The Act provides support for First Nations' authority over child and family services. Document discusses national legal principles, positive principles, standards and norms, restricting or constraining provisions, the interplay between elected Indian Act Band Councils and traditional governance structures, and the applicability of First Nations laws.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 69, no. 2, Negotiating the Culture of Indigenous Schools, Winter, 1994, pp. 12-18
Description
Author uses personal experiences to explain the stresses involved with understanding two cultures relating to values, activities, obedience, worldview and contemporary cultural tools.
American Theatre, vol. 22, no. 6, July/August 2005, pp. 20-23, 80
Description
Interview with William S. Yellow Robe Jr., an Assiniboine playwright, who wrote Better-n-Indians, Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and The Independence of Eddie Rose.
A comprehensive report on the participatory research project funded by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG, MMIW) facilitated through the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC). Project engaged 113 Indigenous and 15 non-Indigenous women drawing on their experience and expertise as survivors of gendered colonial violence.
Image of a refugee camp during the Northwest Resistance. Women and children of Batoche were permitted to leave the village to escape enemy fire. Visible are supplies piled up on the ground in front of a cluster of tents.
Pediatrics, vol. 115, no. 2, February 2, 2005, pp. 127-134
Description
Analysis of multi chemical exposure among adolescent girls suggests that the attainment of the first menstrual period may be sensitive to relatively low levels of lead and Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) congeners.
Results of community consultation process and literature review focus on incorporation of both Aboriginal and western perspectives for health improvement as well as current strengths and weaknesses.
Science Education, vol. 89, no. 4, July 2005, pp. 595-613
Description
Found that students having a larger number of protective factors were more likely to learn science in the way described by the collateral learning theory.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 11, November 2005, pp. 1982-1988
Description
Examines culturally appropriate interventions to increase use of restraints such as infant, child and booster seats, as car crashes are the leading cause of death of children in the United States.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 4, 2005, pp. 121-172
Description
Book reviews of:
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.
American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature by Paulette F. Molin.
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family by Claudio Saunt.
Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society by Brian Fagan.
Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer by Robert J. Conley.
The Cherokee Nation: A History by Robert J.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 3, Series 2: Linda Hogan: Calling Us Home, Fall, 1994, pp. 71-92
Description
Book reviews of:
Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman’s Sourcebook by Paula Gunn Allen.
The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary
American Indian Fiction edited by Alan Velie.
The Things That Were Said of Them as told by Asatchaq; translated from the Inupiaq by Tukummiq and Tom Lowenstein.
wanisinwak iskwêsisak awasisasinahikanis: A Cree Story for Children as told by Nêhiyaw/Glecia Bear.
The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich.
The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie.
Full Moon on the Reservation by Gloria Bird.
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Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Indigenous Epistemologies and Education: Self-Determination, Anthropology, and Human Rights, March 2005, pp. 73-87
Description
Examines the concept of self determination used in the Ramah Navajo community and gives a Navajo perspective on self-determination and education.
Journal of Cultural Diversity, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer, 2005, pp. 62-68
Description
Study conducted through interviews indicated that the role of cultural conservator was carried out through storytelling, support of children taking part in cultural activities and transference of traditions and values.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study uses digitised parish records from the Demographic Data Base at Umeå University to compare how the season of birth affected the neonatal and stillbirth risk among the Sami and non-Sami in Swedish Sápmi during the nineteenth century.
Declaration of the 2nd International Indigenous Youth Conference, 17-21 June 2005, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
Articles » General
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, Indigenous Youth, 2005, pp. 24-27
Description
Highlights from conference bringing together indigenous youth representatives from all over the world to define the roles and tasks of a youth network.
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