National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin]
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Vivien Carli
Description
Discusses challenges faced by Indigenous populations and identifies some of the local, national and international initiatives underway to address these issues.
Excerpt from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté.
Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.
American Communication Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, Special Issue, 2013, pp. 1-10
Description
Examines a social movement that challenges the growing socio-economic inequality and institutional policies that have historically worked to disenfranchise Indigenous groups.
Book review of Discovering Indigenous Lands by Robert J. Miller, Jacinta Ruru, Larissa Behrendt, and Tracey Lindberg.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 167.
Comments on the four sources rights of consultation for Aboriginal Peoples in Canda with the strongest and most extensive being the principle of honour of the Crown
Entire journal on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 4.
Book review of Finding a Way to the Heart edited by Robin Jarvis Brownlie and Valerie J. Korinek.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 175.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 65, no. 10, November 2007, p. 2093–2104
Description
Examines the bioethical issues involving genetic ownership related to beliefs and practices of a culture and the effects on both health care and research.
"This article compares the post-colonial development of the Maori Authority tax regime in Aotearoa New Zealand and the taxation of Indian Bands as First Nations on reserve lands in Canada".
Entire journal on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 29.
Discusses the socioeconomic outcomes from Indigenous commercial fishing in Canada & New Zealand; and identifies the need for Australia to rethink its policies to ensure that the same rights and benefits accrue to Indigenous Australians.
BMC International Health and Human Rights , vol. 7, no. 9, 2007, p. article 9
Description
Looks at life expectancy, educational attainment and income between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations to determine if the gap between socioeconomic and health status has improved or decreased between 1990 and 2000.
Contends that Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) can help to build constructive and mutually beneficial relationships between mining companies and Aboriginal communities.
Part of: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute (2013)
Looks at the Treaty settlement known as the "Treelords Deal" and examines the academic and legal definitions, and how the concept is being deliberately misinterpreted by some tribes for their own commercial gain.
United Nations Adopts the Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples
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Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Reparations for Indigenous Peoples, Fall, 2007
Description
Discussion of the UN (United Nations) adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples despite the no votes from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, The Seventh Generation: Spotlight on Indigenous Youth, June 2013, p. [?]
Description
Describes effective grant-making strategies to support sustainable and culturally appropriate development projects, planned and implemented by and for Indigenous communities.