The Last Word: After the Residential School Apology: Why All Canadians Should Care about a Racial Equality Case Before the Canadian Human Rights Commission
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cindy Blackstock
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009, p. 89
Description
Looks at the insufficient government funding for statutory child welfare services.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jack Anawak
Description
Describes life as a student at a residential school starting in 1959 and a reunion of students twenty-five years later.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Canadian Social Work Review , vol. 26, no. 1, 2009, pp. 25-41
Description
Compares coverage of the deaths of two children, one Aboriginal and one non-Aboriginal. Four newspapers were surveyed: Globe and Mail, National Post, Winnipeg Free Press and Telegram (St. John's).
Canadian Issues, Journeys of a Generation: Broadening the Aboriginal Well-Being Policy Research Agenda, Winter, 2009, pp. 53-58
Description
Comments on the optimism and hopefulness of Aboriginal youth despite the challenges such as poverty, discrimination and tokenization that they face.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 53.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Himachal Pradesh University, 2009.
Focuses on Lee Maracle's Daughters Are Forever and Ravensong, and Beatrice C. Mosionier's In Search of April Raintree and In the Shadow of Evil.
Examines the political, social, and economic influences on First Nation and Métis youth’s attitudes toward higher levels of education and career planning; and looks at some of the institutional and policy structures that support or hinder the ability of First Nation and Métis youth to finding pathways that will lead to sustained employment.
Discusses differences between First Nation and non-first Nation parental involvement in the education system as well as barriers that limit parental involvement in schools.
For use as part of the Grade Ten Social Studies curriculum. Divided into four chapters: Politics of War, School Life, Tuberculosis, Impact, Consequences & Legacy, as well as preview and post view lessons.
Canadian Journal of Family Law, vol. 25, no. 2, 2009, pp. 223-256
Description
Discusses social issues specific to child welfare decisions regarding Aboriginal children & communities, and the need to strengthen Aboriginal cultural identity.
Presentation by the United Church General Council Officer for Residential Schools in British Columbia on taking responsibility for the forced assimilation of First Nations through residential schools.
Research project, "Youthworks", provides a snapshot of youth homelessness focusing on three important components in services and support systems: prevention, emergency response and transitioning out of homelessness.