Aboriginal Housing Assessment: Community Design Needs & Preferences and Application of Local Materials
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lisa Hardess
Rodney C. McDonald
Darren Thomas
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Description
Includes survey questions, community profiles and research findings from each of the 14 First Nations involved in study, and results of visits to three sites where local materials were being used in construction.
Full research report.
Community Report.
Aboriginal Housing: Local Materials and Design Preferences
Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 05-001
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Lisa Hardess
Rodney C. McDonald
Darren Thomas
Description
Discusses results of research conducted in three locations where local materials were used in construction and survey of 14 First Nations as to their requirements for appropriate housing.
Includes both summary and main report.
Community Report.
Appendices.
Justice as Healing, vol. 9, no. 1, Spring, 2004, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the methods used by the Six Nations of Grand River, Ontario to ensure a relatively crime free social order.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Radio clip on how the trauma from residential schools was passed from one generation to the next. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section.
Duration: 4:45.
Focuses on addressing the needs of students making the transition from small, often isolated reserves, to schools in Thunder Bay, Sioux Lookout, and other towns and cities.
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Report. External Research Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Barry Silver
Jennifer Arnott
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Description
Discusses results of survey of First Nations communities in Ontario about their current approach and future requirements and three possible models for delivery of housing programming based on autonomy, accountability, supporting regional coordination, and stable policy development.
[Appendix Tables for 2011 Census/National Household Survey Housing Conditions Series: Issue 10: The Housing Conditions of Off-reserve Status Indian Households]
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 96-115
Description
"Uses the genre of young adult vampire novel to explore the ways in which different practices and understandings of history shape both national and personal identities".
Includes overview and recommendations for "Patients First": integration of service and equity, timely access to care and seamless access to other services, consistent and accessible home and community care, and stronger links between public and other health services.
Coverage investigated 319 print and online news outlets for keywords including: Indigenous, Aboriginal, First Nation(s), Northern Ontario Reserves, Métis and Inuit. Tone analysis based on inherent positivity or negativity of event, topic or issue.
A Case Study of Journey Mapping to Create a Palliative Care Pathway for Naotkamegwanning First Nation: An Analysis and Lessons Learning using Participatory Action Researchmjs334Thu, 06/16/2022 - 00:00
Theses
Author/Creator
Jessica Chiovitte Koski
Description
Health Sciences Thesis (MHSc)--Lakehead University, 2016.
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, vol. 168, no. 2, February 1993, pp. 307-315
Description
Metal samples studied to distinguish between those with European and North American origins so cultural impact of earliest aboriginal -European contact could be assessed.
Statistics for recurrence of child protection concerns after investigation, after protection services were provided, number of days in care by placement type, time to permanency, and quality of caregiver/youth relationship.
Canadian Family Physician, vol. 39, April 1993, pp. 781-788
Description
Interviewers asked 24 women about positive and negative aspects of evacuation to southern hospitals, how the situation could be improved, and their preference of delivery locations.
Ryan McMahon travels across Ontario talking to Indigenous leaders, lawyers, historians, researchers and policy makers about the building of roads and the effects on Indigenous people and their land. Includes stories about isolation from people of Shoal Lake 40.
Duration: 44:07.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 11, no. 1, Wellness-Based Indigenous Health Research and Promising Practices, 2016, pp. 50-74
Description
Comments on a palliative care model which reduces the disparities in access to quality palliative home care and is grounded in community values and Indigenous culture.
Case Study (Conference Board of Canada) ; December 2004
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 693-04]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Alison Campbell]
Description
Overview of iSisters Technology Mentoring, a program that helps Inuit women obtain technology training to address literacy, basic skills upgrading, and find jobs.
American Anthropologist, vol. 106, no. 3, New Series, September 2004, pp. 595-599
Description
Review essay of an exhibition, Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life, that examines the artistic, cultural and political significance of beadwork in both traditional and contemporary Iroquois culture.
Speaker discusses the significance of the chain and the meaning of the wampum belts which were exchanged between British and First Nations, and argues that treaty-making is a relational process and not a single event.
Duration: 1:18:08.
Image of four Aboriginal male chiefs and an non-Aboriginal man posing for the camera; [indoor scene]. Note with photo: "Cree Chiefs from Crooked Lake. Seated - Flying in a Circle, Big Child Star Blanket. Standing - O'Soup a Blackfoot, P. Hourie an interpreter. Taken at Brantford, Ontario, at unveiling of Brant memorial Oct. 13, 1886. O'Soup Chippewa Chief / P. Hourie Interpreter / Front: Flying in a Circle / Big Child Mistawasis / Star Blanket Ahtahkakoop / names according to two of Rev.
Original diary and various papers of R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Lieutenant of the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance, covering from 8 April to 20 July 1885. Included in diary pocket is a requisition for short boots that was signed by Wadmore on May 1885, lyrics of the Infantry School Corps fight song, and a Victoria Daily Times article from 23 June 1944 about the remaining members of the Northwest Field Force and their experiences.
Ethnohistory, vol. 51, no. 3, Summer, 2004, pp. 567-607
Description
Identifies sources and methods for documenting Métis during the fur trade period in Ontario in order to investigate legal and historical questions related to contemporary rights of Métis in that province.