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- ItemOpen AccessMoccasin Tracks: Reading the Narrative in Traditional Indigenous Craft Work(2018-04-30) Anton, James Wyatt; Voyageur, Cora Jane; Henry, Robert; Leason, JenniferThe colonization of Canada has produced deleterious effects for the First Nations peoples that originally inhabited the land. Through sharing stories with a number of First Nations craft producers the objective of this research was to capture the endurance of First Nations culture beyond the disastrous effects of colonization and repression faced by the First Peoples of this continent. This study investigates the production of craft goods in First Nations communities by building on the concept of the narrative embedded in the material craft culture. By narrative, this study refers to the culturally specific ways that stories are created and maintained to preserve elements of culture and society. Craft goods continue to be produced and used in these communities as a way of preserving and reproducing the specific tribal knowledges that exist within these groups. Data in this project comes from semi-structured interviews with Indigenous craft makers. The methodology was developed to confront the positionality of a non-Indigenous researcher pursuing research objectives in a First Nations community and with the aim to be mindful and mitigate the effects of social privilege and power in the analysis of the data. Interviews and notes were analyzed through a hybrid of narrative and thematic analysis. The themes emerging from preliminary analysis of the data fit within a theoretical framework that centres and privileges Indigenous experience and perspective. Themes include: spirituality, family, animals, social structure, and resistance. These themes contribute to a larger cultural narrative of relationality and endurance embedded in the Indigenous material craft culture being investigated in the research. Together, these themes offer a clearer vision of the First Nations perspective and what it means to maintain a distinct cultural identity under the ongoing campaign of colonization.
- ItemOpen AccessPeriodic and Periodic Phase-Reversal Broadside Scanning Leaky-Wave Antennas in Substrate Integrated Waveguide(2014-10-30) Henry, Robert; Okoniewski, MichalIn recent years the preferred solution for achieving broadside scanning LWA performance in substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) has been the composite right/left handed (CRLH) leaky wave antenna (LWA). This thesis offers an alternative approach by outlining the design and study of a new periodic LWA architecture that uses half-mode SIW (HMSIW) to feed an array of antipodal tapered slot antenna (ATSA) radiating elements. The new antenna was among the first SIW based periodic LWAs to address the open-stopband that typically hinders broadside radiation, and was the first to do so using a unit-cell matching technique. Additionally, a compact periodic phase-reversal architecture of the antenna is presented that allows the ATSA element spacing to be reduced, enabling design with a comparatively low substrate permittivity while maintaining grating lobe free scanning. This antenna was the first SIW based LWA to use the periodic phase-reversal technique.
- ItemOpen Access'They Call it a Healing Lodge, but Where is the Healing?': Indigenous Women, Identity, and Incarceration Programming(2019-08-26) Clifford, Alicia Gayle; Henry, Robert; Godley, Jenny; Voyageur, Cora J.; Leason, JenniferThis thesis examines the impacts of state-run Indigenous programming on Indigenous women’s cultural identities post-incarceration. Despite attempts to alleviate Indigenous incarceration numbers since 1999, Indigenous women in Canada continue to be one of the fastest growing federally incarcerated populations, as their numbers have more than doubled since 2001 (OCI, 2016; Reitano, 2017; Statscan, 2017). It is projected, at its current rate that by 2030 there will be more than 6500 Indigenous women housed in a federal corrections institution (Innes, 2015; OCI, 2016; Reitano, 2017; Statscan, 2017). However, there is limited focus on the impacts the criminal justice system, incarceration, and Indigenous programming may have on their perceived identity as an Indigenous woman post-incarceration. Institutional program evaluations continue to give secondary status to the voices of those imprisoned while privileging the voices of those who are employed by Correctional Service Canada reinforcing a top-down approach. Inmates serving federal time can be housed across Canada, therefore, many Indigenous women who find themselves in these institutions may not be lodged in their traditional territories, and those who transfer to a healing lodge are transferred to the Prairies. While serving time within another First Nations territory, the Indigenous women have to partake in cultural programming that is not their own due to limited access to a diverse range of knowledge keepers and Elders. At the same time, if Indigenous women want to return to their families and communities sooner, they must engage in programming, and specifically Aboriginal programming to lower their risk status to be eligible for early release. By undertaking this research from the perspective of Indigenous women, state co-ordinated Indigenous programming can be understood through the eyes of those that have lived experience, giving voice to the silenced.