Focuses on incidence, severity, causes, and consequences of violence, and resources available both on- and off-reserve. Qualitative data gathered through focus groups of women and key informant interviews with service providers.
Ad hoc Committee on Accessing Information About Contract Work
Description
Looks at the discrimination faced by Aboriginal women and women of colour looking for work in Canada and makes recommendations for contracting agencies.
Discusses the need to develop a national private sector-Aboriginal partnership strategy to ease the labour shortage and ensure First Nations do not miss out on job opportunities.
Analyzes various anthologies and discusses the implications they carry for First Nations literature.
Excerpt from Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives edited by Renée Hulan.
Atherosclerosis, vol. 146, no. 1, September 1999, pp. 153-160
Description
Findings of testing on 3 distinct populations, Hutterites, Oji-Cree and Keewatin Inuit, indicate there's no consistent relationship between the population mean plasma HDL cholesterol concentration and then population LIPC-480T frequency.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 13, no. 2, 2006, pp. 123-151
Description
Looks at an off-reservation school that received Therapeutic Residential Model funding for the 2001-2002 school year and choose to use the funds for an intensive academic enhancement effort.
Dance Thesis (M.A.)--The American University, 2006.
Lakota Sioux Ghost Dance of 1890 is used as a case study concerning preservation and documentation of traditional dance regalia and material.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 6, November/December 1999, pp. 19-23
Description
Describes the process involved in receiving funding from Diabetes Australia to support the education program. Conclusions reached state the Aboriginal health worker is the best equipped to inform Aboriginal clients about diabetes management.
Looks at self-governance in Alaska, Canada, and the lower forty-eight states including eleven case studies.
Final report - AFN (Alaska Federation of Natives) version.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 4, December 1977, pp. 40-48
Description
Presents personal recollections including poems on life as a health care worker. One author feels that there is more depression than has been recognized and that there is a relationship to alcohol abuse.
Journal of Family Social Work, vol. 10, no. 4, 2006, pp. 81-101
Description
Investigates the motivations for, and experiences of raising grandchildren. Questions asked about motivation included experiences with: the child welfare system, residential schools, foster care and adoptive placements; and the impact of the Indian Child Welfare Act on kinship care.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 190-205
Description
Description of the partnerships undertaken between the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) and Aboriginal communities at the institutional and individual level.
Forum on Corrections Research, vol. 18, no. 1, Managing Addictions, June 2006, pp. 9-11
Description
Brief description of a research initiative, an evidence-based substance abuse initiative and problems of addiction, recidivism, programming and evaluation as they apply to Nova Scotia.
Examines how organizations serving Aboriginal people can help to create supportive and nonjudgmental environments for two-spirit people living with HIV/AIDS through the development of policies addressing homophobia and raising awareness.
Presents statistical information on the socio-economic conditions faced by Aboriginal women and analyzes the priorities outlined by the Conservative government in terms of addressing these issues.
University of New Brunswick Law Journal, vol. 55, 2006, pp. 146-171
Description
Argues for a bi-national panel to make determinations of historical fact in light of comments from two judges regarding the appropriateness of judicial rulings regarding Aboriginal title.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 40, no. 3, Fall, 2006, pp. 100-119, 221
Description
Discusses contradictions of a harmonious co-existence of anglophone, francophone, and Indigenous populations in the adventure series, Adventures in Rainbow Country.
After Chiapas Aboriginal Land and Resistance in the New North America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Simmons
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 119-148
Description
Analysis the relationship between economic restructuring and Aboriginal land rights in light of the 1994 conflict in Chiapas, Mexico and suggests that fundamental differences can provide directions for finding solutions.