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An Examination of Three Key Factors: Alcohol, Trauma and Child Welfare: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and the Northwest Territories of Canada: Brightening Our Home Fires
An Exploratory Study on the Use of Photovoice as a Method For Approaching FASD Prevention in the Northwest Territories
Healing Through Photography: A Reflection on the Brightening Our Home Fires Project in the Remote Hamlet of Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories
Leading Together: Indigenous Youth in Community Partnership
Neoliberalism and Homelessness in the Western Canadian Arctic
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Cheryl Sibbeston, Student Representative, Alternative Grade 10 Class
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Chief James Firth, Inuvik Gwich'in Council
Presentation on the history of Inuvik including the relocation of people by the government from nearby Aklavik to Inuvik; alcoholism and related social and health problems; the need to prepare for future resource development; the need for cross-cultural co-operation and mutual respect; some of the goals of the Council; the relationship of self-esteem to quality of life; and the need for a "renewed political arrangement with the Government of Canada."
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Elizabeth Hansen, Councillor, Inuvik Native Band
Presenter discusses the importance of promoting, preserving, and maintaining Gwich'in cultural heritage and issues such as economic development, housing, social services, alcoholism, drug, and solvent abuse, justice and health services.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Francois Paulette
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Helena Laroque
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Leslie Knight
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marlene Villebrun, Canadian Mental Health Association
Villebrun discusses discrimination and low self-esteem issues; alcohol and drug abuse; the need to make Aboriginal history mandatory and a priority in Canadian schools; the intergenerational effects of cultural deprivation; and the need to better equip youth for "living in two cultures."
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Teya, Community Health Representative
Presentation discusses: health staffing concerns; alcoholism; the community's Concerned Persons Committee; suicide; running water, sewage, and basic infrastructure for Aboriginal people.