Native Language Families from the 16th to 18th Centuries
The National Atlas of Canada 5th Edition
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Geographical Mapping Division
Geographical Services Directorate
Surveys and Mapping Branch
Description
Shows distribution of Indian and Inuit communities, Indian reserve, cultural areas, name, linguistics family (eleven major families representing 51 languages). Also shows linguistic families from the 16th to 18th centuries. inset map for southwestern British Columbia.
Displays Indigenous population of Canada and the northern United States. Shows groups by size, name, linguistic family and extent of areas known by Europeans directly, through Aboriginal accounts, and unknown. Also shows locations of French and English agricultural settlements.
Chronicles significant developments in the relationship between the Federal government and First Peoples.
Chapter from Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues (3rd ed.) edited by Olive Patricia Dickason and David Long.
Occasional Paper (Centre for Military and Strategic Studies) ; no. 4
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Calgary Papers in Military and Strategic Studies, vol. 4, Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives , 2011, pp. 345-381
Description
Looks at the Canadian Rangers, developed as part of the armed forces northern strategy to be the eyes and ears of the Canadian Forces Northern Area (CFNA) in isolated areas.
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, Truth and Reconciliation, August 30, 2011, pp. 1-18
Description
Reviews the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in terms of a legal settlement agreement, and discusses the challenges that arise from a societal decision to create such a process to deal with past history.
Catalogue of useful school library resources, organized first by appropriate grade level, then alphabetically by title, with subject areas and curriculum areas included.
Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 33, no. 1, January 2011, pp. 187-194
Description
Discusses how First Nations children on reserves receive less child welfare funding than other children in Canada despite the fact that First Nations children have higher child welfare needs.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 114-125
Description
Looks at the relationship between cannabis use in aboriginal youth and a positive identification with their CPS (Child Protection Services) caseworker.
Working with Communities and the Private Sector in the Canadian Arctic
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sangita Sharma
Erin Mead
Joel Gittelsohn
Lindsay Beck
Cindy Roache
Description
Program combined store-based and community-based activities which promoted healthy eating and physical exercise. Describes project and outcomes, and discusses implications for research, policy and practice.
Chapter from Population Health Intervention Research Casebook.
Scroll to p. 36.
Empowering Communities to Support School Nutrition
Population Health Intervention Research Casebook
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rhona Hanning
Kelly Skinner
Michelle Gates
Allison Gates
Len Tsuji
Description
Project was a collaboration with the communities of Fort Albany, Kashechewan and Attawapiskat First Nations and involved three distinct programs designed to address high rates of obesity and low diet quality.
Chapter from Population Health Intervention Research Casebook.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 4, April 2011, p. 7
Description
Highlights two Métis shows featured by the CBC, ê-miywahkamikahk and Wahkootowin, to celebrate the year after the year of the Métis.
Article found by scrolling to page 7.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal , vol. 183, no. 10, July 12, 2011, pp. 1147-1154
Description
Discusses various factors associated with injection drug use and the transition to injection drug use to inform the development of prevention programs and policies.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2011, pp. 17-42
Description
Explores the relationships, through policy, between the Canadian state and urban Aboriginal peoples focusing on the cities of Thompson and Brandon, Manitoba.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, 1988, pp. 17-37
Description
Chronicles the changes of unique forms of dress using seven periods within the study time frame, including paintings up to 1857 and after that, photographs.
Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jessica Dempsey
Kevin Gould
Juanita Sundberg
Description
Advocates for promotion of private property ownership as opposed to collective ownership as the path to poverty reduction.
Chapter 12 from Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada edited by Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron and Audrey Kobayashi.