Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Naiomi Walqwan Metallic
Hadley Friendland
Sarah Morales
Description
Act asserts Indigenous peoples' jurisdiction over child and family services and establishes national standards. Paper examines issues related to national standards, jurisdiction, funding, accountability and data collection.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat
Alternate Title
NISPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Firelight Research
Description
Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat: NIPSPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Description
Reports results of environmental scan which involved a literature review of both grey and academic publications, a series of key informant interviews with 20 individuals working in the field. Six topic areas are covered: links between childhood adversity and suicide and promising practices for addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters focusing on children and youth, current supports in the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promoting Educational Equity for Indigenous Children in Canada through Quality Early Childhood Programs
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Ball
Description
Looks at indicators of equity gaps and policy reforms that would reduce equity gaps.
Promoting From Within the Community: Employing Local Residents in Culture-Based Inner-City Family Services Organizations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason Brown
Cheryl Fraehlich
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 3, Winter, 2010, pp. 85-101
Description
Studies the responses of forty-four staff members to the question "How did you get connected to the agency?"
Promoting the Wellbeing of Indigenous People in Mental Health and Education
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Innocent F. Okozi
Andrea Sainab Nael
Maria Cristina Cruza-Guet
Communique, August 2010, pp. vii-xii
Description
Highlights contemporary challenges facing Indigenous peoples including American Indians and Alaskan Natives.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page vii.
Promoting Young Indigenous Children's Emergent Literacy in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Ball
Description
Recommends seven key elements and guiding principles for strategy to improve literacy development among young Indigenous children.
Proposed Model of Care for the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm Australian Capital Territory
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Winnunga Nimmityjah?]
Description
Program based on the 'Living Web Model of Care'.
Protecting Indigenous Identity and Culture in the Modern Nation-State: A Case Study of the Sami in Norway
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Claire Lockerby
vol. 957
Description
Independent Study Project -- Duke University, 2010
Protesting the "Protest": Understanding "Non-Native" Reactions and Responses to the Six Nations Land "Occupation and Protest" in Caledonia, Ontario
Theses
Author/Creator
Amanda Vyce
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--McMaster University, 2010.
Protocols for Using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terri Janke
Description
Includes: overview of important concepts including rights to cultural heritage and Australian and international legal and policy protections; ten guiding principles and their accompanying protocols; numerous case studies; and project checklist and templates.
Provincial Gang Strategy: Forum & Community Consultation Reports
Alternate Title
Building Healthier Communities: Final Report on Community Recommendations for the Development of the Saskatchewan Prevention / Intervention Street Gang Strategy
Saskatchewan Communities Speak: Provincial Gang Strategy Phase 2 Community Consultation Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Robert Henry
Dave Shanks]
Description
Reports on Phase I and II of the project. Five overarching themes emerged: infrastructure and leadership; addressing trauma, colonization, and settler colonialism; knowledge translation and mobilization; addressing systemic oppression and structural issues of poverty and homelessness; and institutional supports. Consultations took place in communities throughout Saskatchewan.
Proving the Applicability of the Theory of Regulation and the Economic Theory of Regulatory Constraint to American Indian Studies (AIS): A Case Study in Federal Indian Law and Policy
Theses
Author/Creator
Christina Weinzettle
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2010.
Psychological Decolonization: Getting Back My Indian Soul
Alternate Title
American Academy of Religion Eastern International Regional Conference, Ottawa, Ontario
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Margaret Robinson
Description
Looks at self investigation of identity, racialization and linking to Native history.
Psychology in the South Pacific: Global, Local and Glocal Applications
E-Books
Author/Creator
R. Kuschel
Angikimui F. Takiika
Kiu 'Angiki
V. Kameoka ... [et al.]
Pubic Libraries as Aids to Sense Making in Urban Aboriginal Populations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Monique Woroniak
Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, vol. 5, Spring, 2010, pp. 1-16
Description
Reports on the possibilities that exist in urban library settings for Aboriginal outreach programming.
