Considering Culture in Aboriginal Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bonnie O'Sullivan
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 185, no. 1, January 8, 2013, pp. e27-e28
Description
Discusses efforts to increase cultural competency and safety.
Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor’s Bearheart and Jones’s The Fast Red Road
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cathy Covell Waegner
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 1-29
Description
Literary criticism article discusses themes of survivance and transmotion in Vizenor’s (1978) and Jones’ (2000) debut novels, considers contexts of postmodernism and carceral theory, and the generational difference between the two authors.
Contemporary Native American Societies As Reflected in World Media Coverage
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pavla Laznová
Description
Comments on topics relating to the contemporary life of Indigenous people of America.
Bachelor's Thesis towards undergraduate degree in [English Language and Literature]--University of West Bohemia, 2013.
Contextually Appropriate Aquatic Programming in Canada's North: The Shallow Water Lifeguard Certification
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Audrey R. Giles
Kyle Rich
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013, pp. 49-64
Description
Studies program and recommends a greater inclusion of culturally responsive water safety education strategies in order to achieve a more desirable outcome.
Continuity and Change: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Housing Conditions of American Indians and Alaska Natives
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kathryn L.S. Pettit
G. Thomas Kingsley
Jennifer Biess
Kassie Bertumen
Nancy Pindus ... [et al.]
The Contribution of Aboriginal People to Future Labour Force Growth in Canada
Alternate Title
CSLS Research Report ; 2017-07
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Don Drummond
Andrew Sharpe
Alexander Murray
Nicolas Mask
CSLS Research Report
Description
Looks at projections between 2011 and 2036 under various scenarios.
The Contribution of Métis to Future Labour Force Growth in Canada
Alternate Title
CSLS Research Report ; 2017-08
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Myeongwan Kim
Andrew Sharpe
CSLS Research Report
Description
Population projections were made for the period 2011-2036. Concluded that given the young age, faster rate of growth, and current gap in participation rates when compared to non-Aboriginals, there is the potential for significant contributions.
The Contribution of Socio-Economic Position to the Excesses of Violence and Intimate Partner Violence Among Aboriginal Versus Non-Aboriginal Women in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nihaya Daoud
Janet Smylie
Marcelo Urquia
Patricia O'Campo
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. 4, July/August 2013, pp. 278-283
Description
Raw statistics showed that Aboriginal women were four times more likely to suffer from intimate partner violence (IPV) than non-Aboriginal women.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Its Implications for the Health and Wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples with Disabilities
Theses
Author/Creator
Minerva Concepción Rivas Velarde
Description
Medicine Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Sydney, 2014.
Conversations About Historical Trauma: Part One
Alternate Title
Spotlight on Culture
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Vivian H. Jackson
Impact Newsletter (National Child Traumatic Stress Network), Spring, 2013, p. [?]
Description
Comments on the historical trauma intervention model which uses four components designed to foster healing from grief: confronting the history, understanding the trauma and its effects, releasing the pain, and transcending the trauma.
Part 1 of 3.
The Cost of Not Successfully Implementing Article 23: Representative Employment for Inuit within the Government
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
pwc
Description
At this point in time 84% of the population was Inuit, but they only held 51% of the jobs in federal and territorial governments. Study compared loss to Inuit if the status quo continued, to gains that would be made if the Article was fulfilled.
Cost of the Revised Northern Food Basket in 2012-2013
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Nutrition North Canada (NNC)
Description
Measures cost of a nutritious diet for a family of four for one week using 67 standard food items. Used by Nutrition North Canada to determine subsidies. Prices from 2011 to March 2013 for comparison purposes. Includes link to list of items in the basket.
Cost of the Revised Northern Food Basket in 2015-2016
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nutrition North Canada (NNC)
Description
Measures cost of a nutritious diet for a family of four for one week using standard food items. Used by Nutrition North Canada to determine subsidies. Prices from March 2011 to March 2016.
