Years of neglect by professionals and the social care system led to the death of a young Aboriginal woman from a drug overdose in Vancouver's downtown eastside. This report is her story.
Related documentary A Life Discarded.
Aboriginal Narrative Practice: Honouring Storylines of Pride, Strength and Creativity
Creating and Sharing Stories to Heal Our Spirits (and Weaken Lateral Violence)
Walk Away, Leave It to Another Day: Some of the Ways We Try to Stop Dangerous Talk and Lateral Violence
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Barbara Wingard
Description
Chapter uses an "interview" with Lateral Violence to explore its effects and reports what members of the Woorabinda Aboriginal community had to say about the problem.
Excerpt from Aboriginal Narrative Practice: Honouring Storylines of Pride, Strength and Creativity by Barbara Wingard, Carolynanha Johnson, and Tileah Drahm-Butler.
Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women (LSC)
Description
Argues that the figures reported in both 2014 and 2015 documents were grossly underestimated due to flaws in procedures for data collection and identifies factors that were not taken into account.
Some of issues discussed are women's rights and circumstances, resource extraction, lack of legal-political structures for self-determination and Sweden's Race Biology and eugenics programs.
Identifies barriers to doing business or becoming employed, opportunities for employment, companies directly employing Aboriginal women, what is being done to facilitate participation, impacts of development, and types of training needed.
Revisiting RCAP: Towards Reconciliation: The Future of Indigenous Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute on Governance
Description
Summary of conference discussions which focused on six themes: state of reconciliation; imaging possibilities, assessing priorities for immediate action, identifying best practices, restoring trust to relationships with governments, and building relationships with industry.
Looks at the vital role the Aboriginal Institutes play in closing the educational gap and meeting labour market needs, the funding challenges they are facing, and short and long-term goals.
Contrasts British male colonial attitudes to women in general and Indigenous women in particular to their status in traditional Indigenous societies; traces the development of stereotypes about both men and women; looks at the impacts of government-church alliances, the role of contemporary media and incidence and types of violence perpetrated against Indigenous women; and argues that restoring safety will mean recognizing and attempting to correct harms done by non-Indigenous societies, and decolonization of communities so that they may heal from historic trauma.
Panelists discuss whether engaging with Canadian political process and voting undermines Indigenous sovereignty. Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 1:14:28.
Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic: Living Conditions and Quality of Life among Inuit, Sami and Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka and the Kola Peninsula
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 128, March 2015, pp. 178-187
Description
Uses data from the 2009 Victorian Population Health Survey and telephone surveying to determine if psychological distress is an important health risk factor.