Alternate Title
Gap Analysis Report (Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic) ; no.3
ReSDA Gap Analysis Report ; no.3
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andrey Petov
Description
Reviews frameworks, systems of indicators, and details of key studies with a focus on methodologies that are part of socio-economic impact assessment procedures.
Measuring Indigenous Peoples' and Planet's Well-Being
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mauricio Malanes
Tebtebba, vol. 14, 2013, pp. [4]-13
Description
Looks into the holistic view of life and development shared by Indigenous peoples worldwide.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 4.
Measuring Progress, Strengthening Governance, and Promoting Positive Change: Developing Sustainability Indicators with Winnipeg's First Nations Community
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 8
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 3rd, 2009
Exploring the Urban Landscape
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Christa Rust
Description
Describes community-level project which partnered the International Institute for Sustainable Development with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.
Chapter from Exploring the Urban Landscape edited by Jerry P. White and Jodi Bruhn.
Originally presented at the 2009 Aboriginal Policy Research Conference.
Measuring the Economic Impact of Publicly Funded Research in Northern Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katrina Carr
David C. Natcher
Rose Olfert
Polar Geography, vol. 36, no. 4, 2013, pp. 291-304
Description
Uses empirical data from 2000-2009 to discuss the benefits of research for northern Canadian communities.
Measuring the Well-Being of Aboriginal People: An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1981-2001
Alternate Title
Setting the Agenda for Change ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 1st, 2002
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Martin Cooke
Daniel Beavon
Mindy McHardy
vol. 1
Description
Examines data from census years 1981 to 2001 to identify whether any progress had been made in narrowing disparities in education, life expectancy, and income.
Chapter three from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1, which is vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.
Measuring Violence Against Women: Statistical Trends
Articles » General
Juristat, vol. [33], no. [1], February 25, 2013, pp. [1]-120
Description
Some information specific to Aboriginal women.
Media Panel - Derek Mazur, Ron Harpelle, Kelly Saxberg
Alternate Title
ReSDA (Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic) Annual Conference ; 3rd, 2013
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Derek Mazur
Ron Harpelle
Kelly Saxberg
Description
Discussion about knowledge mobilization, projects for ReSDA and collaboration between film makers and academics.
Duration: 28:33.
The Medicine Room: A Teaching Tool for Elders and Educational Opportunity for Youth
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Fidji Gendron
Carrie Bourassa
Danielle Lisa Cyr
Betty McKenna
Lauren McKim
First Nations Perspectives Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, 2013, pp. 83-97
Description
Discusses how Elders shared their knowledge with youth through a joint initiative and workshops. Outcome analysis indicated a greater level of engagement by the students.
Medicine Wheel Journey: An Autobiographical Approach to Developing an Indigenous-Centered Helping Framework
Theses
Author/Creator
Delbert Majore
Description
Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Victoria, 2013.
Melq'ilwiye: Coming Together, Intersections of Identity, Culture, and Health for Urban Aboriginal Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natalie Clark
Patrick Walton
Julie Drolet
Tara Tribute
Georgia Jules ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 45, no. 2, Broadening the Dialogue, 2013, pp. 36-57
Description
Looks at how urban Aboriginal youth in Kamloops identify their health needs within a culturally centred model of health and wellness.
Men in front of Humboldt Telegraph Station
Images » Photographs
Description
Image of Humboldt Telegraph Station, likely during the Northwest Resistance. On back of photo: From left to right: Sergeant Mickey Farren of Winnipeg, who was supply officer for the troops during the Reil (sic) Rebellion of 1885; Tom Sanderson, who was taken prisoner at Hoods Mail Station, and who was afterwards sent by Reil (sic) with messages to Major Crozier at Carelton (sic); the man in the door is Tom Pike, operator of Humboldt Mail Station; seated is Wm. Scott, in charge of the Mail Station; and standing are two Metis who had been caught stealing summer supplies."
Menominee Perspectives on Commercial and Sacred Tobacco Use
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leah M. Rouse Arndt
Mark Caskey
Jodi Fossum
Natasha Schmitt
Amileah R. Davis ... [et al.]
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 20, no. 3, 2013, pp. 1-22
Description
Concludes that the community will overcome their high rates of tobacco use and related health disparities by using mainstream prevention and intervention efforts combined with traditional teachings.
Mental Health and Healing With the Carrier First Nation: Views of Seven Traditional Healers and Knowledge Holders
Theses
Author/Creator
Christina Dobson Brazzoni
Description
Educational Leadership Thesis (Ed.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2013.