Public Health Should Promote Co-operative Housing and Cohousing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Lubik
Tom Kosatsky
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 2, April 2019, pp. 121-126
Description
Advocates models of housing based on First Nations’ Longhouses in order to promote social cohesion and combat social isolation. Argues that this strategies would be especially helpful to seniors.
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Final Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Summary Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Voices and Public Policy: Changing the Societal Discourse on "Welfare"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vicki Lens
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, vol. 29, no. 1, Symposium of Native American Wellness, March 2002, pp. 137-154
Description
Discusses welfare reform and TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program).
Purana Narratology and Thomas King: Rewriting of Colonial History in The Medicine River and Joe The Painter and The Deer Island Massacre
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aditi H. Vahia
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 2002, pp. 65-80
Description
Argues that the author employs a fictionalized version of the Canadian colonialism affecting Aboriginal people in order to relay truths to a mass audience.
A Puritan Woman's Perspective: The Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Jane Andrews
Etudes Historiques, vol. 2, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-21
Description
Looks at how the book A Narrative of Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes, of Mary Rowlandson gave Puritan women a voice in the early 1700's.
Pushing the Boundaries of Tradition in Art: An Interview with Susan Point
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jan Hare
BC Studies, no. 135, Perspecitves on Aboriginal Culture, Autumn, 2002, pp. 163-175
Description
Reflections on the creative style and influences found in the Salish artist's works.
Putting the Picture Together: Inquiry into Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities
Alternate Title
Gordon Inquiry
E-Books
Author/Creator
Sue Gordon
Kay Hallahan
Darrell Henry
no. 4
Qalupalik
Alternate Title
Nunavut Animation Lab
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ame Papatsie
Description
Animated short of legend about a half-human sea monster who traps disobedient children if they venture too close to shore. Accompanying material, Qalupalik: Lesson Plan.
Duration: 5:34.
Qalupalik: Lesson Plan
Alternate Title
[Nunavut Animation Lab]
Documents & Presentations
Description
Target audience Grades three to six in the subject areas of First Nations, English, and Fine Arts. Accompanies animated film of same name.
The Qikiqtani Truth Commission: Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Sources relevant to the Commission's research.
QTC Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Alternate Title
Qikiqtani Truth Commission Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Commission was established to create a record of how government policies between 1950 and 1975 affected the Inuit living in the Baffin region. Report based testimonies and interviews, and archival research. Includes recommendations.
A Qualitative Study on Stigma and Discrimination Experienced by Indigenous Peoples Living with HIV or Having TB at Work
E-Books
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Secretariat of the International Indigenous HIV and AIDS Working Group
Quantification of Interplaying Relationships between Wellbeing Priorities of Aboriginal Peoples in Remote Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosalie Schultz
Stephen J. Quinn
Tammy Abbott
Sheree Cairney
Jessica Yamaguchi
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, June 25, 2019
Description
Study examines the priorities that Indigenous people living in remote communities in Australia have for defining their own well-being and how they rank those priorities in their own understandings of health.
Quebec First Nations Information Governance Framework
E-Books
Author/Creator
Emilie Grantham
Queer Alchemy: Fabulousness in Gay Male Literature and Film
Theses
Author/Creator
Andrew John Buzny
Description
English Thesis (M.A.)--McMaster University, 2010.
Looks at three works including Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway.
Quels Sont les Facteurs Favorisant ou Inhibant la Réussite Éducative des Élèves Autochtones?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hélène Archambault
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 107-116
Description
Examines the personal, academic and psychosocial factors that encourage or inhibit educational success. Emphasis is on Aboriginal students in Québec.
Article in French.
Quest for Identity in Native Canadian Fiction: A Study of Jeannette Armstrong, Ruby Slipjack, and Tomson Highway
Theses
Author/Creator
Shyamali Kar
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Assam University, Silchar, 2010.
Focuses on the works Slash, Whispering in the Shadows, Honour the Sun, Silent Words, and Kiss of the Fur Queen.
