Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 04-043
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[Policy and Research Division]
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Evaluated local economic development by looking at connection to cities, economic base, local capacity, housing, and recent growth. Compared 239 communities based on location and population size. Used 1996 and 2001 Census of Canada Community Profiles, 2001 Business Register and First Nations Profile Database.
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bert Waslander
Tyler Minty
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Description
Compared 239 First Nations communities to similar mainstream communities matched by location and population size using five variables: connection to cities, economic base, local capacity, housing and recent growth.
Results of interviews conducted with 63 principal householders involved in the program. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
Canadian Journal of Urban Research, vol. 13, no. 2, Winter, 2004, pp. 241-256
Description
Argues that while many street people have substance abuse problems and are generally disadvantaged, they are far from powerless and utilize many strategies in order to survive.
Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum ; 2004
The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
C. D. James Paci
C. Dickson
S. Nickels
L. Chan
C. Furgal
Description
Comments on the links between climate change and security of traditional/country food.
Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.
Comments on ways to make communities food secure by increasing knowledge about food-related needs and resources and by building collaboration and capacity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 29-56
Description
Examines the National Reclamation Act and how many people in the Gila River and Casa Grande valleys, including government officials, thought that the first reclamation project would be built in Arizona.
Frank Cardinal (aged 68), chief of the Sucker Creek Reserve, discusses Treaty #8 and its interpretation, the establishment of the reserves around Lesser Slave Lake, and problems facing a chief in modern times.
Argues that the appropriation of the totems for use as one of the symbols for the Canadian nation state masks the reality of the Aboriginal-settler relationship.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Governance of Aboriginal Health, January 2004, pp. 66-67
Description
Book reviews of:
Unfinished Dreams: Community Healing and the Reality of Aboriginal Self-Government by Wayne Warry and
Shifting Boundaries: Aboriginal Identity, Pluralist Theory, and the Politics of Self-Government by Tim Schouls.
Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, Winter, 2004, pp. 429-450
Description
Argues that Native Americans experimented with their identities and dramatized their resistance to white society and culture during the Haskell Institute homecoming of 1926.
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Gay Barton
Description
Examines some of Louise Erdrich's more significant familial protagonists, and her intra- and inter-family webs.
Looks at available evidence to offer educators, policymakers and public answers to the questions of importance of leadership and the essential ingredients for success.
ANZAM 2004 : Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bob Kayseas
Kevin Hindle
Robert B. Anderson
Description
Looks at the socioeconomic conditions of Indigenous Canadians and indicators to measure their well-being and socioeconomic status; examines the capacity and indicators of Indigenous entrepreneurship and business development; and identifies information available from secondary sources relating to these indicators.
Uses the novel to discuss whiteness in an Australian colonial context from an Aboriginal perspective.
Aboriginal Studies and English Honours Thesis (B.A.)--University of Tasmania, 2004.
Fifth Canadian Rural Health Society Conference: Rural Health: Celebrating Diversity and Strength, Sudbury, Ontario, October 21-24, 2004
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anelise Santo
Tara Lyons
Description
Identifies four contributing risk factors: sexually transmitted disease, substance abuse, social problems and cultural factors.Recommends further research and culturally sensitive community involvement to address epidemic.
Presents three positions papers:
Reflections on Contemporary Indian Education by Vine Deloria.
An Historical Overview of Indian Education with Evaluations and Recommendations by Lehman L. Brightman.
Eastern American Indian Communities by Robert K. Thomas.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 3, Autumn, 1974, pp. [183]-192
Description
An analysis of the writings of the author and discussion about how both her fiction and non-fiction works provided a better understanding of Indigenous people during her time.