Comprehensive list of both print and audiovisual materials for use by classroom teachers available through the Instructional Resources Unit, Manitoba Education and Training. 5th edition.
See also : Aboriginal Peoples: Resources Pertaining to First Nations, Inuit and Metis: 2004 Supplement
Current Issues in Language Planning, vol. 9, no. 4, 2008, pp. 440-463
Description
Looks at the Traditional Land Use Study and Consultation Unit created to act as an intermediary between industry, the provincial government of Alberta and First Nations to protect language and culture.
Indian Claims Commission: Neskonlith, Adams Lake, and Little Shuswap Indian Bands Neskonlith Douglas Reserve Inquiry
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Submitted specific claim to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development arguing that a reserve had been created in 1862 by the British Crown and was later unlawfully reduced. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
[Northern Perspective: New Approaches to First Nation Infrastructure Development]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Amanjit Garcha]
Dwayne Nashkawa
Description
Outlines challenges faced in addressing infrastructure needs and gaps, and discusses how this First Nation went about planning and financing improvements.
Virtual exhibition divided into six sections: how we lived with the buffalo; how we lived with the land; how we lived with other people; our world; and traditional stories.
Includes link to teacher toolkit.
Examines the meeting in which that the Nlha7kápmx people displayed to the Queen solidarity, organization and the ability to live by acceptable rules of law.
Northern Quebec James Bay Cree Regional Health Governance in Support of Community Participation: Honouring the "Butterfly"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martine C. Lévesque
Susan Law
Jill Torrie
Robert Carlin
Lucy Trapper ... [et al.]
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, October 21, 2019
Description
Discusses the revelations of studies conducted by the Quebec regional health and social services agency on community engagement in healthcare planning. Highlights the nuanced differences between Cree perspectives and non-Indigenous perspectives and the need for models based in the recognition and elevation of community knowledges and viewpoints.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 89, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 189-221
Description
Examines the eviction of the Keeseekowenin Ojibway Band from a small reserve within the Riding Mountain National Park boundary in response to local economic development, tourism, and federal administrative priorities.
Health Reports, vol. 19, no. 1, March 2008, pp. 1-15
Description
Compares data for Aboriginal people living off-reserve and non-Aboriginal people aged 19 to 50 from the 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey: Nutrition (cycle 2.2).
Collection of K-12 thematic units and lesson plans which focus on Aboriginal culture and perspectives on water and water quality issues faced by reserves.
Statistical information on number of prescriptions, number of prescriptions by type, rates of opioid-related hospitalization and emergency department visits, and mortality
Results from talking with people from Aboriginal, academic, government and non-governmental organizations.
On one pdf. Scroll down to page 27 to read article.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Study of 100 parents of AI/AN children 71 months or younger attending outpatient paediatric primary care appointments found that the odds of regular child toothbrushing were 49.10 times higher when the parent brushed their own teeth regularly.
Book review: The Original Journal of Charles Larpenteur by Charles Larpenteur, transcribed and annotated by Erwin N. Thompson and edited by Michael M. Casler.
Documentary aboutthe scars and legacy of residential schools on the First Nations Reserve of Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island In Georgian Bay Ontario.
Duration: 59:29.
Presents the welcome page of the Our Legacy digitization project of archival materials relating to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples held by several archival cultural collections in Saskatchewan.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 341-360
Description
Author (an Anthropology Professor) attempts to define contemporary Indigenous identity in the Southwestern United States from an ethnographic perspective.
Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, vol. 36, no. 1-2, 2008, pp. 89-104
Description
Looks at data from the National Violence Against Women Survey and explores barriers around reporting rape to the police in American Indian communities.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education , vol. 30, no. 4, Tribal College Women, Summer, May 5, 2019, p. [?]
Description
Article profiles two women who were instrumental in the creation of tribal colleges and universities (TCUs): Ruth Roessel founder and president of Navajo Community College (now Diné College), and Carol Davis, a founding member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC).
Summarizes the results of research with Pikangikum First Nation elders to learn about their perspectives and knowledge of fire in their traditional area.
Aboriginal Healing in Canada: Studies in Therapeutic Meaning and Practice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Joseph P. Gone
Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research Series
Description
Chapter in book: Aboriginal Healing in Canada: Studies in Therapeutic Meaning and Practice edited by James B. Waldram.
Looks at program administered by the Nelson House Medicine Lodge located on the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation.