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Digital Data Management in Kahnawà:ke

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rob McMahon
Tim LaHache
Tim Whiteduck
Discusses the Mohawk community's development and implementation of the CANO system and its operations including administration, infrastructure and connectivity, systems, and personnel.
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Dioxin-Like Compounds are not Associated with Bone Strength Measured by Ultrasonography in Inuit Women from Nunavik (Canada): Results of a Cross-Sectional Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alexandra-Cristina Paunescu
Pierre Ayotte
Éric Dewailly
Sylvie Dodin
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, 2013, p. article no. 20843
Suggestions that DLC's found in food sources could alter bone strength were found invalid.
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Disparities in Infant Hospitalizations in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Populations in Quebec, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hua He
Lin Ziao
Jill Elaine Torrie
Nathalie Auger
Nancy Gros-Louis McHugh ... [et al.]
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 189, no. 21, May 29, 2017, pp. e739-e746
Reports observations from Fist Nations infants in 12 of 16 disease categories and 7 of 16 disease categories for Inuit infants in Quebec.
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Diversifying Aboriginal Forestry: Broad Directions

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Harry Bombay
Argues that First Nation communities must look beyond timber harvesting to develop strategies encompassing new and different approaches to forest-based development.
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Document Regarding Bill 96

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQ)

Argues for exemptions and amendments to The Bill, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec, which requires that French be used exclusively in the healthcare and education systems, public services, workforce and economic development.

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Documents: Introduction

Alternate Title
Document One: Department of Indian Affairs Canada, Ottawa, October 13th, 1926
Document Two: Department of Indian Affairs Canada, Office of the Deputy Superintendent General, Ottawa, Ottawa, October 13th, 1926
[Document One]: Health and Disease at the Norway House Indian Agency
[Document Two]:Report of Medical Services to Indians Located Along the Line of the Canadian National Railways from Cochrane, Ont. to La Tuque, Que., June to October, 1926
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
James B. Waldram
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, pp. 233--274

Introduction and two archival items on social and economic conditions of Aboriginal people. The first report is on the socio-economic conditions that contributed to the spread of tuberculosis, and the economic measures needed to be taken to improve the lives of the Swampy Cree Indians. The second report is an account of the socio-economic conditions of Aboriginal people and recommendations for improving their health status.

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Does Being Born Big Confer Advantages

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine Gray-Donald
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 183, no. 3, February 22, 2011, pp. 295-296
Looks at ways to close the gap in health disparaties between infants of First Nations families to those of other Canadian families.
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Dorset Tip Fluting: A Second "American" Invention

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick Plumet
Serge Lebel
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 34, no. 2, 1997, pp. 132-162
Describes and analyzes the characteristic style of tip fluting points in the Early and Middle Dorset.
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Draining Energy From The Innu of Nitassinan

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Annette Lutterman
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Rethinking Childhood: Perspectives on Childrens Rights, Summer, 2000
Discusses the impact hydroelectric developments have on the peoples and the ecosystems of remote regions in Québec and Labrador.
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Dynamiques culturelles et représentations sociales du chien dans la communauté inuit de Kuujjuaq (Nunavik)

Alternate Title
Cultural Dynamics and Social Representations of Dogs in the Inuit Community of Kuujjuaq (Nunavik)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Brunet
Francis Lévesque
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 265-283
Presents the findings of research conducted in September of 2016 on the changing place of dogs in Kuujjaq, a community where Inuit and non-Inuit live together. Researchers found “that dogs in the community occupy a position that oscillates between appreciation and repulsion—a position shaped by cultural and community contexts.” Text in French.
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Early Childhood Education and Care: Next Steps

Alternate Title
Parliament of Canada ; 2nd Session, 40th Parliamanet
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Art Eggleton
Wilbert Joseph Keon
Overview of early learning policies and programs in provinces and territories as well as from other countries.
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Échange Commercial et Usages Monétaires Non-Marchands dans le Cadre du Programme d'Aide aux Chasseurs du Nunavik

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yohann Cesa
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, Populations et Migrations / Populations and Migrations, 2002, pp. 175-186
Discusses the Nunavik Hunters Supports Program which has the goals of promoting traditional hunting activities, ensuring a supply of country foods, and maintains harvesting equipment such as community freezers and boats.
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L'Écotourisme au Nunavik: Manifestation de la Postmodernité?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annie Thomas
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 36, no. 2, Le Tourisme dans lArtique / Tourism in the Arctic, 2012, pp. 79-97
Authors conducted interviews in the village of Kuujjuaq to gather information about residents' perceptions of ecotourism. They speculate that development in this area may have a unifying effect on Inuit identity.
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Les Écrits de Pierre Potier

Alternate Title
Collection Amérique Française ; No 3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Robert Toupin
Describes New France in the 18th Century, including Pierre-Philippe Potier correspondence, library catalogues and registers of births.
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Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Québec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mairi Cowan
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 1, Spring, March 2018, pp. 1-29
Looks at the nuns' additive and combinative approach to trying to "Frenchify" Indigenous girls, and how it fell out of favour when the government decided that Indigenous people would have to be completely assimilated.
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Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mairi Cowan
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 1-29
Article suggests that the goals of the Ursuline nuns in Québéc—conversion and assimilation of Indigenous girls in New France—is complicated by various factors including correspondence from the French crown, the convent’s relationship with Jesuit orders, and Indigenous resistance to assimilation.
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Effect of Bush Living on Aboriginal Canadians of the Eastern James Bay Region with Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Elizabeth J. Robinson
Yitades Gebre
Joyce L. Pickering
Beatrice Petawabano
Beatrice Superville and Claudette Lavallée
Chronic Diseases in Canada, vol. 16, no. 4, Autumn, 1995
Three month study compared subjects who returned to a traditional hunting and trapping lifestyle versus those who stayed in the community.
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The Effect of Community-Level Factors on Suicide in Inuit Nunangat

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris Penney
Ellen Bobet
Éric Guimond
Sacha Senécal
Canadian Diversity=Diversitié canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, pp. 77-84
Looks at suicide rates in Inuit Nunangat from 1989 to 2003 using socio-cultural characteristics from the Census and Aboriginal Peoples Survey to compare community elements. Scroll down to page 77 to read article.
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Effect of Maternal Diabetes on the Pattern of Selected Insulin Resistance Syndrome Parameters in Normal Glucose Tolerant Subjects of Two Algonquin Indian Communities in Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean-Marie Ekoé
Frederique Thomas
Beverley Balkau
Eveline Eschwege
Helene Delisle
Diabetes Care, vol. 19, no. 8, August 1996, pp. 822-826
Findings indicate subjects of maternal antecedents with diabetes have known risk factors for non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM or adult onset diabetes). The study doesn't identify whether there is a genetic or maternal environmental reason for this association.
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