Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
E-Books
Author/Creator
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Description
Contains links to each of the five volumes.
A Report of Wisdom Synthesized From the Traditional Knowledge Component Studies
Alternate Title
Northern River Basins Study Synthesis Report ; 12
E-Books
Author/Creator
Lea Bill
Jean Crozier
Dennis Surrendi
Report on Policing in Northern British Columbia: Backgrounder
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP
Description
Investigation examined conduct relating to policing of pubic intoxication, cross-gender searches, missing persons and domestic violence reports, use of force, and handling of files involving youth.
Includes links to complaint, interim and final report, and Commissioner's response.
Report on the 2017 Employee Engagement Survey
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Department of Finance, Government of Nunavut
Description
Survey asked indeterminate, term and casual employees with at least six months of continuous service to rate 55 statements. Twenty-one were benchmark questions common to federal, provincial and territorial government public service Engagement Surveys across Canada. Total of 1,692 respondents participated.
Report on the Mediation of the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation's Treaty Land Entitlement Claim
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) stating the Crown had not fulfilled its obligation under Treaty 1 to set apart land for the Band. An agreement was successfully reached and ratified. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Report to Parents on the Study of the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Betty H. Watts
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, March 1977, pp. 19-30
Description
Describes how health workers in Australia can play a role in increasing retention and success rates of Aboriginal students.
Report: Under Suspicion: Research and Consultation Report on Racial Profiling in Ontario
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Human Rights Commission
Reports of Coerced Sterilization of Indigenous Women in Canada Mirrors Shameful Past
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roger Collier
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 189, no. 33, August 21, 2017, pp. e1080-1081
Description
Talks about the report, Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women that confirmed allegations against the Saskatoon Health Region.
The Representations of Indian Bodies in Nineteenth-Century American Anthropology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert E. Bieder
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 165-179
Description
Author offers a critical analysis of the political and ideological narratives that make up the foundations of ethnology and anthropology.
Representations of Race and Gender: The Social Construction of "White" and "Black" Women in Early British Columbian Historical Discourses: 1858-1900
Theses
Author/Creator
Beth-Naomi Ellis
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 1996.
Reproductive Narratives: Settler-Colonialism and Neoliberalism in Alberta's Child Welfare System
Theses
Author/Creator
Miranda Sophia Leibel
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2017
Research Module 1: Aboriginal Entrepreneurship in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Conference Board of Canada - Northern and Aboriginal Policy
Description
Includes analysis of business characteristics by size, geography, and industry sector, and assessment of key financial services currently available.
Research Module 2: The Impact of Developmental Finance on Aboriginal Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Canada: Insights from the NACCA and BDC
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Conference Board of Canada - Northern and Aboriginal Policy
Description
Focuses on the Aboriginal Financing Program and Aboriginal Developmental Lending Assistance program associated with the National Aboriginal Capital Corporation Association, and the Business Development Bank of Canada's Aboriginal portfolio.
Research Module 3: Barriers to Aboriginal Entrepreneurship and Options to Overcome Them
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Conference Board of Canada - Northern and Aboriginal Policy
Description
Discusses financial business preferences, problems in accessing financing and capital, and potential options for improving services.
Research Plan [National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Research Team [National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls]
Description
Explains basic framework, vision, key considerations, project criteria and overall strategy.
Research Report: Assessment of Aboriginal Women Offender Correctional Program (AWOCP) Outcomes
Alternate Title
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada) ; no. R-391
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dean Derkzen
Aileen Harris
Kaitlyn Wardrop
Description
Looks at enrollment, completion and attrition rates, and makes profile comparisons for each five programs: Aboriginal Women's Engagement Program, Aboriginal Women's Moderate Intensity Program, Aboriginal Women's High Intensity Program and Aboriginal Women's Self-Management Program-Institution.
Overall sample consisted of 549 federally sentenced women, primarily Indigenous.
Research Report on the Revenue Generation Capacity of the United Anishnaabweg Councils First Nations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Richard Aniol
Mel Jacobs
Alexandra Macqueen
Description
Assessed three sectors: local sources such as licenses, fees and leases, natural resources, and economic development.
Researching and Revealing Indian Hospitals in Canada
Alternate Title
Canada's History Forum ; 9th
Engaging Authentic Indigenous Histories
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Maureen Lux
Description
Author of Separate Beds speaks about the history of segregation, discrimination, and substandard facilities, care and funding in the Indian Hospital Service.
