International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 11, no. 1, Wellness-Based Indigenous Health Research and Promising Practices, 2016, pp. 111-132
Description
Study focused on understanding and describing Aboriginal traditional healing methods as viable approaches to improve health outcomes in an urban Aboriginal community.
PLoS One, vol. 11, no. 3, 2016, p. article e0150250
Description
Looked at two different strategies: one provided immediate response to need for food; the other targeted improving social cohesion and ability to manage nutrition.
Based on responses to questionnaire about knowledge of self-government, sources of information, and community's readiness for transition to self-government.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 364-378
Description
Focuses on books written by non-Indigenous authors and still being used in some classrooms: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink; Little House on the Prairies by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Jeremy by Jon Hassler; The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare; and Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan by Mary Pope Osborne.
Investigation into the death of a sixteen year old youth who became ill while incarcerated at a Youth Residence and was denied entitlement to healthcare services and reasonable accommodation based on a hearing impairment.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 2, 2016, pp. 73-90
Description
Overview of the Cottage Settlement designed to help graduates of the Sitka Industrial and Training School transition into mission sanctioned lifestyles.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 51, no. 2, June 1970, pp. 123-140
Description
Describes events after the leader and his followers fled to Canada but continued to cross the border into the United States, causing friction between the two governments.
The Northern Review, no. 42, Northern Inequalities - Global Processes, Local Legacies, 2016, pp. 109-129
Description
Identifies schools issues including: student attendance, the legacy of residential schools, lack of resources to promote the Inuktitut/Inuinnaqtun language and transient teachers.
The Skirt Project: Resources for TEachers and Communities
Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Natalia Sudeyko
Description
Blog uses a discussion of the "skirt protocol" (the practice which, in some Indigenous communities, requires women wear long skirts to participate in spiritual ceremonies) as starting point to explore how clothing is related to culture, religion, tradition, gender, colonialism, and identity.
Includes links to lesson plan, backgrounder, activities, teaching resources, and consolidated materials.
Purpose of report is to provide update on the planning and activities undertaken by government that would indicate progress was being made in implementing each recommendation.
Phoenix Sinclair was a five-year-old First Nations child who was beaten to death by her mother and her boyfriend. Inquiry specifically investigated whether the child welfare system had been negligent.
Social Forces, vol. 72, no. 2, December 1993, pp. 295-313
Description
Study generally supports Gerhard Lenski's theory of social stratification with the exception of power differences or inequalities emerging before the inequalities of wealth.
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 2, Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up, 2016
Description
Discusses how sites such as Facebook and Twitter can become a space for establishing online Indigenous citizenship and vehicles for discussion, practicing culture, expressing identity, and political mobilization.
Duration: 34:30.
Socio-economic Benefits of Modern Treaties in British Columbia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Deloitte
Description
Used the Community Well-being Index and interviews with leadership in assessment. Also looked at applicability of different measurement frameworks for determining benefits at the community level.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 101-120
Description
Explores tourism as a means of assimilation or internal colonialism and how the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico are able to maintain their cultural integrity.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 6, no. 2, 1970, pp. 123-135
Description
Considers some of the physiological, social psychological, and cultural changes in Inuit children as a result of attending the residential school in Inuvik.