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Financial Empowerment (2nd ed.) book cover

Financial Empowerment (2nd ed.)

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  1 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Bettina Schneider

Editor(s): Bettina Schneider

Subject(s): Personal finance, Budgeting and financial management, Personal tax, Retirement

Institution(s): First Nations University of Canada, University of Regina

Publisher: University of Regina

Last updated: 06/12/2024

Financial Empowerment is an adaptation of the openly licensed textbook Personal Finance, v. 1.0 which was adapted by Saylor Academy (2012) under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee and is available here: http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/.

The purpose of the Financial Empowerment adaptation is to take an accessible, student-focused, personal finance textbook from the United States and make it affordable and relevant for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada. While many mainstream Canadian personal finance texts provide excellent content in terms of the mechanics of personal finance, they are expensive and not always relevant to the values and experiences of students in the classroom. Many mainstream personal finance texts fall short for Indigenous Canadians and non-Indigenous Canadians alike because they do not speak to the varied backgrounds, knowledge systems, and experiences of their readers. This textbook was adapted in order to motivate a broad range of students to learn about personal finance.

The specific goals of this textbook are:

  1. to help students build a solid understanding of personal finance in order to achieve financial literacy and financial success by providing them with the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate short and long-term financial change;
  2. to tailor the content for a Canadian audience by providing Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives on personal finance and financial planning using examples and information from the Canadian financial system and economy;
  3. to increase accessibility to financial education resources for students and general public alike regardless of where they live or study;
  4. to customize the content for Indigenous students in Canada and address student needs for practical and theoretical knowledge on financial decision-making and financial risk assessment; and
  5. to connect financial literacy with Indigenous Knowledge and history by threading Indigenous perspectives and interviews with Elders and other community leaders throughout the textbook.

Supplementary resources for this text include:

  1. PowerPoint slides
  2. Video Introduction
Cree Dictionary of Mathematical Terms with Visual Examples and Sound book cover

Cree Dictionary of Mathematical Terms with Visual Examples and Sound

CC BY (Attribution)  239 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Arzu Sardarli, Ida Swan

Editor(s): Ting Zhou

Subject(s): Mathematics, Other graphic or visual art forms, Language teaching and learning, Education

Institution(s): First Nations University of Canada, University of Regina

Publisher: University of Regina

Last updated: 28/11/2024

The Cree Dictionary of Mathematical Terms with Visual Examples and Sound is the continuation of our work on composing Cree equivalents of mathematics terms. The glossary of mathematics terms was developed considering the topics of school curriculums of Canadian provinces. The Dictionary provides Cree equivalents of 176 mathematics terms and their definitions in English. Audio pronunciations of the Cree terms are provided. The visual examples mainly contain Indigenous elements. The Dictionary was reviewed by Elders, Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, and Cree-speaking educators. Elders found it acceptable to use visual examples with Indigenous elements for educational purposes.

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The University of Regina OER by Subject Directory

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): University of Regina

Editor(s): Arlysse Quiring, Isaac Mulolani, Shuana Niessen

Subject(s): Reference works, Directories

Institution(s): University of Regina

Publisher: University of Regina

Last updated: 14/11/2024

This guide is designed to help University of Regina faculty easily discover open educational resources (OERs) for their courses. It is primarily a list of open textbooks organized by faculty and department at the University of Regina, but other OER such as videos may also be included. The guide will be continuously updated as new resources are identified and created across the OER ecosystem.

There are 9 main sections in the guide:

  • Faculty of Media Art and Performance
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Science
  • Faculty of Nursing
  • Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies
  • Faculty of Arts
  • Faculty of Social Work
  • Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Faculty of Business Administration: Paul J. Hill School of Business

For each resource listed, the following are provided:

  • A short summary of the book based on the content, author, or other features
  • If available, the “Includes” line lists supplementary materials (e.g. exercises) that are available
  • If available, the “May suit” line lists University of Regina courses in which the resource could potentially be adopted (work-in-progress)

Faculty are encouraged to make use of these resources in their courses either as textbooks or as supplementary readings.

