Canadian Public Policy, vol. 20, no. 3, September 1994, pp. 297-317
Description
Recommends ways to keep Aboriginal people in their communities by offering support for sustaining hunting, fishing and trapping through co-management of renewable resources, better use of under utilized resources, training and support for wildlife harvesters and more support for entrepreneurship.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 1-36
Description
Relates how the citizens of Williams Lake, British Columbia responded to a public inquiry into the treatment of Aboriginal peoples in the justice system.
Includes discussion of historical context, contemporary (1994) population and socio-economic conditions, funding arrangements and jurisdictions, and recommendations for facilitating movement towards self-government.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2001, pp. 161-177
Description
Describes the process involved in developing a policy to manage the use of alcohol in recreational facilities, including policy regulations, community survey results, and indicators of success.
Paper explores, analyzes and compares a representative sample of the mechanisms in place to provide ratepayer input into taxation systems where those ratepayers do not form part of the electorate for the governing councils.
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.
Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Research Program: A Joint Initiative of Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre and Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority: Research Compilation, vol. 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre
Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority
Description
Material is full text of peer-reviewed literature.
Research Program of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Serpent River First Nation
Description
Purpose of research project was to develop a governance model based on consultation with the community carried out through both on- and off-reserve surveys and focus groups.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 45-70
Description
Argues that tribal historic preservation methods provide insight for all cultural heritage managers. Uses the approach and findings of the Grand Ronde Land Tenure Project as an example of repurposing archival documents in the interests of the Indigenous peoples.
Estimates of the baseline (2016) and projected longer-term impacts on the population entitled to Indian registration associated with amendments that would remove the "1951 cut-off" and "second generation cut-off" provisions in the 2010 Indian Act. These estimates are a result of the Descheneaux decision and the proposed amendments contained in Bill S-3.
Jasmin Bhawra; Martin J. Cooke; Yanling Guo; Piotr Wilk
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, vol. 37, no. 3, March 2017, pp. 77-86
Description
Results show Indigenous children are at risk of being overweight or obese if there is very low food security and a poor school environment that exposed them to racism, bullying, and drugs.
Basic Income Guarantee and First Nations: Cautions for Implementation
Basic Income Guarantee Series
Research Paper (Northern Policy Institute) ; no. 19
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gayle Broad
Jessica Nadjiwon-Smith
Description
Discusses suitability of Ontario's basic income guarantee program. Looks at differences between poverty experienced by First Nations as opposed to general population, challenges associated with administration, results of literature review on implementation, and identifies questions that should be asked during the evaluation phase.
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)
Description
Annual reference report on the demographic, social and economic conditions of First Nations people on and off-reserve. Topics include population, education, health and social conditions, housing, self-government and economic and labour force activity.
Information Quality and Research Directorate. Information Management Branch
Corporate Services
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)
Description
Annual reference report on the demographic, social and economic conditions of First Nations people on and off-reserve. Topics include population, education, health and social conditions, housing, self-government, and economic and labour force activity.
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Annual reference report on the demographic, social and economic conditions of First Nations people on and off-reserve. Topics include population, education, health and social conditions, housing, self-government and economic and labour force activity.
Documentary follows three First Nations students as they compete in Saskatchewan's first-ever First Nations Provincial Spelling Bee and their subsequent trip to the National Championships in Toronto.
Duration: 44:08.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 3, Summer, June 1, 2001, pp. 453-479
Description
History of the institution of chattel slavery with a focus on the relationship between the Chocktaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and Mvskokean Cherokee and African slaves; including the forced relocation known as the "Trail Where We Cried" or the "Trail of Tears".
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research-Part 2, October 2017, pp. 1-32
Description
Uses U.S. census data and linear regression model to predict per capital income and house hold income for Hawaiians and compares information to U.S. census data in California.
Book review of: Bibliometric Analysis of Soviet and Post-Soviet Histiography of the Native Population of Alaska of the Russian-American Period by A. V. Grinëv, translated by Richard L. Bland.
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.