Mental Health Impacts of Racial Discrimination in Victorian Aboriginal Communities: Summary Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Angeline Ferdinand
Yin Paradies
Margaret Kelaher
Description
Summary report based on Experiences of Racism Survey. Full report: Mental Health Impacts of Racial Discrimination in Victorian Aboriginal Communities.
Mental Health Impacts of Racial Discrimination in Victorian Aboriginal Communities: The Localities Embracing and Accepting Diversity (LEAD) Experiences of Racism Survey
E-Books
Author/Creator
Angeline Ferdinand
Yin Paradies
Margaret Kelaher
Description
Discusses experiences, impacts, implications of racism and strategies for change.
The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples. Part 1
Alternate Title
Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction ; lecture 9
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Description
Discusses the impacts of colonization on health, identity, adaptation and the problem of suicide in indigenous population. Part 1 of 2.
Duration: 1:22:05
The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples. Part 2
Alternate Title
Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction ; lecture 9
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Description
Discusses the role cultural continuity plays in mental health.
Part 2 of 2.
Duration: 1:32:04.
The Mental Health of Single Parents in Canada: Do Gender and Geography Matter?
Theses
Author/Creator
Ankona Banerjee
Description
Community Health and Epidemiology Thesis (M.Sc.)--Unviersity of Saskatchewan, 2013.
Mentoring Programs for Indigenous Youth at Risk
Alternate Title
Resource Sheet (Closing the Gap Clearinghouse) ; no. 22
E-Books
Author/Creator
Vicki-Ann Ware
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence: A Spragens Analysis
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Thomas J. Hoffman
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2013 WSSA American Indian Studies Section, Fall, 2013, pp. 1-4
Description
Looks at Deloria's exposition of the differences between Western and Non-Western views of nature.
A Methodological Model for Exchanging Local and Scientific Climate Change Knowledge in Northeastern Siberia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan A. Crate
Alexander N. Fedorov
Arctic, vol. 66, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 338-350
Description
Analyzes findings from “Knowledge Exchanges,” involving the Viliui Sakha, native agropastoralists, regional scientific specialists, a cultural anthropologist, and a permafrost scientist.
Métis Artist and Indigenous Activist Dylan Miner
Articles » General
Author/Creator
America Meredith
Dylan Miner
First American Art Magazine, Fall, 2013, pp. 28-33
Description
Interview with an educator, writer, historian, curator and multiple media artist.
Metis casualty
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
James Peters
Description
Metis casualty, identified as John Ross shown lying dead on the ground. He was the Metis who shot and killed General Strange, commander of platoon of scouts at Batoche. The scouts lassoed this man and dragged him behind horses until his body was mutilated as shown. He was believed to be 18 years old. [Source: Wes Fineday. Another source says he shot Capt. French.
Métis Children and Families, and the Child Welfare System: An Urban Winnipeg Perspective: Prepared For Commission of Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Phoenix Sinclair
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Manitoba Métis Federation
Métis Child and Family Services Authority
Judy Mayer
Billie Schibler
Description
Presentation to Phase Three of the Commission of Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Phoenix Sinclair. Inquiry looked into how the Manitoba child welfare system had failed to protect the five-year-old girl.
Métis Group Joins Save the Fraser Declaration Against Pipeline
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David P. Ball
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 11, February 2013, p. 8,16
Description
Comments on Métis and First Nations people joining together to oppose a pipeline project in British Columbia.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
The Métis-ization of Canada: The Process of Claiming Louis Riel, Métissage, and the Métis People as Canada's Mythical Origin
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam Gaudry
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2013, pp. 64-87
Description
Deconstructs the logic put forward in the books Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada by Jennifer Reid and A Fair Country by John Ralston Saul.
Métis Law in Canada [2013]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jean Teillet
Métis Laws of the Harvest: Guide to Métis Hunting, Fishing, Trapping and Gathering
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Manitoba Métis Federation
Description
Brief document includes information on rights, requirements for harvesting, tables for big-game and game birds with estimates of amounts needed by individual harvesters, and quick reference guide.
3rd revised edition.
Metis prisoners in courtyard
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Oliver B. Buell
Description
Metis prisoners in courtyard of Regina Court House, 1885. Many of the men are hand-cuffed together.
Metis Rifle Pits Sketch Grayscale
Images » Photographs
Description
A sketch of Metis rifle pits in 1885, likely in the Batoche area.
Métis Settlements and First Nations in Alberta: Community Profiles: August, 2013
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Government of Alberta] Aboriginal Relations
Description
Basic information about Buffalo Lake, East Prairie, Elizabeth, Fishing Lake, Gift Lake, Kikino, Paddle Prairie, and Peavine settlements and each First Nation in Alberta.
