Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 2006-2016
Compares Registered Indians to Canada's general population in three components: life expectancy, education and income.
Compares Registered Indians to Canada's general population in three components: life expectancy, education and income.
Relates the determined effort of International Children’s Peace Prize nominee, Shannen Koostachin, who lobbied successfully for a new school for her remote Cree community.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Traditional story about how coyote, with the help of other animals, stole fire from the Fire Protectors and gave it to humans so that they could stay warm during the winter months.
Author discusses the first World Conference of Women's Shelters arguing that governments need to understand that social problems have an economic and historical social basis.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Article reports on the Canadian Executive Service Organization and the Native Women's Association of Canada signing a joint agreement to provide workshop programs to Aboriginal women across Canada.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.14.
Retelling of traditional story.
Source: Man in the Moon: Sky Tales from Many Lands collected by Alta Jablow and Carl Withers.
Traditional Sami story.
Source: The Storytelling Star by James Riordan.
Humourous animated short involves a ill-equipped European "discovering" the Inuit homeland and promptly planting flags everywhere as a sign of ownership and an Inuit hunter's response. Accompanying material: The Bear Facts: Lesson Plan.
Duration: 3:58.
Guide to accompany film, The Bear Facts. Target audience Grades one to three in the subject areas of History, Social Sciences, First Nations and Humanities.
Discusses how the demand for beaver pelts brought about a new economy, the shift from hunting beaver to hunting bison, and the impact of missionaries.
Chapter from Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes..