Panelists Alanis Obomsawin, Gabrielle Fayant and Brock Lewis discuss social issues in Indigenous communities and challenges Indigenous youth face.
Duration: 57:00.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 4, Winter, 2016, pp. 25-52
Description
Essay focuses on Slash, a young adult novel that traces the struggles, pain and alienation of a young man who is searching for truth and meaning in his life.
Speaker talks about need for continued advocacy for First Nations children's right to the same level of services as other Canadian children and the human rights complaint against the Federal government.
Duration: 55:04.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 75, Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion in Circumpolar North, 2016, p. article no. 31812
Description
Looks at access to care and intervention support for youth through interviews and using the Piliriqatigiinniq Partnership Community Health Research Model for data.
Includes toolkit to help with workshop templates for environmental violence teach-ins, resources for healing and traditional land-based medicines, and community health assessments.
Documentary about a landmark discrimination case filed by the Assembly of First Nations and the Child and Family Caring Society of Canada against Indian and Northern Affairs Development Canada in 2007 about the treatment of First Nations children.
Duration: 2:42:53.