Report that follows the Honoring Native Women by Stopping the Violence Against Them Conference discusses the prevalence of the violence, the issues that make law enforcement difficult, seeks solutions, and makes recommendations.
Teacher resource developed in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Case studies are supplemented by articles from the newspaper. Unit of study for First Nations 12 students in British Columbia.
[Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 82nd, 2010]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Beverley Jacobs
Description
Discusses the disproportionate exposure of environmental hazards and extension of racism as it applies to the environment and the lands of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 43, no. 2, August 2010, pp. 199-222
Description
Looks at review of research that has attempted to measure levels of rape and examines National Crime Victimization Survey for context of differences between ethnicities.
Social Science History, vol. 34, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 113-128
Description
Examines the study of ethnographic cultures and Indigenous customs as it developed in the American Indian communities in the era of the Indian Claims Commission.
Superintendent, Aboriginal Policing Bureau, Ontario Provincial Police and representatives from National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence appeared before the Committee.
Representatives from the Native Women's Transition Centre (Winnipeg), Families of Sisters in Spirit, and Carrier Sekani Family Services addressed the Committee.
Representatives from Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development , Department of Public Safety, and Statistics Canada appeared before the Committee.
President of the Native Women's Association of Canada and two representatives from the Community Holistic Circle Healing, Hollow Water First Nation appeared before the Committee.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, The World on Our Shoulders: Cultivating Indigenous Youth Leadership, September 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discusses how the empowerment and participation of Indigenous youth in human rights and environmental protection issues worldwide, will contribute to creating a sustainable future.
Overview of process to identify, examine and discuss broad issues of registration, membership and citizenship beyond the amendments to Bill C-3. Included participation of 20 organizations resulting in 55 national, regional and local First Nation and Métis organizations taking part.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2010, pp. 56-79
Description
Argues that judges' interpretations of history, which cannot be separated from the context from which it arises, does indeed become "fact" because of the nature of the legal process.
Based on five years of quantitative research drawn from Sisters In Spirit database; looks at situation in the province compared to the national context.
Based on five years of quantitative research drawn from Sisters In Spirit database; looks at situation in the province compared to the national context.
Based on five years of quantitative research drawn from Sisters In Spirit database; looks at situation in the province compared to the national context.
Based on five years of quantitative research drawn from Sisters In Spirit database; looks at situation in the province compared to the national context.
[Centre of Excellence for Matrimonial Real Property?]
Description
Act sets out rules for spouses or common-law partners during a conjugal relationship, upon breakdown of it, or upon death of the spouse of common-law partner.
Commission developed in response to the brutal murders of three Navajo men and the complaints about the social and economic relationships between the city of Farmington, New Mexico and the Navajo reservation.
Outlines the Commission's responsibilities for gathering and preserving materials relating residential schools, and discusses some of the challenges this entails, including balancing access with privacy.
Paper presented at Prairie Perspectives: the Academic Conference of The First National Truth and Reconciliation Event, 17 June 2010.