Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 79-110
Description
The authors explore the ways that the design of two different Indigenous video games compels players to enact survivance, and how that experience of survivance creates a space for teaching and learning about culture and for decolonizing perspectives.
Shows that an epidemic of diabetic end stage renal disease is the most important nephrological issue facing Indigenous Canadians and threatens to overwhelm the health care systems unless prevention programs are established.
Remote Indigenous Media and Communications: Radio Listenership Summary
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Remote Communications Association (IRCA)
Description
Statistics for the remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander radio service such as: stations listened to regularly, rates of listenership, rates by population groups, language and content preferences, impact of mobile connectivity, sources of Government information, and listener demographics.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 168, no. 7, April 01, 2003, pp. 852-853
Description
Discussion on the promotion of international health content in Canadian medical schools. The article looks at ways to improve basic and medical education in other countries by facilitating information exchange between university students in Canada and abroad.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 2003, pp. 1-32
Description
An investigation into Native Americans worldviews in relation to many versions of the life and death of Sacajawea, the interpreter who accompanied Lewis and Clark.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 2003, pp. 1-38
Description
Examines how the author's knowledge of the Navajo culture and the concept hozho allow her to transform a character who could be viewed as victim into a powerful individual.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol. 19, 2001, pp. [47]-64
Description
Essay argues that Henry Neufeld did not expect the Ojibwa to reject all of their cultural traditions and religious practices when they accepted Christianity.
Culture & Mental Health Research Unit Report ; no.10
Proceedings of the Advanced Study Institute The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Gregory M. Brass
Caroline L. Tait
Ernest Hunter
Duncan Pedersen ... James Waldram ... [et al.]
Culture & Mental Health Research Unit Report
Description
Reviews research on mental health; presents social issues underlying problems and some individual and community responses to these challenges. Argues cultural psychiatry can contribute to rethinking services and heath promotion.
Discusses the review that examines all aspects of mental health programming and services undertaken by FNIHB, Manitoba Region and provides recommendations for change.
Focuses on three programs: Second Chance, a program for Aboriginal offenders which used Creative Problem Solving, Northern Lights project in three rural Manitoba school districts which used the Lost Prizes program, and the Mentoring At-Risk-Students Project which dealt with inner-city Aboriginal children and youth.
Excerpt from Mentoring for Talent Development.
Provides information for Indigenous service organizations wishing to develop a mentoring strategy, including: deciding upon guiding principles and values, applications for mentoring and mentors, contracts to work together, joint obligations, expectations, and conflict resolution.
Presents findings and recommendations resulting from six regional Sharing Circles, 23 key informant interviews, survey of 81 respondents, and a focused literature review.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, May/June 2003, pp. 28-31
Description
Co-chair of Reconciliation Australia stresses that gatherings such as health conferences should be action driven in order to improve health and social outcomes.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 132-141
Description
Argues the volume of research needs to increase; recognition of importance of distinction between "historic" and "historical" is needed by legal practitioners; lawyers need to be more candid with clients about probability of a litigation's success; and clearer communication needs to take place about understandings of what an "economic" role is.
Provides discussion of the Powley case in which the Ontario Court of Appeal held that Métis are a people with comparable rights to those of First Nations.
Discusses the evolution of Métis practices regarding marriage and family from the fur trade forward and listing of some genealogical sources for research.
Traces the roots of Métis sense of uniqueness as a cultural group, discusses how other groups have viewed them, and presents some sources for tracing genealogy.
Describes the role the scrip system played in eliminating the Métis land base, lists Métis political organizations and discusses current activity aimed at recovering their land base, which would enable a move toward self-government.