Dialogue of 120 community leaders identified shared principles and approaches to support injustices in Canadian society. Presents a speech by a holocaust survivor.
Duration: 15:11.
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.
Study interviews engaged and non-engaged parents, teachers, and school administrators from six Saskatchewan high schools as well as national and international administrators. Concludes with recommendations.
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.
Project consisted of analysis of print media coverage and interviews. Five topics came to the forefront: leadership, mothering, families and transitioning out of sex work, ethical and effective service, and the media.
CFCA (Child Family Community Australia) Paper ; no.25
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shaun Lohoar
Nick Butera
Edita Kennedy
Description
"This paper explores some of the characteristics of traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural practices that contribute to effective family functioning, and how these practices can have positive effects on children and communities."
Looks at the relevance of existing asthmas education materials and identifies how these materials could be adapted to better suit the needs of the communities.
Provides statistics on number of children in care, and child abuse and neglect; discusses factors contributing to removal and highlights successful programs.
Reviews successful multi-component programs which include behavioural parent training, self-instructional training and school-based contingency training, that could be incorporated to treat Aboriginal children and youth with FASD.
Presents a website that highlights a literacy program for children and their families. The program celebrates and explores stories through books, oral traditions and art.
Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, vol. 4, Fall, 2014, pp. 182-210
Description
Overview of project that brought together university students, Aboriginal high school students and former gang members. Focuses on interconnectedness and kinship.
Looks at the familial relationships which developed in the community of Île à la Crosse as well as those established with representatives of the fur trade and the Church.
Introduction and Chapter 1 of: One of the Family: Métis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 2, Special Issue 2014: Revitalizing Education: in Inuit Nunangat, 2014, pp. 49-52
Description
Discusses two core suggestions taken from the National Strategy on Inuit Education 2011 report, investing in mobilizing parents and developing leaders in Inuit education.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 3, Fall, 2014, pp. 62-80
Description
Interview with Cherokee author who discusses personal, familial, cultural, social, literary, and popular expectations about American Indians.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 62.
Summer Institute in Indigenous Mental Health Research, Montreal, Quebec, June 2014
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Vanessa Currie
Description
Speaker describes process of building and applying the model which guides the Nenan Dane ẕaa Deh Zona Family Services Society in its attempts to see that children are not removed from their families and sent into care. The Society operates in the Peace River area of British Columbia.
Duration: 24:46.
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rachael Price
Description
Describes how elements from these novels serve as a mirror of hybridity theory with an emphasis on stories and the idea of journeys for true cultural unity.
Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 51, no. 3, Historical Trauma, June 2014, pp. 339-369
Description
Looks at narratives outside of the official Truth and Reconciliation Commission, such as oral histories and Inuit art and film, for aspects of the colonial trauma and the impacts of history.
International Journal of Mental Health Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 320-335
Description
Reviews existing research of alcohol and illicit drug treatments and looks at two integrated treatment programs for Aboriginal women, New Choices and Sheway.