Labrador

Collection of best practices used by companies. Provides information on context, workforce awareness, advantages to workforce diversity, employment challenges, and the elements of a successful integration strategy.

Learning Resources Project towards (M.Ed.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1983.

Discusses a report released by Survival International, an Indigenous rights organization, which states that the Innu are under continual assault by the Canadian Government. Duration: 3:17.

Follow-up review of implementation of recommendations from 1993 report. Related material: 2021 Follow-up Report.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2003.

Looks at key findings from an evaluation study of a nursing education access program in Labrador, Canada.

Books reviewed: A People's Dream: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada by Dan Russell, Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec edited by Colin H. Scott, Prospering Together: The Economic Impact of the Aboriginal Title Settlements in B.C. edited by Roslyn Kunin, Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Study in Decolonization edited by K.P.

Reviews and summarizes the physical attributes of dwelling structures.

1975 interview with Bark Jack and Bill Edmunds regarding education and natural resources.

This file contains a presentation by Judy Rowell focusing on the "relationship of the federal and provincial governments to the Labrador Inuit Association. She refers to Labrador Inuit and the role that that relationship plays in the ability of the Association to deal with environmental threats and to deal with environmental protection." A question-and-answer period with the Commissioners follows the presentation.

File contains a presentation by Rosemarie Kuptana, President, Inuit Tapirisat of Canada. Kuptana discusses the Royal Commission and her organizations hopes for it, as well as some structural concerns they have with it related to incorporating Inuit perspectives. Kuptana discusses the Inuit's experiences with land claims and modern treaty processes, and tells the Commission that there is much that can be learned from it.

File contains opening remarks by Boas Jararace (via a translator) regarding the economic and educational problems faced by his people in Labrador and his hopes that the Commission will address these issues. Jararace is from the Belcher Islands.

File contains opening remarks by Menno Wiebe of the Mennonite Central Committee. Wiebe discusses how Mennonite aid workers overseas always get asked what they are doing for the First peoples of their own country, and how this often sparks their interest in the struggles of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Wiebe also relates what he sees as signs of hope for Aboriginal peoples, and how they have successfully organized against hostile state and economic forces in the recent past at places like James Bay.

Article describes Rural360 as a research incubator which provides funding and support for Northern Newfoundland and Coastal Labrador (NNCL) physicians to design and conduct research which improves accessible and culturally relevant healthcare in NNCL.

Provides data on mammals, fish, birds and berries harvested in the six seasons starting July 1980 to June of 1981.

Results of the Tennessee Self-Concept Form given to grade 7 and 8 students in four different communities in Labrador.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2003.

Discusses the fact that while Innu students experienced equal rates of abuse from authority figures, because the abuse took place in day schools rather than residential it has no been fully acknowledged.

Reveals the extent to which the Labrador Inuit employed wood products to provide needed nutrition and medicinal products.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Université Laval, 1997.

Report based on responses to questionnaire completed by 96 counsellors and workers in the field. Assessed current services and areas for improvement. Includes three case studies of successful programs.

Book Review of: Skin For Skin by Gerald Sider.

Book review of: Skin For Skin by Gerald M. Sider

Book review of: Skin for Skin by Gerald M. Sider.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2000.

Discusses the negotiating problems between Aboriginal groups and mining companies and the need to develop a long-term vision about mineral development.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2011.

Speculates on the origins of a culture that preceded both the Naskapi and Inuit.

Analyzes how media paid little attention to cultural and political significance of this band formation but rather focused on the economic benefits.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1996.

Study undertaken over a 17 year period found that the rate in Inuit communities was 20 times higher than the provincial average.

Examines the sustainability-centred approach and conflict resolution to an innovative environmental assessment and the consequential negotiations.

Anthropology and Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2008.

Looks the history of education in the communities of Sheshatshiu and Utshimassits (Davis Inlet).

Presents data from Inuit youth and women on adolescent pregnancy using focus groups and interviews.

Web site is dedicated to documenting and preserving "the old ways and early days" of Labrador.

Explores how Inuit reacted to the encroachments of the French using historical, cartographic, and archaeological evidence.

Overview of problems facing the Innu people, the continuation of working towards self-government agreements and fair land rights settlements.

Anthropology and Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2008.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2010.

Describes excavations of winter dwellings that could house up to 40 people and theorizes the origin of this type of architecture.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1971.

Brief item announcing that Borrowed Black, by Ellen Bryan Obed has been published for the first time in Inuktitut.

Looks at intricately carved, small likenesses of people, animals, weapons and utensils. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 14.

Looks at the Iceland scallop fishery, and data on the state of the scallop resource in Gilbert Bay.

Book review of: Towards an Archaeology of the Nain Region, Labrador by Bryan C. Hood.

Paper addresses access to funding for creation and operation of educational institutions as well as financial support for individuals.