Looks at essential components, techniques, challenges and opportunities to reduce violence against Indigenous women and girls. Includes literature review, examination of multi-sector collaborative solutions, and results of interviews with community members, subject experts, and participants in collaborative human service models.
Discusses the activities of the Indigenous Anti-Human Trafficking Liaisons Project in the areas of survivor engagement and supports, community engagement and education, Indigenous women-specific programming, and inter agency collaboration; Reports on issues raised in sessions with survivors, community members, and service providers which provide the basis for seven recommendations.
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.
LawNow, vol. 43, no. 3, Juries in Canada, January 23, 2019, p. [?]
Description
Brief discussion of the issue in relation to the case of R. v. Stanley, which involved a farmer charged with the second-degree murder of Colten Boushie, a young man from the Cree Red Pheasant First Nation.
The Need for a Unique Métis Claims Process - Minister's Special Representative Report (2016) on Métis Section 35 Rights
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Thomas Isaac
Zachary Davis
Description
Two presentations: "The Need for a Unique Métis Claims Process - Minister's Special Representative Report (2016) on Métis Section 35 Rights" and "Métis Scrip: A Claim Against the Crown". Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 1:54:44.
Vancouver Police Department's response outlines present and future initiatives. Discusses recruitment practices, strengthening community relations, culturally appropriate and gender-neutral policy, practices and procedures, increased training in cultural competence and trauma informed responses, review of investigative practices and future directions.
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.
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Description
Represents views and opinions of the National Inquiry after consultations with legal scholars and lawyers with expertise on genocide and international crimes. Topics include: definition, Canada's actions and omissions as genocidal conduct (actus reus), Canada's specific intent to destroy Indigenous peoples (mens rea), and Canada's responsibility for genocide and obligations for reparations.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 289-292
Description
The author, a settler witness to the Manipi Hena Owasin Wicunkiksuyapi (the 2002 walk to commemorate the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota peoples forcibly removed from their lands to Fort Snelling) discusses suggestions for a living monument in memory of the events.
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.
Gender, Place & Culture, vol. 26, no. 6, 2019, pp. 868-887
Description
Uses life course analysis of four women to explore linkages between relationships to the land, colonialism and intergenerational violence, and argues that rather than putting themselves at risk as is popularly perceived, they find themselves subjected to circumstances created and maintained by the Canadian state which make them vulnerable to perpetrators of violence.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: We Demand More: A Corrected Research Study of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls in Washington State
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Abigail Echo-Hawk
Adrian Dominguez
Lael Echo-Hawk
Description
Challenges efficacy of information found in the Missing & Murdered Native American Women Report issued by the Washington State Patrol.
Social Justice, vol. 31, no. 4, Native Women and State Violence, 2004, pp. 54-62
Description
Authors speaks about experiences with family members and drug abuse and looks at banishment as a form of punishment in the Lummi Nation tribal community.
A documentary examining the impact on Indigenous-white relations from the trail and acquittal of Gerald Stanley's regarding the fatal shooing of Cree man Colton Boushie.
Documentary about treatment of the case of Colton Boushie, a young Cree man who was shot and killed by Saskatchewan farmer Gerald Stanley who was subsequently acquitted of second-degree murder.
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Literature review includes topics of colonialism, socio-economic marginalization, culture clash, systemic discrimination in policing, courts and corrections, and initiatives such as Gladue courts and changes to sentencing policy. Identifies gaps in efforts to reduce overrepresentation and suggests ways to improve the situation.
Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth's report on the investigation into several service agencies' involvement with a troubled teen who was eventually found murdered.
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.
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.
Looks at the Ontario Provincial Police's investigation into the widespread abuse which took place at the notorious St. Anne's Indian Residential School located in northern Ontario and Federal government's refusal to release the documentation which would support survivors' compensation claims.
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Duration: 21:56.
Commission established pursuant to the Saskatchewan Public Inquires Act to report on findings and to make recommendations, without drawing conclusions about the civil or criminal responsibility for the death of Mr. Stonechild.
Includes a general overview of restorative justice principles and processes, and discusses the complexity of balancing enforcement, victim issues and rehabilitation.
Lists sources dealing with causes and effects of domestic violence, studies which have measured the effectiveness of restorative justice, key concerns, and discussion on the efficacy of restorative justice in cases of violence against and abuse of female intimate partners.
Historical Resilience: The Story of Violence against Native Women
More Than Seven Times for the Next Seven Generations
Save Our Sisters: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Sovereignty of Our Nations, in the Law and Over Our Bodies
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sarah Deer
Mary Kathryn Nagle
Jaime Black
Marita Growing Thunder
Cherrah Giles
Description
Videos of talks given at a symposium sponsored by the National Museum of the American Indian.
"Historical Resilience: The Story of Violence against Native Women" by Sarah Deer.
"Sovereignty of Our Nations, in the Law, and Over Our Bodies" by Mary Kathryn Nagle.
"Dancing Myself Home" by Jaime Black.
"More Than Seven Times for the Next Seven Generations" by Cerrah Giles.
"Save Our Sisters: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls" by Marita Growing Thunder.
Panel Discussion.