History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2010.
Based on viewpoints of Napoleon Bonaparte Johnson, Helen Peterson, Oliver La Farge, and Hugh Butler.
Purpose of brief compilation is to provide historical and current context for Aboriginal health status. Lists significant legislation and events chronologically, as well as discusses benefits, social determinants of health, gaps in services, etc.
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.
Prairie Forum, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 1-7
Description
Examines the confrontation in 1871 at Rivières aux Ilets de Bois regarding land granted to the Métis under the Manitoba Act of 1870. This land was originally given without title property and than later given in concession to new immigrants from Ontario.
American Quarterly , vol. 62, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 387-394
Description
Book reviews of: The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations edited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb.
Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indianedited by Lowery Stokes Sims, Truman T. Lowe and Paul Chaat Smith.
George De Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings edited by Nancy K. Anderson.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, Technologies Créatives / Creative Technologies, 2010, pp. 149-166
Description
Examines the controversy surrounding the shooting of Inuit sled dogs in the communities of Kuujjuaraapik, Puvirnituq, and Kangirsujuaq in the 1950s and 1960s.
Provides a summary and recommendations of smart practices to the BC government regarding an Aboriginal Businesses Directory, and discusses current initiatives regarding Aboriginal procurement in Canadian government and non-government organizations.
Comments on the importance of maintaining traditional values, cultures and languages in the effort to close the academic achievement gap that can be found between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 5, September/October 2006, pp. 8-10
Description
Concludes that the feedback collected through the Service Activity Reporting (SAR) will hopefully lead to improvements to the existing system of data collection.
Discusses the right of Aboriginal title and duty to consult. Presents examples where Aboriginal people and the Crown have come together to reach an agreement.
Duration: 7:30.
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.
Discusses the importance of First Nations control over the adoption process and the need for government funding to support culturally based adoption services and programs.
Canadian Review of Social Policy, no. 56, 2006, pp. 40-71
Description
Comprehensive look at sex discriminatory policies and questions about the process of colonial intrusion, histories of adaptation, and the accommodation of this policy.
Explains suggested revisions and updates to Indian Control of Indian Education 1972 (ICIE 1972) document to reflect current challenges and changes in education.
Argues that the Federal government's Post-Secondary Student Support Program is failing in its objectives because the money is not being given directly to students and it should be replaced by a Aboriginal Post-Secondary Savings Account opened at birth for each Registered Indian.
World Indigenous Nations High Education Consortium Journal, [Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Research], 2010, pp. 11-25
Description
Overview of Indigenous ways of knowing, education assimilation policy, first Nations control of education and post-secondary Indigenous Studies programs.
Entire issue on one pdf. To read article scroll to p. 11.
The Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 3, Special Issue Commemorating The Sesquicentennial of Cherokee Removal 1838-1939 , Fall, 1989, pp. 519-539
Description
Looks at the plight of the Cherokee Nation during this period ending with their removal to Oklahoma.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 219-229
Description
Book reviews of: Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller.
Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land by Hans M.
Argues that the Conservatives have scorned the Kelowna Accord, which was to be Paul Martin's legacy, and have instead chosen to tackle issues of privatization of Indian land and property rights for Aboriginal women on reserves.
Discusses the inequity of federal funding to First Nations Child and Family Services Program in comparison to provincial agencies and off reserve child welfare programs.