RIGHT ON TIME - Healing from Cancer During a Pandemic book cover

RIGHT ON TIME - Healing from Cancer During a Pandemic

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)   English

Author(s): Barbara Reul

Subject(s): Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions, History of music, Autobiography: general, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Memoirs, Narrative theme: Health and illness, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, Migration, immigration and emigration, Age groups: adults, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Higher education, tertiary education, Health psychology, Mind, body, spirit

Institution(s): University of Regina

Publisher: University of Regina

Last updated: 27/10/2024

This book is a sequel to the award-nominated memoir-textbook Perfect Timing – Recollections on coping with cancer during a pandemic from 2021 but can be read on its own.

It chronicles the eventful and highly transformative time of healing and reflection following cancer treatments that the author – a middle-aged, immigrant, and non-partnered university professor from the Canadian prairies – spent in Saskatchewan and on the West Coast of Canada during the pandemic.

It will be of interest to anyone who: 1.) likes to laugh while learning about the experiences of a cancer patient after she finished active treatments; 2.) is or strives to be a health professional (oncologist, GP, nurse, social worker, pharmacist, physio- or exercise therapist, etc.); 3.) is an administrator, instructor, teaching assistant, or student at a post-secondary institution interested in health sciences, English literature (memoir writing, creative non-fiction, and narratives of illness), Women’s and Gender Studies, Spirituality Studies, Religious Studies, and the Fine Arts; 4.) is a fellow author and/or a reader who likes to give writers from the Canadian prairies a chance.

PERFECT TIMING - Recollections of Coping with Cancer During a Pandemic book cover

PERFECT TIMING - Recollections of Coping with Cancer During a Pandemic

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)   English

Author(s): Barbara Reul

Subject(s): Coping with / advice about cancer, Memoirs, Chemotherapy, Menopause, Autobiography: religious and spiritual, Music: styles and genres, Educational: Music, Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general, Educational: Personal and health education, Nuclear chemistry, photochemistry and radiation, Relationships: friends / peer groups, Textbook, coursework, Gender studies: women and girls, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Germany, Primary care medicine, primary health care, Traditional medicine and herbal remedies, Mind, body, spirit: meditation and visualization, Exercise and workouts, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging

Institution(s): University of Regina

Publisher: University of Regina

Last updated: 18/10/2024

This book is an educational, entertaining, and highly personal memoir written during a global pandemic. It provides an insightful snapshot of the occasionally bumpy yet spiritually transformative cancer journey of a middle-aged, immigrant, and non-partnered academic living in a sunny Canadian prairie province.

It will be of interest to anyone who: 1) is or has been on the cancer continuum as a patient, caregiver, family member, or friend; 2) is or strives to be a health professional (oncologist, GP, nurse, social worker, pharmacist, physio- or exercise therapist, etc.); 3) is an administrator, instructor, teaching assistant, or student at a post-secondary institution interested in health sciences, English literature (memoir writing, creative non-fiction, and narratives of illness), Women’s and Gender Studies, Spirituality Studies, Religious Studies, and the Fine Arts; 4) fellow authors and/or readers who like to give writers from the Canadian prairies a chance.

The Appendix includes “Leading Reading Questions” meant to increase everyone’s reading experience and lighten the load of fellow university professors who wish to adopt this book, or part of this book, for a class.

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Canadian Settler Colonialism: Reliving the Past, Opening New Paths

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)   English

Author(s): Emily Grafton, Jérôme Melançon, Alyssa Parker, Ibukun-Oluwa Fasunhan

Editor(s): Emily Grafton, Jérôme Melançon, Alyssa Parker, Ibukun-Oluwa Fasunhan

Subject(s): Political science and theory, Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality, Social discrimination and social justice, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Indigenous peoples, Politics and government, Political structure and processes, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Regional, state and other local government, Regional, state and other local government policies, Human rights, civil rights, Political oppression and persecution

Institution(s): University of Regina

Publisher: University of Regina

Last updated: 18/10/2024

The contributions to this volume highlight how the Canadian settler state affects different groups of people: Indigenous peoples, first and foremost, but also new migrants as well as long-established settlers. Each contribution is an act of solidarity among these groups, against the segregation academic disciplines tend to create. The contributors study attitudes and ideas as well as laws, policies, and processes that make settler colonialism and genocide possible, reinforce them, and justify them.
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Listening as a Shared and Social Practice

