Study conducted using interviews with 62 Alaska Native individuals who had attended schools or had parents who had experienced them. Looked at: disruption of family, multiple losses, coping strategies, and resilience.
Showed mental health outcomes for those attending boarding school fell in to five categories: severely impacted, ambivalent, positive, activated and driven.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 191-193
Description
Book review of: Voices Under One Sky: Contemporary Native Literature by Trish Fox Roman (Editor). Reviewer recommends for use in grades 10-12 and introductory Aboriginal Literature at university level.
Brief article on a presentation whose goal was to advocate incorporating the concept of "a healthy way of life" into nursing education and develop options for recruitment/retention of Aboriginals in the Faculty of Nursing.
Documentary from the report, Bringing Them Home: Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children From Their Families. Survivors speak about their experiences.
Duration: 32:29.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Resistance and Resiliency: Addressing Historical Trauma of Aboriginal Peoples, March 2007, pp. 121-136
Description
Looks at the merits of university and community collaboration in the development of a community-based healing program for residential school survivors living in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
Examines issues related to quality education for First Nations learners; factors which are associated with First Nations control and jurisdiction; overview of how First Nations are looking to build their governments; provisions for education in their treaties; and education provisions in modern day treaties.
Project Report (Sustainable Forest Management Network) ; September 30. 2007
[SFMN Project: Professional Forestry Certification in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Constraints for Forestry Curriculum Change]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Naomi Krogman
Kendra Isaac
Trena Allen
Peggy Smith
Description
Looks at a study which illustrates the importance of Aboriginal consultation in regards to the appropriateness of their undergraduate forestry training and continuing educational opportunities.
Journal of Employment Counselling, vol. 34, no. 4, 1997, pp. 171-179
Description
Discusses five components of Aboriginal culture which should be Incorporated into counselling: connectedness, balance, roles and responsibilities, aptitudes, and values.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 37, no. 1, Special Issue - Part I, Fall, 1997, pp. [16-44]
Description
Questionnaire results show gaps between recommended practices and actual practices, suggesting that partnerships need to be formed to bridge that gap .
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 2007, pp. 75-83
Description
Discusses similarities of two residential structures, government schools and foster homes, that have housed Aboriginal children when they were removed from their people. The paper is an attempt to influence child welfare practice in ways that would respect the integrity of family and Aboriginal communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, A Special Symposium Issue on Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs, 1978, pp. 397-405
Description
A discussion about educational, financial and spiritual changes in the Navajo lifestyle that has led to changes in Navajo beliefs and culture. However, these markers alone are not sufficient enough to prove the presence or absence of specifics beliefs and further research is required.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 4, Health and Healing, Summer, 2007
Description
Focuses on public health research projects being conducted at two tribal colleges in North Dakota, including the development of a grade K-12 diabetes based science curriculum and looking at genetic research on toxemia.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 30, no. 1, Indigenous Approaches to Early Childhood Care and Education, 2007, p. 83
Description
Discusses insights gained from the Both Ways Children's Services Project which looked at the question of "What constitutes an effective and sustainable children's service in remote Northern Territory communities?"
Anglican Journal, vol. 133, no. 5, May 2007, p. 11
Description
Comments on how the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Archbishop of Moosonee are disappointed over the Federal Government's refusal to issue an apology to former students of residential schools.
Anglican Journal, vol. 133, no. 9, November 2007, p. 7
Description
Discusses compensations the Anglican Church of Canada has paid out to former students of First Nations boarding schools under the old residential schools agreement and the revisions made to the agreement effective, Sept. 19, 2007.
Anglican Journal, vol. 133, no. 2, February 2007, p. 9
Description
Reports the acquisition of rare photographs, by the Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod, depicting life in an Anglican-run First Nations residential school in Alberta.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 10, October 2007, p. 21
Description
Comments on a play, produced by the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company's Circle of Voices, that looks at issues such as cultural identity and the intergenerational effects of residential school.
Article located by scrolling to page 21.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 22, no. 1, 2007, pp. 61-91
Description
Uses judicial decisions to examine how plaintiffs have fared in tort actions focusing on three issues: credibility, damage assessment and vicarious liability.
"Paper presented at Canadian Aboriginal Law 2007, Pacific Business and Law Institute, November 16, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario".
Provides historical and current views, procedural issues and the aboriginal law experiences of class action.
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 30, no. 4, Coalition Work in Indigenous Educational Contexts, 2007, pp. 989-1014
Description
Overview of study, women participants and challenges of intra-group and intergroup work. Concludes with interpretation of essay by Thomas King, "What Is It About Us That you Don't Like?"
Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, vol. 16, no. 1/2, 2007, pp. 45-56
Description
Study found that those who reported having sex at a later age and who scored higher on a measure of assertive communication reported higher levels of self-efficacy to use condoms.