Canada

Working a Third Space: Indigenous Knowledge in the Post/Colonial University

Alternate Title
Working a Third Space: Indigenous Knowledge in the Post / Colonial University
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Celia Haig-Brown
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and the University, 2008, pp. 253-267, 319-320
Description
Analysis of responses to a panel, at a graduate conference, in a faculty and university committed to equity and social justice.
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Working Alliance and Its Relationship With Treatment Outcome in a Sample of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Sexual Offenders

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Danielle R. DeSorcy
Mark E. Olver
J. Stephen Wormith
Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, vol. 28, no. 4, 2016, pp. 291-313
Description
Examines the impact of and relationships between therapeutic providers and Indigenous sexual offenders. Therapists provided through the Working Alliance Inventory.
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Working Together: The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network - Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Project on Legal Issues, Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stefan Matiation
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, HIV/AIDS: Issues within Aboriginal Populations, September 2000, pp. 217-231
Description
Description of the The CHALN/CAAN Project including their history and goals, issues & conclusions, and recommendations for best practices in projects related to Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS undertaken by non-Aboriginal or Aboriginal organizations or Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal partnerships.
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Working Together to Address Suicide in First Nations Communities: A Select Illustration of Collaborative, Community-Based, Suicide Prevention Projects

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations
Description
"It highlights examples of thriving collaborative, community-based, suicide prevention projects that are funded through the National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy (NAYSPS)." Examples used: Prince Albert Grand Council, Kenora Chiefs Advisory, Gitxsan Health Society and File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council.
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Working With Aboriginal Children and Families: Cultural Responsiveness and Beyond

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diane Pesco
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 38, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 2, Summer, 2014, pp. 144-151
Description
"Reviews concepts and approaches related to cultural responsiveness in the literature in the field of education, pointing out how these are parallel with or might further inform practices in communication sciences and disorders."
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Workshops Raise Awareness of SIS Campaign

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Laura Suthers
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 8, November 2007, p. 11
Description

Discusses the Sisters in Spirit initiative which organizes workshops and special events to raise awareness about violence against Aboriginal women in Canada.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.

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World-Systems in North America: Networks, Rise and Fall and Pulsations of Trade in Stateless Systems

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Thomas D. Hall
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, 1998, pp. 23-72
Description
Uses a theoretical approach to try to understand the theory and perspective that was originally developed to account for the colonizing effort in North America and apply it to precolonial conditions.
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The Worldly Kenojuak

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Leslie Boyd
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, Kenojuak Ashevak, 1927-2013, Winter, 2014, pp. 8-15
Description
Comments on an artist who was awarded the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada by Governor General Roland Michener at the inaugural investiture. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 8.
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Worlds Apart

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Donald B. Smith
Nelle Oosterom
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 5, October-November 2017, pp. 31-37
Description
Describes government-sponsored trip to Ontario and Quebec taken by prominent Plains leaders who had remained neutral during the North West Resistance.
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Would Program Performance Indicators and a Nationally Coordinated Response Accelerate the Elimination of Tuberculosis Canada?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Courtney Heffernan
Richard Long
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 1, 02 2019, pp. 31-35
Description
Article examines the rates of infection in Canada, noting that most (> 90%) cases of TB are among Indigenous peoples and foreign-born migrants, both groups being poorly positioned to advocate for themselves. Authors recommend a system of monitoring and performance framework to increase the rate elimination.
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Wrestling with Fire: Indigenous Women’s Resistance and Resurgence

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melissa K Nelson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, [Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism], 2019, pp. 69-84
Description
Describes the rising role of Indigenous women in a new era of activism that is based on traditional Indigenous values and practices.
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Writing Deeper Maps: Mapmaking, Local Indigenous Knowledges, and Literary Nationalism in Native Women's Writing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelli Lyon Johnson
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 103-120
Description
Argues that there is a turning away from Western theories that have often been used to determine the social, psychological or cultural meanings of Indigenous literature from the outside. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 103.
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Writing Landscape

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vanessa Dion Fletcher
West Coast Line #74, vol. 46, no. 2, Reconcile This!, Summer, 2012, pp. 80-87
Description
Looks at three part work of art which includes, walking with copper plates on the artists feet, prints produced from the marked up plates and video documentation of the walking performance. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 80.
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Writing Life

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beth Brant
Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 4, no. 4, December 2000, pp. 21-34
Description
Beth Brant discusses the role of writing in her life and her relationships with loved ones.
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