Canada

Looks at the benefit of treating mental health in Aboriginal youth with both mainstream health services and Aboriginal understandings.

Looks at the programs based on restorative justice, such as sentencing circles and peacemaker courts, and discusses their similarities and differences.

Report explores, through personal stories, how Aboriginal culture and practice help community members living with FASD. Presents Information on parenting, FASD in schools, community based programming, prevention work and justice for alcohol affected offenders.

Discusses the importance of preserving oral traditions, oral histories and written archival records.

Reflection paper from the National Gathering on Aboriginal Artistic Expression.

PowerPoint for use in classroom.

Discusses the re-thinking of the history of Aboriginal art.

Discusses the re-thinking of the history of Aboriginal art.

Discusses the re-thinking of the history of Aboriginal art.

Discusses the re-thinking of the history of Aboriginal art.

Document written as a result of a summit held in Toronto, 2007 with the aim of furthering the cause of the Aboriginal performing arts sector in Canada.

Brief article on an Aboriginal artists work chosen to be on display at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.

Looks at the value and relevance of a funding program that assists the creative and professional development of emerging Aboriginal artists.

From the National Gathering on Aboriginal Artistic Expression.

Discusses the uniqueness and specificities of Aboriginal art and the significance of traditional and contemporary art practices on Aboriginal communities and more broadly in Canada and internationally.

Description of Aboriginal Arts & Stories, a creative writing competition inviting Canadian First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth ages 9-29 to present an aspect of their culture.

Uses comparative methodology to look at children's picture books and unique features highlighting the combining of oral and written traditions.

Brief document gives context to current disputes over treaty and land rights.

Guide for federal employees wishing to organize activities to mark the annual week of celebration in May.

Developed to help with selection of material for classrooms or libraries. Information on how to choose books as well as evaluations of specific titles.

Current as of 2000. Nursery to Grade 3. Grades 4 to 6.

Site contains links to catalogue records and brief descriptions of publications held at the Edmonton Public Library that would be of interest to teens.

Results of 494 telephone interviews conducted between March 1 and April 8, 2001(?).

Website presents six case studies, lectures, and a quiz pertaining to the lectures.

Statistical information about demographics of entrepreneurs, business performance, objectives and future growth expectations, operations and structure, employment, markets, and financing. Based on 2001 Census and Aboriginal Entrepreneurs Survey.

Looks at the emergence and growth of aboriginal business.

Book review: Aboriginal Canada Revisited edited by Kerstin Knopf.

Contains links to: Aboriginal Canadians in the Second World War, Aboriginal Members of the Forces, Aboriginal Spiritual Journey, Heroes Remember Interviews, etc.

Our Native Land radio program interviews Aboriginal veterans Adam Cuthand and Rufus Prince about their experiences in World War Two. Broadcast date: November 9, 1974. Duration: 10:28

Looks at issues surrounding diabetes and eye refraction errors and developing relationships within the community to improve visual and ocular health by promoting prevention.

Examines issues concerning accuracy of Aboriginal census data, specifically changes to the ethnic questions and terminologies used and how this has caused problems with the total count.

Outlines the fundamental values, rights, and freedoms of Aboriginal people living in Canada.

States that the jurisdictions of the provinces and First Nations overlap in many areas and argues that provincial governments have not come to grips with this reality.

Overview of reasons for health disparities and three composite case histories.

Review and synthesis of theory and research on major issues.

Chapter from The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba edited by Lynne Fernandez, Shauna MacKinnon, and Jim Silver. Material presented as exhibit 130 from the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry.

Book review of: Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of Indigenous Children by Sonia Harris-Short. Review located by scrolling down to page 189.

Agues that the child welfare system in Canada has become a contemporary Residential School system.

Argues that early childhood is an area of politicized potential for beneficial transformative change for communities and nations.

Contends that Aboriginal children and youth experience pain at higher rates than do non-Aboriginal children and discusses some of the historical and cultural perspectives that may be helpful to understand this issue. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 7.

Law Thesis (M.L.)--University of British Columbia, 2011.

Report highlights significant key indicators and gaps affecting Aboriginal children and makes recommendations to improve their living conditions and well-being.

Provides information on the incidence and extent of spousal violence experienced by Aboriginal women and impacts on children.

Highlights a child-centered human rights perspective with a focus on historical experiences as related to present day life.

Highlights issues and challenges, and profiles promising practices under three themes: root causes of abuse and neglect, prevention and early intervention strategies, and supports for the child welfare workforce.

Argues that 20 years after problems were first publicized about child welfare little has changed, except for the policy that First Nations' children cannot be placed for adoption without the consent of the child's band or the First Nations' Child and Services agency.

Focuses on the challenges and needs of off-reserve Aboriginal children by addressing implications of mobility and jurisdiction.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2012.

Bilingual web portal on early childhood development. Includes links to bulletin board, hands on tools, databases of resources, organizations and individuals.