Jasmin Bhawra; Martin J. Cooke; Yanling Guo; Piotr Wilk
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, vol. 37, no. 3, March 2017, pp. 77-86
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Results show Indigenous children are at risk of being overweight or obese if there is very low food security and a poor school environment that exposed them to racism, bullying, and drugs.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 21-41
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Discusses the medicalization of women’s in health in Mexico; articulates considerations of separation from traditional healthcare providers and practices, invasive Western practices surround pregnancy and birth, and discrimination against Indigenous and/or Afro-descendant women. Analyzes the way that poor women use the phrase “being cut” to describe “multiple experiences of frustration, mistreatment, and violence during childbirth.”
Reports on information gathered at Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Workshop and through interviews with community members and service providers.
Looks at areas of concern that directly impact the well-being of Aboriginal children and highlights the discrimination experienced by children that are not common to children in other parts of Australia.
Author considers different estimates for the pre-contact population in the Western Hemisphere as a means of estimating the number of lives lost to colonial factors of violence in the ongoing Indigenous Holocaust. Primarily focuses on United States.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Social Suffering, 2007, pp. 22-29
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Effects of the resettlement between 2000 and 2006 on communities has shown increased mortality and morbidity, poverty, marginalization, food insecurity, social anomalies, disintegration, discrimination and loss of dignity.
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Rural and Remote Health, vol. 12, no. 1891, February 27, 2012, pp. 1-10
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Discusses need for respect, non-discrimination, privacy, confidentiality, competence, and daily risk-benefit analysis for general practitioners in rural Aboriginal communities.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Resistance and Resiliency: Addressing Historical Trauma of Aboriginal Peoples, March 2007, pp. 57-77
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Looks at the life story of resistance and resiliency of a First Nations woman against multiple forms of oppression and her concern for the improved well-being of Aboriginal people with disabilities.
Explores relationships between key background variables of youth and their experience on the street and identifies gaps in the literature that may be considered in the planning of future research.
Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-based HIV/AIDS Research, vol. 4, Winter, 2011, pp. 32-66
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Data gathered through interviews with 22 individuals and one focus group. Results divided into five sets of variables: inter-personal factors, characteristics of patient, medication-related issues, availability of support structures and presence of historical trauma.
Honourable James K. Bartleman discusses his childhood, the conditions of First Nation communities in Canada and his efforts to establish libraries, summer reading camps, and reading clubs in these communities.
File contains information on activism, agriculture, reserve life, medical services, drug prescriptions, land claims, the Indian Act, Metis, Indigenous rights, chiefs, sterilization of indigenous women, the "Red Paper", discrimination, treaties 8 and 11, recreation, Liquor Act, provincial law, housing, Local Initiatives Programs, utilities on reserves, and poverty.
File contains a discussion paper by Robin Bellamy. Bellamy gives his "opinion to the years of what I've seen in the inner city of Saskatoon" as a person who has worked for the Friendship Inn and other community service organizations. Bellamy raises issues such as prostitution, substance abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse, racism, and poverty. Following the presentation Commissioners Dussault and Robinson discuss some of the issues raised with Bellamy.
Humanity & Society, vol. 33, no. 1/2, May 2009, pp. 18-34
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Examines issues facing Aboriginal women such as poverty, ill-health, violence and sexual exploitation. Authors agree with recommendations made by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Social Suffering, 2007, pp. 16-21
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Explores consequences resulting from ethnic discrimination, racism, sexism, exploitation, poverty and political violence.
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Discusses differences between First Nation and non-first Nation parental involvement in the education system as well as barriers that limit parental involvement in schools.
Joint Steering Committee Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
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Study undertaken to provide information for development of strategic resource allocation, understanding of current policy approaches and legislative frameworks, and on-going issues faced by the population in the cities of Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Barrie/Midland/Orillia, Sudbury and Kenora.
Study focused on: education, culture and identity, political representation, housing, economic development, racism, health, economically successful residents, youth issues, and gaps in social services. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey.
Sample size of 340.
Canadian Theatre Review, no. 108, Fall, 2001, pp. 48-51
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Reviews the large scale northern tour of an award winning First Nations play, fareWel by Ian Ross, which looks at issues such as identity, poverty, substance abuse, and racism.
Discusses a controversial lesson in history through art, by presenting nstitutions devoted to nostalgic theme-park versions of history; the exhibit contrasts violence, defiance, racism, alienation and suicide with family harmony, friendship, creativity and work.