Yellowhead Institute Publisher Description

Yellowhead Institute generates critical policy perspectives in support of Indigenous self-determination. The Institute is a First Nation-led research center based in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. Rooted in Indigenous philosophies and community networks, the Institute offers critical and accessible resources. It also aims to foster education and dialogue on Indigenous issues across fields of study, between the academy and the wider community, and among Indigenous peoples and Canadians.

Research Reports
Research Reports in JSTOR from Yellowhead Institute
161 Research Reports in JSTOR Date
A 15-POINT GUIDE:: Standards of Achievement for the Relationship Between Indigenous Peoples & Cultural Institutions in Canada 2020
The 176 Million Dollar Question:: Are the Promised Federal Education Funds for First Nations Actually Flowing? 2018
Abolish the Police:: The Financial Cost of Law Enforcement in Prairie Cities 2020
Abolish the Police:: The Financial Cost of Law Enforcement in Prairie Cities. 2020
Aboriginal Title in British Columbia Examined Under the New Liberal Agenda 2018
Accountability Mechanisms for Child Welfare Advocacy:: An Interview with Naiomi Metallic 2023
AFN Election 2018:: About the Candidates 2018
After the Far North Act:: Indigenous Jurisdiction in Ontario’s Far North 2019
The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation:: A Critical Analysis 2020
Algonquin Anishinabeg vs. The Algonquins of Ontario:: Development, Recognition & Ongoing Colonization 2021
The Anishinabek Nation Governance Agreement:: A Pre-Ratification Review 2019
AN ANNOTATED GUIDE TO THE (MAL)INTERPRETATION OF CONFEDERATION ERA TREATIES IN CANADA 2020
Answering Calls to Justice:: A National Action Plan on Ending Violence 2019
The Assembly of First Nations & the Failure of the Child Welfare Settlement Agreement 2022
Balancing the Budget at Indigenous People’s Expense 2022
Banking While Brown:: Indigenous People and Structural Racism in Canada 2020
Battle for the Sun:: Green Energy vs. Indigenous Heritage in Edmonton 2020
Better Late Than Never?: Canada’s Reluctant Recognition of Métis Rights and Self-Government 2018
Between Membership & Belonging:: Life Under Section 10 of the Indian Act 2022
Bill C-53:: An Act (dis)Respecting First Nations Inherent Rights 2023
Bill C-92 Implementation Strategies 2019
Black-Indigenous Futures in Art, Literature and #BlackLivesMatter 2020
A Brief Assessment of Canada’s Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and First Nation Citizenship 2018
Budget 2023:: A Profound Failure to Meet Indigenous Demands 2023
A Call to Reconsider the Métis Self-Government Agreement in Ontario 2023
The Callers of Action:: An Interview with Eva Jewell and Douglas Sinclair on Measuring Reconciliation 2022
Calls to Action Accountability:: A 2021 Status Update on Reconciliation 2021
CALLS TO ACTION ACCOUNTABILITY: A 2022 STATUS UPDATE ON RECONCILIATION 2022
Calls to Action Accountability:: A 2020 Status Update on Reconciliation 2020
Calls to Action Accountability:: A Status Update on Reconciliation 2019
Calls to Action for Newcomers to Canada and the Violence of Citizenship Education 2023
Can the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girl’s Inquiry be Reclaimed? 2018
Canada 2030:: Drone Colony? 2023
Canada and Israel:: Partners in the “Settler Colonial Contract” 2021
Canada’s Emerging Indigenous Rights Framework:: A Critical Analysis 2018
Canada’s Indigenous Rights Framework:: A (Bad) Proposal Emerges 2018
Carceral Redlining:: White Supremacy is a Weapon of Mass Incarceration for Indigenous and Black Peoples in Canada 2020
CARCERAL REDLINING 2020
Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper 2021
CIRN-ACK! Leaked Government document outlines the Indian Department’s “Indigenous Agenda” and “Accomplishments” for 2019-2020 2020
The Climate Emergency & the Colonial Response 2021
Colonialism of the Curve:: Indigenous Communities and Bad Covid Data 2020
Colonizers Being Colonizers:: Lobster Fishing & the Continued Oppression of L’nu’k in Mi’kma’ki 2021
Connection Creating Change:: Indigenous Youth Perspectives on Trauma, Storytelling & Healing 2021
COVID 19 in Community:: How are First Nations Responding? 2020
Covid-19 and Indigenous Communities:: Family Conversations 2020
COVID-19 and Inuit Nunangat:: Research, Responsibility & Infrastructure Inequality 2020
COVID-19 did not cause food insecurity in Indigenous communities but it will make it worse 2020
COVID-19, THE NUMBERED TREATIES & THE POLITICS OF LIFE 2020
