Education
Don McCaskill has been a Professor of Indigenous Studies at Trent University for 35 years. He received his Master’s from Carleton University and PhD from York University. His doctorial dissertation was entitled The Urbanization of Native People in Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver: A Comparative Analysis.
Research interests
Aboriginal urbanization, Indigenous education, community development, justice and corrections, Aboriginal-mainstream Canadian relations, culture and identity, globalization and social change, Indigenous knowledge and international Indigenous peoples.
Edited Seven books
Co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Native Studies for 25 years. Indian Education in Canada: Volume I: The Legacy and Volume II: The Challenge (1989) (with Jean Barman and Yvonne Hebert)
In the Words of the Elders (1996) (with Peter Kulchiski and David Newhouse) Development or Domestication? Indigenous Peoples of Southeast Asia (1997) (with Ken Kampe)
Living in a Globalized World: Ethnic Minorities of the Greater Mekong Subregion (2007) (with Prasit Leepreecha and He Shaoying)
Integration, Marginalization and Resistance: Ethnic Minorities in Southeast Asia (2007) (with Prasit Leepreecha and Kwanchewan)
Conducted research: for government and Aboriginal organizations including: the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, an evaluation of the Manitoba Self Government Framework; Heritage Canada and the National Association of Indian Friendship Centres, an evaluation of the Migrating Native Peoples Program; the Department of Indian Affairs, an evaluation of the Cultural Education Program; the Ministry of the Solicitor General, Patterns of Criminality and Corrections Among Native Offenders in Manitoba: A Longitudinal Analysis; the Ministry of Health, an evaluation of the Aboriginal Head Start Program; and CMHC, an evaluation of the Aboriginal Women’s Shelter Program.
Internationally, he has worked with several NGO’s including recently conducting research on the needs of Indigenous refugees from Burma residing in Thailand. He was also an author in the Aboriginal urban chapter of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and has contributed a chapter on Aboriginal education to the North American Indian Almanac.
He has also published academic articles in books and journals, case studies and reports, presented papers at academic conferences.
Grants
(2003) received a $350,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to conduct research on the impact of globalization, nationalism and regionalism on the Indigenous people of Thailand, China, Laos and Vietnam.
Received a $504,000 grant (2005) from the federal government, the government of Ontario and the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres to be Research Director for the Urban Aboriginal Task Force, a major study of urban Aboriginal people in Ontario.
Education
- Ph.D. Indigenous Studies, Trent University
- M.A. Canadian – Indigenous Studies, Trent University
- B.A. Political Science, Queen’s University
- B.Comm. University of Ottawa
Areas of specialization
Indigenous – Settler Political Relations, Reconciliation Studies, Criminal Justice and Family Law, Indigenous Governance and Urban Studies, Media Studies, Indigenous Research Methods, Housing and Homelessness, and Indigenous Critical Theory.
Courses taught
- INDG/POLI 3105 Canadian Law, Politics and Indigenous People
- INDG 3116 Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System
- INDG 3117 Social Policy, Family Law and Indigenous Peoples
- INDG 3215 Indigenous Community Based Research Methods
- INDG 3056 The City as Home: International Perspectives on Indigenous People in Urban Centres
- INDG 3066 Indigenous People in Canadian Urban Centres
- INDG 3226 Indigenous Critical Theory
- INDG 2136 Indigenous Political Resistance in Canada: An Integrated Media Analysis
Current areas of research interest
Dr. Kevin Fitzmaurice is an Associate Professor with Indigenous Studies at the University of Sudbury, where he specializes in Indigenous-Settler political relations, Urban Indigenous Studies, and Indigenous Critical Theory. He is presently a Regional Co-Director for the SSHRC ‘Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network’ national research, a North Eastern Ontario Lead with the National Centre for the Collaboration on Indigenous Education, and a Co-Investigator on Indigenous homelessness and the urban Native housing program in Ontario with the Poverty, Homelessness and Migration Study. As well, he was a Research Associate for the 2011 Toronto Aboriginal Research Project (TARP) and the 2007 Ontario Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF).
