Developed with the goal of assisting non-Indigenous staff to gain cultural competency through an understanding of family and kinship systems and historical and contemporary contexts, as well as providing information on the services available for support.
Program is designed to help health care providers become comfortable in treating this group. Aimed at physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, Indigenous healers, etc.
Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, 2006-2007, pp. 45-129
Description
Brief overview of government policies aimed at eradicating Native Americans, discussion of how schools fit into achieving these goals, and possibilities for achieving redress through litigation.
Overview of concepts of well-being and quality of life in relation to treaty negotiations, oral histories of treaty and the context in which negotiations took place, with particular reference to the "Medicine Chest" clause and provision of aid in times of "famine and distress".
North Dakota Law Review, vol. 82, no. 4, 2006, pp. 1249-1271
Description
Discusses the scope of the problem, reviews legislation which has resulted in making reservations attractive for criminal activity as well as producing difficulties in prosecution of crimes, and makes recommendations to improve the situation.
Report of the Expert Panel on Safe Drinking Water for First Nations
E-Books
Author/Creator
Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers
Description
Analyses of current Provincial and Federal legislation because there is no regulatory framework that applies to drinking water and wastewater on reserves.
COVID-19 Response and Recovery Policy Briefs ; no. 5
Federal COVID‐19 Response Funding for Tribal Governments: Lessons from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eric C. Henson
Megan M. Hill
Miriam R. Jorgensen
Joseph P. Kalt
Description
Discusses three recommendations for the next round of funding legislation: changing the population measure used for allocation, allowing more time for spending relief funds, and increasing flexibility in how funds may be used.
Discusses issues such as Treaty and human rights, accountability, free and informed consent and methodologies and makes recommendations for the conduct of future studies.
Online conference consists of two panels which address the questions "How might data better help us understand the unequal effects of COVID-19 and ensure Indigenous capacity, preparedness and resilience?' and 'How has the community experienced COVID-19?'.
Duration: 3:04:32.
Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, vol. 100, Special Supplement, 2006, pp. 877-880
Description
Discusses the impact of Public Law 93-638 on the IHS (Indian Health Services) delivery of eye care, deficiencies in the system and recommendations for improvement.
National Association of Friendship Centres Civil Society Submission to the 5th and 6th Review of Canada's Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
UN CRC Alternate Report, Canada's 5th and 6th Review
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC)
Description
Brief discussion of context and early learning, education, health, culture and language, and child welfare followed by comments on Canada's fifth and sixth reports on the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child and recommendations about policy and legal avenues to address inequalities.
Comments on specific components of the Calls for Justice for governments and Calls for Justice for industries, institutions, services and partnerships from a legal standpoint.
See: Chapter A-2 "COVID-19 and First Nations' Responses" by Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, and Jeffery Hewit.
Chapter D-6 "Systemic Discrimination in Government Services and Programs and Its Impact on First Nations Peoples During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Anne Levesque and Sophie Theriault.