Outlines issues that face Inuit women, their children, elders and communities, and presents some of the ways Pauktuutit Inuit Women's Association is responding to the challenges.
The Act provides support for First Nations' authority over child and family services. Document discusses national legal principles, positive principles, standards and norms, restricting or constraining provisions, the interplay between elected Indian Act Band Councils and traditional governance structures, and the applicability of First Nations laws.
Act asserts Indigenous peoples' jurisdiction over child and family services and establishes national standards. Paper examines issues related to national standards, jurisdiction, funding, accountability and data collection.
Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Reports results of environmental scan which involved a literature review of both grey and academic publications, a series of key informant interviews with 20 individuals working in the field. Six topic areas are covered: links between childhood adversity and suicide and promising practices for addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters focusing on children and youth, current supports in the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Highlights contemporary challenges facing Indigenous peoples including American Indians and Alaskan Natives.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page vii.
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.
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.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, 2004, pp. 131-181
Description
Book reviews of :
American Indian Education, a History by Jon Allan Reyhner and Jeanne Eder.
The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West by Barre Toelken.
Battle for the BIA: G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier by David W.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Special Issue on Teaching Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony, 2004, pp. 15-22
Description
The author describes how her father, Robert Leslie Evans, became the model used for the main character, Tayo, and how she is related to Leslie Marmon Silko.
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.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 5, September/October 2004, p. 30
Description
Author who is Chair of the Bidgerdii (Australia) Aboriginal Community Health Service describes her choice to go to University and the price she paid in loneliness and isolation.
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.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 3, September 2019, pp. 253-260
Description
Authors work to contribute to the field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander masculinities in Australia by foregrounding and privileging how these men perceive themselves. Study considers interviews with 13 men and discusses “Indigenous masculinities rooted in place; a relationality motivated by an intergenerational sense of responsibility; a nuanced idea of acting hard.”
Reviews literature about family-centered services and family preservation services. Concludes with recommendations for "best practices" for policy makers.
From Health Worker to Health Worker...Across Australia The Story of Our Kids Need Dads Who...Posters and the Skills and Strengths of Indigenous Dads, Uncles, Pops and Brothers DVD
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Author/Creator
Craig Hammond
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 5, September/October 2004, pp. 8-11
Description
Describes the evolution of the project from a poster campaign to a video for Australian communities with Indigenous fathers.
Research conducted on 201 urban Aboriginal youth and then compared with previous sample of both Aboriginal (241) and non-Aboriginal (1874) high school students. Goal to better understand behaviours, knowledge, attitudes, utilization of existing services and service needs.
Fact sheet #9 describes a vision which includes accessible services, comprehensive education and holistic care.