A Promising Approach: Best Practices in First Nations, Métis and Inuit Education
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shelley Svidal
ATA Magazine, vol. 86, no. 1, 2005-2006, p. [?]
Description
Talks about literacy programs developed for FNMI students in the Grasslands Regional Division No. 6 ,Lethbridge School District No. 51 and Pincher Creek.
Promising Practice for Maintaining Identities in First Nation Adoption
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeannine Carriere
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 1, 2007, pp. 46-64
Description
Study on the importance of identity in adoption cross-cultural and a list of recommendations from the perspective of First Nation adoptees to improve the process.
Promising Practices in First Nations Child Welfare Management and Governance: Weechi-it-te-win Family Services: Utilizing a Decentralized Model in the Provision of Bi-Cultural Services
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Ferris
Estelle Simard
George Simard
Jacqueline Ramdatt
Description
Highlights the structure and philosophy of an agency which provides services to 10 communities in the Rainy Lake District of Ontario
Promising Practices in First Nations, Métis and Inuit Education: Case Studies of Two Alberta Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations
Métis and Inuit Services Branch
Description
Examines parent and community engagement, cultural and language programming, teachers, instruction and curriculum resources, professional development, and individual students supports at Francis of Assisi Elementary School and Le Roi Daniels Elementary School.
Promoting Healthy Weight in the Central Highlands
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bronwyn Fredericks
Angus Row Row
Joshua Weazel
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 29, no. 5, September/October 2005, pp. 30-31
Description
Brief article describes the community-based weight and healthy lifestyle program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults.
Promoting School Achievement Among American Indian Students Throughout the School Years
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristin Powers
Childhood Education, vol. 81, no. 6, Education of the Aboriginal and Indigenous Child: Global Perspectives and Practices, 2005, pp. 338-342
Description
Identifies factors contributing to underachievement and provides suggestions to remedy these issues.
Pronghorn Procurement on the Northern Plains: A Case for Small-Scale Hunting
Theses
Author/Creator
Alan James Youell
Description
Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2005.
Property Taxation and the Provision of Government Services on Indian Reserves in British Columbia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert L. Bish
Description
Examines the impact of property taxation on leased reserve land by off-reserve governments and local authorities and impacts on First Nation's government revenue.
Proposed Trappers Organization Will Protect Treaty Interests
Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, Winter, 1987, p. 27
Description
Background to the formation of the Northern Fur Conservation Area Trappers Association Inc.
Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melissa Farley
Jacqueline Lynne
Ann J. Cotton
Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 42, no. 2, June 2005, pp. 242-271
Description
Fifty-two percent of the 100 women surveyed identified as First Nations. Results are separated into First Nations and non-First Nations.
Protecting Aboriginal Children
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Bill Simon
Christopher Walmsley
Description
Forward and introduction to book, Protecting Aboriginal Children by Christopher Walmsley.
Protecting Aboriginal Knowledge, Culture and Art Under Canadian Intellectual Property Laws
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Spratley
Description
Discusses existing laws, issues of compatibility with Aboriginal culture, and how laws could be altered to better serve Aboriginal interests.
Protecting Educational Rights of the Aboriginal and Indigenous Child: Global Challenges and Efforts: An Introduction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jyotsna Pattnaik
Childhood Education, vol. 81, no. 6, Education of the Aboriginal and Indigenous Child: Global Perspectives and Practices, 2005, pp. 314-318
Description
Introduction to special issue.
Protecting Indigenous Peoples' Lands: Making Room for the Application of Indigenous Peoples' Laws Within the Canadian Legal System
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda L. Gunn
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007, pp. 31-69
Description
Discusses how to achieve a postcolonial legal consciousness, recognize Indigenous law, and better protect Indigenous people's rights.
Protecting Indigenous Peoples Through Socially Responsible Investment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Benjamin J. Richardson
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007, pp. 205-234
Description
Assesses a new approach to safeguarding Indigenous people by targeting institutions that finance projects that can potentially alter, in a negative way, Indigenous lifestyles.
Protecting Our Gifts and Securing Our Future: Eliminating Poverty Among First Nations Children
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Phil Fontaine
Paediatrics & Child Health, vol. 12, no. 8, October 2007, pp. 653-655
Description
Comments on the health and socioeconomic disparities faced by First Nations children.
Protecting Sacred Sites on Public Land: Religion and Alliances in the Mato Tipila-Devils Tower Litigation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Freedman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 1-22
Description
Case study examines the alliance between Indigenous nations and organizations, the National Parks Service, and various religious organizations during the litigation surrounding the use of the Devil’s Tower formation during the Sun Dance season.
