Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Renée Brassard
Lyse Montminy
Anne-Sophie Bergeron
Itzel A. Sosa-Sanchez
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2015, pp. 3-23
Description
Based on 40 participants from 4 communities.
Approaching Reconciliation: Tips from the Field
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet Smylie
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 106, no. 5, July/August 2015, pp. 261-264
Description
Attributes ongoing health inequities experienced by Aboriginal peoples to government policies of cultural genocide. Recommends health care professionals read the report Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future, engage in self-reflection, develop critical listening and learning skills, and challenge themselves and others to find concrete ways of spending to the calls for action from Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
[As It Happens: Missing and Murdered]
Alternate Title
As It Happens
[Missing and Murdered: Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Carol Off
Jeff Douglas
Matthew Bushby
Description
Radio program covers the stories of four women: Sarah Skunk, Shelly Tannis Dene, Maisy Marie Odjick, Claudette Priscilla Osborne.
Assessing the Internal Capacity of Urban-Indigenous Housing Providers in British Columbia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Natalie Cappe
Description
Assessment of ability to operate existing services and maintain and expand services in the future. Looks at factors such as adequate funding, effective operation with existing resources, staff levels, training for managing buildings and tenant needs, and means to meet demand for services.
Assessment of Research on Treatment and Reentry Services to American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) Adults and Juveniles Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses
Alternate Title
Review of the Literature on Aboriginal Sex Offenders of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dewey J. Ertz
[Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky]
Description
Provides synopsis of limited information available on this specific population.
Appendix includes Review of the Literature on Aboriginal Sex Offenders of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia by Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky.
Australian Reconciliation Barometer 2014
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Darryl Nelson
Description
Survey meant to assess progress towards reconciliation across four dimensions: historical acceptance, race relations, unity, and material equality and cultural security. Sample consisted of 502 Indigenous and 1100 non-Indigenous participants.
B.C. First Nations Clean Energy Toolkit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Judith Sayers
Description
"This toolkit is designed to assist First Nations in understanding the kinds of clean/renewable energy there are, how to begin looking into doing a clean energy project, pre-feasibility, feasibility, developing, financing, relationship building, opportunities, and where to find resources".
Background Document: Grey Literature Annotated Bibliography: Women Fleeing Domestic Violence and Housing and Homelessness, with a Focus on Aboriginal Women
Alternate Title
Grey Literature: Housing and Homelessness and Women Fleeing Domestic Violence
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kaitlin Lauridsen
Description
Focuses on reports published between 2005 and 2015.
"Background document for March 11, 2015 Dialogue."
Background Document--Grey Literature Annotated Bibliography: Women Fleeing Domestic Violence and Housing and Homelessness, with a Focus on Aboriginal Women: Background Document for March 11, 2015 Dialogue
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kaitlin Lauridsen
Description
Focuses on reports produced between 2005 and 2015.
Benchmarking Métis Economic and Social Development
Alternate Title
CSLS Research Report ; 2015-07
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jasmin Thomas
CSLS Research Report
Description
Comparison with non-Aboriginals using statistics on employment, income and education, as well as suggestions for developing three new indicators: governance, land and resources, and entrepreneurship and business development.
Beyond the Colonial Divide: African Diasporic and Indigenous Youth Alliance Building for HIV Prevention
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ciann L. Wilson
Sarah Flicker
Jean-Paul Restoule
Decolonization, vol. 4, no. 2, 2015, pp. [76]-102
Description
Discusses the history of racialized injustice faced by Indigenous, African, Caribbean and Black communities in the Americas, with a focus on Canada. This background provides context for findings of an arts-based intervention that explored notions of identity, resistance and solidarity-building between young people from these groups.
Bibliographie thématique sur les Inuit et l’emploi
Alternate Title
[Thematic Bibliography on the Inuit and Employment]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pascale Laneuville
Isabelle Lemay
Description
Seventy-four references published between 1968 and 2020. Some publications in French.
Breaking Free, Breaking Through: An Arts-Based Research Project to Examine Violence against Aboriginal Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Ontario Native Womens' Association (ONWA)
Description
Project to identify protective factors which led women to leave abusive relationships and stay away permanently. Research involved women from five Ontario cities: Fort Frances, Hamilton, Ottawa, Timmins and Thunder Bay.
Bring Hope and Restore Peace: A Study Report on the Life and Concerns of Inuit Women of Nunavik
E-Books
Author/Creator
Pascale Laneuville
Building a Resilient and Prosperous North: Centre for the North Five-Year Compendium Report
Alternate Title
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; April 2015
[Publication (Conference Board of Canada) ; 6973]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anja Jeffrey
Adam Fiser
Natalie Brender
Brent Dowdall
Description
Summarizes the Centre for the North’s half-decade of research on Canada’s North and provides an analysis of three priority items to be addressed.
Building Bandwidth: Preparing Indigenous Youth for a Digital Future
Alternate Title
RBC Thought Leadership
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Royal Bank of Canada
Description
Report developed from consultations with Indigenous youth, leaders, employers and other stakeholders and findings from the RBC Future Launch participant surveys which included 2,000 Indigenous respondents.
