Provides information for Indigenous service organizations wishing to develop a mentoring strategy, including: deciding upon guiding principles and values, applications for mentoring and mentors, contracts to work together, joint obligations, expectations, and conflict resolution.
Presents findings and recommendations resulting from six regional Sharing Circles, 23 key informant interviews, survey of 81 respondents, and a focused literature review.
Anishinaabe / Chippewa / Ojibwe Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses, children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
Created to assist in developing and delivering a market and export ready authentic product. Contains general information, checklists, best practices, self-assessment and case study of Great Spirit Circle Trail.
Authors revisit archival records relating to the exploration of what is now Western Australia, with a focus on drawing out the places where the record shows the role of the Nyungar people in the exploration of the coast, and the Indigenous Knowledge share with explorers.
Sources of data: Indigenous advisors, academic and grey literature review, and environmental scan. Includes information on general context, promising practices, and knowledge gaps around service provision.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 5-29
Description
Authors use bills of sale for horses from 1909-12 as primary documents to explore the roles women on the Yakima reservation played in their nation’s economy and their resistance to conforming to Western or Christian gender roles.
Developed as part of the Aboriginal Nonprofit (ANP) BC Strategy to assist service organizations in developing human resource capacity and creating workforce supports.
Discusses key features of intellectual property protection, copyright, patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, protection against unfair competition, and trade secrets. Includes examples from various countries around the world.
Provides an overview of the issues with a focus on injection drug users, young people, women, and factors of incarceration. Gives strategies to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Collection of audiotapes featuring lectures by historians, researchers or interviews with local First Nations individuals. Some are accompanied by written or visual material.
Talking Together to Improve Health = Gi-noondidaa ji mina-maajiishkag noojimoowin
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Annie Berthiaume
Renée Chevrier-Lamoureux
Sheila Cote-Meek
Ryan Ferguson
Ghislaine Goudreau ... [et al.]
Description
Looked at both grey and peer-reviewed literature about research conducted in North America and Australia. Summarizes search results under four themes: respect, trust, self-determination, and commitment.
Technical Report (Atlantic Institute of Criminology) ; TR1999-4e
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Don Clairmont
Description
Report commissioned by the Department of Justice to provide a review of pertinent literature, which the author found lacking and therefore supplemented with knowledge of individuals who were contacted directly.
This volume focuses on academic and scholarly materials.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 149-207
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne.
As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity edited by William S. Penn.
Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, 1999, pp. 195-238
Description
Book reviews of:
Beyond the Lodge of the Sun: Inner Mysteries of the Native American Way by Chokecherry Gall Eagle.
Chippewa Families: A Social Study of White Earth Reservation, 1938 by. M. Inez Hilger.
David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians by Earl P.
Examines existing programs operating in Canada, evidence of impact on service utilization, health, and overall quality of life, and the need for Indigenous components in addictions treatment.
Explains why Census records and church registers, two of the most common sources of information, are not always reliable or are difficult to identify. Also discusses the impact of access restrictions and privacy laws for records created within the past hundred years.
Program expected that individuals would provide labour required to erect their own houses and examined the use of simplified housing "kits" which met design requirements and budget limitations.
Journal of Sport for Development, vol. 5, no. 8, April 2017, pp. 30-40
Description
Literature review identified three themes: value in cross-cultural mentorship, but Aboriginal is advantageous; community engagement essential to success of programmes; and SFD plays subsidiary role in communities in contributing to broader social and economic goals.