First Nations Métis Education Provincial Advisory Committee (FNMEPAC)
Description
Working draft of strategy with vision to build local capacity through relationship and understanding, excellence and equity, and accountability to First Nations and Métis learners and all learners across Saskatchewan.
Access Catalyst Leaders' Toolkit.
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 105-112
Description
Describes prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and associated neuropsychiatric problems among two communities, one in the Southwest U.S., and one in the U.S. Northern Plains.
Western Policy Analyst, vol. 4, no. 5, 2013, pp. 6-8
Description
Discusses results from the University of Saskatchewan survey Taking the Pulse, 2012. Contains data on Aboriginal issues, health, wellbeing, family, economics, and crime.
Scroll down to page 6 to read article.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2013, pp. 34-63
Description
Looks at income disparities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, reasons for this disparity and proportions of Aboriginal people in the middle-income category.
National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Kevin FitzMaurice
Don McCaskill
Jaime Cidro
Description
Focuses on seven of the fourteen research topics: general demographics; poverty and social services; the emerging middle class; the two-spirited community; law and justice; racism; and the arts.
Chapter from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté.
Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.
Study focused on: education, culture and identity, political representation, housing, economic development, racism, health, economically successful residents, youth issues, and gaps in social services. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey.
Sample size of 340.
Summarizes trends in diabetes services and clinical outcomes among American Indian/Alaska Native patients at participating Urban Indian Health Institutes.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 25-31
Description
Looks at the differences in rural versus urban birth and infant outcomes for Indigenous peoples in Quebec.
The Journal of Nutrition, vol. 140, no. 10, 2010, pp. 1839-1845
Description
Study investigated the prevalence of, and risk factors (gender, age, vitamin D intake, and socioeconomic status) for low vitamin D in 16 Arctic communities.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 1, Summer, 2010, pp. 125-149
Description
Discussion on the frustration felt, by northern Aboriginal peoples, that research conducted in the north is invariably not relevant to the people or to pubic policy.