Questions Need to be Answered, Says Family Member of Pickton's Last Victim
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stefania Seccia
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 7, October 2010, p. 8
Description
Reflects on the life and personality of Mona Wilson, a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton, and the naming of a corporation after Wilson's First Nation's name, Running Bear.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Race, Class, and Health: School Medical Inspection and "Healthy" Children in British Columbia, 1890 to 1930
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mona Gleason
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 95-112
Description
Argues that the model of healthy living was based on Anglo-Celtic, middle class, values and this model created problems for children and families unable to conform to this social ideal.
Race, Gender and Colonialism: Public Life Among the Six Nations of Grand River, 1899-1939
Theses
Author/Creator
Alison Elizabeth Norman
Description
Theory and Policy Studies in Education Thesis (Ph.D.)-- University of Toronto, 2010.
Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family
Alternate Title
Aboriginal History Monograph ; 20
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gordon Briscoe
Aboriginal History Monograph
Racial Necrogeographies and the Making of White Space: The Life and Death of Nineteenth-Century Indigenous and Black Burial Places in Rural Ontario
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Felepchuk
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, pp. 73-87
Description
Looks at burial sites desecrated by settlers, how these acts represent an attempt to erase Indigenous and Black existence, and how these communities have pushed back by reclaiming and reconsecrating their scared places.
Racial Oppression in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kedong Liu
Journal of Cambridge Studies, vol. 5, no. 2-3, March 2010, pp. 13-23
Description
Looks at the three stages of oppression: military genocide, religious assimilation, and commercial exploitation.
Racial-Settler Capitalism: Character Building and the Accumulation of Land and Labor in the Late Nineteenth Century
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah E. K. Fong
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, [Rethinking Blackness and Indigeneity in the Light of Settler Colonial Theory], May 2019, pp. 25-48
Description
Using a comparative approach to the two institutions argues that their primary goal was to mold Indigenous and Black students into a labor force for U.S. racial-settler capitalism.
The Racialization of Dine (Navajo) Youth in Education
Theses
Author/Creator
Vincent Werito
Description
Language, Literacy, and Socio Cultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2010.
Racing Solidarity, Remaking Labour: Labour Renewal From A Decolonizing And Anti-Racism Perspective
Theses
Author/Creator
Winnie Wun Wun Ng
Description
Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2010.
Racism Experiences of Urban Indigenous Women in Ontario, Canada: “We All Have That Story That Will Break Your Heart”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anita C Benoit
Jasmine Cotnam
Doe O'Brien-Teengs
Saara Green
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, June 18, 2019
Description
Mixed methods research study explores how Indigenous women in two Canadian urban centers experience racism. Findings indicate that participants experience racism in ways that can be classified as individual, collective or institutional, and cultural and rage from historical events to contemporary manifestations.
Racism's Frontier: The Untold Story of Discrimination and Division in Alaska
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alaska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Description
Reports on education, economic opportunity and employment, and administration of justice regarding Alaskan Natives. Provides recommendations for change.
Rama Five Years Later: A Discussion on the Advantages and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Gaming in Ontario: An Interview with Casino-Rama Director of First Nations Affairs, Kevin Wassegijig
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yale D. Belanger
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 2, no. 2, Special Issue on Gaming, Winter, 2002, pp. 18-22
Description
Looks at the economic benefits, challenges such as improving existing facilities, and the anticipated market saturation resulting from the casino's success.
Rampart House
E-Books
Author/Creator
Yukon Tourism and Culture
Description
Historic site located near the mouth of Boundary Creek (Shanàghan K’òhnjik) and right next to the boundary between the United States and Canada.
Raven's Garden: A Discussion about Aboriginal Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Val Napoleon
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 17, no. 2, 2002, pp. 149-171
Description
Argues that legal principles in pre-contact Aboriginal times can be articulated and extended to apply to current day sexual issues.
Rayna Green, Joy Harjo, and Wendy Rose: The Necessity of Native American Storytelling in Combating Oppression and Injustice
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tria Andrews
The South Carolina Review, vol. 42, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. [95]-104
Description
Looks at the protagonists in a short story and two poems.
Re-Conceptualizing Research: An Indigenous Perspective
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Naadli Todd Ormiston
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 50-56
Description
Discusses various Indigenizing approaches to research including concepts of actualizing, regeneration of cultures and communities, and sustainable self-determination.