"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.
Commission came about due to numerous allegations of police misconduct towards Indigenous women in Val d'Or, Quebec. Its mandate is to investigate causes of systemic discrimination in the provision of police, correctional, justice, health and social services.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1291868
Description
Studies the linguistic and cultural differences among medical institutions that challenge interpreters who know many of their clients at a personal level.
Reconciliation: Growing Canada's Economy by $27.7 Billion, pt. II
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fiscal Realities Economists
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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.
File contains correspondence regarding the Lavell Case, discrimination in the Indian Act, and women's rights, the Supreme Court Ruling,and provincial government. Also, copies of the "Plan for Liquidating Canada's Indian Problem Within 25 Years" and articles regarding the case, Diefenbaker's disapproval of the Supreme Court Ruling.
Argues that several bylaws should be removed because they represent social and racial profiling, and are overly and wrongfully used, affecting the well-being of a venerable population..
The Advocate, vol. 60, no. 6, November 2002, pp. 853-[?]
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Discusses Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruling on Aboriginal rights in relation to customs, excise, cross- border trade and taxation and attempt of SCC to seek a balance in their determination of limitations set.
American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 71, no. 6, December 2002, pp. 1443-1449
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Study concludes that a single gene mutation causes North American Indian Childhood Cirrhosis, a distinct and severe form of familial cholestasis, which occurs in aboriginal children in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec.
World Development, vol. 30, no. 1, January 2002, pp. 141-151
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Looks at the ways modern treaties have impacted the economic and socio-demographic status of Aboriginal communities in the Northwest Territories and Northern Quebec.
Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 34, no. 11, June 1, 2002, pp. 1508-1514
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Describes events before, during and after an outbreak of the disease and records how an innovative prevention program contributed to a successful resolution.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 243-263
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Author describes the different perceptions of the wolverine in Dené and Gwich’in culture both as a presence that people must be wary of in the bush and status as a powerful tuurngaq (totem or spirit guide).
Text in French.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, Populations et Migrations / Populations and Migrations, 2002, pp. 199-204
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Book review of: Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory by Lucien M. Turner, with an introduction by Stephen Loring.
Review in French.
Book is reprint of paper which originally appeared in the Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, published in 1894.