Case Study (Conference Board of Canada) ; December 2004
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 693-04]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Alison Campbell]
Description
Overview of iSisters Technology Mentoring, a program that helps Inuit women obtain technology training to address literacy, basic skills upgrading, and find jobs.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 215-240
Description
Discusses definitions and contemporary significance of subsistence and indigenous economies; explores the relationship between subsistence and wage labor, particularly from the perspective of women; looks at the roles of indigenous women in subsistence activities; and examines the indigenous economic systems and the concept of the social economy as a foundation for contemporary indigenous governance.
Maori Women Leading Local Sustainable Food Systems
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karyn Stein
Miranda Mirosa
Lynette Carter
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 147-155
Description
Article examines four long-term case studies of women who are engaged in food sovereignty work in their communities. These women combine the use of community food gardens and local farms to combat food poverty in their families and communities.
Discusses an international indigenous women's conference, hosted by the Native Women's Association of Canada, that spoke of the alarming rates of physical and sexual abuse in aboriginal communities.
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, vol. 23, no. 2, 2001, pp. 121-134
Description
Looks at the way violence against Aboriginal women is viewed and responded to in Australia and how the court system is bias against women in certain circumstances.
Michigan Historical Review, vol. 20, no. 2, American Indians, Fall, 1994, pp. 153-182
Description
Discusses women's involvement in the military, employment in defence industries and on-reservation economic activities, and compares their experiences to those of other minorities.
Discusses the impact of colonialism and how empowerment strategies are the key to creating generational change and establishing functional communities.