Journey to Healing: Aboriginal People With Addiction and Mental Health Issues
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Author/Creator
Yale D. Belanger
Description
Looks at the historical context of Indigenous gambling, how these traditions have been maintained and how they continue to influence contemporary gambling practices.
Chapter 20 from Journey to Healing: Aboriginal People With Addiction and Mental Health Issues edited by Peter Menzies and Lynn F. Lavallée.
Looks at whether the residential school system was genocidal and suggests ways to move forward with reconciliation if it is recognized as such.
Chapter 14 from Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America edited by Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, Alexander Laban Hinton.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. S3, Supplement 3, June 2014, pp. S404-S414
Description
Uses linkage methodology to compare American and Alaska Native incidence data with the white population. Shows there should be improved access to CRC screening programs.
Journal of Northern Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014, pp. 29-42
Description
Discusses Historia by Olaus Magnus and Lapponia by Johannes Schefferus which both contain themes of the Sami people, their way of life, skills, and magical powers.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 29, no. 2, Fall, 2014, pp. 39-62
Description
Discusses the implications of using Geronimo's name as code for Osama Bin Laden when he was killed by the United States military and how Indigenous masculinity has been represented and misrepresented.
Research conducted as background for roundtable discussions. Identifies five key issues: opportunities, potential sources of capital, risks and uncertainties, partnerships, future actions.
Explains how gathering at the Point to roast wild rice and therefore renewing and honouring relationships between Anishinaabeg, the location and the sacred food constitutes an act of governance.
Discusses the impacts of colonization, intergenerational trauma and other issues which result in over-representation in the child welfare system.
Duration: 41:22.
Presents updated interviews originally conducted in 2012, offering a glimpse of how communities are using traditional foods as a way to promote a healthy lifestyle, share cultural knowledge and reclaim a local food system.
Humans in the Arctic: How to Create a Climate for Change
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
Description
Discusses economic realities, challenges and opportunities in the Arctic and argues that there is strong support from both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community for energy production and exploitation as an opportunity for an improved quality of life.
Duration: 27:29.
Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages
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Author/Creator
Greg Poelzer
Gary N. Wilson
Description
Chapter five in book: Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages edited by Joan Nymand Larsen and Gail Fondahl.
Scroll down to page 186 to access chapter.
Overview of laws and policies that led to the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes and the need for the ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act), requirements and implementation in New York.
Lists individual recommendations from the report and response/action plan for Ministry and Yorkton Tribal Council Child and Family Services.
Full Report.
Update.
A photograph of the government's surveyors corps of scouts during the 1885 uprising, probably taken at Qu'Appelle prior to Middleton's march north. The men appear to be armed with lever action repeating rifles and pistols.
Looks at recommendations and strategies from front line workers, applicants, elders, healers and health care professionals to make recommendations regarding travel funding for traditional healers.
Looks at the movement that began in opposition to federal Canadian policies.
Senior Honors Thesis towards International Studies (B.A.)--University of Utah, 2014.