Statistical table.

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Statistical tables.

Includes some Aboriginal statistics and comparative data from other cities.

Looks at "Concrete Indians" living in urban communities. Duration: 45:10.

Presents information gathered in 2000 while doing a community needs assessment. Sources included learners, literacy workers, tutors and social service agencies.

Examines the different patterns of economic disadvantage and notes the evolution from 1995 to 2005.

Analyzes whether certain cities contribute to the problem of over-representation and explores whether regional variations exist.

Findings based on literature review, survey (250 respondents), and three case studies. Produced as part of the National Reading Campaign's Aboriginal Policy Initiative.

Report designed to inform Ontario's Best Start Child and Family Centre model for delivering child and family services. Includes results of literature review, case study conducted at Regent Park and Scarborough sites which involved stakeholder interviews with 95 respondents and focus groups, and discussion of how the general model can be adapted to meet Indigenous early childhood and family services needs.

In-depth interviews were conducted with 36 individuals who had moved to Toronto from rural or reserve settings. Participants identified issues such as difficulties accessing services/benefits they were entitled to and lack of respect for culture and identity.

Argues that to adequately address determinants faced by youth, a framework is needed that is culturally appropriate and addresses colonization.

Project consisted of literature review, survey, discussion groups and key informant interviews, community report-back and report writing.

Project used a community-partnered approach to find out how to increase access to social services, with a focus on inclusion for Indigenous peoples in Toronto.

Letter from Rev. A.E. Green, 1 November 1887, relating to the exodus of Aboriginals from Metlakhatla [Metlakatla], BC, to Alaska, because of the Canadian Government's refusal to provide larger reserves and a treaty for payment for land surrendered. Letter in The Missionary Outlook newsletter.

Information Thesis (MI)--University of Toronto, 2015.

Studied Toronto Star coverage of the Akwesanse/Mohawk and Oka land dispute to determine whether awareness of Aboriginal issues increased after the crisis.

Photograph of an Innukshuk at Toronto Airport.

Discusses contributions of organizations such as A Space, the Theatre Centre, Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts, V-Tape, and Centre for Aboriginal Media/ImagineNATIVE Festival, and the National Film Board's Challenge for Change program. Excerpt from Well-Being in the Urban Aboriginal Community edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté. Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.

Reports on a research project that explores the impacts of physical activity on the well-being of Aboriginal women.

File contains a copy of Diefenbaker's speech at the annual Batoche Dinner of the Royal Regiment of Canada, in which he speaks of the Riel Rebellion and of Indigenous peoples obtaining the right to vote and gaining representation in Parliament.

Description of the Taking Action! Building Aboriginal Leadership in HIV Prevention Using Arts-based Methods research project. Focuses on four pieces created by participants from Kahnawá:ke First Nation, Kettle and Stony Point & Aamjiwnaang First Nations, Montreal, Toronto, and Charlottetown.

Comments on practical ways to address the physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health of Indigenous peoples.

Data collected through questionnaire and sharing circles from 52 participants who had completed a six-week workshop series.

Applied Psychology and Human Development (Ph.D.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2013.

Book review of: Aboriginal Self-Government in Urban Areas: Proceedings of a Workshop, May 25 and 26, 1994 edited by Evelyn Peters.

Study employs a method of qualitative inquiry to interview six Aboriginal Latinx non-binary youth, and a narrative story map tool to analyze the data collected. Findings indicate a need for a culturally relevant and social justice–based training model for mental health care providers.

Includes case studies of the Community Council Project, Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto and the Hollow Water First Nation's Community Holistic Circle Healing Project.

Session Six from public conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes held Friday, January 18, 2013 at the University of Toronto. Implications of implementing transitional justice framework into a non-traditional setting. Duration: 1:11:02.

Looks at information gathered from interviews conducted with clients to develop a course of action for child protection. Text from interviews included.

Verifies the social and economic impoverishment of urban Aboriginal women, especially female lone parents, and the increasing poverty of women in metropolitan Toronto.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1982.

Description and evaluation of the "We should all speak" project which was designed to provide a range of traditional services to women residential school survivors or those suffering intergenerational impacts. Sources of information include project files, Aboriginal Healing Foundation National Process Evaluation Survey, key informant interviews, evaluation forms submitted by participants, and special report on annual gathering.

Statistics for recurrence of child protection concerns after investigation, after protection services were provided, number of days in care by placement type, time to permanency, and quality of caregiver/youth relationship.

Comments on the factors that need to be addressed in order for the court and administrative systems to be more accessible to children.

Brief biography based on remembrances of a young woman who police say died of an overdose, but whose family believe may have been murdered.

Discusses root causes and barriers to treating opioid addiction in rural and remote northern communities; describes success of land and community based healing strategies and issues a call to medical regulators and government bodies to implement these programs alongside opioid agonist therapy.

Looks at mechanisms to equip participants with the necessary resources for well-informed community decisions and effective participation in a public consultation process.

Reviews a multimedia installation that is based on a time portal to 1845.

Program of exhibit of Canadian Woodland Indian contemporary native art. Short article and references by Bernhard Cinader; includes photographs and biographies of artists.

Session One from public conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes held Friday, January 18, 2013 at the University of Toronto. Includes prayer and opening remarks and discussion on settlement negotiations. Duration: 1:54:14.

Opening performance of the House Of Wayward Spirits festival, Toronto Free Gallery, June 28, 2012. Duration: 55:54.

Copy of Illustration from ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, April 4, 1885 depicting Battle of Duck Lake, March 7, 1885.

Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2013.

Looks at a set of guiding principles and demonstrates what their implementation looks like in the classroom.

Argues that stories about food gathering and recipes have become ways to revitalize food knowledge, cultural integrity, and community and therefore are necessary when healing trauma from colonization.