Protecting the Health of First Nation Personnel at Contaminated Sites: A Case Study of Mid-Canada Radar Line Site 050 in Northern Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leonard J. S. Tsuji
Bruce C. Wainman
Jean-Philippe Weber
Celine Sutherland
Billy Katapatuk
Evert Nieboer
Arctic, vol. 58, no. 3, September 2005, pp. 233-241
Description
Description of the safety precautions used and the testing of the health monitoring protocol.
Protein Intake Is Inversely Associated with Abdominal Obesity in a Multi-Ethnic Population
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anwar T. Merchant
Sonia S. Anand
Vlad Vuksan
Ruby Jacobs
Bonnie Davis
Koon Teo
Salim Yusuf
Journal of Nutrition, vol. 135, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 1196-1201
Description
Evaluates the dietary and lifestyle determinants of abdominal obesity in a population which includes Canadians of Aboriginal ancestry.
Protocols for Native American Archival Materials
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Archivists Circle
Description
Topics include: building relationships, balance in content and perspectives; accessibility and use; culturally sensitive materials; providing context; intellectual property issues; copying and repatriation of records; research protocols; and reciprocal education and training.
Protocols for Producing Indigenous Australian Visual Arts
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts]
Australia Council for the Arts
Description
Edited and revised edition.
Protocols: Meeting the Challenges of Indigenous Information Needs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alana Garwood-Houng
Australian Academic & Research Libraries , vol. 36, no. 2, June 2005, pp. [149]-157
Description
Discusses the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services and discusses areas needing further development.
Providing Land and Resources for Aboriginal Peoples
Alternate Title
[Aboriginal Peoples and Constitutional Reform. Background Paper]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bradford W. Morse
Description
Explores legal mechanisms for implementing the transfer of land and the range of options for the way in which legal title can be held.
Providing Psychiatric-Mental Health Care for Native Americans: Lessons Learned by a Non-Native American PMHNP
Alternate Title
Providing Psychiatric-Mental Health Care for Native Americans: Lessons Learned by a Non-Native American PMHNP (Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy G. Barnard
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing And Mental Health Services, vol. 45, no. 5, May 2007, pp. 30-35
Description
Author describes lessons learned while practicing on the reservation and suggests ways other non-Native American practitioners can best serve the population.
Proyecto Kuatiañe'e: Saving a Language for Children
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Almidio Aquino
James Kirylo
Childhood Education, vol. 81, no. 6, Education of the Aboriginal and Indigenous Child: Global Perspectives and Practices, 2005, pp. 349-354
Description
Looks at the work of the Institute of Guarani Linguistics in Asuncih, Paraguay to raise awareness of the Ava Guaraní culture and language.
Püao-te-Ata-tü and Mäori Social Work Methods
Alternate Title
Puao-te-Ata-tu and Maori Social Work Methods
Theses
Author/Creator
Äwhina Hollis
Description
Arts Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Otago, 2005
Public Archaeology Forum
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hester A. Davis
Ernest G. Walker
Brian E. Spurling
Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 14, no. 4, Winter, 1987, pp. 481-486
Description
Archaeological burial management in Saskatchewan and lessons learned from disturbing Fort Qu'Appelle burial site unearthed in 1985.
Public Law 280 and Law Enforcement in Indian Country: Research Priorities
Alternate Title
Research in Brief (National Institute of Justice) ; December 2005
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carole Goldberg
Heather Valdez Singleton
Description
Looks at effects of PL 280 which shifted federal jurisdiction of offences to states creating jurisdictional uncertainty and lack of funding for law enforcement.
Pudlo Pudlat: Untitled
Alternate Title
An Open Book: A Catalogue of Artworks from the Surrey Art Gallery's Permanent Collection
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marion Jackson
Description
Brief discussion of the Inuit artist's drawing.
Pure Objects, Pure Persons: Artwriting and the Cultural Frame of Traditional Native American Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lea S. McChesney
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, 2007, pp. 141-165
Description
Examination and exploration into artwriting and the prominance of the Native American art market.
Purveyors of "Religion, Morality, and Industry": Race, Status, and the Roles of Missionary Wives in the Church Missionary Society's North West American Mission
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Derek Whitehouse-Strong
Histoire sociale / Social History, vol. 40, no. 79, May 2007, pp. 143-168
Description
Discusses the racial prejudices faced by Native wives of CMS agents.
Putting a Human Face on Child Welfare: Voices From the Prairies
E-Books
Author/Creator
Nico Trocmé
Sharon McKay
Michael Ungar
Shelley Thomas Prokop
Cindy Blackstock ... [et al.]
