Articles » General
Author/Creator
Linda Gionet
Canadian Social Trends, no. 87, Summer, 2009, pp. 52-58
Description
Highlights results from Aboriginal Peoples in Canada in 2006: Inuit, Métis and First Nations, Educational Portrait of Canada, Canada's Changing Labour Force, and data on income, housing affordability and home ownership.
First Nations Women and Postsecondary Education in Canada: Snapshots from the Census
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shelly Milligan
Evelyne Bougie
Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada, vol. 6, no. 4, October 28, 2009, p. [?]
Description
Data from 2001 and 2006 censuses.
First Peoples' Heritage, Language & Culture Council
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
First Peoples’ Heritage
Language and Culture Council
Description
Website contains consultation, guidance, support and funding for First Nations’ people of British Columbia’s communities for language, arts and culture projects.
Fish Soup for the Indigenous Soul: A Tool Kit For Siem Smun'eem Research and Training Network For Indigenous Well-Being. "Honoring Indigenous Knowledge and Practice"
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jacquie Green
Rebecca Taylor
Description
Looks at a research network developed through the collaboration of universities, agencies and communities in British Columbia to provide research training and resources for Indigenous people working in Indigenous child well-being and research.
Food Security in Nunavut: A Knowledge Sharing Tool for Policy and Decision-makers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qaujigiartiit Arctic Health Research Network Nunavut (AHRN)
Description
Contains a review of the literature, summary of programs and initiatives, list of individuals working to address food insecurity, media reports, and references and resources.
For the Children Taken: The Challenge to Truth Commissions in Building Digital Collections for Research and Long-Term Preservation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Reilly
Description
Looks at archival efforts to fulfill one of the primary goals of the Mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Gestational Diabetes and First Nations Women: A Literature Review
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Centre
National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO)
Description
Commentary on diabetes during pregnancy and the short-term and long-term adverse effects for both mother and child.
Good Practices Guide: Success in Building and Keeping an Aboriginal Mapping Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Description
Profiles various mapping practices that lead to success when implementing geomatics programs in Canada.
Goreen Narrkwarren Ngrn-toura = Healthy Family Air: A Literature Review to Inform the VACCHO Smoking amongst Pregnant Aboriginal Women Research Project
E-Books
Author/Creator
Anke van der Sterren
Great Basin Indian Archives
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Great Basin College
Description
Digital resource of oral histories and songs that chronicle the history and heritage of the Great Basin Indian peoples. Includes links to archival resources and other related sites.
Guide to Documents Relating to American Indians in Montana Identified and Collected by the Natives of Montana Archival Project (NOMAP) from Repositories in the National Archives and Records Administration, Smithsonian Institution & Library of Congress, 2008-10
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Helen Cryer
Miranda McCarvel
Carole Meyers
Wilena Old Person
Glen Still Smoking ... [et al.]
Description
Guide distinguished between records held at the Mansfield Library, those digitized and online and those located solely in the archival repositories in Washington, DC.
Guide to Holdings Relating to First Nations of BC
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bob Stewart Archives
United Church of Canada
British Columbia Conference
Description
Arranged alphabetically by title of fonds. Includes date range of records within each, extent, types of media, biographical or administrative information, descriptions of scope and content, and related notes regarding access.
Guide to the Labour Force Survey in Nunavut
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nunavut Bureau of Statistics
Description
Reference document to aid in interpreting the data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Includes glossary.
Gwen Miller's Aboriginal Health Course
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gwen Miller
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, March 1989, pp. 29-38
Description
Overview of guide to health education in classroom for young Aboriginal people created to educate students about how their bodies work, mentally and spiritually, and to lead an active, healthy lifestyle.
The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Web Sites » Organizations
Description
Website includes links to the Harvard University Native American Program, Native Nations Institute, Education and Outreach, Publications & Research and much more.
Haskell Librarian Tackled Challenges With Creativity
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pamela Tambornino
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 3, Tribal College Faculty, Spring, 2010, pp. 32-33
Description
Discusses approaches used by one tribal university librarian to welcome students to the library and make them knowledgeable patrons.
Health Determinants for First Nations in Alberta 2010
E-Books
Author/Creator
[N. Lachance
N. Hossack
C. Wijayasinghe
W. Yacoub
T. Toope]
The Health of First Nations Living Off-Reserve, Inuit, and Métis Adults in Canada: The Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Inequalities in Health
Alternate Title
Health Research Working Paper Series
Working Paper (Statistics Canada); no. 4
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rochelle Garner
Gisèle Carrière
Claudia Sanmartin
Longitudinal Health and Administrative Data Research Team
Healthy Indian Country Initiative Promising Prevention Practices Resources Guide: Promoting Innovative Tribal Prevention Programs
Alternate Title
Healthy Indian Country Initiative Promising Prevention Practices Resources Guide: Promoting Innovative Tribal Prevention Programs
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Indian Health Board
Description
Overview of the national Indian Health Board initiative to develop, implement and evaluate the health system.
Historical Archives on the Métis Experience in Northeastern Alberta
Alternate Title
Métis in Northeastern Alberta
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tereasa Maillie
Description
Information from files in Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA) and at the University of Alberta Archives. Topics: traplines, applications for permission to trap, and pertinent legislative documents, proposed Métis settlement in the 1950s and the Métis Settlement Act, and development of the Athabasca Oil Sands region.
Historical Métis Communities in Region One of the Métis Nation of Alberta, 1881-1916
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frank Tough
Jonathan Anuik
Description
Investigation into whether there was a Métis presence in the Wood Buffalo region uses descriptive narrative records from the Geological Survey of Canada and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, census data, surnames of enumerated individuals in Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, Lac La Biche, and North West Halfbreed Scrip applications.
Historical Trauma, Race-based Trauma and Resilience of Indigenous Peoples: A Literature Review
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Fast
Delphine Collin-Vézina
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 126-136
Description
Outlines various responses to trauma and race-based traumatic stress suffered by Indigenous peoples as a result of government policies geared towards assimilation, and discusses how self-governed nations with connection to culture and spirituality can result in better outcomes for Indigenous peoples.
History of an Indian Library and Challenges for Today
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Zuber-Chall
Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 36, no. 5, September 2010, pp. 420-426
Description
Looks at how the Tommaney Library at Haskell Indian Nations University has existed for more than 100 years as a reflection of the struggle to assimilate Indians in America.
A History of Treaty-Making in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)
Description
Provides brief overview of treaty process over the past 300 years.
Honouring Life Network: Your Source for Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Resources
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO)
Description
Website contains suicide prevention information, news, general resources and research reports for First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth across Canada.
Housing as a Determinant of Health 2010 Annotated Bibliography
Alternate Title
Health and Housing Realities for Inuit
[Homelessness and Housing Realities for Inuit Workshop]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Cathleen Knotsch
Morgan Akalehiywat
Maatalii Okalik-Syed
Hunter-Gathering in the Digital World to Build a Keeping Place for the Future
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rod Stroud
The Electronic Library, vol. 27, no. 5, 2009, pp. 856-862
Description
Discusses the challenges of finding and preserving culturally sensitive materials, including supplying appropriate descriptions of collections.
Identifying and Responding to Bias in the Criminal Justice System: A Review of International and New Zealand Research
Alternate Title
Rearch Report (New Zealnd Ministry of Justice)
E-Books
Author/Creator
Bronwyn Morrison
Description
Current as of 2009.
The Income Gap between Aboriginal Peoples and the Rest of Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Daniel Wilson
David Macdonald
The Indian Act & Aboriginal Women's Empowerment: What Front Line Workers Need to Know
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Katrina Harry
Description
Comments on how strong Aboriginal women are despite learning to adapt and survive deplorable social and economic conditions in Canada.
[Indian Health Service STD Literature and Resources]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Indian Health Service?]
Description
Also covers sources dealing with pregnancy, substance use, mental health, and HIV/AIDS.
Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ron McCoy
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 307-308
Description
Book review of: Indian Tribes of Oklahoma by Blue Clark.
