the study are 114 learners with Italian, German, Dutch and Swedish as L1. The source languages are all inflectional languages but they vary in terms of morphological richness in the verb paradigm, ranging from very poor (Swedish) to very rich (Italian). The participants performed an oral narrative task contrasting singular and plural contexts of SV agreement. Results indicate a significant difference between L1 groups in terms of correct SV agreement but they also show that the overall presence of rich verb morphology in the L1 does not, on its own, result in a more correct SV agreement. It is when comparing learners at two different proficiency levels that we observe differences in the rate of L2 development, which may be explained as an effect of CLI. Overall, results indicate a complex interplay of different factors, where the role of CLI must be further investigated in future studies in relation to L2 French.

Walking the Red Road: The Role of First Nations Grandparents in Promoting Cultural Well-Being

2013 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace E. Thompson ◽  
Rose E. Cameron ◽  
Esme Fuller-Thomson
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Well Being

Experts on Our Own Lives: Commemorating Canada at the Beginning of the 21st Century

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-68
Author(s):  
Veronica Strong-Boag
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Movement Politics

Abstract This article highlights the contested nature of public commemoration in Canada. Vigorous grassroots enthusiasm for commemoration is compared with the evolving commitment of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board, one of Canada's senior players in national commemoration. The article begins by pointing to the ongoing attention to history that pervades contemporary movement politics among the First Nations, ethno-cultural groups, women, and workers. It next considers recent popular efforts at commemoration, with a particular focus on those targeting ethnic and racial injustice, violence against women, and the invisibility of workers. It then considers the role of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada from its founding in 1919 to the present. Ultimately, it asks what grassroots and official actors in historical commemoration contribute to the maintenance of public memory.

scholarly journals Reforming Indigenous policing: Understanding the context for change

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 144-155
Author(s):  
Rick Ruddell ◽  
John Kiedrowski
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Urban Policing ◽  
Research And Policy

Protests over the policing of Black and Indigenous people and people of Colour that started after the death of George Floyd in May 2020 at the hands of the Minneapolis police set the stage for debates about the role of the Canadian police in ensuring public safety. These protests have resulted in calls for police reforms, including reallocating police funding to other social spending. The public’s attention has focused on urban policing, and there has been comparatively little focus on policing rural Indigenous communities. We address this gap in the literature, arguing that Indigenous policing is distinctively different than what happens in urban areas and the challenges posed in these places are unlike the ones municipal officers confront. We identify ten specific challenges that define the context for Indigenous policing that must be considered before reforms are undertaken. Implications for further research and policy development are identified, including founding a commission to oversee First Nations policing.

Demanding dialogue in an unsettled settler state: implications for education and justice

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Rudolph
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
State Education ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Challenge Education ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Ongoing Project

Purpose:The purpose of this paper is to examine the educational impulses and effects of Indigenous dialogue with the settler colonial state. Taking the Uluru Statement from the Heart, devised in May 2017 by a convention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as a starting point, and contrasting this with the 1967 Referendum campaign for constitutional reform, the paper explores the role of multiple forms and contexts of education during these processes of First Nations dialogue with the settler state.Design/methodology/approach:This paper draws on historical accounts of the 1967 Referendum and the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart.Findings:The paper demonstrates how education provided by the state has been used by First Nations peoples to challenge education systems and to dialogue with the settler state for Indigenous recognition and rights. It also illuminates the range of views on what education is and should be, therefore, contesting the neat and settled conceptions of education that can dominate policy discourse. Finally the historical cases show the deficiencies of settler state education through its failure to truthfully represent Australian history and its failure to acknowledge and confront the entirety of the consequences of settler colonial practices.Originality/value:This paper seeks to bring issues of education, politics and justice together to illustrate how the settler state and its institutions – specifically here, education – are part of an ongoing project of negotiation, contestation and dialogue over questions of justice.

scholarly journals Teaching Private Law in a Climate Crisis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Graham
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Global Goal ◽  
Climate Crisis

First Nations analyses, climate science, social science and legal research indicate the significant role of private law in facilitating the conditions of climate change. Private law is a contingent feature of planetary health because its key concepts and institutions concentrate the legal rights to capital — the goods of life — in the private sphere. Private entitlements can act as shields against collective interests. Reforming law to address the climate crisis involves greater regulation of private interests to pursue the global goal of sustaining organised human societies, and thus addressing conflict between individual freedoms and collective exigencies. Reform depends on a differently educated generation of legal thinkers and practitioners. 

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