Newfoundland and Labrador

Compares mortality rates in 1 to 19 year old residents of Inuit Nunangat to the rest of Canada.

Findings from a national study on the successes, barriers, challenges, and opportunities of Aboriginal tourism on economic growth.

Focuses on four programs: 'Journey into Wellness' (J2W) project of the Battlefords Tribal Council Indian Health Services; 'Projet Pairs-aidants' in Uashat mak Mani-utenam (Québec); 'Kayaking and Youth Support' in Hope and Nain, Labrador; and the Hobbema Community Cadet Corps Program in Alberta.

Objectives were to address lack of health information and associated challenges, identify resources needed to take action on issues, and make recommendations on future directions, resources and involvement.

A review of the strategy and the framework show a lack of research in science, applied science and social science.

Reports on results of consultations about how the Inquiry process should incorporate Inuit concerns and perspectives.

Describes activities undertaken by the Qikiqtani Inuit Association, provides background information on the development and functioning of the National Inuit Youth Suicide Prevention Project, and makes recommendations for future actions.

Describes the pressures the Innu face when there is a demand for mining, logging, and drilling on their lands.

"Comprising: the Abenakis alphabet, the key to the pronunciation and many grammatical explanations, also synoptical illustrations showing the numerous modifications of the Abenakis verb, &c. : to which is added the etymology of Indian names of certain localities, rivers, lakes, &c., &c."

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Study of the province includes aboriginal peoples, natural environment, society and culture, exploration, government and the arts. Also included are a glossary, games page, search page and gazetteer.

Examines historical background of the Federation of Newfoundland Indian (FNI) Aboriginal status rights case and land claim.

Book review of: Northern Exposure edited by Frances Abele, Thomas J Couchesne, F. Leslie Seidle, France St-Hilaire.

Comments from 8 Innu community members from Davis Inlet and Sheshashit discussing social, environmental, economic and cultural impact of resource development in Labrador. Duration: 40:33.

Looks at the development of a land use plan between the Nunatsiavut government and the Newfoundland and Labrador governments.

Related Material: From Science to Policy in Nunavik and Nunatsiavut: Synthesis and Recommendations.

Argues that current market-driven model does not sufficiently address Inuit food insecurity and makes recommendations for changes to existing program.

Study gathered information through focus groups and key informants; reported that while all agreed on the various benefits of the food, there was growing concern about its safety due to environmental contamination.

An anthropologist's career and research about the Beothuk and Mi'kmaq. Speck was a student of Franz Boas, often referred to as the "father of American anthropology."

Survival International from London, England released a report on the rise of suicide among the Innu people, forerly known as Montagnais-Naskapi.

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Discusses programs, governance and partnerships, student supports, funding, study to work transition, and program accountability. Describes two programs in each of the four Inuit regions of Canada.

Discusses factors which could make the Inuit more susceptible to the disease such as overcrowded housing, access to healthcare, and Tuberculosis, as well as how the disease may affect education, livelihoods, and increase family violence.

Reviews the process and development leading to the creation and completion of a Bachelor of Social Work program.

Summary of study involving eight First Nations communities selected on the basis of innovative approaches to promoting home ownership and developing support programs. A minimum of six interviews was conducted at each site with community leaders, housing professionals and home owners.

Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2001.

Suggests links between island and mainland peoples supplemented the limited island resources and contributed to their adaptability.

Study of two Beothuk individuals found a possible gen flow, or a common ancestral link, between Beothuck, who became extinct in the 1820s, and the current Mikmaq population. Data from one individual were also found to not support the belief that the Beothuk were of European-Native American descent.

Study argues that the site has been occuppied by both Inuit and non-Inuit groups for the last 6000 years.

Outlines some of the health issues faced by Inuit and their context, and makes recommendations for amendments to the proposed Act.

Results based on workers in four crab plants.

Six programs are discussed: Take a Kid Trapping & Harvesting; Kugluktuk High School, School Cooking Club; Harvester Support Program; Project Nunavut and the Country Food Market; Kuujjuaq Greenhouse Project; and Personal Gardening. Includes description, date program began, benefits and challenges for each initiative.

Looks at Inuit strategy for monitoring and responding to the impacts of environmental change on health and wellbeing in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut.

Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.

Reports results of environmental scan which involved a literature review of both grey and academic publications, a series of key informant interviews with 20 individuals working in the field. Six topic areas are covered: links between childhood adversity and suicide and promising practices for addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters focusing on children and youth, current supports in the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.

Statistics. Source: 2011 Household Survey.

Psychiatry Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2017.

Ruling concluded that there is no existing right to trade in the Treaties of 1760-61 to exempt Donald Marshall from the Federal fisheries regulations.

Information on resources and history from the time of the Beothuk and Mi'kmaq, Norse exploration for fishing grounds, and settlement and war by French and English Europeans.

Review of Middle Dorset Variability and Regional Cultural Traditions: A Case Study from Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon by Sylvie LeBlanc. Review in French.