Focuses on identifying demographic characteristics of the urban Aboriginal community in the Niagara region, current status of the labour market, student retention in post-secondary institutions, and existing service programs and providers. Uses data from key informant interviews, participant survey, and focus groups. Includes recommendations.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, poems, and various articles including, Two-Spirited Youth Program by Julian F. Wilson
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, interviews, poems and various articles, including Aboriginal Women: No Rights to Land or Children by Mabel Nipshank.
Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 8, no. 2, Health of the Hawaiians, 2001, pp. 274-279
Description
Examines health care utilization patterns and finds Native Hawaiian women with the highest rates of depression as well as sexual, physical, and emotional abuse.
Focus Group Report: A One-Year Project between the Center for Native American Youth and the Aetna Foundation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth
Description
Results from feedback about changing health outcomes and priorities and ideas about using innovation and technology to promote fixes for health disparities.
Canadian Food Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, December 2016, pp. 104-126
Description
Examines coverage in two newspapers: The Globe and Mail and the National Post over a 14-year period between April 1, 1999 to September 1, 2013. Analysis suggests that reports reinforced perceptions about the Inuit as Other by focusing on issues such as hunger, poverty and income.
Canadian Journal of Sociology, vol. 41, no. 3, Special Issue: Canadian Mobilities/ Contentious Mobilities, 2016, pp. 299-329
Description
Argues that because hitchhiking is characterized as "bad mobility" it supports the idea that Indigenous women are willing, available and blame-worthy victims. Further argues that morality has become entangled with mobility in terms of responses that attempt to stop the activity.
Image of a house used as a barracks by the Metis during the Northwest Resistance. On back of photo: "House built in 1879 and Â’80 by Xavier Batoche. Used as store and dwelling. In 1885 used as barracks by the Metis."
Research Insight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Insight. Housing Indicators and Analytics ; October, 2016
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Combines statistics on housing needing only regular maintenance or minor repairs with degree of accessibility by road.
Data from 2011 National Household Survey and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada's First Nations communities geography.
Research Insight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Insight. Housing Indicators and Analytics ; October, 2016
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Combines statistics on extent of crowding (fewer bedrooms than household requires) with degree of accessibility by road.
Data from 2011 National Household Survey and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada's First Nations communities geography.
Looks at the organization's participation in economic projects using program data, survey research, and a comparative case study and discusses critical success factors, barriers, and limitations.
Discusses the colonial marginalization of "country foods" and the resulting food insecurity in Inuit communities in Nunavut.
Geography [Honours] Thesis (B.A)--McGill University, 2016.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 4, 2016, pp. 16-43
Description
Research shows three protective factors within support systems have an effect of the sexual health and behaviours of youth: school, family, and enculturation.
Diabetes Care, vol. 24, no. 1, January 2001, pp. 64-68
Description
Study shows that diabetics with complications earn only 85% of non-diabetic incomes and are twice as likely to be out of the labour force when compared to the general population while the disease has less influence on rates of employment for Aboriginals.
Reports the results of a survey completed by 62 women, aged 19 or older which asked questions about experience, perceptions and feelings with respect to the Meadow bank goldmine which operates in the vicinity.
Related content:
Qualitative Assessement.
Discussion of the methodologies, ethics, and background of study which centered on womens' experience of violence and doubts as to whether restorative justice would actually improve the situation.
Discusses how environmental change has impacted men's roles and responsibilities in four areas: health, migration and displacement, economic and professional development, and culture.
Chapter from Men, Masculinities and Disaster edited by Elaine Enarson and Bob Pease.
Brief overview of the demographic, social, economic, cultural and political environment of the urban population and Native Friendship Centres' role in providing services.
Book review of: Indigenous Women, Work, and History, 1940-1980 by Mary Jane Logan McCallum.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 162.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 107, no. 3, 2016, pp. e251-e257
Description
Study found risk factors to wellness included not being able to participate in traditional activities, over crowding in a household, and high rates of violence.