Duration: 15:56.
Reservation Home Movies: Sherman Alexie's Poetry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Gillan
American Literature, vol. 68, no. 1, Write Now: American Literature in the 1980s and1990s, March 1996, pp. 91-110
Description
Discusses the poet's struggle to position himself between the modern day culture of United States and the traditional culture of his people, and illustrates how this is manifested in his work.
Reservation Life as Depicted In Contemporary Native American Literature
Theses
Author/Creator
Katharina Ha slinger
Description
American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Graze, 2017.
Focuses on The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich, The Rez Sisters by Thomson Highway, and Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie.
Reserve Hospitals and Medical Officers: Health Care and Indian Peoples in Southern Alberta, 1890s-1930
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laurie Meijer Drees
Prairie Forum, vol. 21, no. 2, Fall, 1996, pp. 149-176
Description
Describes the link between federal First Nations health care, in the period 1890 to 1930, and the social reform goals and values of that same time period.
Reset and Redefine: Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and the Rise of Indigenous Games
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maize Longboat
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 170-179
Description
Author critically engages the format and storytelling devices within the videogame Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and discusses how this and other digital platforms can be used to build understanding and counter stereotypes and misinformation about Indigenous peoples.
Residential Schools
Alternate Title
False Assumptions and Failed Relationship
Looking Forward Looking Back
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Royal Commission on Aboriginal People
Description
Part 10 of Volume 1, Part 2 of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History
E-Books
Author/Creator
J.R. Miller
Residential Schools and "Reconciliation" in the Media Art of Skeena Reece and Lisa Jackson
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristin Dowell
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 1, Digital Indigenous Studies: Gender, Genre, and New Media, Spring, 2017, pp. 116-138
Description
"This article discusses the historical trauma and ongoing intergenerational legacy of the Indian Residential School system in Canada".
Residential Schools and the Effects on Indigenous Health and Well-Being in Canada: A Scoping Review
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Piotr Wilk
Alana Maltby
Martin Cooke
Public Health Reviews, vol. 38, no. 8, 2017, pp. 1-23
Description
Looks at the negative health effects on residential school survivors and successive generations.
Residential Schools at the Crossroads
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William J. Benham
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 16, no. 2, January 1977, pp. [20-26]
Description
Discusses need for contemporary changes to Bureau of Indian Affairs residential schools including, fewer students and improved teacher skills.
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives, Part I: Services and Staff
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bentson H. McFarland
Dale Walker
Patricia Silk-Walker
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2017, pp. 61-106
Description
Study found that agencies provided a substantially broader range of services, including culturally specific programs, "mainstream" treatments, and ancillary services such as care for clients children.
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives, Part II: Costs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bentson H. McFarland
Dale Walker
Patricia Silk-Walker
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2017, pp. 107-126
Description
Found that one agency was within national norms and the other's expenditures were less than expected. Proves that services can be provided within budgets found at mainstream facilities.
Resilience and Rebellious Memory Loops: Further Musings of an American Indian Ethnoecologist
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Enrique Salmón
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 127-132
Description
Author of Eating the Landscape discusses how resilience theory can explain the relationship between traditional knowledge and adaptive change to ecological circumstances.
Resisting Consumption: Exploring Pathways of Resistance to the Assimilative Nature of the Canadian Education System Through Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen
Theses
Author/Creator
Blake Bilmer
Description
English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.
A Resource for the Edward S. Curtis Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Theses
Author/Creator
Mary Kate Patterson
Description
Film and Photographic Preservation & Collections Management Thesis (MA) -- Ryerson University, 2017
Resources, Conflict, and Culture: the Sour Gas Plant Dispute between Unocal Canada and the Lubicon Cree Nation
Theses
Author/Creator
Virginia V. Gibson
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1996.
Respiratory Isolation for Tuberculosis: The Experience of Indigenous Peoples on the Canadian Prairies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M. Mayan
T. Robinson
R. Gokiert
M
Tremblay
S. Abonyi ... [et al.]
Public Health Action, vol. 7, no. 4, 2017, pp. 275-281
Description
Using interviews to create an overview of the experiences of Indigenous people living with tuberculosis and the impact of isolation policies.
