Canada

Who Are We? Reflections on Healthy Communities and Economies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wanda Wuttunee
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 2, no. 2, Special Issue on Gaming, Winter, 2002, pp. 3-4
Description
Discusses perspectives of Kevin Gover on the culture of Aboriginal peoples and the responsibility to build strong communities.
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Who Got What at Winisk?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John S. Long
The Beaver, vol. 75, no. 1, February/March 1995, pp. 23-?
Description
Reports on the differing perspectives among the parties involved in the extension of Treaty 9 in 1929-30.
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Who Is a Status Indian?

Alternate Title
Citizenship Issue: Who Is a Status Indian?
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Evann Goltz]
Description
Timeline from the General Enfranchisement Act to the Indian Act and pertinent court cases and decisions which resulted in legislation to amend the Act.
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Who is Aboriginal? Variability in Aboriginal Identification Between the Census and the APS in 2006 and 2012

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claire Durand
Yves-Emmanuel Massé-François
Michael Smith
Luis Patricio Pena Ibarra
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2016
Description
Discusses factors affecting the way questions were answered by identified Aboriginal Canadians in the National Household Survey and the Aboriginal Peoples survey. Recommends using caution with data from statistics gleaned from standard sources.
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Who is artinjun.ca?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl L'Hirondelle
ConunDrumOnline, vol. 1, April 2005, p. [?]
Description
Answers some frequently asked questions about the website.
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Who Is Indian Enough? The Problem of Authenticity in Contemporary Canadian and American Gone Indian Stories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judit Ágnes Kádár
Review of International American Studies, vol. 6, no. 1-2, Decoding American Cultures in the Global Context, Spring-Fall, 2013, pp. 187-214
Description
Comments on aspects of literary ethnic/cultural shape-shifting in Canadian and American literature since the Millennium. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 187.
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Who Is Research Serving? A Systematic Realist Review of Circumpolar Environment-Related Indigenous Health Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jen Jones
Ashlee Cunsolo
Sherilee L. Harper
PLoS One, vol. 13, no. 5, May 24, 2018, p. article e0196090
Description
Search of PubMed, CAB Direct and Web of Science for peer-reviewed articles published between 2000 and 2015 produced 201 results which were then analyzed in terms of community-engagement, whether results were utilized by Indigenous communities, governments, or organizations, and whether the study results were accessible (open-access).
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Who Owns the Problem?: Crime and Disorder in James Bay Cree Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol LaPrairie
Eddie Diamond
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3-4, July-October 1992, pp. [417]-434
Description
Compares methods of dealing with crime on-reserve (communities with a majority Aboriginal population) which may not involve formal processes and off-reserve (communities with a minority Aboriginal population) which are dealt with through the criminal justice system.
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Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad FPIC?: The Evolving Integration of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into Canadian Law and Policy

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lorraine Land
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 4, no. 2, The Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent, May 2016, pp. 42-49
Description
Looks at two examples of free, prior and informed consent evolving in Canadian law: the Saugeen Ojibway Nation in Ontario, and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta.
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Who's Really to Blame?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 18, no. 12, April 2001, p. 7
Description

Discusses the national residential school survivors organization set up by Alvin Tolley and Walter Rudnicki and the high incidence of paedophilia in this Ottawa school system.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.7.

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Who Sells Inuit Art, and How

Articles » General
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, Special Issue: Inuit Art World, Fall/Winter, 1990/1991, pp. 44-51
Description
Summary of findings of dealer survey conducted in Canada and United States. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
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Who Steals Indigenous Knowledge?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russel Lawrence Barsh
American Society of International Law Proceedings, vol. 95, 2001, pp. 153-161
Description
Discussion of patenting, copyrighting and trademarking Indigenous knowledge by pharmaceuticals is not by direct appropriation, rather it is by indirect transfer of information by academics, and placing the information in the public domain.
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"Who We Was": Creating Witnesses in Joseph Bruchac's Hidden Roots

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary J. Couzelis
Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, [Disability and Indigeneity], 2013, pp. 159-174
Description
Looks at a young adult historical novel which depicts a family's history in relation to the Vermont eugenics movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Who Will Control? Who Will Pay?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marybelle Myers
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1, Winter, 1988, pp. 3-9
Description
Discusses issues involved in the jurying process conducted by the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council and the May Report on the financial viability of Inuit printmaking. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
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Who Will Pay for Harper's Cuts?

Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 3, June 2012, p. 5
Description

Comments on federal cuts at Environment Canada and proposed cuts to the Canadian Coast Guard and Search and Rescue stations.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.

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Whose Bones Are They?

Articles » General
New Scientist, vol. 178, no. 2397, May 31, 2003, p. 5
Description
Brief discussion of the issues surrounding museum ownership of bone collections.
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Whose Land is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Glen Coulthard
Russell Diabo
Beverly Jacobs
Melina Laboucan-Massimo ... [et al.]
Description
Contributors discuss the machinery of colonization and resistance movements, and comment on the possibility of reconciliation.
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Whose Land Is It? Rethinking Sovereignty in British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicholas XemŦoltW̱ Claxton
John Price
BC Studies, no. 204, (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific, 01 09, 2020, pp. 115-138
Description
Examines the foundations and depth of Indigenous peoples’ claims to and resistance to seceding their traditional territories in British Columbia. Provides a venue for W̱SÁNEĆ and Mowachaht/Muchalaht communities to articulate their relationship to the land, each other, and their understandings of their sovereignty.
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Whose Nation? Two Recent Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Civilization Raised Disturbing Questions about the Positioning of First Nations Art in the White Mainstream

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Scott Watson
Canadian Art, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring, 1993, p. 34
Description
Discusses a controversial lesson in history through art, by presenting nstitutions devoted to nostalgic theme-park versions of history; the exhibit contrasts violence, defiance, racism, alienation and suicide with family harmony, friendship, creativity and work.
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Whose Story Is It, Anyway? Or ... Power and Difference in The Book of Jessica: Implications for Theories of Collaboration

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Jefferess
English Studies in Canada, vol. 29, no. 3-4, September/December 2003, pp. 220-241
Description
Explores the difficulties in cross-cultural collaboration, and asserts that the creative relationship between Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths was neither equal nor like-minded due to their Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal backgrounds.
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Why a Living Wage Matters in the North

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kendall Hammond
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 60-62
Description
Discusses the cost of living and prevalence of poverty in the North.
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Why Aboriginal Self-Government?

Alternate Title
Fact Sheet 1 - Why Self-Government
Fact Sheet (Scow Institute)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kinwa Bluesky
Description
Discusses some of the history and legal aspects of self-government.
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Why are Some Children Left Out? Factors Barring Canadian Children From Participating in Extracurricular Activities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Li Xu
Anne H. Gauthier
Lisa Strohschein
Canadian Studies in Population, vol. 36, no. 3-4, pp. 325-345
Description
Information from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth looks at family income, neighborhood environment, and demographic characteristics and parental preferences.
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Why Children With Diabetes Matter to All of Us: The Seven Generations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Heather J. Dean
Elizabeth A. C. Sellers
Canadian Journal of Diabetes, vol. 38, no. 4, August 2014, pp. 217-218
Description
Discusses a lifecylce approach to diabetes and the need to balance basic science research to understand causes of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children.
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Why Did Charlie Wenjack Die?

Alternate Title
The Poverty Wall
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Ian Adams
Description
Story of a twelve-year-old boy who perished from exposure and starvation while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario. Chapter two from The Poverty Wall by the same author.
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Why Did It Take So Long for Residential School Claims to Come Court? The Excruciatingly Gradual Civilization of Canada's Legal System

Alternate Title
50 Years of Gradual Civilization of Canada's Legal System
Fifty Years of Gradual Civilization of Canada's Legal System
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Thomas L. McMahon
Description
Highlights key events that finally resulted in a measure of recognition, compensation and protection for Indigenous children.
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Why Do I Need to Sign It? Issues in Carrying Out Child Assent in School-Based Prevention Research Within a First Nation Community

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lola Baydala
Sherry Letendre
Lia Ruttan
Stephanie Worrell
Fay Fletcher
Fay Fletcher
Liz Letendre
Tanja Schramm
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 99-113
Description
Discusses the practice of, procedures for, and the ethics of obtaining a child`s consent when undertaking research that may affect the community. One of the recommendations discussed is that any child who signs should be surrounded by family or other community members.
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