Presents information gathered in 2000 while doing a community needs assessment. Sources included learners, literacy workers, tutors and social service agencies.
Participants discussed issues related to consultation and equality and then identified a number of specific directions to guide future actions and interventions. Roundtable held March 30-April 1, 2000.
Used data collected from a survey of 41 individuals and 37 participants in focus groups. Covers topics such access to law school, educational experience, practice of law and the judiciary.
Highlights the University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre's Program of Legal Studies for Native People
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.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, vol. 73, no. 1-2, November 2000, pp. 191-198
Description
Tests conducted on 18 eastern Canadian and 8 tropical plants demonstrated that medicinal knowledge of First Nations peoples is based on measurable efficacy.
[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".
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Inaugural Edition, May 1997, pp. 87-101
Description
Brief historical background of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation; looks at the social and economic change in remote hunting and trapping communities in Northwestern Ontario; and examines how the First Nations have increased the ability to address health and social service problems locally by assuming control of their health services.
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.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 75-101
Description
Verifies the social and economic impoverishment of urban Aboriginal women, especially female lone parents, and the increasing poverty of women in metropolitan Toronto.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Summer, 2000, pp. 32-36
Description
Curatorial notes from exhibition of the same name mounted at the National Gallery, Ontario, 2000.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.
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.
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.
Information gathered at a provincial training conference offered by the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition. Presents results from pre-conference survey (questionnaires and forms included in document) and small group discussions.
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, vol. 17, no. 11, November 1997, pp. 2753-2758
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Results from study of 509 adult aboriginal Canadians, from an isolated Northern Ontario community, which tested for genotype associations with plasma lipoproteins.
Looks at reforms to the 1992 Canada National Forest Strategy proposed by Aboriginal Forest Strategy in the areas of legislation, policies and management practices.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 4, Winter, 2000, pp. 46-47
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, 2000.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 46.