Responding to Concerning Posts on Social Media: Insights and Solutions from American Indian and Alaska Native Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jesse Gritton
Stephanie Craig Rushing
David Stephens
Thomas Ghost Dog
Bradley Kerr ... [et al.]
American Indian and Alaska Native Health Research, vol. 24, no. 3, 2017, pp. 63-87
Description
Describes how a sample of adolescents interpreted and acted upon disclosures of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation on Facebook or Twitter and what resources they felt were needed.
Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women
E-Books
Author/Creator
Julie Kaye
A Response to "Developing Ontario's Dementia Strategy: A Discussion Paper"
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Description
Discusses areas needing attention in order to provide services tailored to the care of Indigenous seniors in the urban context. Looks at relevant social determinants of health outcomes such as racism and discrimination, poverty, housing food security, transportation, urban and off-reserve migration, and the residential school experience.
A Response to Women's Economic Empowerment: A Call to Action for Ontario
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Description
Submission discusses issues particular to urban communities and makes recommendations to address them.
Responses to Jury Recommendations: Seven First Nations Youths Inquest Q2016-26 (Jethro Anderson, Reggie Bushie, Robyn Harper, Kyle Morrisseau, Paul Panacheese, Curran Strang & Jordan Wabasse) [2017]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nishnawbe Aski Nation
Description
The youths had relocated from remote communities to Thunder Bay in order to attend high school.
2018 Report.
2019 Report
Restructing First Nations' Education: Trust, Respect and Governance
Alternate Title
Restructuring First Nations' Education: Trust, Respect and Governance
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Ryan
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 1996, pp. 115-132
Description
Describes a number of ways in which current structures and practices can be adjusted to support First Nation goals.
Restructuring the Relationship
Alternate Title
Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ; Vol. 2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Description
Volume 2 of Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
Returning the People to the Circle: An Overview on Overcoming the Fracturing of American Indian Communities
Alternate Title
Western Social Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, April 12-15, 2017
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen M. Sachs
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, Fall 2017, p. [?]
Description
Provides suggestions for repairing fractured communities: reinstating traditional inclusiveness, help to heal tribal member from historical trauma and destructive behaviors, renew traditional knowledge, support tribal development and inclusive communication.
Rev. John McDougall and the Duke of Connaught
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donald B. Smith
Alberta History, vol. 65, no. 1, Winter, 2017, pp. 2-12
Description
Discusses the Methodist minister, his close relationship with the Stoney Nakoda and their participation in Banff Indian Days, and describes the Duke's adoption ceremony.
The Reverend Ernest Gribble: A Successful Missionary?
Alternate Title
Lectures on North Queensland History, no.5
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Christine Halse
Description
Discusses the sociological and psychological factors that drove Ernest Gribble to become the Anglican Church's longest serving missionary to the Aboriginal people.
Chapter from Lectures on North Queensland History, no.5 edited by B. J. Dalton.
Review Essay: Native American Studies
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Clara Sue Kidwell
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Summer, 1996, pp. 201-203
Description
Discusses the review of exploration and expedition type books used in Native American Studies, from a Native American perspective, including the difficulties of such reviews.
Review of Accountability and Mutual Accountability Frameworks: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute on Governance
Description
Focuses on funding agreements used in different levels of government including: land claims/modern treaties, territorial formula financing, international agreements and treaties, block funding, transfer payments, municipal transfer payments, and institutional authorities.
A Review of First Nation Youth and Young Adult Injury Deaths: 2010 - 2015
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
BC Cornoners Service
First Nations Health Authority Death Review Panel
Description
Found that 60% of unexpected deaths were accidental (motor vehicle crashes, overdose, downing and fire), 33% were due to suicide, and 5% were the result of homicide. Identified three key areas to prevent deaths and support wellness and well-being: connectedness to peers, family, community and culture; access to services; and culturally safe and trauma-informed care.
A Review of The Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Herman A. Peterson
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 3, no. 1, 2017, pp. 74-76
Description
Book review of: The Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology by Steve Pavlik.
Reviewing Past and Future: Postcolonial Canadian Autobiography and Lee Maracle's Bobbie Lee, Indian Rebel
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Linda Warley
Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 60, Winter, 1996, pp. 59-77
Description
Examines Lee Maracle's autobiography as a narrative of Native resistance to settler authority in Canada.