Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 106, no. 3, March/April 2015, pp. 147-153
Description
Looks at awareness and use of the Good Food Junction located in Station 20 West. Sample consisted of 365 residents of King George, Pleasant Hill, Riversdale and Westmount neighbourhoods.
Education Matters, vol. 3, no. 1, Special Themed Issue: Indigenizing Education, 2015, pp. 1-17
Description
Describes the challenges and tensions experienced by two newly appointed faculty members at the University of Saskatchewan while introducing teacher candidates to Indigenous knowledge and its incorporation into science education.
File contains 3 negatives of the Crutwell, Saskatchewan Local of AMNSIS (no. 66) recieving $33000 from the federal government for the building of a ball diamond in the community. One scanned image shows members of AMNSIS local at the ceremony.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 15, no. 1, January 2015
Description
Looks at usability testing for a shared decision making (SDM) tool, the Ottawa Personal Decision Guide (OPDG) for use between the client and health care provider with Aboriginal women at the Minwaashin Lodge.
Assesses levels of concurrence in understanding regarding the salmon fishery among the Ahtna, an Alaska Native people, commercial fishers, and fishery biologists.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Edition: 10th Anniversary of the Reconciliation: Touchstones of Hope For Indigenous Children, 2015, pp. [95]-109
Description
Explores the junction between culture-infused counselling practice and play therapy.
Doing Race in Social Studies: Critical Perspectives
Teaching and Learning Social Studies
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sarah B. Shear
Description
Concludes that current K-12 history textbooks inadequately address the complexities of Indigenous education.
Chapter 2 from: Doing Race in Social Studies: Critical Perspectives edited by Prentice T. Chandler.
Scroll down to read paper.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Special Issue on Custom Adoptions, 2015, pp. 99-115
Description
Overview of Northwest Inter-Nation Family and Community Services (NIFCS) who aim to meet the holistic needs of children and youth in their care by increasing cultural knowledge.
Criteria used: material written from 1994 through end of 2014, pertaining to populations within the United States, and minimum sample size in research studies of 20 respondents from a singe category (e.g. students, teachers, or parents).
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring, 2015, pp. 16-17
Description
Comments on an abstract piece that represents a polar bear transforming into a butterfly.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 16.
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Gretchen Eick
Description
Focuses on three writers who wrote about their traumatic childhoods which collectively cover from 1862 to 1920.
Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013.
Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 4, no. 1, October 2015, pp. [1]-11
Description
Argues that evidence-based practice can result in rigid standards which are not necessarily suitable for application in specific local environments. Discusses lessons learned during the repatriation of twin Zuni "war gods" from the Smithsonian Institution.
Panel looks at "Creating Pathways to Indigenous Achievement", one of five priorities in the University of Manitoba's five-year strategic plan.
Duration: 1:47:20.
Highlights the National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (NNADAP).
To see all annual reports between 1945-1992, search 'IHS Annual Report'.
This reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and has not been produced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada. See full reproduction credits
JMIR Serious Games, vol. 3, no. 1, 2015, pp. [1-13]
Description
Using interviews with Māori youth to examine their views on the free online game, Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-Factors (SPARX), designed to help with their mental health.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 27, no. 2, American Indian Law, Winter, November 8, 2015, pp. [28-29, 7]
Description
Briefly discusses various aspects of a course on Federal Indian Law taught through the Native American Studies Department at Nebraska Indian Community College.
Desk Guide for Legal Counsel Practicing in the Independent Assessment Process
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat
Description
Information and guidance about the Independent Assessment Process for individual claims of abuse involving the residential school system.
Version five.
Ecology of Food and Nutrition, vol. 16, 1985, pp. 223-241
Description
Study checked the availability of 42 plant species occurring in the vicinity and determined 20 plants met criteria for high availability and had the greatest potential for further nutritional research and use in the Nuxalk diet.
Looks at the Qeq College Transition program developed by the BC Regional Innovation Chair for Aboriginal Early Childhood Development, Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre and School District 68 (Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools). The program supports young children and their families as they transition from early childhood to kindergarten settings.
Brief explanation of development of content for First Nations and Inuit Health Home and Community Care. Objective was to improve health literacy about age-related dementia through culturally relevant information.
Information arranged under five phases: grounding the program in community values and principles; having community readiness; experiencing a catalyst; creating a palliative care program; and growing the palliative care program.