BC Studies, no. 187, These Outer Shores, Autumn, 2015, pp. 21-50
Description
Looks at area where people and land otters lived over the past fifty-five hundred years and explains why Tlingit have a cultural tie to the land otter.
Discusses criteria for selecting or rejecting each type of material including: content, illustrations, and accompanying sections such as discussion questions, bibliographies, and further activities.
Guidelines equally applicable to Canadian context.
Rev. ed.
Office of Audit and Evaluation Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada
Description
Describes and analyzes program which was developed to deliver holistic programs to Indigenous children aged 0 to 6. Presents findings and recommendations.
Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Leesa Watego
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 2, Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up, 2015
Description
Creator of deadlybloggers.com discusses the use of blogs and other forms of social media as an avenue to for Indigenous represent themselves, results of survey of bloggers who use the site.
Duration: 40:38.
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
Description
Report was developed for two child and youth mental health agencies (one a First Nations agency) seeking to understand the current literature related to best practices.
University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2017, pp. 1-10
Description
Looks at flow of foodstuffs between Hudson's Bay Company men and the James Bay Cree who lived near the Fort. Argues that traders were consistently reliant upon provisions supplied by Indigenous trappers, hunters, and fishers.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 3-27
Description
Chronicles the results of recent cutbacks at the federal level and privatization resulting in service gaps in movement from reserve/rural areas to cities.
Comments on the eight areas of commitment set out in the Action Plan: focused and active approach to suicide prevention, strengthened continuum of mental health services, youth skills, suicide prevention training, research on suicide and suicide prevention, communication and information sharing, healthy development in early childhood and community development activities.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 131-144
Description
Review essay of:
Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Sa by Tadeusz Lewandowski.
A Warrior of the People: The Indomitable Courage of Susan la Flesche - America's First Indian Doctor by Joe Starita.
Medicine Woman directed by Christine Lesiak and Princella RedCorn.
American Indian Women by Patrick Deval and translated by Jan-Marie Todd.
Journal of Student Science and Technology, vol. 8, no. 2, 2015, pp. 78-83
Description
Comments on the mentorship opportunities experienced by a young student including being featured in a documentary series and shadowing a dermatologist.
The Northern Review, no. 41, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, 2015, pp. 181-206
Description
Presents interviews with immigrants, temporary workers, and refugees in either Whitehorse or Yellowknife about their daily lives and plans for the future.
Department of Economics Working Paper ; no. 2015-02
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Melanie O’Gorman
Manish Pandey
Description
Examines the importance of economic incentives, and individual-specific and school-related factors in explaining the North-South gap in graduation rates.