Mamow Na-nan-da-we-ki-ken-chi-kay-win: Searching Together Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mamow Sha-way-gi-kay-win North South Partnership for Children
Description
Assessment focuses on six key areas: livelihoods, infrastructure, community participation, education/recreation, children and parents and mental and physical health.
Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 31, no. 9, 2009, pp. 1019-1024
Description
Results based on interviews with 61 foster parents in Manitoba to examine value-based and practical benefits of having a shared cultural background with foster children.
Resource offers information on cultural understanding, how culture might conflict with environmental emergencies, relationship building, emergency planning and emergency response phase.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. 50-70
Description
Discusses mourning feast customs in the novel and how the author changes several of them.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page 50.
Looks at a research network developed through the collaboration of universities, agencies and communities in British Columbia to provide research training and resources for Indigenous people working in Indigenous child well-being and research.
Study involved principal, teachers, counselors, and program coordinators. Found most challenges were task-related. Provides recommendations for further research.
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Aboriginal Women and Decolonization, 1999, p. 127–142
Description
Examines Native women's experiences and perspectives on oppression and their role in life based on transcriptions of interviews of urban Aboriginal women's groups.
Relationship between childhood and the sacred varies between Indigenous communities in North America.
Chapter in book: The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion edited by Thomas R. Bidell, Anne C. Dailey, Suzanne D. Dixon, Peggy J.Miller, and John Modell.
Whispering Wind, vol. 38, no. 5, May-June 2009, pp. 29-[?]
Description
Book reviews of: Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World by Michelene E. Pesantubbee.
Meet Lydia: A Native Girl From Southeast Alaska by Miranda Belarde-Lewis.