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".
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 3-27
Description
Chronicles the results of recent cutbacks at the federal level and privatization resulting in service gaps in movement from reserve/rural areas to cities.
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.
Includes study covering period from 2005 to Health Canada's finalization of the transfer of control to the First Nations Health Authority in 2013 as well as selected aspects of the Authority's accountability and governance framework between 2013 and 2015 in response to allegations against the Authority.
Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special Issue on Canadian and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 391-409
Description
Looks at the theory of refusal in Mohawk Interruptus by Audra Simpson and details of the changes on the northern plains in late nineteenth century in Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk and Metis and the Medicine Line by Michel Hogue.
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.