Discusses strategies and actions to achieve goals related to substance abuse and improving the health outcomes of First Nations people.

Highlights several successful initiatives across Canada which help individuals fund the purchase, or building, of a home. Many have set up a system of band-controlled revolving funds to deal with the restrictions of the Indian Act.

Focuses on seven topics: eight principles of Indigenous child welfare, understanding the overrepresentation of children in care, legal context, root causes, discrepancies in delivery of services, current approaches and recommendations in the area of family violence, current approaches and recommendations in the area of substance use, and improving financial supports for families.

Developed as primer for mentoring in the workplace for employers, employees, Elders and volunteers working in Aboriginal non-profit service organizations.

Discusses strategies for creating an effective, culturally appropriate workshop to address HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention.

Update to 2001. Discusses determinants of health, pregnancy, infants and children, diseases and injuries, physical environment and health services. Related material: The Health and Well-being of Aboriginal People in British Columbia (First Report).

Includes four case studies: Tk’emlups te Secwepemc and the City of Kamloops; Tsleil Waututh Nation and the District of North Vancouver; : Musqueam and the City of Vancouver; : Cowichan Tribes and the City of Duncan; and Fort Nelson First Nation and Northern Rockies Regional Municipality.

Presents a visual impression of Indigenous life and customs through use of original sketches and paintings by the 19th-century Canadian painter. Duration: 14:28.

Talks about the resurgence of Aboriginal themed movies and rehearsals for the playThe Rez Sisters by Tom Highway.

Overview of Heritage Conservation Branch project and research results from two prehistoric archaeological sites.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2005.

Book review of People of the Middle Fraser Canyon by Anna Marie Prentiss and Ian Kuijt. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 218.

Book review of: People of the Middle Fraser Canyon by Anna Marie Prentiss and Ian Kuijt.

Documents life of the Native people in northern British Columbia. "Archival film reflects the social and cultural values and beliefs prevalent at the time of production." Durations: 21:00.

Looks at people living a traditional life while adopting new ways of doing things. Duration: 15:00.

Health Belief Model for secondary prevention is evaluated in British Columbia and suggests culturally sensitive education could assist in disease control. Scroll to p. 130.

Reviews the research project developed to examine the attitudes of both incarcerated Aboriginal youth and senior management on the issue of racism in British Columbia's youth correctional facilities.

Uses ethnographic film In the Land of the Headhunter to examine role of performance in museums.

Examines how cultural displays for non-Aboriginal audiences, which were sometimes revised for public presentation, were used as a method to increase political legitimacy.

Data for Indigenous and general population on: caseloads, reasons for care and court orders for protection; breakdown of 'neglect', care plan current and complete rate; residential placement types; hotel placements; trend for numbers in care; and youth agreements.

Looks at the state of Aboriginal newspapers after the cancellation of the Native Communications Program and discusses the survival strategies used by the Aboriginal Press.

Looks at how province's first lieutenant-governor's attitudes about the land question continued to exert influence during two periods: the years following entry into Confederation (1871 to 1876) and during the era of postwar hydroelectric development using case studies from 1951 to 1989.

Book review of: Persistent Spirit edited by Peter H. Stephenson.

Book review of: A Persistent Spirit edited by Peter H. Stephenson, Susan J. Elliott, Leslie T. Foster, Jill Harris. To read review, scroll down to page 78.

Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Thesis (MNRES)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2011.

Human Nutrition Thesis (M.S.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.

Human and Social Development Thesis (M.N.)--University of Victoria, 2000.

Philosophy Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 1990.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 1972.

Describe the creation and early years of the independent school created by Kwakwaka’wakw parents on ‘Namgis First Nation territory; discusses inclusion of cultural and traditional teachings, and its evolution as one of the longest running independent schools in the province.

Author shares a personal story as a means of teaching about cross-cultural relationships.

Photograph of a Kwiakutl dancer.

Looks at several photographers and their work: Gentile, Dally, the Maynards, Dossetter, Boas and Hastings.

Discussion of physical anthropology, descriptions and measurements of body and head.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2009.

Examines colonial missionaries' use of photographs for their own purposes, other than for a strictly visual record.

Book review of Picturing Transformation by Nancy Bleck, Katherine Dodds, and Chief Bill Williams. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 155.

Reflects on colonial traditions of "imagined" history or the myth of the frontier in Williams Lake, British Columbia.

Comments on the ontological politics at work in permitting a tar sands pipeline through Indigenous territories.

Provides a brief outline of some of the more important features of the Act. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1985

Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2004.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2005.