Helping Indigenous Students at First Nations University of Canada to Thrive
Theses
Author/Creator
Lisa Bighead
Description
Leadership Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2019.
Comments on communities that appear to be at similar levels of risk or adversity but display large differences in outcomes.
Chapter from Promoting Resilient Development in Young People Receiving Care: International Perspectives on Theory, Research, Practice & Policy edited by R. J. Flynn, P. Dudding, J. Barber.
Relates the history of a residential school where between 1884 and 1889 fifty-two children died, one of whom was only six months old.
Reviews 2018 Indigenous child welfare legislation to address the welfare of Indigenous children and families.
Recommendations developed as a result of feedback gathered in six Talking Circles composed of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants.