Mi’kmaw Theses Online

Links to Mi’kmaw & Aboriginal Theses Available On-Line

• Aboriginal Injustice, A Canadian Responsibility: An Algonquian Perspective of Canada’s Criminal Justice System M.A. Thesis by Kate Singer

• The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network: An Institutional Model of Empowerment M.A. Thesis by Karen Richards
• After 12,000 Years of Yesterdays-Where will Debert Be After 12 Years of Tomorrows? Impact of Mi’kmawey Debert on Culture, Economy, and Environment of the Mi’kmaq M.A. Thesis by Elaine Jeffery
• An Analysis of Social Support and the Health of the On-Reserve Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Population M.Sc. Thesis by Vanessa Perry
• Analyze If You Wish, But Listen: Aboriginal Women’s Lifestorytelling in Canada & Australia & the Politics of Gender, Nation, Aboriginality & Anti-Racism Ph.D Thesis by Gail Kelly
• Another Look in the Mirror: Research into the Foundations for Developing an Alternative Science Curriculum for Mi’kmaw Children M.A. Thesis by Gertrude (Trudy) Sable
• Anthropological Advocacy?: Frank Speck and the Mapping of Aboriginal Territoriality in Eastern Canada 1900-1950 Ph.D. Thesis by Siomonn Pulla
• The Architecture of Learning: Spaces for Architectural Learning Within the Mi’kmaq Context M.Arch. by Brett Ferguson
• Architecture as Weaving: How Can Architecture Contribute to the Learning of Mi’kmaq Knowledge at Dalhousie University? M. Arch. by Duncan Patterson
• Beyond Blood: Rethinking Aboriginal Identity and Belonging D.S.L. Thesis by Pamela Palmater
• Bill C-31 – The Experiences of ‘Indian’ Women Who ‘Married Out’ M.A. Thesis by Fern Marie Paul
• Cape Breton Fiddle Music: The Making & Maintenance of a Tradition M.A. Thesis by Glenn Graham
• Change over Time in the Abundance and Distribution of Black Ash in Nova Scotia: Effects on Mi’kmaq Traditional Use and Recommendations for the Best Germination Techniques for Province Wide Replanting Programs M.Sc. Thesis by Sara Hill-Forde
• Childbirth Experiences of Women from One Mi’kmaq Community in Nova Scotia M.of Nursing Thesis by JoAnne Whitty-Rogers
• Circle as Pedagogy: Aboriginal Tradition in a University Classroom Ph.D. Thesis by Jean Graveline
• Coming Full Circle Redefining `Effectiveness’ for Aboriginal Justice M.A. Thesis by Gerald D. Gloade
• Contemporary Mi’kmaq Relationships between Humans and Animals: A Case Study of the Bear River First Nation Reserve in Nova Scotia MES Thesis by Lacia Kinnear
• Contested Place: Religion & Values in the Dispute, Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj, New Brunswick Ph.D. Thesis by Sarah J. King
• A Culturally Relevant Education for Aboriginal Youth: Is There Room for a Middle Ground, Accommodating Traditional Knowledge & Mainstream Education? M.A. Thesis by Stephen J. Augustine
• Decolonizing Mi’kmaw Memory of Treaty: L’sitkuk’s Learning with Allies in Struggle for Food and Lifeways Ph.D. Thesis by Sherry Mae Pictou
• Economic Development Strategies and the Micmac of Nova Scotia M.A. Thesis by Lynda Kuhn Boudreau
• The Effect of Centralization on the Social & Political Systems of the Mainland Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq: Case Studies – Millbrook 1916 & Indian Brook 1914 M.A. Thesis by Anita Tobin
• Emerging Identities: A Proposed Model for an Interactive Science Curriculum for First Nations Students Ph.D. Thesis by Trudy Sable
• Encounters with Tall Sails and Tall Tales: Mi’kmaq Society 1500-1760 Ph.D. Thesis by William Wicken
• Engaging Mi’kmaq Communities in Asthma Research: A Community Driven Assessment of the Needs, Challenges, & Opportunities Surrounding Asthma Support in Unama’ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia MES Thesis by Robert Watson