For further information on Dr. Fitzmaurice’s research activities, please see the following:
- The Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network: https://uakn.org/
- The National Centre for the Collaboration on Indigenous Education: https://www.nccie.ca/
- The Poverty, Homelessness and Migration Study: https://www3.laurentian.ca/homelessness/
- The Toronto Aboriginal Research Project (TARP): https://www.tassc.ca/tarp.html
- The Ontario Urban Aboriginal Task Force: http://ofifc.org/publication/urban-aboriginal-task-force-ontario-final-report
Recent publications
For PDF copies of Dr. Kevin Fitzmaurice’s work, please visit his profile page on Academia.edu: https://usudbury.academia.edu/KevinFizmaurice
- Fitzmaurice, K 2019. Biinidsa: Going Home to Clean Up in Eds. Hankard. M. The Clean Place: Honouring Indigenous Spiritual Roots of Turtle Island. J.Charlton Publishing. Vernon. B.C
- Fitzmaurice, K and Newhouse, D. 2018. ‘Indigenous Governance and Citizenship’ in Issues in Canadian Governance. J Craft and A Clarke. Edmond Press.
- Fitzmaurice, K. 2016. ‘The Alberta Tar Sands – gwatanziwag wii-di-goshinowaad – manno- The Choices That We Make’ in We Still Live Here: First Nations, the Alberta Oil Sands, and Surviving Globalism. Ed. Hankard, M. and Charlton, J. JCharlton Publishing.
- Fitzmaurice, K and Newhouse, D. 2016. ‘Surviving the Long Assault: Manno and the path to Indigenous Reconciliation’ in Survivance and Reconciliation: 7 Forward/ 7 Back: 2015 Canadian Indigenous Native Studies Association Conference Proceedings. Ed. Hele, K. Aboriginal Issues Press.
- Fitzmaurice, K and McCaskill, D. 2016 Aboriginal Communities in the City: Reflections Along the Path to Self-Government, 4th Edition Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues, Dickason and Long. Oxford University Press. (Article: refereed)
- Fitzmaurice, K. 2015. ‘The State of Urban Aboriginal Communities’ in Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network (UAKN) Research Paper Series. (Article: refereed)
- Fitzmaurice. K. McCaskill. D. and Cidro, J. 2014. Life Histories: Toronto Aboriginal Research Project (TARP). Book: Aboriginal community refereed
- Fitzmaurice. K. McCaskill. D. and Cidro, J. 2014. Organizational Case Studies: Toronto Aboriginal Research Project (TARP). Book: Aboriginal community refereed
- Fitzmaurice, K. 2014. ‘Transforming Racism and the construction of Zhaganash- Whiteness in Critical Race Theory and Indigenous Knowledge’ article published as part of the 40th Algonquin Conference proceedings, University of Minnesota Press.
- Fitzmaurice. K. McCaskill. D. and Cidro, J. 2012. Toronto Aboriginal Research Project (TARP). Book: Aboriginal community refereed
- Fitzmaurice, K., Newhouse, D. and McGuire-Adams, T. 2012. Well Being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadziwin, a National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal People. Edited Book: Thompson Educational Publishing Incorporated. (Book: refereed)
- Fitzmaurice, K. 2012. ‘Transgressing the Boundaries of Indigenous Studies: Traces of ‘White Paper’ Policy in Academic Patterns of Indigenization. in Canadian Journal of Indigenous Studies as part of special publication of June 2012 ‘Celebrating Indigenous Knowledges: People, Land, and Culture’ conference at Trent University (Article: refereed)
- Fitzmaurice, K. and Slegers, B. 2012. Wasauksing First Nation: Community-Based Strategic Planning Final Report. (Aboriginal community refereed).
