Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 09-011
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Summary of study involving eight First Nations communities selected on the basis of innovative approaches to promoting home ownership and developing support programs. A minimum of six interviews was conducted at each site with community leaders, housing professionals and home owners.
Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 109, no. 12, December 2001, pp. 1291-1299
Description
Study on infant development reports elevated levels of neurotoxins, mercury, PCBs, and lead, and discusses possible protective measures present in nutrient supplements.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 63, no. 7, July 2009, pp. 546-551
Description
Examined outcomes from the 14 communities in Nunavik for the period of 1989 to 2000. Compared results from the Hudson Bay area, where Inuit midwives perform maternity care, to Ungava Bay area where western physicians performed the same function.
Documentary about the unorthodox and successful teaching methods of Norman Cornett at McGill University. Students speak about their experiences.
Duration: 1:20:44.
Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Thesis (Ph.D.)--Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2001.
Discussion of the James Bay Crees fight, called the Great Whale Campaign (1989-1994), to keep a dam from being built in their territory.
Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 90, no. 2, February 2009, pp. 740-751
Description
Study hypothesized that peoples’ perceptions would be influenced by their cultural models about forests and would vary amongst regions with different forest use histories and among different cultural groups. The study found that the social dimension was rated low overall, except for with the Métis and Innu of Labrador.
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
Michell Daveluy
Jenanne Ferguson
Description
Study of the use of multilingual and multigraphic signs in Inuit localities.
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.
Round table with members of organization called, Advocacy for Native Adoptees. All Native adoptees had been adopted into white families residing in Montreal.
Discussion of how neither federal nor provincial governments took responsibility for Innu. While they have finally been granted Indian status, they have no reserve, but do have legitimate land claims that must be settled.
Arctic, vol. 62, no. 4, December 2009, pp. 418-428
Description
Discusses greenhouse experiments, efficient restoration techniques, and responses to sand burial, trampling, and drought in the village of Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik in subarctic Quebec.
Northern Exposure: Peoples, Powers and Prospects in Canada's North
[Art of the state (Montréal, Québec) ; v. 4]
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Author/Creator
Jack Hicks
Description
Looks at statistical trends in number of suicides, age, sex, region and community. Discusses past and current research, areas for future study, and seven working hypotheses.
Excerpt from Northern Exposure: Peoples, Powers and Prospects in Canada's North edited by Frances Abele, Thomas J. Courchene, F. Leslie Seidle and Frances St-Hilaire.
Presents brief address from the President of Quebec Native Women recommending actions to take against Canada and other member states that do not support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Canadian Public Policy, vol. 35, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 121-137
Description
Discusses the current condition of Internet gambling in Canada and how the Kahnawake Mohawk Nation in Quebec is one of the largest online gambling sites in the world.