Social Justice, vol. 31, no. 4, Native Women and State Violence, 2004, pp. 54-62
Description
Authors speaks about experiences with family members and drug abuse and looks at banishment as a form of punishment in the Lummi Nation tribal community.
Report attempts to develop a blueprint and make recommendations to improve the health status of women in areas such as diabetes, youth suicide, and HIV/AIDs.
Proposes a variety of solutions to issues such as inadequate housing and income, low levels of employment, education, and overall economic advancement for Aboriginal women.
Catholic Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 2, April 2004, pp. 260-272
Description
Looks at the significance of Kateri Tekakwitha, and the nostalgic, fictionalized autobiography The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha written by Ellen Walworth.
Discusses Aboriginal treaty rights to draw a livelihood from the land through subsistence harvesting, and looks at the direct relationship with modern commercial forestry.
Research looked at four topics: nature of nursing practice, roles and functions, commonalities and differences among roles and functions in various settings, and factors which facilitate or hinder practice and development of expertise. Methods involved analysis of Registered Nurses Database to develop a demographic profile, systematic analyses of policy and administrative documents, national survey of 3,933 registered nurses, and interviews with 152 practitioners about their experiences.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-25
Description
Looks at the primary reasons for returning back to the reservation to live and work: family support, community, cultural identity, the simple life, reservation economy, and commitment to the reservation.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 2, Tribal College Research, Winter, 2004
Description
Discussion of an allotment of $7.2 million US annually for the next 20 years to be given to Diné College, the Crownpoint Institute of Technology, and the Office of Navajo Nation Scholarship and Financial Assistance.
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jutta Vogelbacher
Description
Discusses how a curriculum framed from the Aboriginal perspective benefits Native American students.
Navajo Sand Paintings: The Importance of Sex Roles in Craft Production
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Parezo
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1/2, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp. 125-148
Description
A look at the commercialization of art form and how the Navajo's flexible division of labor allowed for both men and women to participate in its productions for economic gain.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1/2, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp. 71-89
Description
An examination on the effects of Navajo women moving to urban settings in the mid-twentieth century by looking at the rationale for the relocations, comparing field-work research and formulating new research strategies for the future.
Discusses the ongoing "systemic racism" in Canada, with the case of Clayton Matchee, a paratrooper in the Canadian Airborne Regiment who allegedly participated in the murder of a Somali citizen, being a possible example.
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada) ; no. R-142
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shelley Trevethan
John-Patrick Moore
Leesie Naqitarvik
Autumn Watson
Daisy Saunders
Description
Discusses institutional and community reintegration needs of offenders in federal facilities. Research based on interviews with 75 offenders, 34 family members, and 73 correctional staff.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-28
Description
Article examines some of the barriers to the engagement and participation of urban Indigenous communities in municipal policy-making. Author asserts that racial and cultural stereotyping and discrimination against Aboriginal peoples and communities are key issues.
Author of Neoliberal Apartheid discusses commonalities between two states, including the patterns of extreme inequality, racialized poverty and advanced securitization which are symptomatic neoliberal regimes.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 22-44
Description
Article examines the use of gaming and other communication technologies as strategies for resistance, survivance and cultural resurgence; discusses practices of re/mapping, kinship-making and relationality.