All My Relations: Making Kin and Kindred in a Postgenomic World
Ancestry, Genes, and a Colony Chief: Peguis’ People and the Red River Métis
Kinship vs. Race: Reconciling Metis-First Nations Historical Relations
Reflections on Daniels v Canada, Reconciliation and Redress: Setting the Agenda
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Robert Innes
Harold Robinson
Rick Smith
Jessica Kolopenuk
Description
Emphasis on racial distinctions between Métis and First Nations, ignores intermarriage, kinship ties, and shared cultural understandings; recommendations for agenda items for changes in Canada-Indigenous relations in light of the Daniels decision
Duration: 1:50:08.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Jasmin Bhawra; Martin J. Cooke; Yanling Guo; Piotr Wilk
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, vol. 37, no. 3, March 2017, pp. 77-86
Description
Results show Indigenous children are at risk of being overweight or obese if there is very low food security and a poor school environment that exposed them to racism, bullying, and drugs.
Documentary about three sisters and a brother meeting for the first time after being taken from their mother and adopted out as part of the "Sixties Scoop".
Duration: 1:19:21.
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens.
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Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
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Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, 2017, pp. 372-392
Description
Discusses how a digital map of Amiskwaciwaskahikan (Cree for Edmonton, Alberta), along with an overlay of Treaty 6 Indigenous maps onto a conventional map can be used to show Indigenous people were in Canada in a tangible way. Also looks at the Ogimaa Mikana project in Toronto, Ontario.
Discusses a framework for capacity building including principles and recommendations relating to human resource development, data management, accountability, and institutional development.
From Black Horses to White Steeds: Building Community Resilience
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Brian Beaton
Franz Seibel
Lyle Thomas
Description
Includes information from 2014 online community questionnaire about digital technology use and local social enterprise, as well two case studies: a Keewaytinook Okimakanak project to support social enterprises and entrepreneurs, and a presentation by an entrepreneur in one of the Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nations.
Paper from From Black Horses to White Steeds: Building Community Resilience edited by Laurie Brinklow and Ryan Gibson.
Office of Audit and Evaluation Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada
Description
Describes and analyzes program which was developed to deliver holistic programs to Indigenous children aged 0 to 6. Presents findings and recommendations.
Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 2017.
Focuses on the Six Nations of the Grand River, Oneida Nation of the Thames, and Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 12, no. 2, 2017, pp. 15-24
Description
Paper offers a cautionary note on the importance of understanding culture and context when conducting First Nations health research with large data sets and outlines some approaches to research that can ensure appropriate development of research questions and interpretation of research findings.
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration With Counselling Psychology
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Joseph P. Gone
Description
Foreword in the book: Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration With Counselling Psychology edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley and Ashley Hyatt.
Looks at mental health policies, practices and institutions in Aboriginal communities.
The Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 3, Special Issue Commemorating The Sesquicentennial of Cherokee Removal 1838-1939 , Fall, 1989, pp. 519-539
Description
Looks at the plight of the Cherokee Nation during this period ending with their removal to Oklahoma.
Glass Half Empty? Year One Progress toward Resolving Drinking Water Advisories in Nine First Nations in Ontario
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica Lukawiecki
Description
Communities assessed: Constance Lake First Nation, North Spirit Lake, Slate Falls Nation, Anishinabe of Wauzhushk Onigum, Shoal Lake 40, Obashkaandagaang, Wawakapewin First Nation, Northwest Angle No. 33, and Nibinamik First Nation.
Arctic, vol. 42, no. 2, Current Perspectives on Western Boreal Forest Life: Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Research in Late , June 1989, pp. 109-118
Description
Looks at the prehistory of the upper Tanana Valley by looking at Healy Lake Village using source records, photographs, oral history from descendants of the trader who owned a post near the village, and ethnographic information from fieldwork.
Housing Needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives in Urban Areas: A Report from the Assessment of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing Needs
Housing Needs of Native Hawaiians: A Report from the Assessment of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing Needs
Mortgage Lending on Tribal Land: A Report from the Assessment of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing Needs
Curator of the exhibition entitled Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian discusses the exhibition about the pervasiveness of the image of the American Indian in popular culture and the controversy surrounding the validity of artist Jimmy Durham's Cherokee identity.
Duration: 58:51.