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.
Discusses the resource co-management regime of the James Bay Crees in northern Québec, and looks at co-management institutions within the broader context of nation-to-nation treaty negotiations.
Excerpt from Canada: The State of the Federation 2003.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper scroll to p. 133.
"The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a range of options for constitutional reform in order to promote discussion and exploration of specific possibilities for Australia".
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.
First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission
Description
Manual specifically designed for residents of Quebec and Labrador. Focuses on physical, spiritual, emotional and mental dimensions of living with the diseases.
Étude de Faisabilité de l'Exploitation Intégrée, de Deux Études de Prévalence Réalisées à Dix Ans d'Intervalle, Sur de Grands Échantillons de la Population Inuite du Nunavik
Theses
Author/Creator
Manon Girard
Description
Médecine Sociale et Préventive Thèse (M.Sc.)--Université Laval, 1998.
American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 148, no. 2, 1998, pp. 164-172
Description
Determines the relation between the consumption of contaminated local fish with Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and PCB congeners in the milk of nursing Mohawk women residing near three hazardous waste sites.
Risk Analysis: An International Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, August 2004, pp. 1007-1018
Description
Results show little downside economically or nutritionally when replacing some "country food" with food from other sources, but few have actually altered their lifestyle perhaps because of the high value placed on the traditional economy.
Discussion based on cases decided under the Optional Protocol to the Convent, on the Human Rights Committee's general comments and consideration of periodic report by States parties. Focuses on Article 1: the right of all peoples to self determination; and Article 27: the protection afforded under the notions of 'culture' and 'minority'.
Discussion of the benefits and disadvantages of the James Bay Project, including polluted drinking water and future northern development. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section.
Duration: 4:33.