Describes issues such as missing and murdered women, education, health care, and over-representation in the criminal justice system and gives statement of action required by Canada to address each problem.
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, vol. 3, no. 2, Motherhood Activisim, Advocacy, Agency, Fall/Winter, 2012, pp. 188-199
Description
Focuses on policies which discriminate against Indigenous women and their offspring by denying them status and treaty rights.
CAEPR Indigenous Population Project 2011 Census Papers ; no. 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mandy Yap
Nicholas Biddle
Description
Data from the 2011 Australian Census shows that a high proportion of caring activities are being undertaken in regional and remote areas of the country.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 4, Winter, 2012, pp. 21-46
Description
Discusses two poems, entitled the same, which target the legacy of the captivity narrative, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God.
Scroll to page 21 to read article.
File contains two negatives from an upgrading course at the All Saints Residential School in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, April 30, 1964. Scanned image shows a group portrait of students in formal attire.
Uses data from the 2006 Aboriginal Peoples Survey and 2006 Census to analyze size, concentration, and characteristics (age, sex, mobility, language), and to draw comparisons with lower-income and higher-income Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals.
Health & Place, vol. 18, no. 5, September 2012, pp. 1025-1033
Description
Presents themes coming out of interviews with community members about their views on health care services at Indian Health: native place, place like home, and place of relational care.
Journal of Global Citizenship & Equity Education, vol. 2, no. 2, 2012, pp. [158]-181
Description
Looks at diabetes as a product of economic and social conditions as well as issues of self-esteem and self-worth originating from a colonial past. Provides recommendations for the future.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 51, no. 3, The Native American Languages Act of 1990/1992 - Retrospect and Prospects, 2012, pp. 30-45
Description
Looks at a school that for 14 years has produced 100 percent high school graduation and 80 percent college attendance but is federally required to test students in English rather than the language they are taught in.
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 18, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 82-90
Description
Reviews importance of culturally competent research and demonstrates how researchers can conduct appropriate research with American Indian and Alaskan Native youth using Three-step method.
Arctic, vol. 65, no. 3, September 2012, pp. 257-272
Description
Uses synthesis of field data, remote sensing, and Inuvialuit knowledge to explore the timing, causes, and implications of weather event that took place in September 1999.
American Journal of Health Promotion, vol. 26, no. 6, The Science of Lifestyle Change, July/August 2012, pp. e159-e170
Description
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis in Fort Albany, Ontario identified 32 themes which could then be transformed into 12 strategies.
Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 41 , no. 1, Pearls not Problems: Transforming Pedagogy in Indigenous Australian Studies in the Context of Higher, August 2012, pp. 60-66
Description
Professor from the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, presents case study based on teaching a third-year course titled "Contemporary Aboriginal Art and Colonialism".
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 23, no. 4, Investing in Education, Empowering Tribal Communities, Summer, 2012
Description
Comments on a program, offered at the United Tribe Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota, designed to help students transition from high school to college with as little stress as possible.
Aboriginal Culture as Intervention: Sharing How Aboriginal Culture is Part of the Healing Journey from Addictions
[Honoring Our Strengths: Aboriginal Culture as Intervention in Addictions]
[Honouring Our Strengths: Aboriginal Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Valerie Dejarlais
Billy Ermine
Gladys Wapass-Greyeyes
Description
Woman discusses the role culture has played in her recovery from alcohol abuse.
Duration: 7:49.
Part of project headed by Dr. Colleen Dell, University of Saskatchewan Research Chair in Substance Abuse.
Aboriginal Culture as Intervention: Sharing How Aboriginal Culture is Part of the Healing Journey from Addictions
[Honoring Our Strengths: Aboriginal Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment]
[Honouring Our Strengths: Aboriginal Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Valerie Dejarlais
Billy Ermine
Gladys Wapass-Greyeyes
Description
Woman discusses the role culture has played in her recovery from alcohol abuse.
Duration: 9:37.
Part of project headed by Dr. Colleen Dell, University of Saskatchewan Research Chair in Substance Abuse.
Documentary looks at two Inuit communities on Baffin Island and Northwest Greenland and how they are connected and adapting to social and environmental changes. Includes English sub-titles.
Duration: 82:23.
American Antiquity, vol. 77, no. 3, July 2012, pp. 424-448
Description
Research indicates that Jicarilla women dominated macaceous cookware production during the 19th century resulting in implications for gender-based systems of economics.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 9, no. 4, Childhood Obesity: Prevention and Treatment, April 2012, pp. 1379-1397
Description
Main cohort consisted of 443 students in grades 6-8 in seven First Nations communities. Results showed poor intakes of vegetables, fruit and related nutrients and high intakes of "other foods". Prevalence rates of overweight and obesity exceeded those of the general population.