Putting Anti-Indian Violence in Context: The Case of the Great Lakes Chippewas of Wisconsin
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Perry
Linda Robyn
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 590-625
Description
Authors articulate the relationship between Indigenous resistance to state appropriation of lands and anti-Indigenous violence enacted by the public.
Qallunaat Crossing: The Southern-Northern Divide and Promising Practices for Canada's Inuit Young People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shannon Moore
Wende Tulk
Richard Mitchell
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 2005, pp. 117-129
Description
Describes the challenges faced by non-Inuit teachers and communities in a cross-cultural educational setting and suggests that teachers would benefit from learning about Inuit culture before beginning to teach.
Qanemcikarluni Tekitnarqelartuq [One Must Arrive With a Story to Tell]: Traditional Alaska Native Yup'ik Eskimo Stories in a Culturally Based Math Curriculum
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joan Parker Webster
Evelyn Yanez
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 46, no. 3, 2007, pp. 116-131
Description
Looks at the value of cultural knowledge as a resource for enhancing intellectual development in all students.
Qaneryaramta Egmiucia: Continuing Our Language
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Walkie Charles
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Indigenous Epistemologies and Education: Self-Determination, Anthropology, and Human Rights, March 2005, pp. 107-111
Description
Comments on a successful program that returned the Yup'ik language into the classroom.
A Qualitative Study of Experiences of Aboriginal Caregivers of Children With Developmental Disabilities
Theses
Author/Creator
Joyce Ellen Clouston
Description
Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wilfred Laurier University, 2007.
Quantifying "Two Sides of a Coin": A Statistical Examination of the Central Coast Salish Social Network
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothy Kennedy
BC Studies, no. 153, Spring, 2007, pp. 3-32
Description
Discussion of Wayne Suttles' work on Northwest Coast cultures, including an analysis of marriages, that has become the predominant theory of the region's social organization.
A Quantitative Evaluation of Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Training in an Urban Health Service
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Natasha Mooney
Adrian Bauman
Barbara Westwood
Brendan Kelaher
Bill Tibben
Bin Jalaludin
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 29, no. 4, July/August 2005, pp. [23]-[30]
Description
Survey results indicate that the half-day cultural awareness training (CAT) workshops did not make a measureable improvement in changing beliefs and attitudes.
Quarries of Culture: An Ethnohistorical and Environmental Account of Sacred Sites and Rock Formations in Southern California's Mission Indian Country
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven M. Karr
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 4, 2005, pp. 1-19
Description
Describes the land struggle of the Native American population of Southern California pitted against a refuse (dump) development company.
Quebec: 2006 Census Subdivisions (CSDs) with a Métis Identity Population of 250 or More
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geography Division
Statistics Canada
Description
Map.
Quebec: 2006 Census Subdivisions (CSDs) with a North American Indian Identity Population of 250 or More
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geography Division
Statistics Canada
Description
Map.
Quebec: 2006 Census Subdivisions (CSDs) with an Aboriginal Identity Population of 250 or More
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geography Division
Statistics Canada
Description
Map.
Quebec: 2006 Census Subdivisions with an Inuit Identity Population of 100 or More
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geography Division
Statistics Canada
Description
Map.
The Queen Writes Back: Liliuokalani's Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lydia Kualapai
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 32-62
Description
Examines the memoirs of Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917) which challenged the United States colonial construction of the Hawaiian nation, and became the historical foundation of the 1993 congressional apology to the Hawaiian people.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.
Quelques Données sur la Langue Tchouktche
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Weinstein
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 223-249
Description
Discusses characteristics of the dying language of Chukchi, spoken by a cultural group indigenous to Siberia.
'Quick Meals For Kooris': An Evaluation
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Geoffrey Gui
Queeny Lau
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, July/August 2007, pp. 20-22
Description
Discusses some of the structural and organizational barriers to a greater acceptance of the program which is designed to assist Indigenous people cook healthy meals.
Quillworker's Bladder Envelopes
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Thompson
Whispering Wind, vol. 37, no. 2, Issue 258, November-December 2007, pp. 10-11
Description
Instructions for making a Plains-style quill storage bladder envelope out of a bison bladder. Includes photographs.
Quit and Reduction Rates for a Pilot Study of the American Indian Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) Program
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kimberly Horn
Tim McGloin
Geri Dino
Karen Manzo
Lyn Lowry-Chavis
Lawrence Shorty
Lyn McCracken
N. Noerachmanto
Preventing Chronic Disease, vol. 2, no. 4, October 2005, p. article A13
Description
Suggests that the N-O-T program offers a useful and feasible cessation option for Native American youth in North Carolina.