The Business Case for a Northern Economic Infrastructure System
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fiscal Realities Economists
Description
Observations made that would support public investment in infrastructure to support resource development in the north.
By Force or By Choice: Exploring Contemporary Targeted Trafficking of Native Peoples
Theses
Author/Creator
April Dama Jackson Petillo
Description
American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2015.
CADTH Custom Request: Impacts of COVID-19 on First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Populations in Canada
Alternate Title
CADTH COVID-19 Pandemic
CADTH Health Technology Review
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2021 Status Update on Reconciliation
Alternate Title
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2019 Status Update on Reconciliation
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2020 Status Update on Reconciliation
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2023 Status Update on Reconciliation
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2022 Status Update on Reconciliation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eva Jewell
Ian Mosby
Description
Looks at which of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Call2 to Action have been completed. 2023 Report, 2022 Report, 2020 Report.
Canada's Residential Schools: The Legacy: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 5
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 80-86
[Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Canadian Drug Policy and the Reproduction of Indigenous Inequities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shelley G. Marshall
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, January 2015, pp. 1-19
Description
Comments on federal government policy that is dismissive of public health and harm reduction approaches to drug use.
Cancer in the Métis People of Ontario: Risk Factors and Screening Behaviors
E-Books
Author/Creator
Metis Nation of Ontario
Cancer Care Ontario
Capoeira And Hip Hop In Northeast Brazil: Resistance to Inequity
Theses
Author/Creator
Hilary L. Gold
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2015.
Capturing Indigenous Health and Research Data: Suggestions for Escaping the Cycle of Mistrust
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Glen Stratton
[?] Williams
Trevor Stratton
Description
Comments on the poor health conditions experienced by Indigenous people on a global scale, compared to non-Indigenous.
Career Development in Northern Saskatchewan: Northern Labour and Business Engagement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Randy Johns
Description
Provides statistics on demographics, education and training levels, income, employment rates, career planning services, and Gross Domestic Product by sector, gives results of Northern Career Development Requirements Survey, and makes recommendations based on findings.
A Case for an Indigenous Court: A Realisation of Self-Determination?
Theses
Author/Creator
Valmaine Toki
Description
Law Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waikato, 2015.
The Cedar Project: Historical, Structural and Interpersonal Determinants of Involvement in Survival Sex Work Over Time Among Indigenous Women Who Have Used Drugs in Two Canadian Cities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richa Sharma
Sherri Pooyak
Kate Jongbnloed
David Zamar
Margo E. Pearce ... [et al.]
International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 87, 2021, p. 103012
Description
A study that focuses on Indigenous female drug using sex workers in British Columbia to discuss the culture of violence and its ties to both historical and ongoing colonization.
The Cedar Project: Historical Trauma and Vulnerability to Sexual Assault among Young Aboriginal Women Who Use Illicit Drugs in Two Canadian Cities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margo E. Pearce
Alden H. Blair
Mary Teegee
Stephen W. Pan
Vicky Thomas ... [et al.]
Violence Against Women, vol. 21, no. 3, March 2015, pp. 313-329
Description
Studied trends of assault and associated risk factors in cohort of 259 participants living in Vancouver and Prince George, British Columbia, between 2003 and 2010.
The Cedar Project: Negative Health Outcomes Associated with Involvement in the Child Welfare System among Young Indigenous Peoples Who Use Injection and Non-injection Drugs in Two Canadian Cities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam F. Clarkson
Wayne M. Christian
Margo E. Pearce
Kate A. Jongbloed
Nadine R. Caron ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 106, no. 5, July/August 2015, pp. 265-270
Description
Sample of 605 individuals between the ages of 14 and 30 years of age from Prince George and Vancouver, British Columbia. Those who had been taken from their biological parents were more likely to be HIV-positive, homeless, paid for sex, diagnosed and hospitalized with mental illness, self-harmed, and had thought about or attempted suicide.
The Cedar Project: Residential Transience and HIV Vulnerability Among Young Aboriginal People Who Use Drugs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kate Jongbloed
Vicky Thomas
Margo E. Pearce
Kukpi Wunuxtsin Christian
Hongbin Zhang ... [et al.]
Health & Place, vol. 33, May 2015, pp. 125-131
Description
Study identifies associations between high transience and sex and drug related HIV vulnerabilities.
Centering Indigenous Voices to Inform the Delivery of Culturally-Appropriate Mental Wellness Services
Theses
Author/Creator
Lisa Zaretsky
Description
Community Health Services Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Calgary, 2021.
Central Coast Marine Plan, 2015
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marine Planning Partnership Initiative
The Centrality of Education for Indigenous Income Mobility in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Haan
Georgina Chuatico
Jules Cornetet
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1-30
Description
Examines the impact of education and identity in predicting the socioeconomic mobility of Indigenous populations.
