Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision
Description
Measures the well-being against indicators across a range of areas including health, education and employment, and identifies programs and policies which appear to be improving outcomes.
Looks at development of past and current programs, initiatives in other jurisdictions, content of programs, parent needs, and effective program elements, and provides key recommendations.
English Studies in Canada, vol. 36, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 49-70
Description
Argues that the Canadian state's efforts to disrupt Aboriginal family life and isolate children from their parents, are not being recognized in redress claims.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, July/August 2007, pp. 28-31
Description
Comments on enormous burden change has placed on Aboriginal and Torres Strait people resulting in displacement of traditional male role as main family provider.
Examines parent and community engagement, cultural and language programming, teachers, instruction and curriculum resources, professional development, and individual students supports at Francis of Assisi Elementary School and Le Roi Daniels Elementary School.
Highlights contemporary challenges facing Indigenous peoples including American Indians and Alaskan Natives.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page vii.
Discussion of Wayne Suttles' work on Northwest Coast cultures, including an analysis of marriages, that has become the predominant theory of the region's social organization.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 107-116
Description
Examines the personal, academic and psychosocial factors that encourage or inhibit educational success. Emphasis is on Aboriginal students in Québec.
Article in French.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Assam University, Silchar, 2010.
Focuses on the works Slash, Whispering in the Shadows, Honour the Sun, Silent Words, and Kiss of the Fur Queen.
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, vol. 43, no. 6, 2007, pp. 429-437
Description
Looks at the impact and cultural appropriateness of program concluding with decreased rates of behaviour problems and dysfunctional parenting practices.
Comments on filmmakers's representation of the Mohawk men, women and children in the her documentaries dedicated to telling the story of the Mohawks of Kanawake involved in the 1990 crisis.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. [1]-31
Description
Discusses how U.S. federal Indian policy attempted to disrupt existing relationships, alliances and traditional ways of thinking.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 1.
Introduction: People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Marilyn Callahan
Christopher Walmsley
Description
"This chapter highlights the importance of not discarding our past but, rather, understanding the actions of social work pioneers within the context of their times and gaining appreciation for their accomplishments".
Introduction and Chapter 1 from People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia edited by Leslie T. Foster and Brian Wharf.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, 2007, pp. 145-198
Description
Book review of:
Becoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country Brian Joseph Gilley.
Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes.
Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest edited by V. B. Price and Baker H. Morrow.
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War by Clarissa W. Confer.
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P.
Reach Out: Connect: Contemporary TheMHS in Mental Health Services
Reach Out: Connect: Proceedings of 16th Annual TheMHS Conference 2006
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Inge Kowanko
Colleen Prideaux
Jackie Ah Kit
Lourdes Ordasi
Helen Murray
Charlotte de Crespigny
Description
Chapter from: Reach Out: Connect. Contemporary TheMHS in Mental Health Services by Paula Hanlon, Sadie Robertson, Kevin Kellerhear, Cathy Issakidis, Vivienne Miller ... [et al.].
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 7, no. 677, 2007, pp. 1-11
Description
Explores living with HIV infection in rural Alberta; understanding the idea of health, accessing care, challenges and benefits of rural life, and the relationship between personal beliefs and values to HIV.
Docu-drama about a young man from the Lakota Sioux Nation in South Dakota who travels to Washington State to live with his uncle to learn about his relatives, the coastal Salish. In the process he also learns about the environment and the salmon.
Duration: 43:59
See resource guide Shadow of the Salmon: Respect the Salmon, Respect Yourself.
Looks at the work of a leading Australian historian Patrick O'Farrell, and delves into why the offspring of Irish and Aboriginal parents are prouder of their heritage than those of other European ethnic groups.
Looks at the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families and its effects and discusses the shifts in child welfare policy, and amendment to adoption laws.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. [53]-61
Description
Discusses the impact of residential schools and the forced removal of children for the purposes of foster care or adoption. Argues that current practices and training must take into account the damage inflicted by the drive for assimilation and incorporate the Aboriginal worldview when dealing with clients.