• An Evaluation of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) through the Lens of Restorative Justice and the Theory of Recognition Ph.D. Thesis by Konstantin Petoukhov
• Finding Balance: Determining the Relationship between “Economic Development”, Traditional Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in the Context of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq M.A. Thesis by Zabrina Whitman
• Food & Health Perceptions & Practices of Mi’kmaq Children & Youth in PEI M.A. Thesis by Roberta Larsen
• Forward Motion: Cultural Memory and Continuity in Mi’gmaq Literature M.A. Thesis by Blair Alicia Metallic
• From Highland Flings and Fisherfolk to Donairs and Coal Miners: Tourism Promotion in Nova Scotia: 1965-1990 MA Thesis by Denise Mac Pherson
• From Marshall to Mayhem: Mi’kmaq E’pijig/Women of Esgenoopetitj/Burnt Church – Resistance and Change for Tomorrow M.A. Thesis by Danielle Soucy
• From Swords to Ploughshares: The Context for Highland Soldier Settlement in Nova Scotia, 1710-1775 M.A. Thesis by Donald Brian Smith
• Guarded Borders: Colonially Induced Boundaries and Mi’kmaq Peoplehood M.A. Thesis by Rebecca Lea Thomas
• The Impact of the Marshall Decision on Fisheries Policy in Atlantic Canada M.M.S. Thesis by Chantal March
• Implementing Chapter 9 of the Tri-Council Policy Statement on the Ethics of Research Involving Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: How’s That Going? M.A. Thesis by Carla Moore
• In the Path of Our Ancestors: The Aboriginal Right to Cross the Canada-United States Border LLM Thesis by Pamela Palmater
• In the Same Boat? Exploring Treaty Rights, Resource Privatization, Community Resistance, and Mi’kmaq/Non-Native Solidarity in Bear River First Nation through Video-based Participatory Research Ph.D. Thesis by Martha Stiegman
• Indian Affairs and the Nova Scotia Centralization Policy MA Thesis by Lisa Lynn Patterson
• An Indigenist Perspective on the Health/Wellbeing and the Masculinities of Mi’kmaq Men Tet-Pagi-Tel-Sit: Perceiving Himself To Be a Strong Balanced Spiritual Man Ph.D. Thesis by Gracie Getty
• Indigenizing Africans, Disappearing Indians: Black/Mi’kmaq Relations in Nova Scotia M.A. Thesis by Paula Madden
• Investigating the Restoration of the Mi’kmaq Language and Culture on the First Nations Reserve of Miawpukek M.Ed. Thesis by Roderick Jeddore
• Ketmite’tmney, Remember Who You Are: the Educational Histories of Three Generations of Mi’kmaq Women Ph.D Thesis by Roberta Clark
• Koqqwaja’ltimk: Mi’kmaq Legal Consciousness Ph.D. Thesis by Jane McMillan
• Ktaqamkuk: Remembering and Re-Imagining Our Relations MFA Thesis by Jordan Bennett
• A Landscape of Leftovers Ph.D Thesis by Anne-Christine Hornborg
• Layering: A Landscape Reading M.Arch. by Paul G. Welk
• Learning for More Just Relationships: Narratives of Transformation in White Settlers Ph.D. Thesis by Nancy Peters
• Learning Strategies of Mi’kmaq (Aboriginal) Students M.A. Thesis by Tammy Caplin
• Marshalling Resources: Crisis Citizen Engagement and the MarshallDecisions M.A. Thesis by Frank Gale
• The Maximum, The Minimum, or Something in Between: the Mi’kmaq and Federal Electoral Legislation, 1899-1951 Ph.D. Thesis by Martha Walls
• Medicine Dream: Contemporary Native Music and Issues of Identity M.A. Thesis by Janice Tulk
• Mi’kmaq (in Mi’kmaw only) M.A. Thesis by Eleanor V. Johnson
• Mi’kmaq & Maliseet Tom Longboat Award Recipients’ Experiences in Sport in the Maritimes BSSc.(Hons.) Thesis by Vanessa Lodge
