Summarizes and updates recommendations from the report drawn from the Civil Justice System and the Public (CJSP) project which focused on civil, family and administrative law.
Mamow Sha-way-gi-kay-win North-South Partnership for Children in Remote First Nations Communities
Description
Assessment focuses on six key areas: livelihoods, infrastructure, community participation, education/recreation, children and parents and mental and physical health.
Overview of current policies and practice in Alberta's kinship care program, highlighting what is working and recommendations for on going improvement.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, July/August 1998, pp. 2-3
Description
Reports on a program which encompassed older, influential women in a remote, outback community in Northern Territory, Australia empowering them to take responsibility for their own well being.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter, 2009, pp. 97-99
Description
Book review of: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: The Recovery of Tradition by Robert M. Nelson.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 97.
Book review of: Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia edited by Katie Glaskin, Myrna Tonkinson, Yasmine Musharbash and Victoria Burbank.
Review located by scrolling to page 278.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Florence Dupré
Description
Comments on the naming and kinship system.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 1998, p. 31
Description
Describes the inaugural National Sorry Day held in a suburban Sydney, Australia community. This event was held one year after the Bringing Them Home inquiry chronicled the Stolen Generation of child removed from Aboriginal families.
Reclaiming Children and Youth, vol. 7, no. 3, Fall, 1998, pp. 130-132
Description
Introduces the Native American Circle of Courage model and discusses the first principle. First issue in a series of four exploring the universal needs principles of children and youth for belonging, mastery, independence and generosity.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Himachal Pradesh University, 2009.
Focuses on Lee Maracle's Daughters Are Forever and Ravensong, and Beatrice C. Mosionier's In Search of April Raintree and In the Shadow of Evil.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009, pp. 28-37
Description
Looks at the social work policies and practices with Aboriginal children and families and explores ways to develop better social work services for Aboriginal communities that would affirm and support traditional ways.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 457-468
Description
Author draws on different interviews he has conducted with Diné (Navajo) to discuss metaphors used by elders to make traditional values accessible to contemporary youth.
Discusses how the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota philosophies & spiritual belief strategies can be applied to promote a healthy path for Native families & communities.