Articles » General
Author/Creator
Clint Bracknell
Casey Kickett
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 81-98
Description
Authors examine the ways that the radio show Inside Out helps to connect imprisoned Aboriginal Australians with their families, their communities and each other. Article also discusses the access to Indigenous culture the public radio show provides to non-Indigenous people.
Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Bioprospecting: Searching for Efficient Balance of Rights
Theses
Author/Creator
Aman Gebru
Description
Juridical Sciences Thesis (JSD)--University of Toronto, 2017.
Jane McKee Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Jane McKee
Cyndy Baskin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview where she gives an account of native use of plants for medicine. She tells of prophecies concerning the arrival of the white man and general accounts of her life in the bush.
Joe Duquette Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Joe Duquette
Christine Welsh
Tony Snowsill
Indian History Film Project
Description
Joe Duquette, born 1904, on Mistawasis Reserve, never attended school, completely self-educated. Now Senator of F.S.I. and involved in teaching and counselling young people. He tells the story of his arranged marriage.
Josephine Beaucage Interview #1
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Josephine Beaucage
Cyndy Baskin
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with Josephine Beaucage where she gives an account of trapping in the woods as well as an account of the preparation of hides.
Kaupapa Māori Approaches in Contests Related to Youth Offending / Environmental Scan
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Evidence Centre - Te Pokapū Taunakitanga
Description
Looks at features of 22 programs which operate to address issues in the areas of conduct problems, reducing re-offending, remand, rehabilitation, and mental health and substance abuse.
Killing the Indian in the Child: Materialities of Death and Political Formations of Life in the Canadian Indian Residential School System
Theses
Author/Creator
Bryanne Huston Young
Description
Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017.
LTSS in Our Community: Assisted Living: Summary Report
Alternate Title
Long Term Services and Support in Our Community: Assisted Living: Summary Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kauffman & Associates
Description
Looks at three programs: Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, Pueblo of Isleta, and the Yukon Koyukuk Elder Assisted Living Consortium and discusses their experiences with program development and sustainability, state licensing, Medicaid certification, and regulations, resident payment policy, staff and training, and cultural considerations.
Max Ireland Interview #2
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Max Ireland
Alex Cywink
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview where he gives accounts of storytelling amongst the Oneida; accounts of the educational system and its abuses.
Métis Perspectives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBTQ2S+ People
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak = Women of the Métis Nation
Miýo-pimatisiwin Developing Indigenous Cultural Responsiveness Theory (ICRT): Improving Indigenous Health and Well-Being
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
JoLee Sasakamoose
Terrina Bellegarde
Wilson Sutherland
Shauneen Pete
Kim McKay-McNabb
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 2, 2017, pp. 1-16
Description
Examines using the Indigenous Cultural Responsiveness Theory as a decolonizing way to research health, education, governance and policies.
Mrs. Ada Ladue and Mrs. Beatrice Nightraveller Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Ada (Mrs.) Ladue
Christine Welsh
Beatrice Nightraveller
Indian History Film Project
Description
Ada Ladu was born on the Mistawasis Reserve, worked for wages in the 1930s, married and mother of five. Beatrice Nightraveller, daughter of Josie Cuthand, was born on the Little Pine Reserve, Saskatchewan, worked for wages in the 1930s, also married with five children.They share: a story of a white baby girl abducted and raised by Indians in the Prince Albert, Saskatchewan district; accounts of the Riel Rebellion (1885), especially the aftermath in the North Battleford district; philosophies of child-rearing; loss of portions of Little Pine Reserve and the death of Little Pine.
Native Life
Alternate Title
CANADIANHISTORY.CA: The Many Histories of Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
J .R. Miller
Description
Overview of Aboriginal history from the 1850s to 2000. Could be used as an educational resource for high school students.
Network Patient Health Survey: Aboriginal People's Health Report 2015
E-Books
Author/Creator
Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network
Description
Surveyed prison population in New South Wales, Australia.
The North West Mounted Police and Their Influence on Sport in Western Canada, 1873-1905
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul H. Fudge
Journal of the West, vol. 22, no. 1, January 01, 1983, pp. 30-36
Description
Discusses the history of how the teams came to be, various games played and the eager competition.
Ontario's History of Tampering and Re-Tampering With Birth Registration Forms
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynn Gehl
The First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2017, pp. 24-33
Description
Looks into governmental interference with the long form birth registration for unmarried or separated mothers.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Our Identities as Civic Power
Alternate Title
2017 State of Native Youth Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute
[Erik R. Stegman
Amber Richardson
Josie Raphaelito
Aaron Slater
Bettina Gonzalez]
Description
Reports on the results of the Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) Online Roundtable Survey of Native American youth between the ages 18-24. Respondents were asked about their three top priorities, what they are doing to tackle their challenges, and some of the ways they are partnering with their community to build resilience.
