Covers issues associated with provision of services to the visual and hearing impaired, and those with limited mobility and hidden disabilities. Content includes independent living, employment, assertive technology, housing, advocacy, and applicable federal laws.
Aim of the review was to answer two questions: Does the general public understand technical language? Is there evidence that minorities have less of an understanding?
Results of survey conducted by Aboriginal Nurses Association with their members over the course of one month to ascertain tobacco misuse, program capacity, trends in health promotion, and future directions for tobacco control.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2007, pp. 256-282
Description
Article examines the Indian Residential Schools in the United States during the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century; links the conditions in the schools to the failure of American Indian policy in the States.
Sketch subtitle: White inhabitants of the Saskatchewan region leaving a settlement after an Indian raid. Two males and one female, all wearing snowshoes and heavy coats, walking through the snow. The woman is carrying a small child.
Looks at the housing traits of rate of home ownership, proportion of dwellings requiring major repairs, average value of dwelling units, and proportion of constructed before 1946 and data for population from census tracts within the defined city boundaries of Edmonton, Winnipeg, Regina, and Saskatoon.
Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Social Enterprises, Knowledgeable Economies, and Sustainable Communities,
Research Reports Series (Community-University Institute for Social Research) ; no. 08/04
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Karen Lynch
Cara Spence
Isobel M. Findlay
Research Reports Series (Community-University Institute for Social Research)
Description
Paper focuses on the Saskatoon Urban Aboriginal Strategy (UAS) by dividing it up into four sections: overview, project scope and working relationship between UAS and the Community-University Institute for Community Research (CUISR), UAS priority pillars, and the formation of the data base and subsequent web page.
Study focused on: demographic and mobility patterns, service delivery, culture and identity, issues specific to children, youth, and women, racism, health, and income and poverty.
Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey. Sample size of 288 respondents.
Joint Steering Committee Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
Description
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, income, employment, housing, culture and identity, racism, health, issues specific to youth, women and men and provision of social services. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey.
Sample size of 280 participants 96 percent of whom were Aboriginal.
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.
Joint Steering Committee Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
Description
Study focused on: demographics and mobility patterns, culture and identity, service delivery, racism, health, housing, income and employment, and issues specific to youth and women. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey.
Sample size of 441 respondents; 182 participated in qualitative component and 259 participated in quantitative component.
Study focused on: demographics and mobility patterns, service delivery, culture and identity, issues specific to youth and women, racism, and health.
Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey. Sample size of 425.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer/Fall, 2003, pp. 505-522
Description
Focuses on women who are strong, but low key activists, who extend many services to other urban community members and play many different roles to the people around them.
Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 4, 2003, pp. 373-390
Description
"Paper examines the relationship between Canadian state formation and the construction of Aboriginal identities via the legitimating function of public inquiry".