File containing a newspaper article from the Globe and Mail regarding the court's underapplication of Diefenbaker's Bill of Rights, including reference to cases involving the Indian Act.
Measures cost of a nutritious diet for a family of four for one week using standard food items. Used by Nutrition North Canada to determine subsidies. Prices from March 2011 to March 2016.
Measures cost of a nutritious diet for a family of four for one week using standard food items. Used by Nutrition North Canada to determine subsidies. Table has been modified to show only the comparison with the base year, March 2011, and the yearly differences from March 2016 and March 2017.
File contains a copy of Diefenbaker's speech at the Council of the Northwest Territories. Diefenbaker speaks of a future in which the Council will have Indigenous and Inuit representatives. He notes his appointment of James Gladstone to the Senate James Gladstone.
Photograph. On information card: Dog sled and upright snowshoes, "Chipewyan dog sled and spring-winter snowshoes during a campfire rest in the bush". Spring-winter snowshoes are bigger than the fall-winter ones. Dunvegan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
Northwest Territories Research Project Report for Territorial Stakeholders: Rural and Northern Community Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Report for Territorial Stakeholders
Rural and Northern Community Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pertice Moffitt
Heather Fikowski
Description
Study focused on identifying the needs of women, gaps and associated challenges in service provision, and strategies for developing non-violent communities. It took place over the course of five years and involved individual interviews and focus groups with RCMP, community health nurses, shelter and victim services workers, counsellors and social workers.
Arctic, vol. 70, no. 4, December 2017, pp. [349]-364
Description
Compares scope and depth of literature developed within the three geographic areas, identifies key themes from findings, highlight gaps, and suggests areas for further investigation.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 29-50
Description
Examines traditional Inuit and Yupiit stories, rituals, and colloquial sayings to reveal different meanings associated with the bearded seal in these Indigenous cultures. Finds that bearded seals can impart multiple meanings ranging from monstrous to protection to renewal and reproduction.
Reconciliation: Growing Canada's Economy by $27.7 Billion, pt. II
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fiscal Realities Economists
Description
Statistics on Indigenous representation in the labour force, and comparison of equalized participation rates and type of employment in each of the provinces and territories.
John Diefenbaker speaking to reporters as aboriginal children look on. Taken during his trip to open the town of Inuvik, North West Territories, 21 July 1961. An RCMP officer is partially visible behind Diefenbaker.
Photograph. On information card: Ten year old log cabin with extended tent porch in Chipewyan trappers camp. Dunvegan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
Photograph. On information card: Tipi like structure: "Tent used for smoking dry caribou meat" (Chipewyan-Dene). Dunvegan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
Olive Diefenbaker, wife of the Prime Minister, visits with residents of Inuvik, NWT at the official opening of the Arctic community, in 1961. She walks with an Aboriginal woman, a large crowd is in the background.
Olive Diefenbaker on the arm of a Aboriginal woman, John Diefenbaker and crowd in the back ground, during the ceremonies at the Official Opening of Inuvik, North West Territories.
Historical note:
Olive Evangeline (Freeman, Palmer) Diefenbaker; b. 14 Apr, 1902; d. 23 Dec, 1976; second wife of JGD.
Photograph. On information card: Close-up of snowshoes. (not ethnographical) Snowshoes worn by Dr. Mueller-Wille and are Quebec snowshoes owned by Prof. Williamson. Dunvegan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
Photograph. On information card: Close-up of a pair of snowshoes (not Ethnographical). Snowshoes worn by Dr Mueller-Wille and are Quebec Snowshoes owned by Prof. Williamson. Dungevan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
Northern Review, no. 46, Northern Literature, 2017, pp. 35-54
Description
Discusses the Biographies of Prominent Elders project as a method for using oral histories to preserve and promote Gwich'in culture, traditional knowledge and values. Includes five short stories told by project participants.
Photograph. On information card: Ten year old log cabin with extended tent porch in Chipewyan trappers camp. Dungevan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.