Statistics Canada International Symposium Series - Proceedings: Symposium 2004 : Innovative Methods of Surveying Difficult-to-Reach Populations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geoff Bowlby
Johanne Dennis
Éric Langlet
Dennis Malo
Description
Discussion of program designed by Statistics Canada to meet the information needs of Aboriginal groups, governments and other stakeholders. Particular emphasis on the challenges involved in surveying all Aboriginal groups regardless of location.
Original work published in 2000. Listing of materials available from Instructional Resources Unit, Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth for use by classroom teachers.
Divided into nine sections associated with the partnership cycle: defining the partnership; identifying and approaching partners; assessing the partnership climate and building skills, creating infrastructure; delivery of project; monitoring and measuring; troubleshooting; revising and adapting; and moving on. Also includes tools such as checklists, sample letters, presentations, and questions, and templates.
Reviews research regarding transitional models as well as interviews of students to determine success and gaps in the transition experience. Presents recommendations.
This website features reports, historic photographs, newspaper articles, personal accounts, tools for teachers and resources about Alaska and its inhabitants, and links to other useful sites.
Contains links to extensive list of full-text documents pertaining to Canada, United States and Mexico, maps, visual galleries, online exhibitions, brief biographies, and features cross-searching capability with the American West website.
Material is drawn from the Newberry Library's Edward E. Ayer Collection.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 319-341
Description
Comments on the historical relationship between the Census Bureau and AIAN Nations, changes made to census gathering and recommendations for accurate future census counts.
Looks at the reliability and technical issues derived from the retrieval of the data relating to population, education, labour force, employment, and employment earnings.
Website for an Indigenous non-profit educational institution that promotes a sense of pride in Indigenous heritage, traditional knowledge and practices.
From foreword: "This paper will deal with the boat-shaped artifacts and certain other more or less related problematic forms from the Gulf Southwest states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. They have been alluded to... as "prehistoric objects of polished stone having somewhat the shape of a canoe, the use of which is unknown." Included are numerous illustrations of boat-shaped artifacts.
Focuses on literature relating to driving forces and motivations of governments, education and scholarship providers, and students and families for this education option when students reside in remote locations.
Asserts that the dominant cataloguing systems are inadequate for Indigenous material and discusses alternate systems which provide greater accessibility.
Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, vol. 35, no. 1, Special Issue on Aboriginal Health Information, April 2014, pp. 11-15
Description
Discusses the principles of Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP) which define how information can and should be used by researchers, governments and corporations.
[Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment Project?]
Description
Hands-on activities were developed to work with Indigenous Wellness Framework, which resulted from the project Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment. Designed to foster a closer spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical connection to Indigenous culture.
Related Material: Facilitator's Handbook
[Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment Project?]
Description
Designed to provide step-by-step guidance for helping clients think about how Indigenous culture can improve their well-being. Developed to work with Indigenous Wellness Framework, which resulted from the project Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention.
Related Material: Activity Guide
From foreword: "This paper deals with one of the four or five unique and characteristic flint implements of Central Texas. One may assume that these artifacts did not spring into existence with the suddenness of a biological mutation, but, like all human implements, were gradually developed from some basic tool, which in turn had been perfected throughout the ages of man's history." Included are numerous illustrations of flint artifacts.
[Critical Conversations on Truth and Reconciliation]
[Critical Conversations Series]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
[Greg Bak]
Description
Podcast discusses the destructing of archives which amounted to lost records of residential school students experiences.
Duration: 25:29
Accompanying material.