Challenging Racist "British Columbia": 150 Years and Counting
E-Books
Author/Creator
Nicholas XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton
Denise Fong
Christine O’Bonsawin
Maryka Omatsu
John Price
Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra
A Chance to Speak
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
DT Productions
Vernon Boldick
Jordan Bzdel
Londa Bray
Description
Documentary about poverty in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and the accompanying problems of homelessness, gang violence and sexual exploitation.
Duration: 35:15.
Changes to Health, Access to Health Services, and the Ability to Meet Financial Obligations among Indigenous People with Long-term Conditions or Disabilities Since the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alternate Title
StatCan COVID-19: Data to Insights for a Better Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tara Hahmann
StatCan COVID-19
Description
Data from crowd-sourcing initiative with 600 participants conducted between June 23 to July 6, 2020.
The Changing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Population: Evidence From the 2006-11 Australian Census Longitudinal Dataset
Alternate Title
2011 Census Paper Series
CAEPR Indigenous Population Project 2011 Census Papers ; no. 18
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nicholas Biddle
Heather Crawford
Description
Uses data to analyze what factors predicted changes in identification and place of usual residence, effect of migration on employment, extent that caring responsibilities had on education and employment outcomes, and characteristics which may explain differences in fertility decisions.
Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations Infants in Canada in 2019
Alternate Title
First Nations/Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect 2019
FN/CIS 2019
FN/CIS 2019: Focus on Developmental Stages Series
Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations Children Aged One to Three Years Old in Canada in 2019
Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations Children Aged Four to Seven Years Old in Canada In 2019
Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations Children Aged 8-11 Years Old in Canada in 2019
CWRP Information Sheet ; no. 220
Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet ; no. 220
CWRP Information Sheet ; no 221
Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet ; no. 221
CWRP Information Sheet ; no. 222
Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet ; no. 222
CWRP Information Sheet ; no. 223
Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet ; no. 223
Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations Children Aged 12-15 Years Old in Canada in 2019
CWRP Information Sheet ; no. 224
Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet ; no. 224
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Barbara Fallon
Nicolette Joh-Carnella
Marie Saint-Girons
Child Sexual Abuse in Nunavut Linked to Suicide
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 187, no. 16, November 03, 2015, pp. E463-E464
Description
Reports on the relationship between child sexual abuse and youth suicide in Nunavut which has a suicide rate nearly 10 times greater than the rest of Canada.
Clear Skies: A Family Violence Story
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Healthy Aboriginal Network
Zoe Hopkins
Ezra Claytan Daniels
Sean Muir
Tara Audibert
Description
Video version of graphic novel.
Duration: 15:01.
Climate Change through an Intersectional Lens: Gendered Vulnerability and Resilience in Indigenous Communities in the United States
Alternate Title
General Technical Report (Pacific Northwest Research Station) ; PNW-GTR-923
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kirsten Vinyeta
Kyle Powys Whyte
Kathy Lynn
Description
Literature synthesis.
Climbing the Mountain: Reconciliation in Workplaces: Participant Guidebook
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indspire
Description
Created to accompany workshop facilitated by Dr. Niigaan Sinclair.
Closing the Aboriginal Education Gap in Canada: The Impact on Employment, GDP, and Labour Productivity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Calver
International Productivity Monitor, no. 28, Spring, 2015, pp. 27-46
Description
Suggests there could be large economic gains from further investments to improve Aboriginal education.
Closing the Circle: A Case for Reinvesting in Aboriginal Child, Youth and Family Services in British Columbia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
British Columbia Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU)
Description
Outlines detailed recommendations on ways to improve the Aboriginal child welfare system.
Closing the Education Gap in Canada: Assessing Progress and Estimating the Economic Benefits
Alternate Title
CSLS Research Report ; 2015-03
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Matthew Calver
CSLS Research Report
Description
Assessment of educational attainment and labour market outcomes between 2001 and 2011 and updated estimates of benefits accrued by eliminating the gap. Statistics broken down by province, sex, age, Aboriginal identity, registered Indian status, and residence on- and off- reserve.
Appendix.
Closing the Gap: Prime Minister’s Report 2015
E-Books
Author/Creator
Tony Abbot
Closing the Gap: Seeking Reconciliation, Advancing First Nations Well Being and Human Rights: Submission to Canada's Premiers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
Description
Lists proposed commitments to address issues.
The CMHR and the Ongoing Crisis of Murdered or Missing Indigenous Women: Do Museums Have a Responsibility to Care?
Alternate Title
Canadian Museum of Human Rights and the Ongoing Crisis of Murdered or Missing Indigenous Women: Do Museums Have a Responsibility to Care?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amber Dean
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, vol. 37, no. 2-3, Caring for Difficult Knowledge: Prospects for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights , 2015, pp. 147-165
Description
Discusses whether the Canadian Museum of Human Rights has a responsibility to address the ongoing impact of Canada's colonization of Indigenous peoples, examines the controversy surrounding The Forgotten exhibition and looks at Rebecca Belmore's performance pieces Vigil and Trace.