Documents & Presentations
Description
Overview of the actions taken by the Government of Canada with respect to Aboriginal issues of education, reconciliation, governance and self-government, economic development, empowering citizens and protecting the vulnerable, and resolution of land issues.
Project of Heart
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Sylvia Smith]
Description
Website's purpose is to examine legacy and history of Residential Schools, commemorate lives of children who died, and promote social justice endeavours.
Contains links to general news and information about the initiative, social justice campaigns and educational resources.
The Promise and Pitfalls of C-92: An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children, youth and families
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Naiomi Walqwan Metallic
Hadley Friendland
Sarah Morales
Description
Act asserts Indigenous peoples' jurisdiction over child and family services and establishes national standards. Paper examines issues related to national standards, jurisdiction, funding, accountability and data collection.
The Promises and Challenges of Ingenious Self-Determination: The Sami Case
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Else Grete Broderstad
International Journal, vol. 66, no. 4, The Arctic is Hot, Part II, Autumn, 2011, pp. 893-907
Description
Discusses regional participation in mainland Arctic Norway .
Promising Directions for Caries Prevention With American Indian and Alaska Native Children
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith E. N. Albino
Valerie A. Orlando
International Dental Journal, vol. 60, no. 3, suppl.2, June 2010, pp. 216-222
Description
"This report will review caries trends among American Indian children and describes promising approaches that take into account culturally defined responses of AI/AN tribes and communities".
Promising Practice Five: Work with Aboriginal Communities on Human Trafficking Prevention
Alternate Title
An Exploration of Promising Practices in Response to Human Trafficking In Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Nicole A. Barrett]
Description
Based on a three-month review of publicly available reports and semi-structured interviews. Section 2.5 from: An Exploration of Promising Practices in Response to Human Trafficking in Canada. Scroll to p. 41.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat
Alternate Title
NISPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Firelight Research
Description
Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat: NIPSPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Description
Reports results of environmental scan which involved a literature review of both grey and academic publications, a series of key informant interviews with 20 individuals working in the field. Six topic areas are covered: links between childhood adversity and suicide and promising practices for addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters focusing on children and youth, current supports in the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promoting Educational Equity for Indigenous Children in Canada through Quality Early Childhood Programs
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Ball
Description
Looks at indicators of equity gaps and policy reforms that would reduce equity gaps.
Promoting From Within the Community: Employing Local Residents in Culture-Based Inner-City Family Services Organizations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jason Brown
Cheryl Fraehlich
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 3, Winter, 2010, pp. 85-101
Description
Studies the responses of forty-four staff members to the question "How did you get connected to the agency?"
Promoting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Indigenous Children in Australian Primary Schools
E-Books
Author/Creator
Brenda Dobia
Virginia O’Rourke
Promoting the Wellbeing of Indigenous People in Mental Health and Education
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Innocent F. Okozi
Andrea Sainab Nael
Maria Cristina Cruza-Guet
Communique, August 2010, pp. vii-xii
Description
Highlights contemporary challenges facing Indigenous peoples including American Indians and Alaskan Natives.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page vii.
Promoting Young Indigenous Children's Emergent Literacy in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Ball
Description
Recommends seven key elements and guiding principles for strategy to improve literacy development among young Indigenous children.
"The Proper Way to Advance the Indian": Race and Gender Hierarchies in Early Yakima Newspapers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle M. Jacob
Wynona M. Peters
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 26, no. 2, Fall, 2011, pp. 39-55
Description
Analysis of issues published in the late 1800s of the Yakima Herald noting biased views and racist notions.
Property, Human Ecology and Delgamuukw
Theses
Author/Creator
Thomas Cheney
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2011.
Proposed Model of Care for the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm Australian Capital Territory
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Winnunga Nimmityjah?]
Description
Program based on the 'Living Web Model of Care'.
Protected Areas and Indigenous Peoples in Chile
Theses
Author/Creator
Magdalena García Pérez de Arce
Description
Geography, Urban and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--Concordia University, 2011.
