Story of a fist-time mother who consults two sources for information: her doctor for scientific view of birth and her grandmother for nurturing and traditional support.
For use with Healthy Pregnancy: Jenny's Story: Student Activities.
Issue Analysis (Centre for Independent Studies) ; no. 122
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sara Hudson
Description
Examines the findings from the report Everybody's Business: Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Community Stores and questions some of the recommendations.
Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 8, no. 2, Health of the Hawaiians, 2001, pp. 380-387
Description
"... explores the issues surrounding 'awa use, highlights existing literature, places the discussion in its proper indigenous context, and sheds light on the tensions fueled by culturally inappropriate practice".
Through personal testimonies charges that children were: deliberately exposed to disease, forced to undergo sterilization, beaten, sometimes to death and that these actions were taken with the goal of eventual elimination of the Aboriginal population.
Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jino Distasio
Gina Sylvestre
Susan Mulligan
Description
Chapter 6.3 from: Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada edited by J. David Hulchanski, Phillippa Campsie, Shirley B.Y. Chau, Stephen H. Hwang, Emily Paradis.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 164, no. 7, April 3, 2001, pp. 1026-1027
Description
Reviews "Hygieia: Literature and Medicine" a special issue of Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (vol. 33, no. 4), which views the "study of medicine as reflected in literature."
Focuses on direct quotations from the Supreme Court's decision respecting the case which dealt with the treaty right to fish for commercial purposes. The Mi'kmaw man had been charged with several offences under the Fisheries Act: fishing eels out of season, without a license and with an illegal net.
Arctic, vol. 42, no. 2, Current Perspectives on Western Boreal Forest Life: Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Research in Late , June 1989, pp. 109-118
Description
Looks at the prehistory of the upper Tanana Valley by looking at Healy Lake Village using source records, photographs, oral history from descendants of the trader who owned a post near the village, and ethnographic information from fieldwork.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 5, May 2010, p. 9
Description
Discussion of the anniversary celebration for the longest standing church in Saskatchewan located in Stanley Mission.
Article found by scrolling to page 9.
“A Few Things in the Way of Curios": Historic Ivories at the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Maria Von Finckenstein
Description
Describes Inuit ivory carvings from between roughly 1750 and 1948 that were collected by the Museum. Revision of essay first published in Inuit Art Quarterly, 14(4), 1999. Includes brief bibliography.
Discusses the linkage between the frontier culture and alcohol abuse, and the higher rates of consumption among Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals in Alaska and Northern Canada.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 126-136
Description
Outlines various responses to trauma and race-based traumatic stress suffered by Indigenous peoples as a result of government policies geared towards assimilation, and discusses how self-governed nations with connection to culture and spirituality can result in better outcomes for Indigenous peoples.
History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2001. Presents disease history from pre-contact through trade period, combining historical, archaeological and physical anthropological research.
Discusses the history non-native social workers within Aboriginal communities and the beginning of First Nations' control of child welfare.
Duration: 7:11.