Journal of Adolescence, vol. 34, no. 4, August 2011, pp. 759-766
Description
Study uses structural equation modeling to look at the relationship between anxiety, symptoms of depression, and family influences. Shows culture and family socialization affect symptoms in youth.
Discusses provincial government program which promoted adoption and fostering of Indigenous children in non-Indigenous homes as a response to increasing child welfare interventions which placed children into care.
Looks at the organizational and funding factors which either contribute to success or to enforced closure of centres and makes recommendations about how to support operational requirements; based on interviews with 11 Executive Directors, 6 Indigenous managers, and 2 provincial experts in the field.
Thematic findings included: impact of bullying and cyberbullying; lack of emotional support, physical safety, and activities; impact of substance misuse; and how these issues effect emotional and mental wellness. Includes calls to action for provincial and federal governments.
PBS Frontline documentary examines the sexual abuse of children committed by Catholic Church priests and employees during the late 1960s and early 1970s in St. Michael, Alaska.
Contains graphic descriptions that some viewers may find disturbing.
Duration: 28:16.
Focuses on the personal stories of four people who were taken from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous families, and the 2018 apology made by the Alberta provincial government.
Duration: 20:13.
Case comment on Brown v Canada (Attorney General), the class action suit in Ontario involving the removal of children from their families on reserve, and placing them with non-Indian adoptive families, and foster and group homes. At issue was whether the Federal government had breached fiduciary or common law duties to prevent loss of identity in post-placement period.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 253-260
Description
Authors work to contribute to the field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander masculinities in Australia by foregrounding and privileging how these men perceive themselves. Study considers interviews with 13 men and discusses “Indigenous masculinities rooted in place; a relationality motivated by an intergenerational sense of responsibility; a nuanced idea of acting hard.”
Hawai'i Medical Journal, vol. 70, no. 11, Suppl. 2, November 2011, pp. 9-14
Description
Discusses challenges faced for prenatal and infant care, obesity, mental health, smoking, infectious disease, suicide, self-perception, racism and colonialism and looks at resilience factors.
Girlhood Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 97-113
Description
Discusses how the technology, particularly Facebook, has increasingly become a tool to recruit and keep underage girls in the sex trade. Research conducted with 19 staff members of Prince Albert Outreach and 5 survivors indicated the importance of recognizing early signs of exploitation so that intervention could take place, family-based prevention and education, and using survivors as educators.
Submission contends that Canada has failed to adequately address issues facing Aboriginal children and therefore has not complied with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other human rights instruments.
Journal of Sport for Development, vol. 5, no. 8, April 2017, pp. 30-40
Description
Literature review identified three themes: value in cross-cultural mentorship, but Aboriginal is advantageous; community engagement essential to success of programmes; and SFD plays subsidiary role in communities in contributing to broader social and economic goals.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 148, Fall, 2011, pp. 25-31
Description
Describes initiative undertaken by Twin Fish and urban ink theatre groups in Williams Lake, British Columbia. Project involved youth in the development of a short play entitled Damed if You Do, What it Don't as part media and performance training.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 140-149
Description
Article discusses the use of the Tivaevae research model (which represents Kuki Airani epistemological and ontological worldviews) in a PhD study of youth views of sexuality. Examines the benefits of using Indigenous research methods both for conceptualization and methodology.
Discusses assimilation policies and testimonies of children of mixed descent who were forcibly removed from their Aboriginal families and raised in white families.
Excerpt from Lives in Migration: Rupture and Continuity edited by Martin Renes.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 261-270
Description
Article describe different models for understanding the intersecting relationships between the movement/migration of Indigenous youth who trade sex, the sex trade as a whole, and the social and cultural institutions which define, criminalize/prosecute, and intervene in the sex trade. Authors argue that the mobility of Indigenous youth in the sex trade is not always “trafficking” and can often be a response to marginalizing factors, rather than a source of marginality.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 66-82
Description
Looks at a study that determines a unique approach, that differs from other parts of Canada, is needed when dealing with child welfare cases in Nunavut including knowledge of traditional Inuit culture.
Investigated how two pairs of babies born at the hospital came to be misidentified and were therefore raised by their non-biological parents. Concluded that the identification process was flawed, identification band procedure was not applied consistently and bands were not placed on the babies in the room where they were delivered.
"This article briefly reviews the status of urban indigenous families and discusses an innovative all-Native-American preschool, an early childhood initiative created to address the achievement gap."
Report of ideas, issues, opportunities, and actions identified by participants to find answers for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples to move forward on the question of reconciliation.
Statistics from Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM).
Data can be added / removed and manipulated. For example, geography and time frame.