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Overdose Response Project Knowledge Translation Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Metro Vancouver Aboriginal Executive Council (MVAEC)
Report highlights insights gathered from focus group discussions with youth, men and women and summarizes recommendations in the areas of response, harm reduction, culture as treatment, and accessing services for each group.
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Parable of the Hummingbird

Alternate Title
Widening Our Lens, Connecting Our Practice
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Uses a story to illustrate that every action counts. Speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Restorative Practices: Widening Our Lens, Connecting Our Practice, May 31st-June 5th, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Duration: 20:53.
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Pathways to Service Delivery: A First Nations' Guide to Developing and Re-negotiating Municipal Service Agreements

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[URBAN Systems
Beyond Design]
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.
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A Piece of Me

Alternate Title
UBC Museum of Anthropology Pacific Northwest Sourcebook Series
[MOA Sourcebooks]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jamie Attig-Blankinship
Kizzy Black
Brian Charlie
Elvis Chevrefils
Francine Cunningham
Carly Dickinson
Robin R. R. Gray
Nigel Grenier ... [et al.]
Catalogue to accompany exhibition of works by youth in the Native Youth and Overly Creative Minds programs. Revised edition.
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Piloting the CANRISK Tool in Vancouver Coastal Health

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. Papineau
M. Fong
Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada, vol. 32, no. 1, December 2011, pp. 12-18
Looks at a Canadian pilot study to screen and assess urban ethnic groups for type 2 diabetes and prediabetes and to promote healthy lifestyles.
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Potential Use of Safer Injecting Facilities Among Injection Drug Users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Kerr
Evan Wood
Dan Small
Anita Palepu
Mark W. Tyndall
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 169, no. 8, October 14, 2003, pp. 759-763
Estimate of the potential use of safer injecting site by local illicit drug users and evaluates potential impact of newly established Health Canada restrictions and police activities.
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Predictors of Clustering of Tuberculosis in Greater Vancouver: A Molecular Epidemiologic Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eduardo Hernández-Garduño
Dennis Kunimoto
Lei Wang
Mabel Rodrigues
R. Kevin Elwood
William Black
Sunny Mak
and J. Mark FitzGerald
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 167, no. 4, August 20, 2002, pp. 349-352
Combining DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with conventional methods to better target groups at high risk of transmission of tuberculosis.
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Race, Diversity and Criminal Justice in Canada: A View from the UK

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Denney
Tom Ellis
Ravinder Barn
Internet Journal of Criminology, 2006, pp. [1]-22
Drawing on research from the Canadian High Commission Institutional Research Program, the paper examines how the attitudes of those administering justice may affect courtroom outcomes, availability of anti-racist programs for personnel, and to what extent anti-racist training is incorporated into policy and practice.
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Rankin Inlet Ceramics

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Peter Millard
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, Fall, 1994, pp. 30-31
Review of an exhibition at the Inuit Gallery of Vancouver from April 30 to May 20, 1994. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 30.
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Rate of Methadone Use Among Aboriginal Opioid Injection Drug Users

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Evan Wood
Julio S. Montaner
Kathy Li
Lucy Barney
Mark W. Tyndall
Thomas Kerr
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 177, no. 1, July 3, 2007, pp. 37-40
Findings indicated that Methadone use was lower among Aboriginal than among non-Aboriginal injection drug users. Culturally appropriate intervention is recommended.
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Reconciliation in Mental Health

Alternate Title
International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership 2015
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Carol Hopkins
Looks at transforming the mental health systems and services using Indigenous knowledge and culture, to benefit Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Presentation from the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership meeting held September 21-22, 2015 in Vancouver, B.C. Duration: 19:06.
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Reconciliation Relations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dylan Robinson
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 161, Winter, 2015, pp. 60-63
Examines the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's central space for testimony, the Commissioners Sharing Panel.
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The Red Fox Program For Aboriginal Children and Youth: An Analysis of the Benefits of Exercise Used to Assist in Management of Typical Health Concerns Present in this Demographic

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael Apps
Sage Laboucan
Denis Smajlovic
Jade Spencer-Tam
Michael Wong ... [et al.]
Overview of program started by Vancouver Parks Board in partnership with the Vancouver Native Health Society and Board of Education to promote physical activity.
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Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carol Muree Martin
Harsha Walia
A comprehensive report on the participatory research project funded by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG, MMIW) facilitated through the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC). Project engaged 113 Indigenous and 15 non-Indigenous women drawing on their experience and expertise as survivors of gendered colonial violence.
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Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance; That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jules Arita Koostachin
BC Studies, no. 191, Autumn, 2016, pp. 179-181
Book reviews of: Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women by Amber Dean. That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shenher. Entire section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 179.
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Repatriation in Two Acts: The Museum of Vancouver

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce Granville Miller
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 81-94
Author--who is an anthropologist specializing in Coast Salish culture, a member and chair of the collections committee, and a board member of the Museum--discusses several examples of repatriating objects, and the process of developing a formal policy.
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Reporting Métis in Urban Centres on the 1996 Census

Alternate Title
Setting the Agenda for Change ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 1st, 2002
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Lorna Jantzen
vol. 1

Argues that combining concepts of ethnic origin and Métis identity would provide a more complete picture of the population. Looks at statistics for Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver.

Chapter five from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1 which is also vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.

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Responding to the Homeless Crisis

Alternate Title
Pressure Point
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Brad Newcombe
Judy Graves
John Van Luven
Discussion with the Manager of Vancouver Tennant Assistance Program and Executive Director of St. James Society Community Services on the agencies available to address the needs of Vancouver's homeless people. Duration: 27:40.
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[Response to the MMIWG2S Calls for Justice and Red Women Rising Recommendations]

Alternate Title
MMIWG2S Response Report: Response to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice and Red Women Rising Report Recommendations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Rachel Wuttunee]
[Shabna Ali]

Purpose of the report was to review the recommendations from the two bodies, assess the extent to which the City has implemented the relevant ones, if it has been done effectively, and ensure better alignment in the future. Report begins on p. 14.

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Rethinking the Paratext: Digital Story-Mapping E. Pauline Johnson’s and Chief Joe & Mary Capilano’s Legends of Vancouver (1911)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alix Shield
BC Studies, no. 197, Spring, April 24, 2018, pp. 107-121
Discusses the text and its critical framework—title page, introduction, and other framing elements. Considers the roles of Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Chief Joe and his wife Mary Capilano as co-authors, and the decolonization of the text by reconnecting it to unceded Coast Salish lands using platform called ArcGIS Story-Map Journals,
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Revelatory Protest, Deliberative Exclusion, and the BC Missing Women Commission of Inquiry: Bridging the Mirco/Macro Divide

Alternate Title
Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Genevieve Fuji Johnson
pp. [25]-46
An analysis of Indigenous women's activists role into the creation of an inquiry into the well beings of Indigenous women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and in exposes the flaws in the inquiry and the impact to changes they achieved. A chapter from Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy edited by Leah R. E. Levac and Sarah Marie Wiebe. To access chapter scroll down to page 25.
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