Indigenizing Outcomes Measurement: A Review of the Literature and Methodological Considerations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres (BCAAFC)
Description
Conducted as part of the Indigenous Outcomes Measurement Framework (IOMF) project.
Indigenous Children's Health Report: Health Assessment in Action
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sue Crengle
Jane Freemantle
Gilbert Gallaher
Daniel McAullay
Kelly McShane
Maile Taualii
Description
Discusses how health assessment data can be applied to improving the health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children.
Indigenous Foundations
Web Sites » Organizations
Description
Website includes information and resources on the history, culture, identity, rights, and politics of Aboriginal peoples.
Indigenous Librarianship
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Kathleen Burns
Ann Doyle
Gene Joseph
Allison Krebs
Description
Examines the link between Indigenous librarianship and Indigenous approaches to knowledge systems in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Entry in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd Edition, edited by Marcia J. Bates, Mary Niles Maack.
Indigenous Tourism Businesses in Queensland: Criteria for Success: An Australian Case Study towards the Development of a National Diagnostic Tool for Indigenous Tourism Businesses
E-Books
Author/Creator
Michelle Whitford
Lisa Ruhanen
Indigenous Women's Offending Patterns: A Literature Review
Alternate Title
AIC Reports. Research and Public Policy Series ; 107
Report (Australian Institute of Criminology)
E-Books
Author/Creator
Lorana Bartels
Report (Australian Institute of Criminology)
The Indigenous World 2009
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Sara Olsvig
Johan Strömgren
Paulina Feodoroff
Rebecca Lawrence
Olga Murashko ... [et al.]
Information and Communication Technologies to Support Health and Wellness in Remote and Rural First Nations Communities: Literature Review
E-Books
Author/Creator
Susan O'Donnell
Heather Molyneaux
Elizabeth Gorman
Mary Milliken
Corinna Chong ... [et al.]
"Innocent Legal Fictions": Archival Convention and the North Saanich Treaty of 1852
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raymond Frogner
Archivaria, vol. 70, Fall, 2010, pp. 45-94
Description
Looks at the interpretation of colonial archival records pertaining to contemporary Aboriginal rights.
Innu Teaching Terms = Katshishkutamatsheutshuapit innu-aimuna: Sheshatshiu Dialect
Documents & Presentations
Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, Vol. 81, No. 1, January 2000, p. 49
Description
Provides translation of terms used in the classroom context such as classroom supplies, subjects, and locations in school.
Inscribing the Raw Materials of History: An Analysis of the Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program
Theses
Author/Creator
Dianna Louise Repp
Description
[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2009.
Inuinnaqtun to English : [English to Inuinnaqtun]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gwen Ohokak
Margo Kadlum
Betty Harnum
Mabel Ekvana Angulalik
Frank Analok
Description
Dictionary for local dialect.
Inuit Area of Residence (11), Aboriginal Identity (5), Age Groups (8), Sex (3) and Selected Demographic, Labour Force, Educational and Income Characteristics (218), for the Total Population of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data
Alternate Title
Statistics Canada Catalogue No. 97-564-XCB2006003
Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population
[2006 Census of Canada: Topic-based Tabulations]
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
Statistical table.
Inuit Cyberspace: The Struggle for Access for Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cynthia J. Alexander
Agar Adamson
Graham Daborn
John Houston
Victor Tootoo
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 220-249, 263
Description
Looks at how new media technologies such as the Nanisiniq Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) Adventure Website can be used as a resource in the preservation and promotion of Inuit traditional knowledge.
Inuit Heritage Trust
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Inuit Heritage Trust
Description
Inuit organization that deals with issues of archaeology, ethnographic objects and archives. Website highlights the organization's projects, programs, and traditional place names.
Inuit Literature: The Odyssey, Pilgrim's Progress, Inuktitut, Inuit Today, Igalaaq
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Robin Gedalof McGrath
Description
Highlights both fiction and non-fiction, by and about the Inuit.
Inuit Nunangat Relocation Route
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geomatics Services
[Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)]
Description
Shows route taken during the forced relocation of members of the Inukjuak community moved to Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord during the 1950s.