Entitlements and Health Services for First Nations and Métis Women in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Policy Brief (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence)
Project (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence) ; no. 173
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Author/Creator
Kathy Bent
Joanne Havelock
Margaret Haworth-Brockman
Project (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence)
Description
Explains the history of the differences in legal entitlements to health services for First Nations and Métis women.
From the report Entitlements and Health Services for First Nations and Métis Women in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance
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Author/Creator
Pamela J. Downe
Description
Looks at the impact of mother blame and stigmatization on Aboriginal women who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS and injection drug use. Includes experiences of three women author encountered while working with AIDS Saskatoon.
Entire book on one pdf. To read this chapter scroll to p. 103.
Chapter from Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance edited by Michelle Hughes Miller, Tamar Hager, and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 1, January 2008, p. 2
Description
Looks at Elder Cora Thomson receiving the highest provincial honour, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, and her sage advice to others.
Article located on page 2.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 10, October 2008, p. 15
Description
Describes the success of graduates of Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies Construction Careers, Women in Trades program.
Article located by scrolling to page 15.
Focuses on the methodological challenges and accomplishments associated with project entitled Visualizing Breast Cancer.
Chapter 13 in the book Doing Cross-Cultural Research: Ethical and Methodological Perspectives edited by Pranee Liamputtong.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 6, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 137-160
Description
Examines the relationships between health, social exclusion, and receiving social assistance in Saskatchewan for Aboriginal (off-reserve), and non-
Aboriginal, single mothers.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 4, no. 1, Aboriginal Womens Health, January 2008, pp. 15-24
Description
Description of the first phase of a project carried out in the Battleford Tribal Council area. Used community-based research methods, including a sharing circle and a focus group.
CMAJ, vol. 189, no. 46, November 20, 2017, pp. e1408-e1409
Description
Highlights Saskatoon Health Region's external review into allegations of Indigenous women being coerced into having tubal ligations, and the interim report on the death of Brian Sinclair, who was ignored for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency department.
Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism
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Author/Creator
Tracey Lindberg
Priscilla Campeau
Maria Campbell
Description
Examines four prominent cases involving sexual violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls by white men to demonstrate how the Canadian legal system has failed both to protect Indigenous women and to properly punish those responsible.
The four cases are: R v Edmondson, R v Jordan, R v Ramsay, and R v Ramsay.
Chapter from Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism edited by Elizabeth A. Sheehy.
From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools
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Author/Creator
Beverley Jacobs
Andrea J. Williams
Description
Describes the findings of the Sisters in Spirit initiative and work with grieving families.
Chapter from From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools edited by Marlene Brant Castellano.
Identifies importance of goals related to infrastructure, recreation, information and education, and social supports.
Part of a larger project "The Cultural and Visual Context of Healthy Body Weight and Body Image Among Aboriginal Women in the Battlefords Tribal Council Region".
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 189, no. 33, August 21, 2017, pp. e1080-1081
Description
Talks about the report, Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women that confirmed allegations against the Saskatoon Health Region.
Presents results of six weeks of fact-finding conducted from January to July 2016, interviews and correspondence with police, and complaint mechanisms from August 2016 to January 2017.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 40, no. 1, In-home and Community Care for Seniors / Le soin des ainés à la maison et dans la communauté, 2008, pp. 112-125
Description
Based on interviews with 103 women, study supports need for primary health professionals to offer postnatal screening for women who may be at risk for postpartum depression .
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 10, October 2008, p. 28
Description
Discusses the annual Canadian Sisters in Spirit March which helps to raise awareness of violence against Aboriginal women and honour missing and murdered Aboriginal women.
Article located by scrolling to page 28.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 8, August 2008, p. 3
Description
Looks at a walk to raise awareness of a missing woman, the victim of a murder, and the statistics that suggest Aboriginal women are more likely to be victims of assault.
Article located by scrolling to page 3.
Women of the community go on a retreat due to feeling unappreciated and as a result bring the community closer together in episode 16 of a stop-motion animation series.
Accompanying material: Wapos Bay: Raven Power: Study Guide.
Duration: 24:02.