Abstracts of works in the Research Series.
Aboriginal Sexual Offending in Canada by John H. Hylton.
Mental Health Profiles for a Sample of British Columbia's Aboriginal Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System by Raymond R. Corrado, Irwin M.
Mentoring For Diversity in HIV/AIDS To Strengthen Research Capacity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karina L. Walters
Jane M. Simoni
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 99, Supplement 1, April 2009, pp. S71-S76
Description
Researchers are working to reduce barriers in academia by incorporating Indigenous worldviews, and building relationships and capacity with research partners.
International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 282-295
Description
Argues that current interventions into child welfare are a continuation of past patriarchal attitudes and actions which in turn have produced unhealthy families and communities.
Steven Koptie with editorial assistance by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009, pp. 66-79
Description
Contends that First Nations community workers need to share their observations and insights of Indigenous historic trauma and unresolved intergenerational suffering to help with the healing process.
Highlights contemporary challenges facing Indigenous peoples including American Indians and Alaskan Natives.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page vii.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 1, 2009, pp. [204]-226
Description
Looks at the use of storytelling and humour to explore connections between the traumatic experience of Aboriginals' past and their problems in the present.
Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19–21 June, 2008.