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Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1997.

Review of four exhibition catalogues: From Our Hands at the Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto. Pipes That Won't Smoke; Coal That Won't Burn at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary. The Legacy: Continuing Traditions of Canadian Northwest Indian Art at the British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria. The Four Seasons at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver.

Identifies impediments to successful developments.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2008.

Recommendations based on literature review and responses to 71 survey questions. Survey included questions about substance use and addictions, history of sexual abuse, reasons for entering sex trade, and barriers to leaving it. Sample consisted of 14 current or former workers between the ages of 19 and 34.

[Anthropology and Education] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2014. Focuses on the Pacific Aboriginal Child Welfare Association.

Correspondence relating to repairs on flooded reserve, the building of a Catholic Church on reserve lands, land rented to the reserve, the sale of reserve lands, the building of a school, and issues about a lease of reserve land.

Includes results of literature review and interviews with 22 key informants and four case studies: Kootenay Lodge in Calgary, Alberta, The Ni-Apin Program at the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre of Winnipeg Ltd., Manitoba, Lu’ma Native Housing Society in Vancouver, British Columbia, and My Aunt’s Place at the YWCA in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Contends that 50% of the HIV-positive youth were Aboriginal and comments on the urgent need to develop gender and culturally appropriate youth specific programs.

Summarizes the discussions and recommendations from a three-day workshop examining the issues related to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

Building Science Thesis (MASc)--British Columbia Institute of Technology, 2015.

Hard questions asked by Metis filmmaker Christine Welsh, regarding 60 missing women from Vancouver's east side, including Dawn Crey; one-third of those missing are Indigenous women.

Study included developing a database organizations providing housing services and their policies, procedures, and practices, case studies of effective organizations, and identification of best practices.

Information gathered from literature review, interviews and survey involving service providers, and guided interviews and sharing circles with seniors.

Documentary about the murders and disappearance of an estimated 500 Aboriginal women in the past 30 years. Accompanying material: Finding Dawn: A Guide For Teaching and Action. Duration: 73:29.

Health Care and Epidemiology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2012.

Looks at two curators and the films they chose to fit the themes of tragic comedy and traditional storytelling.

Highlights the First Nations Women and Wellness Conference in Vancouver, B.C. that began to identify wellness in a radical, new way.

Brief television feature focuses on the artist's controversial series of paintings of the sixty-nine murdered and missing women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Duration: 6:36.

Addresses case of the serial murderer Robert Pickton.

Interview with the writer, director and producer of the film at the closing performance at the Aboriginal Pavilion of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

Inquiry looked into circumstances surrounding the death of a Mi'kmaq man who was removed from Vancouver Police Department lock-up, left in an nearby alley and subsequently died of exposure and hypothermia. Includes review of events prior to the death, institutional responses, evaluation of responses, and recommendations for change.

Argues that the appropriation of the totems for use as one of the symbols for the Canadian nation state masks the reality of the Aboriginal-settler relationship.

Determines the prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) doubly affecting youth, and mono infected youth with either HIV or HCV.

Study reports impoverished Aboriginal women are at greater risk for HIV infection due to specific gender related harms.

Discussion of how the government/judicial category of "half-breed" was developed to facilitate appropriation of land and resources.

This file contains "Sinasia Remembers" the reminiscences of Harriet E. Gerry (unpublished), and published articles about her work nursing among the Indians of western Canada. Her extensive memoir is made up of several short stories and anecdotes about the many communities she worked in. These include Onion Lake, Kehewin Reserve, Leask, Sturgeon Lake, Cold Lake, Fort Qu'Appelle, One Arrow Reserve, Piapot Reserve and many in British Columbia later in her career.

Discussion about the controversial series of paintings entitled The Forgotten by Pamela Masik which portrayed the sixty-nine missing and murdered women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The exhibition to be held at the Museum of Anthropology was cancelled due to protests. Duration: 31:50.

Comments on a community agency, WAVS, that leads the way in family violence awareness, healing intervention and prevention.

Saskatchewan First Nation artists, James Ratt, Michael Lonechild, John R. Hallkett, Calvin Sand, Myles Charles, Robert Bellegarde, and Lloyd Pinay, displayed 91 objects of art at a private showing.

An image of a large group of Aboriginal people posing for the photograph. They wear a mixture of traditional and western clothes. The picture was taken on open prairie and there are two teepees in the background. Colours have been added to the picture in a chromolithograph process. There is some correspondence on the back, and the postcard is postmarked 11 July 1911.

Discusses ways to reduce alcohol and drug abuse among Aboriginal people.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2009.

Comments on an organization, Warriors Against Violence Society, and their model for healing.

Goals of review were to develop a population and health status profiles, review existing resources, recommend new services, and develop an implementation and evaluation plan.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1996.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1996.

Cohort composed of 529 individuals residing in Vancouver, British Columbia. Found that Aboriginal participants were more than two times as likely to be infected with disease.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1998.

Study findings examine First Nation's use of the hospital care sytem from the point at which they are diagnosed with HIV until their death.

Literature review shows Aboriginal populations who use illicit drugs and are street youth or female sex trade workers have higher HIV occurrences and frequency when compared to non-Aboriginal drug users.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2006.

Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2012.

Examines the experiences of drug user patients in hospital settings and the social, structural, and environmental factors that contribute to self discharge.

Summary of study which conducted survey of service providers and facilities in select Canadian cities, and five individuals with the disease. Found that existing facilities were under-utilized and more culturally relevant options were needed. Originally published in 2004, revised in 2010.

Results based on in-depth interviews with 30 young Aboriginal people aged 15-18 in British Columbia, Canada. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 41.