A Critical Look at the New Fiscal Relationship and Contribution Funding Agreements with First Nations 2019
A CULTURE OF EXPLOITATION:: “Reconciliation” and the Institutions of Canadian Art 2020
The Current State of Indian Gaming in Alberta:: Are First Nations Subsidizing the Province? 2019
The Data Pandemic, Zombie Voters and First Nation Governance 2019
Dear Qallunaat:: Racism, Public Government and Inuit Nunanga 2019
“Decolonizing” Clean Energy Policy in Canada? 2019
Do Métis have Rights in British Columbia?: Let our Métis People be heard in a Good Way 2020
Does the Charter Apply?: The Struggle to Protect Free Speech On-Reserve 2020
Education and Crown Paternalism:: Reviewing the New On-reserve Education Funding Model 2019
Election 2019:: Which Party will Return the Land? 2019
Eliminating the Ontario Child Advocate Threatens the Rights of Indigenous Kids 2018
Equalization Politics in Alberta & the Restoration of Indigenous Power 2021
Ewert v Canada:: Supreme Court of Canada decides that systemic racism doesn’t make you a riskier offender 2018
The Failure of Federal Indigenous Healthcare Policy in Canada 2021
Federal childwelfare and Indigenous childhood sexual violence 2020
First Nations Land Management Regime:: Pros and Cons 2019
Fraser Institute:: Property Rights for Everyone, Just not Indians 2018
The Gaping Holes in Ottawa’s Indigenous Fiscal Policy 2018
George Cleary & The Sahtu Dene and Métis Land Claim Agreement 2021
Getting Back to Normal?: Not if “Normal” means Indigenous Food and Health Insecurity 2021
G’ganoonigonaa Zaagigan | The Lake Is Speaking To Us:: Nuclear Waste in Saugeen Ojibway Nation Territory? 2020
The Green New Deal in Canada:: Challenges for Indigenous Participation 2019
Happy Cannabis Day?: First Nations, Legalization & the Ongoing Failure of Canadian Federalism 2018
Happy New Year to Everyone but Non-Status Kids:: Jordan’s Principle & Canada’s Persistent Discrimination 2021
Historic and Underwhelming:: An Indigenous Analysis of Budget 2021 2021
The House of Commons, Jagmeet Singh & The Disappearing Trick of Canadian Racism 2020
How Canada’s proposed Indigenous Languages Act fails to deliver 2019
Hungry Days in Nunavut:: The Façade of Inuit Self-Determination 2022
If You Can’t Beat Them... Join Them?: The National Chief to “Indian Fighter” Pipeline 2022
Imagining Urban Indigenous Sovereignty & Space Through Canadian UNDRIP Legislation 2022
In Conversation with the Gwich’in Tribal Council:: Modern Treaties, Northern Self-Government & “Rights Recognition” 2018
In Defence of The Integrity of our Nation:: Métis Colonialism West of the Rocky Mountains 2021
An Indigenous Housing Innovation Challenge?: Start with the Foundation 2018
The Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle calls for an immediate ban on pesticides in Toronto’s High Park 2019
Indigenous Land-Based Education in Theory and Practice 2023
Indigenous Policy in Alberta:: Considering the First 100 Days of UCP Rule 2019
An Injunction Against the Unist’ot’en Camp:: An Embodiment of Healing Faces Eviction 2018
Injunctions by First Nations:: Results of a National Study 2019
Insolvency, Indigenous Research & the Uncertain Future of Laurentian University 2021
Introducing X University:: An Open Letter to the Community from Indigenous students 2021
INTRODUCING YELLOWHEAD INSTITUTE:: Indigenous Strategies for Transformative Change 2018
“Journacide” and the Settler Colonial Assault on Reality 2022
Land Back 2019
Land, Language and Culture in Denendeh:: Making Connections with Dene Nahjo 2020
Legislation Affecting Indigenous People:: An Overview of the Liberal Record 2019
Lessons from Aotearoa:: The Indigenous “exception” clause in Free Trade Agreements 2019
Let’s Talk about Indigenous Mental Health:: Trauma, Suicide & Settler Colonialism 2022
Libertad para Alberto! Mapuche Land Defence in Chile & the Goldman Environmental Prize 2019
Making the Most out of Canada’s New Department of Indigenous Services Act 2019
Manufacturing Free, Prior and Informed Consent:: A Brief History of Canada vs. UNDRIP 2020
Marking the Settler Colonial Present:: From Canada to Palestine to Kashmir 2020
Measuring Indigenous Well-Being:: What is Indigenous Services Missing? 2021
Metis Harvesting in Alberta:: Violence, Racism and Resistance 2020
A Métis Royal Rumble:: Identity, Politics & the Failure of Our Leadership 2020
Mi’kmaq and the Recognition and Implementation of Rights Framework 2018
Murdered by “Bad Luck”:: Indigenous Life and Death in Canada 2021
A New Conversation on Inuit Self-Government in Nunavut 2021
The “New Normal”:: Defending First Nations Jurisdiction During COVID-19 2021
