Reports responses of 319 individuals who were asked questions about family life, income nd employment, education, housing and homeless, public accommodation, harassment and violence, police interactions and prisons, health and identity documents.
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2008 Survey Results.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 54, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 356-377
Description
Reviews literature on school change and student achievement, data relating to school change of Aboriginal students in public schools, and consequences for schools with high rates of mobile Aboriginal students.
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing: Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin, vol. 3, no. 1, July 2018, pp. 57-68
Description
Discusses use of the Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope (PATH) tool for collecting data and working with Māori whānau (families) to prevent chronic conditions. Authors found this method useful as it fits with Māori strengths-based values, is responsive to the worldview of participants, and is participatory.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 333-342
Description
Discusses the myriad of legal and customary protocols that contemporary Aboriginal citizens must negotiate in the regards to adoptive cultural practices. Describe the Creation and Great Law narratives which help members of the Iroquois Confederacy makes sense of these conventions.
All My Relations: Making Kin and Kindred in a Postgenomic World
Ancestry, Genes, and a Colony Chief: Peguis’ People and the Red River Métis
Kinship vs. Race: Reconciling Metis-First Nations Historical Relations
Reflections on Daniels v Canada, Reconciliation and Redress: Setting the Agenda
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Robert Innes
Harold Robinson
Rick Smith
Jessica Kolopenuk
Description
Emphasis on racial distinctions between Métis and First Nations, ignores intermarriage, kinship ties, and shared cultural understandings; recommendations for agenda items for changes in Canada-Indigenous relations in light of the Daniels decision
Duration: 1:50:08.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 29, no. 3, Job Creation, Spring, 2018, p. [?]
Description
Brief discussion on solar gardens installed on the reservation that provide energy assistance to 100 low-income families and how the College is leveraging the new infrastructure to connect with solar energy training and careers.
Provides overview of society including spirituality, organization. kinship, culture, customs, ceremony, ritual, and law.
Chapter 2 from: Aboriginal Benchbook for Western Australia Courts by Stephanie Fryer-Smith.
Chapter 2 located by scrolling to page 2:1.
Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Pamela J. Downe
Description
Looks at the impact of mother blame and stigmatization on Aboriginal women who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS and injection drug use. Includes experiences of three women author encountered while working with AIDS Saskatoon.
Entire book on one pdf. To read this chapter scroll to p. 103.
Chapter from Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance edited by Michelle Hughes Miller, Tamar Hager, and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich.
Author describes her personal and professional reasons for participating in the Moving Research about Addressing the Impacts of Violence on Learning into Practice project. Excerpt from book of the same name produced as a result of the project.
Revised edition of handbook originally published in 1997, provides guidelines for development of programming, roles and responsibilities of agencies, and evaluation tools.
Documentary about three sisters and a brother meeting for the first time after being taken from their mother and adopted out as part of the "Sixties Scoop".
Duration: 1:19:21.
Documentary about three sisters and a brother meeting for the first time after being taken from their mother and adopted out as part of the "Sixties Scoop". Edited version of the original.
Duration: 45:00.
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Mini-Lesson.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, 2008, pp. 93-108
Description
Illustrates converging narratives, oral traditions and dialogues that root Louisiana Creoles to an Indigenous history. The Louisiana Creoles are a métis/mestizo people separate but linked to their land and kinship ties.
Information Sheet (Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal) ; #192E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kenn Richard
Jennifer Ma
Barbara Fallon
Description
Uses information from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2013. Statistics for child functioning issues, caregiver risk factor concerns, and household risk factors.
Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, vol. 75, no. 1, February 2008, pp. 18-25
Description
Interviews families of the Lil'wat Nation in British Columbia who have children with developmental disabilities in order to gain a better understanding of child rearing beliefs and practices.