Guide covers each step in creating and implementing a set of indicators to track progress in areas which contribute to the values and aspirations specific to each community.
Presents findings and recommendations resulting from six regional Sharing Circles, 23 key informant interviews, survey of 81 respondents, and a focused literature review.
Identifies ways in which the Government of the Northwest Territories can ensure access and decision-making roles for Indigenous women. Discusses human resource policies, educational opportunities, role of the Women's Advisory Office, and the need for affordable and accessible child care.
Focuses on the story of Rinelle Harper, a Winnipeg teenager who was attacked and left for dead, and other families affected by the issue.
Duration: 13:27.
Toolkit for Aboriginal Families Living Off-reserve
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
Description
Contains links to user guide, life fact book, resource book, personal safety plan, and 11 fact sheets. Designed for use by off-reserve families experiencing family violence.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2015, pp. 46-56
Description
Looks at incarceration rates for Aboriginal men and women, the RCMP report on missing and murdered Indigenous women, and statistics from Canada's Homicide Survey.
Reviews recommendations made by United Nations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the Legal Strategies Coalition, and Canada's responses to them.
Website for information relating to the Truth and Reconcilation Commission of Canada and its work. Contains links to education, research, archives, and reports.
American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2017.
Looks at novels by Linda Hogan, Tom Holm, Frances Washburn, Louise Erdrich, Louis Owens, and Tony Hillerman, and films by Chris Eyre.
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 2, Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up, 2015
Description
Speaker discusses history of colonization in the Pacific Islands, characteristics of the Pasifika community in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and her research into how young adults are using social media to express identity.
Duration: 40:15.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-28
Description
Article examines some of the barriers to the engagement and participation of urban Indigenous communities in municipal policy-making. Author asserts that racial and cultural stereotyping and discrimination against Aboriginal peoples and communities are key issues.
Author of Neoliberal Apartheid discusses commonalities between two states, including the patterns of extreme inequality, racialized poverty and advanced securitization which are symptomatic neoliberal regimes.