Our Sacred Land: Indigenous Peoples' Community Land Use Planning Handbook in BC
Alternate Title
Our Sacred Land: Indigenous Peoples' Community Land Use Planning Handbook in British Columbia
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Beringia Community Planning Inc.]
Description
Related Material:
Toolkit Resources.
Out of Sight: A Summary of the Events Leading Up to Brian Sinclair's Death and the Inquest That Examined It and the Interim Recommendations of the Brian Sinclair Working Group
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Annette J. Browne
Emily Hill
Barry Lavalee
Josée Lavoie
Mary Jane Logan McCallum]
Description
Group formed to examine the role of racism in Sinclair's death and the subsequent inquest. The 45-year-old Aboriginal man died while awaiting treatment in the Health Sciences Centre Emergency Department. He had been in the department for 34 hours.
Overincarceration of Indigenous People: A Health Crisis
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Davinder Singh
Sarah Prowse
Marcia Anderson
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 191, no. 18, May 06, 2019, pp. E487-E488
Description
Authors argue that incarceration is a social determinant of health and that it disproportionately affects Indigenous people because of disparities in rates of incarceration; cite statistical analysis that indicate the specific effects of incarceration and notes historic and contemporary calls to address the situation.
Pathways in a Forest: Indigenous Guidance on Prevention-Based Child Welfare
E-Books
Author/Creator
West Coast LEAF
Pathways in a Forest: Indigenous Guidance on Prevention-Based Child Welfare
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Elba Bendo
Sharnelle JenkinsThompson
Isabelle Busby
Emily Beier
Description
Focuses on seven topics: eight principles of Indigenous child welfare, understanding the overrepresentation of children in care, legal context, root causes, discrepancies in delivery of services, current approaches and recommendations in the area of family violence, current approaches and recommendations in the area of substance use, and improving financial supports for families.
A Place Where It Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Daphne Penrose
Description
Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth's report on the investigation into several service agencies' involvement with a troubled teen who was eventually found murdered.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat
Alternate Title
NISPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Firelight Research
Description
Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Provincial Gang Strategy: Forum & Community Consultation Reports
Alternate Title
Building Healthier Communities: Final Report on Community Recommendations for the Development of the Saskatchewan Prevention / Intervention Street Gang Strategy
Saskatchewan Communities Speak: Provincial Gang Strategy Phase 2 Community Consultation Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Robert Henry
Dave Shanks]
Description
Reports on Phase I and II of the project. Five overarching themes emerged: infrastructure and leadership; addressing trauma, colonization, and settler colonialism; knowledge translation and mobilization; addressing systemic oppression and structural issues of poverty and homelessness; and institutional supports. Consultations took place in communities throughout Saskatchewan.
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Final Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Summary Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
A Qualitative Study on Stigma and Discrimination Experienced by Indigenous Peoples Living with HIV or Having TB at Work
E-Books
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Secretariat of the International Indigenous HIV and AIDS Working Group
Quebec First Nations' Health and Social Services Governance Process: Effective Governance for the Wellness of First Nations
E-Books
Author/Creator
Georges A. Legault
Reclaiming Power and Place: Executive Summary of the Final Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Volume 1b
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Reclaiming What Is Sacred: Addressing Harm to Indigenous Elders and Developing a Tribal Response to Abuse in Later Life
E-Books
Author/Creator
Lauren J. Litton
Victoria Ybanez
Description
Topics include general overview, defining and understanding the problem, complexities and considerations, and potential strategies. Also includes tools to enhance conversation and planning.
Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carol Muree Martin
Harsha Walia
Description
A comprehensive report on the participatory research project funded by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG, MMIW) facilitated through the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC). Project engaged 113 Indigenous and 15 non-Indigenous women drawing on their experience and expertise as survivors of gendered colonial violence.
Remembering Why We Sit at the Table
Theses
Author/Creator
Faith Decontie
Description
Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2017.
Discusses the Cree Nation of Chisasibi's Land Based Healing Program.
A Review of First Nation Youth and Young Adult Injury Deaths: 2010 - 2015
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
BC Cornoners Service
First Nations Health Authority Death Review Panel
Description
Found that 60% of unexpected deaths were accidental (motor vehicle crashes, overdose, downing and fire), 33% were due to suicide, and 5% were the result of homicide. Identified three key areas to prevent deaths and support wellness and well-being: connectedness to peers, family, community and culture; access to services; and culturally safe and trauma-informed care.
Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Melanie Vasselin
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 2, 2017, pp. 95-96
Description
Book review of: Rivers of Sand by Christopher D. Haveman.
Rufus Goodstriker Interview 1
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Rufus Goodstriker
Christine Welsh
Tony Snowsill
Indian History Film Project
Description
An interview with Rufus Goodstriker, born in 1924 on the Blood Indian Reserve and attended a residential school. He tells of the origins and significance of the transfer of Indian names, especially within his own family. He also talks about Indian medicine and the power of faith; the Indian spiritual way vs. the Western technological way;of herbs, animal spirits, sweat bath in healing etc.
Social Justice, Access and Quality of Healthcare in an Age of Austerity: Users' Perspective from Rural Iceland
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sonja S. Gustafsdottir
Kristjana Fenger
Sigridur Halldorsdottir
Thoroddur Bjarnason
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1347476
Description
Looks at access, variety, quality and equity in health care after the consolidation of healthcare services in Fjallabygoo.
Sources of Stress among Midwest American Indian Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jessica H. L. Elm
Melissa L. Walls
Benjamin D. Aronson
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 26, no. 1, 2019, pp. 33-62
Description
Report uses an inductive/deductive analytical approach to analyze focus group transcripts from five tribal communities; constructs a Continuum of American Indian Stressor Model from categorization of nineteen stressor categories within four domains. Also identified poverty, genocide, and colonization as fundamental causes of contemporary stress and health outcomes and notes that stressors are generally experienced as chronic.
Standing with Our American Indian and Alaska Native Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People: Exploring the Impact of and Resources for Survivors of Human Trafficking
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Glenna P. Stumblingbear-Riddle
Ann K. Burlew
Daniel Gaztambide
Michelle R. Madore
Helen Neville
Journal of Indigenous Research, vol. 7, no. 1, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, 2019, p. Article 1
Description
Authors use an intersectional and trauma-informed approach to engage with the consequences of human trafficking for Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people; they then consider resiliency factors, and make culturally informed recommendations to assist psychologists in working with survivors of trafficking.
A Strength Based Approach: Responding to Violence Against Indigenous Women Case Study: North Point Douglas Women’s Centre, Winnipeg
Theses
Author/Creator
Juliana Coughlin
Description
Peace and Conflict Studies (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2019.
Strengthening Âhkamêyimo among Indigenous Youth: The Social Determinants of Health, Justice, and Resilience in Canada's North
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Osemis Isbister-Bear
Andrew R. Hatala
Erynne Sjoblom
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing: Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 3, December 2017, pp. 76-89
Description
Literature review of academic articles published between 2000 and 2016 which deal with resilience from an Indigenous perspective.
Study of Gender-based Violence and Shelter Service Needs across Inuit Nunangat: Final Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Quintessential Research Group
Substance Use Patterns of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Women Offenders
Alternate Title
Research in Brief (Correctional Service Canada) ; RIB-19-08
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Correctional Service Canada
Research in Brief (Correctional Service Canada)
Description
Uses statistics from the Women’s Computerized Assessment of Substance Abuse (W-CASA) with a sample of 908 federally sentenced women for the period between November 2016 and January 2019.
A Syllabus for History after the TRC
Alternate Title
A Syllabus for History After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Historical Association
Description
Goal of document is to "gather together materials on Indigenous history in and around Canada that might be useful for people teaching, researching, writing history or working in public history".
Current as of 2019.
[Table: 35-10-0060-01]: Number of Homicide Victims and Persons Accused of Homicide, by Aboriginal Identity, Age Group and Sex [2014-2018]
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
Data from the Homicide Survey, which collects police-reported data on the characteristics of all murder incidents, victims and accused persons.
Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
[Table 35-10-0119-01]:: Number and Rate of Victims of Solved Homicides, by Sex, Aboriginal Identity and Type of Accused-Victim Relationship [2014-2018]
Alternate Title
2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
Data from the Homicide Survey, which collects police-reported data on the characteristics of all murder incidents, victims and accused persons.
Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
A Teacher's Guide to Student Inquiry for the Graphic Novel Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story by David Alexander Robertson and Scott B. Henderson
E-Books
Author/Creator
Connie Wyatt Anderson
Description
Novel tells the story of the nineteen-year-old Cree girl from Norway House Cree Nation who was murdered near The Pas, Manitoba on November 13, 1971. Recommended for use with students Grade 10 or above.
Teaching Proper Drinking?: Clubs and Pubs in Indigenous Australia
Alternate Title
Research Monograph (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no.39
E-Books
Author/Creator
Maggie Brady
Research Monograph (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research)