Audit addressed programs and activities of the selected federal departments between 2004 and 2009. Certain tests relied on information dating back as far as 2000.
Looks at an environmental assessment system, that aids in balancing the use of scientific and Aboriginal knowledge, to foster meaningful Aboriginal participation in federal and provincial environmental assessment procedures.
This survey provides information on children’s Aboriginal language knowledge, and their ability to express their needs in an Aboriginal language or to understand an Aboriginal language when someone speaks it to them.
Canadian Diversity=Diversitié canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, pp. 35-42
Description
Uses the NWT Official Languages Act, as an example, to show it is possible to revitalize 55 Aboriginal languages using statutory legislation.
Scroll down to page 35 to read article.
Looks at how First Nations and governments have responded to the decline of the caribou and examines the litigation that has resulted from such responses in British Columbia, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories.
Report explores education plan for ensuring Aboriginal youth have the skills and knowledge needed for academic success and bridging the achievement gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students.
Discusses the results of the strategy on developing the Aboriginal tourism industry including generating business and employment opportunities, improving economic conditions, and challenges to developing the Aboriginal tourism sector.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 182, no. 3, February 23, 2010, pp. 235-242
Description
Discusses the high rates of preterm birth, stillbirth and infant death in Inuit-inhabited areas of Canada compared with the rest of the country and the interventions necessary to improve maternal and infant health.
[Fort Simpson School and Hostel — Northwest Territories]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
General Synod Archives
Anglican Church of Canada
Description
Presents the history of St. David's Anglican mission in 1858, and how the school opened up in 1955 and lasted until administration was transferred to the Territorial government in April, 1969.
Revised version.
Discussion on the development of the Federal Framework for Aboriginal Economic Development; recent Federal measures including the Northern Strategy; a series of agreements between government and Aboriginal communities, including self-government and Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements; and examines how they can play a central role in strengthening the northern economy.
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.
Documentary about a community radio station and the important role it plays in the Teetl'it Gwich'in town of Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories.
Duration : 1:06:11.
Global Environmental Change, vol. 20, no. 1, February 2010, pp. 177-191
Description
Argues that policy intervention should focus on: transmission of environmental knowledge, emergency management capability, flexibility of resource management regimes, economic support to facilitate adaptation, increase research effort to identify risk factors and response options, protection of infrastructure, and promote awareness of climate change impacts
Canadian Issues, Journeys of a Generation: Broadening the Aboriginal Well-Being Policy Research Agenda, Winter, 2009, pp. 107-111
Description
Looks at a comparison of a traditional form of measurement to a community based monitoring project which will help to identify the advantages and disadvantages of the two methods.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 107.
Study found that patterns of sharing of country foods varied between hunters and wage earners; hunters tended to favour associations with distant and collateral relatives, while wage earners focused on parents and siblings. Discusses how these affiliations can affect vulnerability to environmental change.
Environmental justice, vol. 2, no. 3, 2009, pp. 117-125
Description
Analyzes contemporary mining developments in Northern Canada, particularly local conflicts, over access to resources that originate with colonialism and the expansion of global capital.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Journal of the American Sexually Transmitted Disease Association, vol. 36, no. 2, February 2009, pp. 79-83
Description
Study evaluated the efficacy of universal screening, treatment and contact tracing as a means of getting an accurate count of prevalence and limit transmission.
Briefing (Conference Board of Canada) ; February 2011
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 11-201]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jacqueline Palladini
Description
This report calculates and compares the gross domestic product output in Canada’s Northern regions, including the three territories and the Northern parts of seven provinces, between 1999 and 2009.
Looks at the transformation of a school in Aklavik, Northwest Territories serving Métis, Inuvialuit and Gwichin residents.
Scroll down to page 1 to read article.
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
Peter Collings
Description
Study suggests that young hunters are not under pressure to produce very much food due to provisions made by parents and older siblings.
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.
Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol. 16, no. 2, April 2009, pp. 201-223
Description
Presents a study that looks at health and environmental risk perspectives associated with gender and place in two sets of northern Canadian Aboriginal communities.