Commission was created to examine circumstances that resulted in the teenager's death and the subsequent investigation of it by Saskatoon City Police and the RCMP.
Inquiry responds to the government's failure to adequately address recommendations in Bringing them home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children From the Families.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 35, no. 1, Morning Star Rising: Healing in Native American Communities, January-March 2003, pp. 63-70
Description
Examines common factors, coping and survival strategies, roles of extended family and friendships, and organizations offering services in the San Francisco Bay area.
Journal of Education Psychology, vol. 92, no. 1, 2000, pp. 63-84
Description
Looks at linguistic development of Inuit children in Nunavik and the effects of English-French language instruction compared to heritage-language instruction.
Midwest Modern Language Association Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 1-19
Description
Examines popular American cultural knowledge and illustrates what some have chosen to ignore, through use of critical character analysis, magical realism, and humour in the novel.
Discusses attributes of successful programs and the institutions which administer them such as governance, involvement of householders, ability to enforce rules, availability of capital, inspections, and subsidies.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2000, pp. [1]-12
Description
Compares the novels Their Eyes are Watching God by Nora Neale Hurston and The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich as well as the critics responses to them.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, July/August 2000, pp. 17-22
Description
Presents refined data which provides clearer comparisons between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians showing that Indigenous peoples remain the least healthy Australian sub-population group.
Provides overview of education, description of add-on, First Nations control, and partnership approaches, case studies of specific institutions, and interviews with practitioners.
Case studies: First Nations Partnership Program; Nunavut Sivuniksavut Program; first Nations House of Learning at the University of British Columbia, Malaspina University College; Saanich Adult Education Center.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, June 1, 2003, pp. 697-726
Description
Asserts that colonial education has produced similar results in different parts of the world; includes history of establishing the residential schools in British Columbia.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2000, pp. 99-128
Description
Describes the challenges faced by Walpole Island Reserve (Bkejwanong) concerning sustainable development, industrialization and with collective forces of community action.
The Northern Review, no. 22, Winter, 2000, pp. 62-64
Description
Discusses the official creation of, "ALESKAM" in 1993 which consists of Aleuts, Eskimos and Kamchadal peoples and how political changes impacted methods of natural resource development.
Analysis of situation in Russia, Norway, Finland, Alaska, and Sweden for Sami herders in terms of management systems, economic efficiency, external conditions, and legislation.
Full Report.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 35, no. 1, Morning Star Rising: Healing in Native American Communities, January-March 2003, pp. 33-42
Description
Discusses the outcomes of using sweat lodge ceremonies in treating criminal offenses bases on data collected from 190 men between 18 and 64 years of age.
Medical Anthropology, vol. 22, no. 2, April 2003, pp. 131-174
Description
Argues that there is a link between diabetes and distress noting that this disease occurs at a rate three to five times higher in Canada's First Nation populations.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, March/April 2003, p. 31
Description
Brief article describes an Indigenous Mental Health Symposium held in Toowoomba (South East Queensland), Australia. Findings stress the need to work collectively.
Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) table uses data from the Adult Correctional Services Survey (ACS) and the Integrated Correctional Services Survey (ICSS).
Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table. For example, by geography and time frame.
Adult Admissions to Community Services by Aboriginal Identity
Adult Correctional Survey
Integrated Correctional Services Survey
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Statistics Canada
Description
Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) table uses data from the Adult Correctional Services Survey (ACS) and the Integrated Correctional Services Survey (ICSS).
Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table. For example, by geography and time frame.