Protecting Indigenous Identity and Culture in the Modern Nation-State: A Case Study of the Sami in Norway
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Claire Lockerby
vol. 957
Description
Independent Study Project -- Duke University, 2010
Protecting the Sacred Cycle: Xwulmuxw Slhunlheni and Leadership
Theses
Author/Creator
Qwul'sih'yah'maht Robina Anne Thomas
Description
Indigenous Governance Thesis (Ph.D.)--Univeristy of Victoria, 2011.
Protesting the "Protest": Understanding "Non-Native" Reactions and Responses to the Six Nations Land "Occupation and Protest" in Caledonia, Ontario
Theses
Author/Creator
Amanda Vyce
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--McMaster University, 2010.
Protocols for Using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terri Janke
Description
Includes: overview of important concepts including rights to cultural heritage and Australian and international legal and policy protections; ten guiding principles and their accompanying protocols; numerous case studies; and project checklist and templates.
Providing a Lens for First Nations Youth to View Hope in Education
Theses
Author/Creator
Michael D. Topshee
Description
Integrated Studies in Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2011.
Provincial Gang Strategy: Forum & Community Consultation Reports
Alternate Title
Building Healthier Communities: Final Report on Community Recommendations for the Development of the Saskatchewan Prevention / Intervention Street Gang Strategy
Saskatchewan Communities Speak: Provincial Gang Strategy Phase 2 Community Consultation Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Robert Henry
Dave Shanks]
Description
Reports on Phase I and II of the project. Five overarching themes emerged: infrastructure and leadership; addressing trauma, colonization, and settler colonialism; knowledge translation and mobilization; addressing systemic oppression and structural issues of poverty and homelessness; and institutional supports. Consultations took place in communities throughout Saskatchewan.
Proving the Applicability of the Theory of Regulation and the Economic Theory of Regulatory Constraint to American Indian Studies (AIS): A Case Study in Federal Indian Law and Policy
Theses
Author/Creator
Christina Weinzettle
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2010.
Psychological Decolonization: Getting Back My Indian Soul
Alternate Title
American Academy of Religion Eastern International Regional Conference, Ottawa, Ontario
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Margaret Robinson
Description
Looks at self investigation of identity, racialization and linking to Native history.
Pubic Libraries as Aids to Sense Making in Urban Aboriginal Populations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Monique Woroniak
Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, vol. 5, Spring, 2010, pp. 1-16
Description
Reports on the possibilities that exist in urban library settings for Aboriginal outreach programming.
Public Health Should Promote Co-operative Housing and Cohousing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Lubik
Tom Kosatsky
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 2, April 2019, pp. 121-126
Description
Advocates models of housing based on First Nations’ Longhouses in order to promote social cohesion and combat social isolation. Argues that this strategies would be especially helpful to seniors.
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Final Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Summary Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Policy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Taking a Life-Course Perspective
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martin Cooke
Jennifer McWhirter
Canadian Public Policy, vol. 37, no. Supplement, Life Course as a Policy Lens, February 2011, pp. S15-S31
Description
Paper argues that the life-course approach may help to explain the persistent socio-economic inequality faced by Aboriginals and how these conditions are affected by social policy.
Puo'winue'l Prayers: Readings from North America's First Transtextual Script
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Louis Esme Cruz
Qwo-Li Driskill
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 243-252
Description
Examines some of the issues related to "coming home" to ourselves, our land, and our people from a multiracial, visual-textual, Two-Spirit perspective.
A Puritan Woman's Perspective: The Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Jane Andrews
Etudes Historiques, vol. 2, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-21
Description
Looks at how the book A Narrative of Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes, of Mary Rowlandson gave Puritan women a voice in the early 1700's.
Qalupalik
Alternate Title
Nunavut Animation Lab
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ame Papatsie
Description
Animated short of legend about a half-human sea monster who traps disobedient children if they venture too close to shore. Accompanying material, Qalupalik: Lesson Plan.
Duration: 5:34.
Qalupalik: Lesson Plan
Alternate Title
[Nunavut Animation Lab]
Documents & Presentations
Description
Target audience Grades three to six in the subject areas of First Nations, English, and Fine Arts. Accompanies animated film of same name.
Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput : Our Nelson Island Stories: Meanings of Place on the Bering Sea Coast
E-Books
Author/Creator
Qaluyaarmiut (The People of Nelson Island)
The Qikiqtani Truth Commission: Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Sources relevant to the Commission's research.
QTC Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Alternate Title
Qikiqtani Truth Commission Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Commission was established to create a record of how government policies between 1950 and 1975 affected the Inuit living in the Baffin region. Report based testimonies and interviews, and archival research. Includes recommendations.
A Qualitative Study of a Native American Mascot at "Public University"
Theses
Author/Creator
Michelle Lyn Brune
Description
Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri--St. Louis, 2010.
A Qualitative Study on Stigma and Discrimination Experienced by Indigenous Peoples Living with HIV or Having TB at Work
E-Books
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Secretariat of the International Indigenous HIV and AIDS Working Group
Quality of Life and Perceptions of Crime in Saskatoon,
Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Kitchen
Allison Williams
Social Indicators Research , vol. 95, no. 1, January 2010, pp. 33-61
Description
Looks at the relationship between crime and quality of life in Saskatoon, and discusses how perceptions of crime and safety affect the quality of life of residents living in different neighbourhoods.
Quantification of Interplaying Relationships between Wellbeing Priorities of Aboriginal Peoples in Remote Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosalie Schultz
Stephen J. Quinn
Tammy Abbott
Sheree Cairney
Jessica Yamaguchi
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, June 25, 2019
Description
Study examines the priorities that Indigenous people living in remote communities in Australia have for defining their own well-being and how they rank those priorities in their own understandings of health.
Quebec First Nations Information Governance Framework
E-Books
Author/Creator
Emilie Grantham
Queer Alchemy: Fabulousness in Gay Male Literature and Film
Theses
Author/Creator
Andrew John Buzny
Description
English Thesis (M.A.)--McMaster University, 2010.
Looks at three works including Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway.
Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Charmaine Kaimikaua
AlterNative, vol. 7, no. 2, 2011, pp. 194-195
Description
Book review of: Queer Indigenous Studies by Q.-L. Driskill, C. Finley, B.J. Gilley, S.L. Morgensen.
Quels Sont les Facteurs Favorisant ou Inhibant la Réussite Éducative des Élèves Autochtones?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hélène Archambault
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 107-116
Description
Examines the personal, academic and psychosocial factors that encourage or inhibit educational success. Emphasis is on Aboriginal students in Québec.
Article in French.
Quest for Identity in Native Canadian Fiction: A Study of Jeannette Armstrong, Ruby Slipjack, and Tomson Highway
Theses
Author/Creator
Shyamali Kar
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Assam University, Silchar, 2010.
Focuses on the works Slash, Whispering in the Shadows, Honour the Sun, Silent Words, and Kiss of the Fur Queen.
Questions Need to be Answered, Says Family Member of Pickton's Last Victim
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stefania Seccia
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 7, October 2010, p. 8
Description
Reflects on the life and personality of Mona Wilson, a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton, and the naming of a corporation after Wilson's First Nation's name, Running Bear.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
The Quilt as (Non-)Commodity in William S. Yellow Robe Jr.'s The Star Quilter
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Weagel
Western American Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 46-64
Description
Discusses play which compares quilting perspectives of quiltmaker Mona Gray, who sees quilts as a link to family and LuAnne Jorgensen, a customer who sees them as a commodity.
"R" Is for Métis: Contradictions in Scrip and Census in the Construction of a Colonial Métis Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Adese
TOPIA, no. 25, Spring, 2011, pp. 203-212
Description
Reviews the Northwest Half-Breed Scrip Commission records and the 1901 Census of Canada to show how the Métis people were treated historically.
Rabbits and Flying Warriors: The Postindian Imagery of Jim Denomie
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Martínez
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, 2011, pp. 119-145
Description
Discusses the metaphorical surrealism in Jim Denomie paintings showing historical and contemporary events in American and Native American history, as well as aspects of pop-culture, art history and Anglo-Indian relations.