- Fitzmaurice, K. 2011. ‘Apologies, Truth, and Reconciliation: Indigenous Knowledge and the Decolonization of Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relations in Canada’ in White-Indian Relations: Moving Into the 21rst Century. Galda Verlag Press. (Article: refereed)
- FitzMaurice, K and McCaskill, D. 2011. ‘Socio-economic Progress for Aboriginal people in Ontario. Long-term Strategic Planning Study’ for Aboriginal Affairs Ontario. (non-refereed)
- FitzMaurice, K. and McCaskill, D. 2011. Urban Aboriginal People in Canada: Community Trends and Issues of Governance 3rd Edition of Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues, Dickason and Long. Oxford University Press.
- FitzMaurice, K. 2011. ‘The Emergence of the Aboriginal Individual: Decolonizing the Ethics of Urban Aboriginal Research’ Chapter in Freedom of Expression: Culture and Religion. Ed. Mbonimpa, M. and Copeman, G. Friesens Press. (Article: refereed)
- FitzMaurice, K. 2010. ‘Are White People Obsolete? Indigenous Knowledge and the Colonizing Ally in Canada’ Chapter in Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships. Ed. Davis, L. University of Toronto Press: Toronto. (Article: refereed)
Biography
Dr. Jaime Cidro is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Director of the Master’s in Development Practice Program, and Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation, at the University of Winnipeg. She is a CIHR-funded Canada Research Chair in Health and Culture (see article: UWinnipeg get major investment in research excellence) and the Co-Director of the Kishaadigeh Collaborative Research Centre. Dr. Cidro has an impressive research portfolio and incorporates numerous graduate students into her projects. Dr. Cidro takes a collaborative approach to her research, much of which is focused on Indigenous maternal and child health, and she partners with many Indigenous organizations and communities for her projects.
Building on a project that explored how an Indigenous doula program can address health disparities, social, and cultural outcomes for Manitoba First Nations women who travel for birth, Dr. Cidro is now planning on piloting an Indigenous doula program in the urban setting with community partners Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre of Winnipeg, Inc. and the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba. She also collaborates with community partners in Colombia to explore maternal and child health in remote Colombian Indigenous communities through a Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Advanced Scholars Award.
Dr. Cidro leads the CIHR-funded Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) grant for Manitoba called Kishaadigeh: Indigenous Self-Determination through Research for our Future Generations. Kishaadigeh aims to up-skill research capacity and infrastructure for Indigenous communities and organization undertaking health research. It focuses on promoting Indigenous self-determination in research through the development of community-based research lodges in partnership with five Manitoba Indigenous organizations: the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba (FNHSSM), the Manitoba Association of Friendship Centres (MAC), the Manitoba Inuit Association (MIA), Fearless R2W, and Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre of Winnipeg, Inc. Kishaadigeh considers the lodge as a place where relationships guide the development of Indigenous research, from the initiation of an idea to the development and implementation of projects, to the final outputs. The research lodges will develop a pathway for existing and upcoming Indigenous scholars to work alongside and within Indigenous organizations in a way that is culturally meaningful, ethical, and impactful.
Her other appointments include University of Winnipeg Indigenous Academic Lead 2018-2019, Associate Director of the Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network (UAKN) Prairie Region, and UWinnipeg’s 2018 Indigenous Research Scholar.
News Links
- Jaime Cidro appointed AVP, Research and Innovation at UWinnipeg
- Urban Indigenous doula project receives CIHR funding
- Research on the repatriation of birthing in Northern Manitoba
- Canada Research Chair Reception photo gallery
- UWinnipeg get major investment in research excellence
- Spotlight on women leaders, researchers, and community builders
- Spring Feast Honours Indigenous Scholarship
- UWinnipeg Indigenous health research receives $3.5 million boost
Related Links
- Aabijijiwan New Media Lab and Kishaadigeh Collaborative Research Centre
- Urban Indigenous Doulas Project
- Kishaadigeh: Indigenous Self-Determination through Research for our Future Generations
- MDP Indigenous Development
Publications
- Cidro, J., McCallum, M., Fontaine, L., McNab, W., & Stout, R. (2021). Indigenous Mothers and COVID-19. In A. O’Reilly & F. Green (Eds.), Mothers, Mothering and COVID-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic. Toronto: Demeter Press.
