National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Vivien Carli
Description
Discusses challenges faced by Indigenous populations and identifies some of the local, national and international initiatives underway to address these issues.
Excerpt from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté.
Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.
Life experiences are shared by Alex, Stephen, Paul and Desirae about alcoholism, trauma in childhood, and how maintaining a traditional Indigenous culture has helped with sobriety.
Duration: 58:16.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 53, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 84-94
Description
Interviews residents from the Upernavik district about their lives as hunters and the pressure to protect their traditional way of living and thoughts on oil exploration and residents working in the industry.
Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction ; lecture 9
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Description
Discusses the impacts of colonization on health, identity, adaptation and the problem of suicide in indigenous population. Part 1 of 2.
Duration: 1:22:05
Study investigated links between cultural identity and well-being for women in danger of sexual exploitation in Fort St. John, Prince George, and Vancouver, British Columbia.
Interviews survivors of the 1952 relocation program whereby American Indians were encouraged to leave their home and move to urban centers across the United States.
Duration: 56:46.