No SuchThing as Natural Disasters:: the First Nation Fight for Infrastructure 2020
Not-so Grand Plans:: The Continued Erasure of Indigenous Rights in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Hydroelectric ‘Development’ 2021
Nuna:: Dispossession & Reclamation in Inuit Nunangat 2020
On the Road to the New Reserve:: Considering Canada’s Preferred Path to Land Restitution 2018
Open Letter from the Williams Family Regarding their Rights and Safety 2020
Peace, Friendship and Fishing in Mi’kma’ki 2020
Police Brutality in Canada:: A Symptom of Structural Racism and Colonial Violence 2020
Preface: from Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper 2019
The Promise and Failure of First Nation Policing in Ontario 2019
The Promise and Pitfalls of C-92:: An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Children, Youth and Families 2019
Racism and Reclamation in Daajing Giids Llnagaay (briefly known as Queen Charlotte Municipal Village) 2022
Re-Affirming Indigenous Citizenships:: Two Spirit Family-Making and the Future of Belonging 2020
Reclaiming Indigenous Place Names 2019
A Record of Solidarity in the X University Campaign 2021
REDWASHING EXTRACTION: Indigenous Relations at Canada’s Big Five Banks 2022
Reflections on Economy, Racism & Solidarity in Iqaluit 2024
Research, Ethnic Fraud, and the Academy:: A Protocol for Working with Indigenous Communities and Peoples 2019
Residential School Graves, Canada’s “Slow” Genocide & the International Criminal Court 2022
Residential School Records and Data Governance 2021
A Response to “Decolonizing Clean Energy?”:: The Case of the BC Indigenous Clean Energy Initiative 2019
Reviewing The Fisheries Act:: An Indigenous Perspective 2019
The Rise of the Anishinabek Nation:: Self-Government for the Status Quo? 2020
The Rise of the Anishinabek Nation Part II:: The Fiscal Agreement 2020
The Rise of the First Nations Land Management Regime in Canada:: A Critical Analysis 2019
A Scan of International Report Recommendations on COVID-19 and Indigenous People 2021
Settler Moves to Indigeneity:: From Canada to Israel 2023
Settler Moves to Innocence:: A Transnational Legal Glossary 2023
Shaking It Off:: Papal Apologies and Narratives of Exceptionalism in Canada 2022
A SPECIAL REPORT: Treaty Interpretation in the Age of Restoule 2022
Splitting INAC:: Coercive Fiscal Federalism in the Disguise of ‘Reconciliation’ 2018
Statement From Concerned Haudenosaunee Women Regarding Injunctions At 1492 Land Back Lane 2020
Statement from the Braided Warriors on Police And State Violence re:: Trans Mountain Pipelines 2021
Straining A Gnat But Swallowing A Camel:: Policing First Nation Fishers In Northern Saskatchewan 2019
Strengthening the Indigenous Languages Act – Bill C-91 2018
Tkaronto is a Place for Sustenance 2023
To Breathe Together:: Co-Conspirators for Decolonial Futures 2020
Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction in Solidarity with Indigenous Encampment Residents 2021
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action:: 2019 Status Update 2019
Turning to Traditional Processes for Supporting Mental Health:: An Interview with Ashley Carvill 2020
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada:: Lessons from B.C. 2020
The UNDA 101:: Canada’s Declaration Action Plan 2023
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD):: A User Guide for Land Defenders 2021
The Violence of Justice Policy:: Risk Assessments and the Criminalization of Indigenous People 2024
Violence on Violence:: The Racism-Policing Loop in Prince George, B.C. 2023
Water is Life:: The fatal links between water infrastructure, COVID-19, and First Nations in Canada 2021
We Own It, So Let’s Kill It:: What to do about Kinder Morgan in an era of “reconciliation” 2018
What about Cities?: Containing Urban Self-Determination through the Indigenous Rights Framework 2018
What the Freedom Convoy Protests Reveals About Structural Racism in Canada 2022
What’s at the “Core of Indianness”?: Bill-C92, Labour and Indigenous Social Services 2020
Wholesale Rapid Removal of the Indian Act without Alternatives will be Met with Resistance 2018
Why are Indigenous rights being defined by an energy corporation? 2020
Writing Myself into Existence:: An Essay on the Erasure of Black Indigenous Identity in Canadian Education 2021
Yellowhead Statement Regarding Arrests At 1492 Land Back Lane 2020
Zaagi’diwin Inakinogewin | Love Law:: A Policy Note For Protecting Two-Spirit, Non-Binary & Trans Indigenous Peoples 2022
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