Factors contributing to success include: strong governance and leadership, high expectations, stategic use of funds and resources, respect, welcoming atmosphere, and a wide range of programming.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 1979, pp. 1-18
Description
Discusses a European-styled agricultural community which was developed to facilitate conversion and Europeanization of the semi-nomadic Montagnais in the St. Lawrence Valley.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 103-120
Description
Explores a preferred research process that involves dialogue with community members, on location, in order to learn and see the research community in a more realistic way.
Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 31, no. 4, October 2004, pp. 837-854
Description
Study findings confirm that some opportunities, generated by tourism development and changes in federal–Aboriginal relations, have begun to challenge non-native stereotypes.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, Supplement 2, 2004, pp. 120-123
Description
Review process revealed that speech language pathology services are being utilized more effectively as the referral sources become more familiar with the program.
Stated goal of policy is to "achieve an increasing level of health in Indian communities, generated and maintained by the Indian communities themselves" and that it rests on three pillars: community development, relationship between "Indian" population and the Federal Government, and Canadian healthcare system.
Includes letter sent from Minister of Health and Welfare to Noel Starblanket, President of the National Indian Brotherhood.
Reviews literature about family-centered services and family preservation services. Concludes with recommendations for "best practices" for policy makers.
Speaker discusses Amnesty International report, Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada and her part as an independent researcher contributing to it.
Duration: 1:08:26.
Narratives of historical events impacting the Haida Gwaii villages in British Columbia and the preparation to repatriate ancestral bones from the Field Museum in Chicago back to the Haida Nation.
Duration 1:14:12.
Canadian Literature, no. 181, Summer, 2004, pp. 78-91
Description
Examines Robinson's preoccupation with violence in her short stories and the effects of colonization or colonial attitudes on Indigenous peoples.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 78.
Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs.
Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs.
Fact sheet #10 looks at knowledge of HIV/AIDS using the AIDS Knowledge Scale.
Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs.
Fact sheet #5 looks at definition of invisible from perspective of service providers and from youth perspective.