Canadian Social Work Review , vol. 26, no. 1, 2009, pp. 25-41
Description
Compares coverage of the deaths of two children, one Aboriginal and one non-Aboriginal. Four newspapers were surveyed: Globe and Mail, National Post, Winnipeg Free Press and Telegram (St. John's).
Anglican Journal, vol. 135, no. 2, February 2009, p. 3
Description
Comments on implementation delays to the First Nations Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and describes how the delays effect former students who are frail and elderly.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, Pastoralism, 2009, pp. 48-53
Description
Focuses on the Duroobe in Burkina Faso, the vulnerability of nomadic pastoralists and negative stereotypes and makes recommendations for improvement.
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Examines how economic institutions affect economic performance on agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa, and what forces determine the configuration of property rights for different economic entities.
Genocide Studies and Prevention, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 81-97
Description
Looks at how Aboriginal groups experienced assimilation in different ways and discusses the separation between cultural and physical forms of destruction.
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, vol. 5, no. 1 & 2, 2009, p. 39–54
Description
Discusses the evolution of technologies used to restore and create space to preserve languages and cultures while communicating across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries.
International Journal of Social Welfare, vol. 18, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 57-64
Description
Uses child protection, out-of-home care and juvenile justice administrative data to show the level of disproportionality has not improved and presents recommendations to address the Indigenous disadvantage.
Uses a story to illustrate that every action counts. Speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Restorative Practices: Widening Our Lens, Connecting Our Practice, May 31st-June 5th, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Duration: 20:53.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 7, July 2009, p. 10
Description
Looks at a coast to coast bike tour, by members of Peacekeepers Pedaling for Aboriginal Diabetes (PPAD), to raise awareness of Type 2 Diabetes.
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Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Globalising Indigeneity: New Research Directions, 2009, pp. 95-115
Description
Argues that one should view the genesis of the Plains Métis as part of a wider pattern of native ethnogeneses on the North American Great Plains.
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Annual Aboriginal Land and Resource Management Conference ; 11th, 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John W. Gailus
Tim Thielmann
Description
Discusses three examples of opportunities First Nations have taken to enhance participation in the forest sector: the Gitxsan, the Klahoose First Nation, and the case of three First Nations with a collective forest licence.
Ethics & the Environment, vol. 14, no. 2, Fall, 2009, pp. 75-97
Description
Examines Plumwood's theory of the logic of colonization; looks at the philosophical analysis of Chief Justice John Marshall's opinion in the case of Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823); and explores the concept of wilderness in a new non-colonizing way.
Report on finding of investigation by RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) members for complaints against other members involving injuries or death in Canada between April 1, 2002 and March 1, 2007.
Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 81st, 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frances Widdowson
James Lawrence Davidson
Description
Discusses the Canadian Radio and Television Commission's (CRTC) decision to make carriage of the network mandatory for cable companies and require those companies to remit 15 cents per subscriber to it.
Canadian Bar Review, vol. 87, no. 2, 2009, pp. [357]-390
Description
Discusses the doctrine of cultural continuity in relation to rights, the framework of residual sovereignty, and the application of a more generous application of the reconciliation doctrine.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 222-232
Description
Discusses the approach to understanding Indigenous legal traditions in terms of healing, politics, epistemology, and justice in Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights; New Histories for Old: Changing Perspectives on Canada's Native Pasts; and Indigenous Legal Traditions.
Examines how the structure of native institutions and property rights provided a relatively high standard of living in the mid eighteenth century and for part of the nineteenth, then was unable to experience modern rates of economic growth and provide avenues for further development.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, Pastoralism, 2009, pp. 22-29
Description
Discusses government's strategy for environmental conservation and protection of the land by evicting pastoralists from grazing lands. Recent cases are described.
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