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)  12 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Lindsey French, Kate Joranson

Editor(s): Kate Joranson, Lindsey French

Subject(s): The Arts, The arts: general topics, Paintings and painting in ink, Drawing and drawings, Drawing and drawings in pencil, charcoal, crayon or pastel, Performance art, Digital, video and new media arts, The Arts: treatments and subjects, Nature in art, Landscapes / seascapes, Comic book and cartoon artwork, Music recording and reproduction, Poetry by individual poets, Social pedagogy, Botany and plant sciences, Sounds of the natural world

Institution(s): University of Regina

Publisher: University of Regina

Last updated: 18/10/2024

The materials gathered here grew out of a Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies (GLASS) conference in 2022, on the theme of “Listening as a Shared and Social Practice.” Responding to a turn in sound studies that considers the role of listening, the conference call invited presentations, workshops, and performances that considered the co-constitutive nature of listening. This volume contains activities and essays that create starting points for listening and noticing more deeply, through different frameworks and lenses. Several themes run throughout the collection: collective study of/though listening; embodied listening; imagination and place; resonance and response.

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Being Together

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)   English

Author(s): Emily Grafton, Jérôme Melançon

Editor(s): Emily Grafton, Jérôme Melançon

Subject(s): Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality, Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics, Indigenous peoples, Political structure and processes, Central / national / federal government policies, Political oppression and persecution, History of the Americas, Colonialism and imperialism, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Social and political philosophy

Institution(s): First Nations University of Canada, University of Regina

Publisher: University of Regina

Last updated: 18/10/2024

A living land acknowledgement begins with an understanding of the multiple existing and possible relations to the land and to the peoples who are Indigenous to it. The four videos in this resource feature discussions about traditional ways of life developed in the area surrounding oskana kâ-asastêki / Regina; the genocide that is meant to destroy them; the treaties that were signed to establish ways of being together with the land but served instead to establish Canadian domination; and the challenges and joys of cultural and linguistic revitalization. Recognized knowledge keepers and scholars Langan Goforth, James Daschuk, Annie Battiste, and Melanie Brice discuss these topics with the editors.

These discussions aim to allow viewers to develop and deepen their reflection upon and relationship to the land and the peoples, human and non-human, who had developed ways to be together. The videos are complemented by references and further readings, and an introduction and conclusion in which the editors reflect on the possibilities of living land acknowledgement, against current practices of territorial acknowledgement.

Cree: Language of the Plains / nēhiyawēwin: paskwāwi-pīkiskwēwin book cover

Cree: Language of the Plains / nēhiyawēwin: paskwāwi-pīkiskwēwin

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)   English

Author(s): Jean L. Okimasis

Subject(s): Language learning: specific skills, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching and learning: first or native languages, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, Language self-study, Language learning: specific skills, Language learning: speaking skills, Language learning: listening skills, Cultural and media studies, Cultural studies, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Social and cultural anthropology

Institution(s): University of Regina

Publisher: University of Regina

Last updated: 03/09/2024

Cree: Language of the Plains is a comprehensive educational resource, offering a broad range of learning materials that is easily accessible to Cree language learners. This collection includes an updated and redesigned Cree language textbook, Cree language audio labs, and a Cree language workbook. Access the book from the link Cree: Language of the Plains. Other resources available are:

  1.  Workbook
  2. Audio Lab Sessions
  3. Cree Audio Sessions User Guide
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Rural and Northern Social Work Practice:

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Bonnie Jeffery, Nuelle Novik

Subject(s): Social work, Society and Social Sciences, Domestic abuse, Social attitudes, Rural communities, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Indigenous peoples, Care of the elderly, Care of people with mental health issues, Working patterns and practices

Institution(s): University of Regina

Publisher: University of Regina

Last updated: 16/08/2024

This book highlights the contextual foundation of social work practice with rural and northern communities by addressing the importance of place using anti-oppressive perspectives. Practice competencies are presented, including an emphasis on trauma- and violence-informed approaches and the importance of addressing the mental wellness of social workers practicing in these communities. The book explores selected areas of social work practice including abuse and intimate partner violence, mental health issues and addictions, newcomers and immigrant populations, older adults, and child protection work.