Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 2006-2016
Compares Registered Indians to Canada's general population in three components: life expectancy, education and income.
Compares Registered Indians to Canada's general population in three components: life expectancy, education and income.
Health Thesis (MA) -- Dalhousie University, 2019.
Review of 48 documents relating to challenges, priorities and promising practices.
Contends that Inuit living in urban areas cannot replace the nutritional and cultural value of food acquired from the land, sea and air with store-bought foods.
NOTE: Also published as Journal of Aboriginal Health, Summer, 2015.
"Field Validation Version."
Search strategy involved academic databases, search engine queries, targeted website review, and reference tracking. Forty-four sources were located. Definitions of land-based healing, Indigenous and Western frameworks, wise practices, and characteristics of specific programs are discussed.
Villebrun discusses discrimination and low self-esteem issues; alcohol and drug abuse; the need to make Aboriginal history mandatory and a priority in Canadian schools; the intergenerational effects of cultural deprivation; and the need to better equip youth for "living in two cultures."
History Thesis (PhD) -- University of California San Diego, 2019.
Social Work Mémoire (MSW) -- University of Ottawa, 2019.