- Copenace, S., Cidro, J., Johnson, A., & Anderson, K. (2021). Auntie’s Bundle: Conversation and Research Methodologies with Knowledge Gifter Sherry Copenace. In B. Hokowhitu, A. Moreton-Robinson, L. Tuhiwai Smith, C. Andersen, & S. Larkin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies (pp. 189-202).
- Hayward, A., Cidro, J., & Roulette, C. (2020). Identifying the gaps: A scoping review of urban Indigenous health and wellness studies in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Urban Research (CJUR), 29(2), 32-54. Retrieved from: http://cjur.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/cjur/article/view/292/139
- Cidro, J., Sinclair, S. Delaronde, S., & Star, L. (2020). Restoring Ceremony as the Methodological Approach in Indigenous Research: The Indigenous Doula Project. In E. Sumida & N. Martin (Eds.), Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies: Local Solutions and Global Opportunities (pp. 102-120). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
- Cidro, J. & Martens, T. (2020). Rebuilding Cultural Identity & Indigenous Food Sovereignty with Indigenous Youth through Traditional Food Access and Skills in the City. In P. Settee & S. Shukla (Eds.), Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations (pp. 135-152). Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
- Hayward, A., Cidro, J., Dutton, R., & Passey, K. (2020). A Systematic Review of Health and Wellness Studies Involving the Inuit Population of Manitoba and Nunavut. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 79(1), 1779524. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2020.1779524
- Anderson, K. & Cidro, J. (2020). Because We Love our Communities: Indigenous Women Talk about their Experiences as Community Based Health Researchers. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 24(2), 3-17. Retrieved from https://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/jheoe/article/view/2071/2572
- Cidro, J., Bach, R., & Frohlick, S. (2020). Canada’s forced birth travel: Towards feminist indigenous reproductive mobilities. Mobilities, 15(2), 173-187. Special Issue on Reproductive Mobilities. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2020.1730611
- Anderson, K. & Cidro, J. (2019). Decades of Doing: Indigenous Women Academics Reflect on the Practices of Community-based Health Research. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 14(2), 1-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1556264619835707
- Phillips-Beck, W., Sinclair, S., Campbell, R., Star, L., Cidro, J., Wicklow, B., & McGavock, J. (2019). Early Life Origins of Disparities in Chronic Diseases among Indigenous Youth: Pathways to recovering health disparities from intergenerational trauma. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 10(1), 115-122. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2040174418000661
- Cidro, J., Martens T., Zahayko L., & Lawrence, H.P. (2018). First Foods as Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Country Foods and Breastfeeding Practices in a Manitoban First Nations Community. Canadian Journal of Food Studies, 5(2), 25-43. doi: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.249
- Cidro, J., Doenmez, C., Phanlouvong, A., & Fontaine, A. (2018). Being a good relative: Indigenous doulas reclaiming cultural knowledge to improve health and birth outcomes in Manitoba. Frontiers in Women’s Health, 3(4), 1-8. Retrieved from https://www.oatext.com/being-a-good-relative-indigenous-doulas-reclaiming-cultural-knowledge-to-improve-health-and-birth-outcomes-in-manitoba.php
- Tait Neufeld, H., & Cidro, J. (Eds.). (2017). Indigenous Experiences of Birthing and Pregnancy. Bradford: Demeter Press.
- Cidro, J. Dolin, E., & Queskekapow, C. (2017). Bored, Broke and Alone: Experiences of Pregnant and Expectant First Nations Mothers Birthing In and Out of the Community. In H. Tait Neufeld & J. Cidro (Eds.), Indigenous Experiences of Birthing and Pregnancy (pp. 73-90). Bradford: Demeter Press.
- Cidro, J. & Tait Neufeld, H. (2017). Pregnancy and Birthing: The Essence of Indigeneity. In H. Tait Neufeld & J. Cidro (Eds.), Indigenous Experiences of Birthing and Pregnancy (pp. 1-12). Bradford: Demeter Press.
- Cidro, J., Maar, M., Peressini, S., Schroth, R. J., Broughton, J., Jamieson, L., & Lawrence, H. P. (2017). Strategies for Meaningful Engagement between Community-Based Health Researchers and First Nations Participants. Frontiers in Public Health, 5(138), 1-15. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389%2Ffpubh.2017.00138
- Lawrence, H. P., Cidro, J., Isaac-Mann, S., Peressini, S., Maar, M., Schroth, R. J., & Jamieson, L. (2016). Racism and Oral Health Outcomes Among Pregnant Canadian Aboriginal Women. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 27(1), 178-206. doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2016.0030
- Martens, T., Cidro, J., Hart, M.A., & McLachlan, S. (2016). Understanding Indigenous Food Sovereignty through an Indigenous Research Paradigm. Journal of Indigenous Social Work, 5(1), 18-37. Retrieved from http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/social_work/media/V5i1-02martens_cidro_hart_mclachlan.pdf
- Cidro, J. & Martens, T. (2016). Traditional Foods Skills as a Pathway to Urban Indigenous Food Sovereignty. In T. Falkenberg & F. Deer (Eds.), Indigenous Perspectives on Education for Well-Being in Canada (pp. 41-58). Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
- Cidro, J. (2016). Stuck at the Border of the Reserve: Bill C-31 and the Impact on First Nations Women. In K. Burnett & G. Read (Eds.), Aboriginal History: A Reader (pp. 228-243). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
- Cidro, J. & Martens, T. (2015). Eating Indigenous in the City: The Limited Scope of Food Sovereignty for Indigenous People in Urban Contexts. International Journal on Biodiversity Watch. Fall/Winter Issue, 53-64.
- Cidro, J., Zahayko, L., Lawrence, H. P., Folster, S., McGregor, M., & McKay, K. (2015). Breast Feeding Practices as Cultural Interventions for Early Childhood Caries in Cree Communities. BMC Oral Health, 15(1), 49-61. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-015-0027-5
- Cidro, J., Matiasek, M., Craig, T., Dhillon, M., & Zahayko, L. (2015). Exploring the Purchasing Experience of Cross-Cultural Consumers in Northern Remote, Rural Communities: Thompson, Manitoba. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 9(4), 1-17. Retrieved from https://journals.brandonu.ca/jrcd/article/view/1176
- Cidro, J., Suleman, S., Leslie, K., Amaria, K., Hartman, B., Thompson, G., Freeman, J. Bismila, Z., Bismila, V., Moore, E., Alebraheem, Z., & Kaufman, M. (2014). Adolescent Health and Nutrition in US and Canada: An Overview of Determinants and Issues. Nestle Nutrition Workshop Series, 80, 27-48. doi: https://doi.org/10.1159/000360248
- Cidro, J., Adekunle, B., Peters, E., & Martens, T. (2015). Beyond Food Security: Understanding Access to Cultural Food for Urban Indigenous People in Winnipeg as Indigenous Food Sovereignty. Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 24(1), 24-43. Retrieved from https://cjur.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/cjur/article/view/9
- Cidro, J., Zahayko, L., Lawrence, H., McGregor, M., & McKay, K. (2014). Traditional and Cultural Approaches to Childrearing: Preventing Early Childhood Caries in Norway House Cree Nation, Manitoba. Rural and Remote Health, 14(4), 1-11. Retrieved from https://www.rrh.org.au/journal/article/2968