Honoring Jordan's Principle: Obstacles to Accessing Equitable Health and Social Services for First Nations Children with Special Healthcare Needs Living in Pinaymootang, Manitoba
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Luna Vives
Vandna Sinha
Eric Burnet
Lucyna Lach
Description
Findings from interviews with primary caregivers, local and regional service providers and First Nations leaders centred on funding disparities and uncertainties about sustained funding, difficulties in administration due to distribution of responsibilities between provincial and federal governments, and the travel required to access specialized services.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, 1986, pp. 15-40
Description
Focuses on the possibility that acceptance of the legislation didn't necessarily mean appropriateness nor did it mean that it was embraced whole heartily.
Testimony before the Committee on Indian Affairs, U.S. Senate
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gretta L. Goodwin
Description
Statement by director of Homeland Security and Justice before the Committee on Indian Affairs, U.S. Senate. Discusses the extent to which: federal agencies collect and maintain data on investigations and prosecutions; tribal and major urban law enforcement agencies have encountered human trafficking and what factors affect the ability to investigate and prosecute; and available federal grants and how well positioned service providers are to know the numbers served.
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2000.
Argues that the efforts to empower First Nation people by granting them a significant role in the governance of their own lands and people comes as a mixed blessing.
Anglican Journal, vol. 126, no. 9, October 2000, p. 7
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Bishop declines to participate in campaign aimed at federal government urging resolution of residential schools issue because wording implied diocese directly involved.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 11, no. 1, New Series, 2000, pp. 87-108
Description
Discusses the Royal visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later George V and Queen Mary), the ceremonies held and review of the extensive related archival records.
Based on a comparison of correspondence between local and imperial administrators in British North America and Australia, argues that development of system reveals entrenched conflict which lasted throughout the nineteenth century.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 3, May 1986, pp. [12-21]
Description
Discusses the rapid social change and long-term effects that undermined traditional self-sufficient Alaskan lifestyle including factors such as welfare dependence; and stresses strategies about education and community development are essential.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, 2000, pp. 139-180
Description
Argues that one way to deal with the imbalance of the mainstream school system is through the process of negotiating, establishing and applying practical aspects of tuition agreements developed by both parties.
Native Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 1986, pp. 1-43
Description
Summary of policy developments, under Mulroney government, which examined the recommendations of Nielsen's task force and the resulting controversy. Part II to appear in Vol. 2, No. 2 of NSR.
Native Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 2, 1986, pp. 1-45
Description
Paper attempts to provide an overview of Indian policy
developments in context of recent policy initiatives of the Minister of Indian Affairs, Concludes with with observations on the current status of policy reforms.Part I appeared in NSR, Vol.2, no.1
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 6, November/December 2000, pp. 9-10
Description
Reports on the agreed range of key principles to establish the design and implementation of local programs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia.
Case studies of Marine Plan Partnership for the Pacific North Coast and the Great Bear Initiative and discussion of how principles involved might apply in the New Zealand context.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-19
Description
Argues there is still a place for a researcher to have academic autonomy over a project in non-community based research.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 6, November/December 2000, p. 8
Description
Alcohol and Other Drug Council of Australia (ADCA) calls on Federal Government to include a substance abuse expert in the proposed Indigenous Families and Communities Roundtable.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 263-282
Description
Looks at the Whitefish Lake Cooperative Management Agreement as an example of shared management and suggests this model that may influence future land and resource arrangements.