Canada

Women and Risk: Aboriginal Women, Colonialism, and Correctional Practice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Monture-Angus
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 19, no. 1/2, Women and Justice, 1999, pp. 24-29
Description
Argues that little has been done with respect to Aboriginal offenders other than accommodate them within the mainstream system and that traditional risk assessment is not valid when applied to Aboriginal women.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women and the Canadian Legal System: Examining Situations of Hyper-Responsibility

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS)
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 94-104
Description
Paper asserts that the state must take positive and progressive action to eliminate discrimination against marginalized women.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women and the Criminal Justice System

Alternate Title
Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tina Hotton Mahony
Joanna Jacob
Heather Hobson
Description
Statistics on violent crime, criminal and violent victimization, childhood assault, spousal violence, homicide, and females charged with violent offences.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women, Contemporary Aboriginal Issues, and Resistance

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Rita Shelton Deverell
Shirley Bear
Dorothy Christian
Ruth Cuthand
Joan Glode
Ursula A. Johnson
Mount Saint Vincent University
Description
Four women from across Canada who are artists, scholars, activists discuss topics such as racism, leadership, contemporary life, culture, popular misconceptions about Aboriginal peoples, and cross cultural relations. Duration: 1:22:38.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women, Contemporary Aboriginal Issues, and Resistance: Tool Kit

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Mount Saint Vincent University
Description
Includes links to three books which follow the lives of three fictional children as they grow into adulthood, fears card, videos of conversations with five prominent Aboriginal women, and additional resource card. Recommended for ages 14+ and suited for individual study or groups of up to 30.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women Entrepreneurs in the North

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hari Dimitrakopoulou
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, Women Entrepeneurs, Winter, 1994, pp. [51-53]
Description
Findings indicated that it is very important to find out how entrepreneurs and community organizations eliminate barriers to success.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women in Huron and Ojibwa Societies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marlene Brant Castellano
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 10, no. 2-3, Native Women, 1989, pp. 45-48
Description
Comments on the changes made to the lifestyle of Indigenous women after the arrival of European settlers.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women Leaders on Leadership: Much to Laud, Much to Lament

Alternate Title
Executive Action (Conference Board of Canada) ; June 2006
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 014-07]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Conference Board of Canada
Description
Discussion on issues of poverty, health care, education, skills training and the labour shortage, foreign policy, and the environment.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women's Marches Demand Justice For the Disappeared

Articles » General
Author/Creator
David P. Ball
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 12, March 2013, pp. 8-9
Description

Comments on Canadian wide annual marches that advocate increased support services for Aboriginal women.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.

Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women's Rights Questioned

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 2, no. 8, October 1971, p. 4
Description
Jeannette Corbiere Lavell case about discrimination heard in Federal Court of Appeal.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

The Women's Warrior Society

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Barbara Rose
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 161-163
Description
Book review of: The Women's Warrior Society by Lois Beardslee.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women's Words: Power, Identity and Indigenous Sovereignty

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia A. Monture
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 154-159
Description
Author describes how words define her and cannot be separated from the Aboriginal oral traditions and world view.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Women Score at Aboriginal Games

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alissa Smith
Herizons, vol. 11, no. 4, Fall, 1997, pp. 9-[?]
Description
Comments on the successes of women athletes who participated in the 1997 North American Indigenous Games at Victoria, B.C.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Wonder Learns Women's Ways

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fyre Jean Graveline
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 139-144
Description
Presents a story of a girl learning about MoonTime from her Elders.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Woodland Traditional

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Craig Jones
Whispering Wind, vol. 45, no. 1, 2016, pp. 28-31
Description
Comments on the designs and beadwork of powwow dancers in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Woods Cree /ð/: An Unusual Type of Sonorant

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donna Starks
Elaine Ballard
IJAL: International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 71, no. 1, January 2005, pp. 102-115
Description
Looks at the status of /ð/'s in Woods Cree and how it is used phoneticly.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

The Work That Must Be Done

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Heath Justice
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 93-95
Description
Reflects on the influence of Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz on the Native American literary world. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 93.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.