FORUM on Corrections Research, vol. 14, no. 3, Focusing on Aboriginal Issues, September 2002, pp. 58-60
Description
Research conducted to examine successful reintegration, development and maintenance of successful behaviours and make recommendations based on findings.
Provides historical background about issues relating to the play about the murdered and missing women from the "Highway of Tears", a section of highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
Argues that Canada's lack of support regarding First Nations issues, due to residential schools trauma, is simply a continuation of human rights violations.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 287-318
Description
Looks at the current violence caused by drug and human trafficking, challenges to addressing the problem, and review of initiatives to fix the challenges.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 287-318
Description
Looks at two American Indian Nations, that are recognized as drug conduits, and discusses possible solutions to the challenges faced by these and other Nations.
Report on the activities of the independent, quasi-judicial tribunal which administers the Independent Assessment Process for claims related to acts committed at the schools which resulted in physical and/or psychological injury.
Activist argues that rather than rely on Canadian law, the principles of Indigenous law, with their emphasis of reciprocal relationships, should be used to support sex workers' safety and agency.
Duration: 34:12.
Contextualizes the recovery of legal traditions by looking at past, present and future debates about Indigenous laws, and looks at one example of a legal concept, the wetiko or windigo which describes people who are harmful or destructive to others.
Chapter in book: The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law edited by Markus D. Dubber and Tatjana Hornle.
The Gathering: The Newsletter of the Church of the Redeemer, Easter-Pentecost , 2014, pp. 14-18
Description
Presentation from International Women's Day, March 8, 2014. Discusses recommendations from the report Invisible Women: A Call to Action. A Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada.
Database used for tracking people and community changes using population, education, culture, labour force, wellbeing, income, government, and housing categories. Sources include Northwest Territories Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Canada and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 26, no. 1, White Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in the Canadian Context: A Tribute to Patricia Monture, 2014, pp. 51-80
Description
Discusses the inquest and inquiry into the deaths of Neil Stonechild, Rodney Niastus, and Lawrence Wegner within the context of urban settler-Aboriginal relations.
Chronicles the uneven application of justice in the frontier areas by magistrates that were closely aligned with the social and economic interests of the settler communities.
Looks at the creation of Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Services (VATJS) and the development of a Downtown Community Court (DCC) to service chronic offenders in an area of Vancouver.
Family members, entertainers and organizer of the Walk 4 Justice discuss the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.
Duration: 54:35.
FORUM on Corrections Research, vol. 14, no. 3, Focusing on Aboriginal Issues, September 2002, pp. 20-24
Description
Argues these offenders are characterized by multiple problems including various types of abuse and identity problems. As such, they pose specific challenges for the corrections process. Information was gathered by study conducted in Vancouver.
Statistics include demographic information, most serious offences and charges, sentence length, responses to geographic questions, mobility patterns, and conclusions. National results as well as provincial and territorial.
[Patterns of Health and Wellbeing: An Intercultural Symposium ; 02]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Beverly Kiohawiton Cook
Description
Webcast of the keynote speaker from the Patterns of Health and Wellbeing Symposium, Beverly Cook, who speaks on child sexual abuse and the ACE program (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
Duration: 31:58.