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.
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, Perspectives from Young Children on the Margins, 2017, pp. 189-205
Description
Describes how relations to family, community and culture are Incorporated into day-to-day interactions at Multifunctional Aboriginal Children's Service (MACS) in Queensland, Australia.
Looks at re-designing Indigenous school-based health programs and practices to include indigenous ways of knowing, learning, traditions, and values of the community.
Tripartite Working Group of the National Aboriginal Court Worker Program
Description
"This curriculum is developed for the purposes instructing Aboriginal Court Workers on how to integrate Gladue Principles into speaking to sentence for an Aboriginal client."
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.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 69-70
Description
Looks at interviews with over 100 people working in the mining sector in the Yukon Territory and their spouses to understand how they manage shift cycles that come with work of this type.
Interim Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shirley Maheu
Eileen Rossiter
Gérald A. Beaudoin
Thelma Chalifoux
Marisa Ferretti-Barth
Description
Examined the lack of legislation protecting Aboriginal women on reserves, in terms of property, available judicial remedies and execution of court orders, found that the situation violated their rights in terms of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and section 35(4) of the Constitution Act of 1982 and made recommendations for immediate actions.
Synthesizes research findings focusing on educational and health services and topical areas related to those services. Findings will be used in the development of future programs.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, poems, and various articles, including Traditional Parenting Skills in Contemporary Life by Shelley Goforth
Discusses the history non-native social workers within Aboriginal communities and the beginning of First Nations' control of child welfare.
Duration: 7:11.
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. lx-lxiii
Description
Looks at Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) as an effective treatment model for parents who either have difficulty with appropriate parenting skills or children with behavioural problems.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page lx.
Social Indicators Research, vol. 61, no. 2, February 2003, pp. 175-202
Description
Outlines a model of the household in mixed, subsistence-based economies; model is based factors including measurements of hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 49, no. 1/2, 2010, pp. 7-27
Description
Concludes that "early childhood educators should encourage and support Indigenous parents', families', and communities' efforts to ensure that their children acquire their Indigenous languages and cultures by identifying, embracing and incorporating Indigenous perspectives on how children learn in early childhood programs and classrooms".
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [104]-108
Description
Poem, inspired by the work of Carter Revard, seeks to capture the poet's identity as well as his family's.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 11, Supplement, October 2003, p. 15
Description
Article attempts to identify issues and concepts to guide in developing culturally appropriate mental health strategies; argues the mental health problems have social origins that require social and political solutions.
Discusses customary rights and responsibilities with respect to three areas: private advice-/knowledge, inherited ritual/ceremonial property (rituals, songs, stories, etc.) and House property (hereditary names, songs, stories).
Canadian Studies in Population, vol. 37, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 151-174
Description
Study shows that when children and parents belong to the same ethnic group, children will take their parents identity and in Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal unions, children will favor Aboriginal identities.