Presents a music video that was developed from the findings of a CIHR Project that examined the role of identity and stigma in Aboriginal women's healing from illicit drug abuse in Canada.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 104-134
Description
Examines how the media perpetuates stereotypes and inaccurate generalizations about Indigenous peoples such as the misrepresentation of racist sports mascots and related imagery; and looks at the discourses of Savagism with regard to news coverage of anticolonial direct action and the reclamation of land by sovereign Indigenous peoples and nations.
Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 19, no. 4, March 2011, pp. 376-384
Description
Examines the changing approaches towards sustainable development undertaken by the Mining Association of Canada within the mineral industry over a period of approximately 20 years.
Comments on how Latin American Indigenous Peoples (LAIP) reproduce cultural practices in a transnational setting.
Comparative Ethnic Studies (B.A.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2011.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 2, 2009, pp. 18-29
Description
Looks at the challenges of revitalization for Aboriginal helpers, elders, counsellors, social workers, police and teachers to change destructive and abusive patterns to healing, and revitalize Aboriginal identity and culture.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 6, June 2009, p. 21
Description
Looks at the program, Bridges and Foundations for Aboriginal Development, developed to train 400 First Nations and Métis people in residential construction.
Article located by scrolling to page 21.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 8, August 2011, p. 16
Description
Comments on ten Saskatchewan youth who attended the 2011 Native American Youth Entrepreneurship Camp in Arizona and the skills attained from participating.
Article located by scrolling to page 16.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 55-58
Description
Discusses some of the issues of the beginnings of Native and Indigenous studies. The article also suggests that what one needs to look at more precisely is at what people mean when they talk about those beginnings, namely specific figures and practices within indigenous traditions.
Futures, vol. 41, no. 1, Futures of Indigenous Knowledges, February 2009, pp. 13-23
Description
Looks at the challenges facing the growth of research incorporating indigenous knowledge (IK) and recommends the continued promotion of a holistic approach.
Describes how Tomson Highway's character challenges concepts of "real Indianness" which have incorporated homophobic attitudes brought about by colonization.
Entire volume on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 135.
Discusses the University of Manitoba City Planning Department and four Manitoba First Nations' partnership to work on community development and issues. Themes identified were: housing development, commercial activity, natural and traditional preservation areas, recreation, water and waste management transportation, community services and culture.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 6, no. 2, Fall , 2009, pp. 46-63
Description
Assessment and recommendations made by representatives of the Native Women's Association of Canada.
[One or more images have been omitted from this article due to copyright restrictions. These images are accessible in the print version of this journal.]
Discusses the housing needs of urban Aboriginal peoples and how this issue relates to unemployment, poverty, and child-rearing challenges, often faced by single parent households.
Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol. 16, no. 2, April 2009, pp. 201-223
Description
Presents a study that looks at health and environmental risk perspectives associated with gender and place in two sets of northern Canadian Aboriginal communities.
History Compass, vol. 7, no. 6, November 2009, pp. 1606-1615
Description
Studies reveal that gender and sexuality were paramount to all colonial North American borderland encounters among and between Native Americans and Europeans.
Discusses whether the forcible transfer of children should be classified genocide, or alternate terminology used, and what the legal, social, political consequences could be in either instance.
Investigates literature-based assumptions about gifted Native American youth with input from educators on the Navajo, Standing Rock and Red Lake reservations.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2011, pp. 43-50
Description
Explains the foundations set up for a groundbreaking project that established a partnership for collaborative research among people of diverse backgrounds.
Book Review: Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics and Politics edited by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart with articles by Lisa Brooten, Mario Murillo and Faye Ginsburg.
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach for the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1363-1382
Description
Looks at aspects of kidney diseases in Indigenous populations in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia.
Slide show accompanied by text describing the northeastern Manitoba reserve. Awarded a Webby Award by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science for best use of photography.
Discussion about the controversial series of paintings entitled The Forgotten by Pamela Masik which portrayed the sixty-nine missing and murdered women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The exhibition to be held at the Museum of Anthropology was cancelled due to protests.
Duration: 31:50.
Outlines Correctional Service of Canada obligations and commitments, and focuses on progress in the following areas: financial capacity, access to programs, security and classification, parole, data collection, human resources, Northern Correctional Framework, and healing lodges.