Reflection on some of the tragedies during 2004, like the Tsunami in Southeast Asia, a fatal Canada Day accident near Cochin, SK and the disappearance of Tamra Keepness in Regina.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 22, no. 1, 2015, pp. 77-94
Description
Study attempts to find sub-groups of AI adolescents based on risky behaviours such as substance abuse, aggressive behaviour, depression, and risky sexual behaviour.
Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education: Unit 3 Introduction
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jan Hare
Sara Florence Davidson
Description
Looks at culturally responsive education for Indigenous students and approaches to learning that are inclusive of Indigenous ways of knowing. Unit 3 of 6.
Duration: 14:23.
Final Report from the Commission on First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform ; vol. I
[Volume II: Submissions to the Commission]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Isobel M. Findlay
Warren Weir
J. Wilton Littlechild
Hugh Harridans
Glenda Conney
Joe Queqezance
Irene Fraser
Hugh Harradence
Description
Two volume report identifies eight critical areas to be considered when looking at justice reform: leadership, community promotion and crime prevention, victimization and violence, restorative justice, policing, institutions, racism, and children and youth.
Volume II Submissions to the Commission.
Presentation at the 15th Biennial National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, July 10, 2015 by the TRC Commissioner.
Duration: 1:03:48.
Reports about the years of neglect by professionals and the social care system that led to the death of a young Aboriginal woman, Paige Gauchier, from a drug overdose on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Duration: 21:13.
Report by the BC Representative for Children and Youth Paige's Story: Abuse, Indifference and a Young Life Discarded.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 74, 2015, p. article no. 29256
Description
Concludes that while the lower respiratory tract infection associated hospitalization rate declined, the American Indian/Alaska Native child rate remained higher that the general U.S. child population rate.
Docudrama about incident in 1884 when a lynch mob of approximately 100 Americans crossed the border and hung the fourteen-year-old St´:lõ boy who they accused of killing a American shopkeeper named James Bell.
Based on article "The Lynching of Louis Sam", B.C. Studies, No. 109, Spring 1996, pp. 63-79, by Keith Thor Carlson.
Duration: 52:04.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, 2015, pp. 207-223
Description
Discusses the case of an eleven year old First Nations child whose decision to end chemotherapy and use traditional medicines instead was criticized in Canadian mainstream media.
Overview of program developed to support positive mental health development. Includes discussion of the camp structure and the Eight Ujarait / Rocks Model used in the curriculum, and reports results of surveys conducted with campers, parents, facilitators and youth mentors.
A portrait photograph taken in Toronto of George G. Mann's three children after the family was released from captivity in 1885. (l to r) George Mann Jr., Charlotte and Blanche. They spent the summer in Ontario with their mother Sarah and returned to Onion Lake in the fall of 1885.
Research and Practice Brief (Casey Family Programs)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jason R. Williams
Erin J. Maher
Jill Tompkins
Lydia F. Killos
James W. Arnell ... [et al.]
Description
Looks at current areas of compliance and study findings, current approaches to measurement of ICWA compliance and provides recommendations for best practices in those areas.
Children's Mental Health Policy Research Program ; vol. 1, report 9
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bill Mussell
Karen Cardiff
Jennifer White
Description
Focus on Aboriginal perceptions of health, determinants of mental health, and community approaches and strategies to help youth services and agencies be more effective.
Discusses the need for maternity care services in Aboriginal communities including the recruitment of Aboriginal women into the profession of midwifery.
Created to accompany play. Includes curriculum connections and expectations, brief information on residential schools, and pre- and post-show questions.
Describes activities undertaken by the Qikiqtani Inuit Association, provides background information on the development and functioning of the National Inuit Youth Suicide Prevention Project, and makes recommendations for future actions.
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 2, Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up, 2015
Description
Speaker discusses history of colonization in the Pacific Islands, characteristics of the Pasifika community in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and her research into how young adults are using social media to express identity.
Duration: 40:15.