• The Mi’kmaq Nation & the Embodiment of Political Ideologies: Ni’kmaq, Protocol & Treaty Negotiations of the Eighteenth Century M.A. Thesis by Rosalie Francis
• Mi’kmawey Mawio’mi: Changing Roles of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council from the Early Seventeenth Century to the Present M.A. Thesis by Jane McMillan
• “Miss I Just Don’t Feel Like Reading Today”: Urban Aboriginal Youth Perceptions of the Relationship between Education, Health, and Wellbeing M.Ed. Thesis by Toni D. Goree
• Native Writers Resisting Colonizing Practices in Canadian Historiography & Literature Ph.D. Thesis by Emma La Roque
• A Neutral Framework for Modelling & Analysing Aboriginal Land Tenure Systems – A Study of the Mi’kmaq of Mainland Nova Scotia Ph.D. Thesis by Mele Estella Rakai
• `Our nation is like a withering leaf on a summer’s day’: The Mi’kmaq and British Agricultural Policies for Colonial Nova Scotia M.A. Thesis by Courtney Mrazek
• `Our Strength Is Ourselves’: Identity, Status, and Cultural Revitalization among the Mi’kmaq of Newfoundland Ph.D. Thesis by Janice Tulk
• Out of the Ruts of Nova Scotia Education: Mi’kmaw Doors of Education Emerge Ph.D. Thesis by Barbara Johnson
• Past Nature: Public Accounts of Nova Scotia’s Landscape 1600-1900 M.A. Thesis by Heather L. Mac Leod
• Phonological Development in Mi’kmaq & the Phonological Characteristics of Child Diverted Vocabulary in Mi’kmaq M.Sc. Thesis by Angela Barkhouse-Clow
• Pokemouche Mi’kmaq and the Colonial Regimes M.A. Thesis by Mark Landry
• The Political Constitution of Indigenous Land Struggles: A Case Study of the Aboriginal `Rights’ Trickster M.A. Thesis by Gerdine Van Woudenberg
• Prehistoric Settlement & Subsistence Patterns at Gaspereau Lake, Kings County, Nova Scotia M.A. Thesis by A. Dawn Laybolt
• A Preliminary Case Study of Perceptions of Access to Ethnomedicine in the Environment in the Mi’kmaq Community of Indian Brook M.A. Thesis by Joanne Pereira
• Problematizing Social Studies Curricula in Nova Scotia M.A. Thesis by Pamela Rogers
• The Process of Mi’kmaq Community-Based Development: A Case Study of the Bear River Mi’kmaq Npisunewawti’j (Medicine Trail) Project M.E.S. Thesis by Lindiwe Mac Donald
• Providing a Lens for First Nations Youth to View Hope in Education Ph.D. Thesis by Michael Topshee
• Puktewei: Learning from Fire in Mi’kma’ki (Mi’kmaq Territory) M.E.S. Thesis by Shalon Joudry
• `Real’ Indians and Others: Mixed Race Urban Native People, The Indian Act, and the Rebuilding of Indian Nations Ph.D. Thesis by Bonita Lawrence
• Recognizing Missing Branches on the Tree: A Preliminary Social Analysis of Historically-Oppressed Ethnic Minorities in Nova Scotia through Genealogy M.A. Thesis by Renee Richardson
• Relationships between Childhood Exposure to Violence, Posttraumatic Stress, Resilience, and Alcohol Misuse in Mi’kmaq Adolescents Ph.D. Thesis by Mark Zahradnik
• Researching the Devils: A Study of Brokerage at the Indian Residential School, Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia Ph.D. Thesis by Marilyn Thomson-Millward
• Resistance and Reinscription: Revitalizing Mi’kmaq Culture in Newfoundland: A Grounded Theory Discursive Analysis of Oppression and Resistance Ph.D. Thesis by Charles William James Butler
• Revisiting the Proverbial Tin Cup: A Study of Political Resistance of the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia 1900-1969 M.A. Thesis by Sarah Brennan
• A River Runs Through It: An Archaeological Survey of the Upper Mersey River and Allains River in Southwest Nova Scotia M.A. Thesis by Benjamin Pentz
• Searching for the Spirit of Place M.Urban & Rural Planning Thesis by Carla Bing-Wo
• The Significance of Place in Textual and Graphical Representation: The Mi’kmaq on Lennox Island Prince Edward Island, and the Penobscot on Indian Island, Maine M.A. Thesis by Patrick J. Augustine
• Solemn Commitments: Fiduciary Obligations, Treaty Relationship, & the Foundational Principles of Crown-Native Relations in Canada S.J.D. Thesis by Leonard Rotman
• Solemn Promises: Treaty Rights in the Shadow of Sparrow LLM Thesis by Stephen Mc Gilligan
• Speaker’s Experience: A Study of Mi’kmaq Modality Ph.D. Thesis by Stephanie Inglis
• Strength Through Sharing: Mi’kmaq Political Thought to 1761 Ph.D. Thesis by David Leech
• Ta’n Teli-ktlamsilasimk (Ways of Believing) – Mi’kmaw Religion in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia Ph.D. Thesis by Angela Robinson
• Teach Your Children Well: Curriculum & Pedagogy at the Shubenacadie Residential School, Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, 1951-1967 M.A. Thesis by Briar Ransberry
• That’s Not My History! Examining the Role of Personal Counter-Narratives in Decolonizing Canadian History for Mi’kmaw Students Ph.D. Thesis by Jennifer R. Tinkham
• They Think They Know Me But They Really Don’t Know Me: Beginning to Explore the Experiences of Mi’kmaq Students at a Provincial Intermediate School M.Ed. Thesis by Margaret Cain
• This Is the News: Donald Marshall, the Supreme Court, and Troubles on the Water at Burnt Church M.A. Thesis by Paul Fitzgerald
• “those two insignificant islands”: Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and Social and Cultural Continuity in Northeastern North America, 1763-1793 M.A. Thesis by Brandon Morris
• Tourist and Host Perspectives on Mi’kmaw Cultural Tourism in Nova Scotia M.E.S. Thesis by Mary-Frances Lynch
• Towards a Broad-Based Precautionary Principle in Law & Policy: A Functional Role for Indigenous Knowledge Systems (TEK) Within Decision-Making Structures M. of Laws Thesis by Fran Trippett
• Towards Moral & Ethical Research in Collaboration with First Nation Communities M.N.R.M Thesis by Earl Stevenson
• Traditions in a Colonized World: Two Realities of a First Nation Ph.D. Thesis by Eleanor Alwyn
• Transforming Mathematics Education for Mi’kmaw Students through Mawikinutimatimk Ph.D. Thesis by Lisa Lunney Borden
• Transracial Adoption: the Attitudes of Black, White, & Mi’kmaw Social Workers M.A. Thesis by Kathleen Lumsden
• Trickster Chases the Tail of Education Ph.D Thesis by Sylvia Moore
• Two Conquests: Aboriginal Experiences of the Fall of New France and Acadia Ph.D Thesis by Thomas Peace
• Two Pathways to Health: Exploring Potential Relationships between Traditional Mi’kmaw Medicine and Western Biomedicine M.A. Thesis by Mike Petrou
• The Uncommon Enemy: First Nations and Empires in King William’s War M.A. Thesis by Steven Schwinghamer
• United They Stood, Divided They Didn’t Fall: Culture & Politics in Mi’kmaq Nova Scotia 1969-1988 M.A. Thesis by Michelle Coffin
• Warrior Traders: A Comparative Study of Early Seventeenth-Century French and English North American Trade and Colonization M.A. Thesis by Kilroy Abney
• “We Had Something Good and Sacred Here”: ReStorying A’se’k with Pictou Landing First Nation M.Es. Thesis by Ella Bennett
• Whose Face Anyway?: Images of First Nations Protest & Resistance in Kahnawake & Kanesatake, Kanien’kehaka Territory 1990, a Study in the Social Construction of Voice & Image M.A. Thesis by George Doyle-Bedwell

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The Mi’kmaq Resource Centre provides these links only as a convenience, and inclusion of a title does not imply endorsement of the thesis by the MRC.