Drama Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2000.
Focuses on four playwrights Suzan-Lori Park, Daniel David Moses, and filmmakers Midi Onodera and Julie Dash.
Canadian Journal of Development Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 189-207
Description
Uses Statistics Canada Aboriginal Peoples Survey to look at certain parts of economic and social well-being of people over 134 First Nations communities.
Article presented at The Gender of Genetic Futures: The Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Women and Health Proceedings of a National Strategic Workshop held at York University, February 11-12, 2000.
"Plenary paper at the conference The Real California Gold: Indigenous & Immigrant Heritage Languages of California, University of California Davis, May 7-8, 2010."
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 29-51
Description
Looks at the relationship between nature and culture on the Northwest Coast, and also examines the contrasts between the natural and the supernatural of western and Coast Salish peoples.
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2000.
Argues that the efforts to empower First Nation people by granting them a significant role in the governance of their own lands and people comes as a mixed blessing.
Anglican Journal, vol. 126, no. 9, October 2000, p. 7
Description
Bishop declines to participate in campaign aimed at federal government urging resolution of residential schools issue because wording implied diocese directly involved.
Awarding-Winning Novelist on the Link Between Residential Schools and the Devastation of Native Suicide
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joseph Boyden
Maclean's, vol. 123, no. 25/26, July 5, 2010, pp. 20-23
Description
Award-winning novelist believes that there is a direct correlation between the high Aboriginal youth suicide-rate and the legacy of residential schools.
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 141-144
Description
Book reviews of:
I Knew Two Métis Women: The Lives of Dorothy Scofield and Georgina Houle Young by Gregory Scofield.
Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy's Encounters with the Native World by Robert Hunter.
The Visions and Revelations of St. Louis the Métis edited by David Day.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 69, no. 4, September 2010, pp. 361-372
Description
Comments on the increase of hypertension as a growing health challenge in Nunavik due to a population believed to have a predisposition for cerebrovascular disease.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 137-155
Description
Explores the writer's use of narrative inquiry, autoethnography, and Indigenous research paradigms to address her research on Indigenous spirituality and her journey with learning the Cree language.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 2000, pp. [14]-34
Description
Discusses how an urban upbringing has disrupted her "sense of place", present in much of American Indian literature, and replaced it with the theme of absence and the search for identity.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 28, no. 2/3, Spring, 2010, pp. 63-70
Description
Using the photovoice approach with twelve Aboriginal breast cancer survivors in Saskatchewan to argue the need for more research on the effects of race, gender, and class on cancer care and experiences.
Examines how the traditional activities of the Yukaghirs are determined by the landscape they inhabit and how their identity has managed to survive because of these traditional activities.
Discusses the voluntary foster-care program which places adolescents with Mormon families for a period of one year with the option to return each fall.
Towards Anthropology / Archaeology Thesis (B.Sc.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, 2000, pp. 25-42
Description
Details a 1925 honorary ceremony held for Nellie Zelda Star Boy Menard on the occassion of her first menstruation, an event believed to control or direct one's future life path.
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, [Indigenous Health Special Issue], April 2010, pp. 362-373
Description
Contends that a Community Based/Tribally Based Participatory approach (CBPR/TPR) was the best practice approach and was congruent with the community's Tribal culture.
Identity, Prejudice and Healing in Aboriginal Circles: Models of Identity, Embodiment and Ecology of Place as Traditional Medicine for Education and Counselling
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kisiku Sa'qawei Paq'tism Randolph Bowers
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 3, 2010, pp. 203-221
Description
Looks at healing of identity from an Aboriginal perspective using holistic models of wellbeing through the integration of emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of being.
Journal of World History, vol. 3, no. 2, Fall, 1992, pp. 219-237
Description
Discusses girls' experiences at residential schools, contrasts them to traditional child-rearing practices, and highlights the implications for subsequent generations.