The Métis Status Decision
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
William Wicken
Description
History professor discusses the significance of Daniels v Canada with regards to identity of non-status Indians.
Duration: 5:16.
Métis Women at Risk: Health and Service Provision in Urban British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sonia D. Wesche
Pimatisiwin, vol. 11, no. 2, 2013, pp. 187-196
Description
Study investigated links between cultural identity and well-being for women in danger of sexual exploitation in Fort St. John, Prince George, and Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Metis Work Ethic and the Impacts of CCF Policy on the Northwestern Saskatchewan Trapping Economy, 1930-1960
Theses
Author/Creator
Deanna M. Raymond
Description
Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2013.
MEW Outcomes Report
Alternate Title
Making Education Work (MEW): Outcomes Report 2013
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Proactive Information Services Inc.
Description
Overview of project to determine if additional services to high school students could assist grades 10 to 12 stay in school and meet graduation requirements. Involved 277 Aboriginal students at six sites across Manitoba.
Map of Community Involvement.
[Micheal Mascarenhas: White Privilege and Neo-liberalism]
Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Micheal Mascarenhas
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with the author of the book, Where the Waters Divide: Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada.
Duration: 29:45.
Michel Dumais - Portrait
Images » Photographs
Description
Portrait etching of Michel Dumais. Note on photograph: "Michel Dumas (not Dumais) from an old newspaper 1885".
Historical note:
Michel Dumais, prominent South Branch Metis. Dumais was one of the delegates sent to retrieve Riel from Montana in 1884 along with Gabriel Dumont and James Isbister. He was farm instructor at the One Arrow Cree Reserve until 1885. After fighting in the Resistance he fled to Montana alongside Gabriel Dumont.The Migration of Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Prairie Context: Policy and Program Implications to Support Urban Movers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jino Distasio
Gina Sylvestre. Elizabeth Wall-Wieler
Geography Research Forum, vol. 33, Special Issue: Housing Policies for Ethnic Minorities in Developed Societies, 2013, pp. 38-63
Description
Study conducted in Winnipeg focuses on factors which contributed to decision to move, service utilization patterns upon arrival, and decision to remain in the city. Argues that that more attention should be paid to mobility, in particular the reasons for the circular pattern of movement between urban centres and home communities.
Migration of Persons between Households in Rural Alaska: Considerations for Study Design
Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dana Bruden
Michael G. Bruce
Jay D. Wenger
Debby A. Hurlburt
Lisa R. Bulkow
Thomas W. Hennessy
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, Supplement 1, 2013, p. article no. 21229
Description
Of the 3 regions studied, 50% of households experienced a change in their membership in the 1 year period in question.
Mikinak Teacher Awareness Guide
E-Books
Author/Creator
Cardinal Communications
The Militarization of Indian Country
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Thomas A. Britten
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, 2013, pp. 204-206
Description
Book review of: The Militarization of Indian Country by Winona LaDuke.
Review located by scrolling to page 204.
Military Operations Map, 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Map detailing the locations of troop movement and battle sites of the Northwest Resistance.
Militia at Winnipeg Station, North-West Rebellion, 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Image of troops at the train station in Winnipeg; troops in line in foreground, train cars and station in background.
Militia Camp, North-West Rebellion, 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Militia camp at unknown location during the Northwest Resistance. Supply packs on the ground in foreground; men lined up in background.
Mina’igoziibiing: A History of the Anishinaabeg of Pine Creek First Nation in Manitoba
Theses
Author/Creator
Georgina Nepinak
Description
Education Thesis (M.Ed.)-- Brandon University, 2013.
Mining, Economic Development and Indigenous Peoples: "Getting the Governance Equation Right"
Documents & Presentations
Description
Report on conference section of forum held at McGill University Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) in Montreal, August 5-10, 2013.
Discusses issues related to relationships between Indigenous communities and extractive industries and governments.
Mining Our Lives For Diamonds
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 8, no. 2, 2013, pp. 74-81
Description
Describes a collective journey to reflect on correcting past injustices against Aboriginal women.
Minutes of Evidence: Sparking Conversations about History and Structural Justice
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Minutes of Evidence
Description
Website highlights the significance of the 1881 Parliamentary Coranderrk Inquiry through research, education and performance to educate the broader population and attempt to redress the injustices produced from that history.
The Miqqut Project: Joining Literacy, Culture and Well-Being through Non-formal Learning in Nunavut: Research Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
Shelley Tulloch
Quluaq Pilakapsi
Gloria Uluqsi,
Adriana Kusugak
Cayla Chenier
Kim Crockatt
Description
Looks at non-formal traditional skills programs with embedded literacy offered in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.