in education: exploring our connective educational landscape, vol. 17, no. 2, Summer, 2011, p. [?]
Description
Researches how First Nations cultural access, practice & preservation are essential to the development and enhancement of second level support services to help Aboriginal students succeed.
David Berner: Ending the Dependency Trap ; episode 8, part 1
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Calvin Helin
David Berner
Description
Interview with the author of two books which discuss First Nations reliance on the government and the need for self-sufficiency.
Duration: 14:18.
Part II.
David Berner: Ending the Dependency Trap ; episode 8, part 2
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Calvin Helin
David Berner
Description
Continuation of an interview with the author of two books which discuss First Nations reliance on the government and the need for self-sufficiency.
Duration: 14:13.
Part I.
Representatives from Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, Canada Mortgage and Housing, Dept. of Health, and Office of the Auditor General answer questions about the Office's 2011 status report, which contained the chapter "Programs for First Nations on Reserves".
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 92, no. 3, September 2011, pp. 481-514
Description
Discusses how the mountaineers narratives associated with the Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition can offer insights to an epistemology of place where landscapes, nature and culture exist as an integrated entity.
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.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 181, no. 5, September 1, 2009, pp. E90-E91
Description
Looks at the charge by public health officials and Aboriginal health experts that environmental conditions, insufficient federal funding, strategies and polices have increased the spread of the swine flu among remote First Nations communities.
Canadian Medical Association, vol. 181, no. 5, September 1, 2009, pp. 90-91
Description
First Nations communities, public health officials and aboriginal health experts accuse the federal government of being unprepared for the H1N1 influenza in Nunavut and other remote First Nations communities causing the rapid spread of the pandemic.
Reports on commitments made by the federal and provincial government to address suicide and substance abuse in the communities of Sheshatshiu Innu and Mushuau Innu, Labrador.
Study included developing a database organizations providing housing services and their policies, procedures, and practices, case studies of effective organizations, and identification of best practices.
The Last Word: After the Residential School Apology: Why All Canadians Should Care about a Racial Equality Case Before the Canadian Human Rights Commission
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cindy Blackstock
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009, p. 89
Description
Looks at the insufficient government funding for statutory child welfare services.
First Nation Citizenship Research & Policy Series: Building Towards Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Description
Focuses on First Nations perspectives on meaning of being Indigenous, belonging to a community, and relationship of these memberships with the institutions of the Canadian state.
Discusses the need for governments to remove barriers to First Nations economic activity and how more needs to be done to ensure that Aboriginal youth complete skills training, K-12 schooling and post-secondary education.
Between: First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (Applicant) and Attorney General of Canada, Assembly of First Nation, Canadian Human Rights Commission, Chiefs of Ontario and Amnesty International (Respondents) Notice of Application
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society
Description
Court document outlines reasons for an appeal launched in the wake of the ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal regarding the level of services provided to First Nations children in foster care.
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.
Explains suggested revisions and updates to Indian Control of Indian Education 1972 (ICIE 1972) document to reflect current challenges and changes in education.
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 97, December 10, 2009, pp. [1]-16
Description
Argues that despite the fact that on-reserve schools seem to provide an education equivalent to that obtained through provincial systems, in reality they fall short of this objective. The paper also explores the issues that remain since control has shifted to First Nations Peoples.
Contends that First Nations funding falls short, and with the recession, and growing deficit there will be further cuts to programs that are already underfunded.