Compilation of five handbooks: Introduction to Quality; Quality and Quality Improvement: Theory and Tools; Risk and Management: theory and Tools; Electronic Resources and References; and Glossary.
States that First Nations are increasingly developing plans for commercial and industrial development projects, and that the FNCIDA will fill the regulatory gap and provide benefits.
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bert Waslander
Tyler Minty
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Description
Compared 239 First Nations communities to similar mainstream communities matched by location and population size using five variables: connection to cities, economic base, local capacity, housing and recent growth.
Comments on the health status of First Nations in Alberta including causes of death across all age groups, injuries, impact of diabetes, communicable disease control and environmental health.
Results of interviews conducted with 63 principal householders involved in the program. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
Contends that language immersion or bilingual education can lead to improved educational outcomes, but ideally there should be a minimum of 6 to 7 years of instruction.
Website includes links to bibliographies on languages and language families, Chinook jargon, classified list, ethnobiology, and index of variant language names.
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Final report for the “Aboriginal Human Rights Project” explains how the Tsleil-Waututh Community and Elders came up with ways to address human rights complaints within the community by incorporating legal traditions and customary law.
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)
Description
Study found market-driven initiatives were required, but no evidence of need for fund dedicated to credit enhancement, or that fund had increased home ownership and reduced reliance on federal assistance for social housing.
Discussion Paper Series in Aboriginal Health. Legal Issues ; no. 2
NAHO Discussion Paper Series ; no.2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yvonne Boyer
Description
Uses historical analysis to argue that federal government has a clear obligation to provide health care to Aboriginals but has failed to provide adequate services.
Looks at First Nations' perspectives on the environment, including the importance of language, western vs First Nations world view, how the past effects the present, impacts of change, and determination for a brighter future.
Journal of Ecological Anthropology, vol. 8, 2004, pp. 24-46
Description
Looks at the structure and function of grassland ecosystems in British Columbia from pre-European contact through the present; and discusses grassland restoration ecology from a First Nations perspective.