Provides examples for health and social service providers in Ontario to help pregnant women create a support system. Includes list of resources for programs and services.
Discussion by Elders who express regrets at loss of traditional customs and values and desire a return of schools on reserves ; a need to preserve Indian ceremonies and Indian medicines ; concerns about problems with alcohol recur throughout.
Elders discuss contemporary problems. Recurring themes are: problems with alcohol; education by whites from an early age; need to return to traditional teaching by elders in combination with white education.
Elders discuss concerns regarding: loss of Indian culture and traditions; failure to educate young Indians in traditionalways; young well-educated chiefs who will not take advice from elders.
Elders speak of their concerns regarding leadership on the reserves; new young leaders with education but no experience who ignore the elders and their advice; the failure to educate the young in traditional Indian ways.
Discussion of the educational system: relative merits of day schools, residential schools, integrated schools, etc.; need for inclusion of Indian culture into the curriculum at all levels ; the role of the elder as teacher.
Discussion of Indian ceremonies: how these are passed on from generation to generation; the role of women. Tipis: particular kinds of tipis; decorated tipis; tipis inrelation to death customs. No date given but probably January 1974, same as the others in this series.
Discussion of: Role of elders in setting young people on the right road ; Importance of breast-feeding and giving up alcohol ; Need for a tipi on each reserve, to be kept for prayer, pipe ceremonies and the counselling of the young.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 397-399
Description
Book review of: A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England by Frank Waabu O'Brien (Moondancer) and Julianne Jennings (Strong Woman)
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 81-101
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Promotes the cohesion of Haudenosaunee people on both sides of the United States/Canada border by sharing history, clan research and linking clan relatives.
Examines the structural factors behind disproportionality in the system and reviews approaches that go beyond traditional limits of social welfare systems.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 27-46
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Study probes the importance of kinship relations, with respect to individual and collective identity, for members of the Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Edition: 10th Anniversary of the Reconciliation: Touchstones of Hope for Indigenous Children, 2015, pp. [44]-61
Description
Presents a summary of knowledge gained through ethnographic research.
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
Description
Report was developed for two child and youth mental health agencies (one a First Nations agency) seeking to understand the current literature related to best practices.
Canada's History, vol. 95, no. 3, June-July 2015, p. 19
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Contains a plea from the Hudson Bay Company Archives asking for help identifying people from thousands of photographs taken in northern Canadian communities from 1920 to 1960.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, 2010, pp. 1-42
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Looks at the strengths and limitations of the Siyá:m System of leadership, and discusses the government and missionary actions which isolated and curtailed the traditional inter-village family interactions.
Canadian Social Trends, no. 90, Winter, 2010, pp. 73-82
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Data from the 2006 Aboriginal Children's Survey used to identify characteristics associated with the ability to understand an Aboriginal language among children aged 2 to 5. Examines the extent to which the home, the extended family, child care settings, and community contribute to the transmission of languages.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Edition: 10th Anniversary of the Reconciliation: Touchstones of Hope For Indigenous Children, 2015, pp. [18]-30
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Study shows that social identity plays an important role in the reunification process.
Discusses the importance of First Nations control over the adoption process and the need for government funding to support culturally based adoption services and programs.
Looks at re-designing Indigenous school-based health programs and practices to include indigenous ways of knowing, learning, traditions, and values of the community.
BC Studies, no. 188, Winter, 2015/2016, pp. 114-115
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Book review of: French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest by Jean Barman.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To read this review scroll to p. 114.
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2015, pp. 363-389
Description
Describes how Anishinabek women attempted to maintain their subsistence livelihood in light of the disruptive influence of several hydroelectric projects on the food supply and reproductive health.