Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Employment and Social Development Canada
Description
Contains data on general economic conditions, national maps showing regional variations in unemployment rates and employment gains, regional employment profiles, and brief feature articles.
Divided into nine sections associated with the partnership cycle: defining the partnership; identifying and approaching partners; assessing the partnership climate and building skills, creating infrastructure; delivery of project; monitoring and measuring; troubleshooting; revising and adapting; and moving on. Also includes tools such as checklists, sample letters, presentations, and questions, and templates.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 4, April 2011, p. 17
Description
Comments on a Memorandum of Understanding, signed by five of Saskatchewan's tribal councils and the government, with the goal of bringing employment to First Nation communities.
Article found by scrolling to page 17.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 9, October 2011, p. 22
Description
Suggests that casinos provide the chance for advancement in employment both in the casino and other companies.
Article located by scrolling to page 22.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 6, June 2011, p. 20
Description
Looks at the Transitions to Trades program and the success it has had for a Saskatchewan woman working towards stabilizing her life.
Article located by scrolling to page 20.
Mr. Bear has worked for Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting company for almost 30 years and he talks about the many changes he has witnessed as well as some of his experiences.
Riverboats have sailed from Fort McMurray, Alberta, to Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan, for almost a century. The article describes today's system of tug-boats and barges, and traces the history of riverboats from early times.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall, 2011, pp. 114-124
Description
Looks at Aboriginal forest based activities for economic development on and off the reserve. Opportunities are identified by the National Aboriginal Forestry Association.
First Nations, Inuit and Métis Essential Skills Inventory Project (FIMESIP)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF)
Description
Discusses a program which provides unemployed Aboriginal youth the targeted training they need to obtain either advanced training or employment in a specific occupation or trade.
Outlines the targets made by the Australian government to close the gap in life expectancy, early childhood health, education, and employment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Uses income, education, housing and labour force activity to determine socio-economic well-being of First Nations, Inuit and non-Aboriginal communities.
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 118, February 24, 2011, pp. 1-33
Description
Study of 16 Aboriginal scholars currently or formerly employed as professors in Ontario; examines the under-representation of Indigenous scholars in the academy and especially in regard to retention. Findings illustrate the need for employment equity policy which addresses issues of recruitment and the valuation of Indigenous scholarship.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 2, Workforce Development, Winter, 2014
Description
Discusses how tribal colleges in Montana and North Dakota are initiating new innovative accelerated curriculum programs to address the region’s workforce necessities.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, pp. 121-144
Description
Looks at the scope of social inequity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations as well as within the Métis and Inuit populations over a five year period.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall, 2011, pp. 135-139
Description
Looks at economic conditions by examining employment rates between Aboriginal people living on and off reserves based on age, gender, geography and education level.