First Nation strategy dealing with sexual abuse.

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

Discusses healing in Aboriginal communities and argues that the traditional concept of social security does not work with Aboriginal communities and must be revised to suit their needs.

Study objectives included: development of protocols for participatory research, design and implementation of holistic process, assessment of success of financial investments relative to healing processes, and other unintended benefits to community.

Chapter fifteen from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 2, which is also vol. 2 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.

Includes discussion of policy and training issues, technological developments and future directions, as well as case studies and recommendations.

President of the Native Women's Association of Canada and two representatives from the Community Holistic Circle Healing, Hollow Water First Nation appeared before the Committee.

Information sheet presenting an overview of the structure of First Nations child welfare in 2011.

Study looks at addressing the gaps in knowledge about the total diet, traditional food and levels of exposure to environmental contaminants.

Statistics based on responses of 3390 individuals from 34 First Nations.

Project was to design and deliver a ten-week community-based environmental education program, which combined Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Environmental Science, to Aboriginal youth (aged 18-30).

Looks at how the Ojibway community of Hollow Water deals with an epidemic of sexual abuse. Duration 48:30.

First Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2013. Focuses on R. v. O'Connor criminal case, the Blackwater v. et al v. Plint et al civil case adjudication, and Hollow Water Community Holistic Circle Healing initiative.

Reviews research on mental health; presents social issues underlying problems and some individual and community responses to these challenges. Argues cultural psychiatry can contribute to rethinking services and heath promotion.

Contains links to a series of articles and video news reports which discuss the deplorable health and sanitary conditions that exist in northern Manitoba communities due to lack of potable water.

Environment and Geography Thesis (M.Env.)--University of Manitoba, 2007.

File contains a presentation by Lisa Raven, Hollow Water Band, Wanipigow School. Raven discusses her theory that the government has deliberately underfunded Status Indian education which she equates with an act of genocide. She also discusses the need for significant investments in education and economic development on reserves.

File contains multiple presentations on the topic of Anisinaabe self-governance. The first presentation is by Chief Rod Bushie, Hollow Water Indian Band (pgs 71-75). Bushie discusses his views on Anicinabe self-governance: the need for it to be community based, and the need for a healthy community in order for it to be effective.

This file contains presentations by eight students from Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School in Brandon, Manitoba. The students are: Dennis Peters, Sandy Bunn, Russell Beaulieu, Verna McDougall, Sam Gott, Trena Raven, Marcelline Mason and Lorne Bunn. The presentations focus on issues such as Aboriginal-controlled schools on reserves, loss of Aboriginal culture and language, learning from elders as part of their daily curriculum, prejudice and racism in urban schools, and hopelessness and substance abuse among Aboriginal youth.

Excerpt from Appendix 3 of the Interim Report of the Hollow Water First Nations Community Holistic Circle Healing describing their activities from 1993-94. Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.