Study compares major areas of social and economic well-being, including life expectancy, educational attainment and median income in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
Findings divided into five sections: preparing the workforce for Indigenous recruitment and retention; partnerships for recruitment and retention; existing Indigenous employees as assets for recruitment and retention; workplace transformation; and Nunavut Inuit Employment Strategy. Includes annotated bibliography.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 5, September/October 2008, pp. 19-24
Description
Study aims to compare the students' aspirations and expectations at the beginning and end of their first year at the University of Adelaide Faculty of Health Sciences in Australia.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 230-260
Description
Looks at articles published in The Province, the Vancouver Sun, and the Vancouver Times between 1957 and 1970, and analyzes the language that was used to describe the women and their deaths.
Literary works discussed: Ceremony by Lesley Marmon Silko, In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich, and The Last Standing Woman by Winona LaDuke.
Argues that this grassroots phenomena is a combination of three elements: community development, community economic development, and social enterprise.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 3, 2017, pp. 88-110
Description
Search was conducted using Medline, ERIC, and PsychInfo databases to identify studies of interventions which could have a positive effect on health care delivery and health-related outcomes.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 4, no. 1, Aboriginal Womens Health, January 2008, pp. 42-52
Description
Participants in an ethnographic study were found to experience disconnection from family and community, making them vulnerable to further violence and exploitation.
Arctic, vol. 61, no. 5, Supplement 1, December 2008, pp. 48-61
Description
Looks at how the governments commitment to Inuit traditional knowledge and values guides decisions, policies and laws that reflect the key philosophies, attitudes and practices of Nunavut’s Inuit majority.
Investigating Maori Approaches to Trauma Informed Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leonie Pihama
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Tessa Evans-Campbell
Hinewirangi Kohu-Morgan
Ngaropi Cameron ... [et al.]
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 3, December 2017, pp. 18-31
Description
Provides an overview of the three-year Health Research Council funded research project, He Oranga Ngākau: Māori Approaches to Trauma-Informed Care, and its intended outcomes.
Reconciliation: Growing Canada's Economy by $27.7 Billion, pt. II
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fiscal Realities Economists
Description
Statistics on Indigenous representation in the labour force, and comparison of equalized participation rates and type of employment in each of the provinces and territories.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 101-124
Description
Looks at factors leading to poorer health outcomes, historical context for health care provision, and ongoing litigation with respect to which government, federal or provincial, is responsible for special services.
Examines the successes and struggles of First Nations communities in economic development and summarizes the key findings identified by participant First Nations that are making progress toward building and attaining sustainable economies in their communities.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 5, May 2008, p. 21
Description
Comments on the program designed to educate and train Saskatchewan Métis to fill employment opportunities for skilled labour.
Article located by scrolling to page 21.
From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Beverley Jacobs
Andrea J. Williams
Description
Describes the findings of the Sisters in Spirit initiative and work with grieving families.
Chapter from From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools edited by Marlene Brant Castellano.
Argues that several bylaws should be removed because they represent social and racial profiling, and are overly and wrongfully used, affecting the well-being of a venerable population..
Honourable James K. Bartleman discusses his childhood, the conditions of First Nation communities in Canada and his efforts to establish libraries, summer reading camps, and reading clubs in these communities.
Literacy More Than Words: Presentations: Literacy for Aboriginal Populations
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Council of Ministers of Education
Canada
Description
Contains links to webcasts and presentations on Aboriginal literacy from the Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum 2008: Legacy, which was put on by the Council of Ministers of Education and took place in nine different locations across Canada.