Assert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film
Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth
Napi: Creation
Media » Film and Video
Description
Video presentation of Assert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film, hosted by the Museum of Anthropology. Shows short films followed by discussion and question period with filmmakers and artists. Companion to exhibition Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth.
Part 2.
Duration: 1:52:21.
ssert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film
Media » Film and Video
Description
Video presentation of Assert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film, hosted by the Museum of Anthropology. Continuation from part one. Shows short films followed by discussion and question period with filmmakers and artists. Companion to exhibition: Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth
Duration: 2:55:59.
Part 1.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 28, no. 1, October 1988, pp. [1-8]
Description
College graduates responses to questionnaire indicated family motivation and encouragement were the most important factors contributing to academic success.
Reports results from first year of twenty-year study on the impact of program designed to provide physical, mental, emotional and cultural supports to children between the ages of 7-12. Research sites were Red Lake, Timmins, Sudbury, Midland, and Niagara, Ontario.
Related Material: Phase II, 2015-2017.
Indigenous Peoples' Access to Justice, Including Truth and Reconciliation Processes
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Denise K. Lajimodiere
Description
Comments on the physical and psychological experiences of boarding school survivors.
Chapter 16 from Indigenous Peoples' Access to Justice, Including Truth and Reconciliation Processes edited by Wilton Littlechild and Elsa Stamatopoulou.
Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 51, no. 5, Indigenous Youth Resilience in the Arctic, 2014, pp. 735-756
Description
Looks at factors affecting resilience of Indigenous youth in five communities across the arctic including the Inuit in Canada, the Sámi in Norway, the Yup'ik and Inupiaq in Alaska, and the Eveny in Siberia.
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 38, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 2, Summer, 2014, pp. 174-193
Description
"This paper reports on an ethnographic research project conducted to explore the narrative skills of a group of eight Anishinaabe children."
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 38, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 2, Summer, 2014, pp. 152-173
Description
"This article discusses questions and issues to be considered when conducting language assessments with Canadian Aboriginal children."
Outlines recommendations resulting from the experiences of the interviewees: interventions with aboriginal individuals contemplating suicide, training and needs of suicide prevention workers, and organization of services.
Investigate review into the circumstances surrounding the death of a two-week-old infant whose family was involved with Alberta's child intervention system.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 10, no. 1, Sharing Knowledge Across Nations, 2014, pp. 16-34
Description
Findings show that arts-based approaches to the development of HIV-prevention knowledge and Indigenous youth leadership are helping to involve youth in a critical dialogue about health.
[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine
Description
Podcast discusses the research project kiskinohamâtôtâpânâsk: Intergenerational Effects on Professional First Nations Women Whose Mothers are Residential School Survivors.
Duration: unknown.
Accompanying material.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, 2014, pp. 111-127
Description
Focuses on the disconnect between the profession's required emphasis on bureaucratic policy and procedure, and Inuit collective belief systems. Specifically looks at child protection services.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, vol. 33, no. 10, October 2014, pp. 1023-1026
Description
Study concludes that rates of lower respiratory tract infections are elevated in First Nations infants living in the Sioux Lookout Zone and hospitalization rates were approximately double the provincial average.
Provides summary of past and current policies and programs in Canada, discusses initiatives in Aboriginal communities and common themes or objectives, looks at international Indigenous communities for similarities in concerns and challenges and how they are responding.
Indigenous Peoples' Access to Justice, Including Truth and Reconciliation Processes
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Denise K. Lajimodiere
Andrea Carmen
Description
Looks at the purposes of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
Chapter 17 from Indigenous Peoples' Access to Justice, Including Truth and Reconciliation Processes edited by Wilton Littlechild and Elsa Stamatopoulou.
First Nations, Inuit and Métis Essential Skills Inventory Project (FIMESIP)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF)
Description
Discusses a program which provides unemployed Aboriginal youth the targeted training they need to obtain either advanced training or employment in a specific occupation or trade.
First Nations, Inuit and Métis Essential Skills Inventory Project (FIMESIP)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF)
Description
Comments on the success of the classroom model which has successfully helped a large percentage of participants gain employment in the childcare field.
Presbyterian History, vol. 58, no. 2, Fall, 2014, pp. 4-8
Description
Brief article about death of young boy who, in 1966, died while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School located in Kenora, Ontario.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 4.