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.
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
Description
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
Description
Study probes the importance of kinship relations, with respect to individual and collective identity, for members of the Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Sustainable Development, 2001, pp. 34-37
Description
Reports on an annual walk undertaken by a Innu woman in Labrador as an example of a healthy life of balance and perspective.
To access this article scroll down to page 34.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, 2010, pp. 1-42
Description
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.
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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 45-64
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Explores the characters' efforts to resist the dominant culture's oppression, their methods of resistance, and their role as subversive agents for change.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 8, no. 2, Health of the Hawaiians, 2001, pp. 364-367
Description
Paper looks at the foreseeable harms associated with genetic research and traditional research ethics to provide adequate protection for human subjects and suggests that new principles and laws need to be developed.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 219-229
Description
Book reviews of: Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller.
Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land by Hans M.
Discusses the history non-native social workers within Aboriginal communities and the beginning of First Nations' control of child welfare.
Duration: 7:11.