Cost of the Revised Northern Food Basket in 2016-2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nutrition North Canada (NNC)
Description
Measures cost of a nutritious diet for a family of four for one week using standard food items. Used by Nutrition North Canada to determine subsidies. Table has been modified to show only the comparison with the base year, March 2011, and the yearly differences from March 2016 and March 2017.
Crazywater
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Dennis Allen
Selwyn Jacob
Description
Life experiences are shared by Alex, Stephen, Paul and Desirae about alcoholism, trauma in childhood, and how maintaining a traditional Indigenous culture has helped with sobriety.
Duration: 58:16.
Creating Opportunities: Environment, Economy, Employment
Alternate Title
Environment, Economy, Employment: Creating Opportunities
Manitoba First Nations: Environment, Economy, Employment: Creating Opportunities
[Creating Environmental Economic Opportunities]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Lane
Anupam Sharma
Robert Daniels
Description
Resource for exploring realistic and practical environmental economic opportunities.
Creating Opportunities in Education for Aboriginal Students
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)
Description
Presents overview of the resources and programs available for Aboriginal students to aide in their academic success.
Creating Pathways to a Better Life
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jerry Worley
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 2, Workforce Development, Winter, 2014
Description
Discusses how tribal colleges in Montana and North Dakota are initiating new innovative accelerated curriculum programs to address the region’s workforce necessities.
Creating Sister Space: A Guide for Developing Tribal Shelter and Transitional Housing
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Victoria Ybanez
Description
Topics include advocacy, confidentiality, safety planning, challenging issues, and special populations.
Critical Choices: Rural Women, Violence and Homelessness
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Molly Wickham
Description
Study examined factors which influence decisions to leave or stay in communities and assessed the availability of appropriate services. Focus is on Aboriginal women living in Northern British Columbia.
A Critical Evaluation of Assimilation: The Native American Residential Schools
Theses
Author/Creator
Hannah Emery-Wright
Description
International Development Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Bristol, 2013.
Cultural Rights of Aboriginal Children in Canada: Are We Killing the Indian in Our Aboriginal Children?: Discussion Notes of a Trial and Family Court Judge
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert A. Fowler
Description
Judge who has served in Labrador and the Northwest Territories argues that identity issues are largely responsible for social problems.
Culture and Wellness in the Workplace: Developing Your Own Culture and Wellness Plan
Alternate Title
Culture and Wellness in the Workplace: A Guidebook
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Imagination FX
Nene Kraneveldt Consulting
Description
Developed to help employees, teams, volunteers, board members, and social service organizations as a whole. Information is divided into three sections: take care of yourself, take care of each other, and take care of this place.
Culture as Catalyst: Preventing the Criminalization of Indigenous Youth
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Melanie Bania
Description
Topics include context, healing journey and resiliency theory, culturally appropriate evidence-informed practices and examples of programs in Canada and the United States.
Culture, Housing, Remoteness and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Development: Evidence from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children
Alternate Title
Working Paper (Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation) ; CW028
E-Books
Author/Creator
Alfred Michael Dockery
Working Paper (Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation)
Cycles of Silence: First Nations Women Overcoming Social and Historical Barriers in Supportive Cancer Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carolyn Brooks
Jennifer Poudrier
Roanne Thomas
Chad Hammond
Wendy Gifford ... [et al.]
Psycho-Oncology, vol. 26, no. 2, 2017, pp. 191-198
Description
Looks at the lack of accessible supportive programs and services for Indigenous cancer patient and the community-based supports create in its place.
Data About and For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Alternate Title
Issues Paper (Closing the Gap Clearinghouse) ; no. 10
E-Books
Author/Creator
Nicholas Biddle
Death, Dying and Canadian Families
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Katherine Arnup
Description
Examines the historical experiences of death and dying, the changing role of families in end-of-life care and the “medicalization” of death and dying.
The Debate on First Nations Education Funding: Mind the Gap
Alternate Title
Working paper (Policy Studies, Queen's University) ; no. 49
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Don Drummond
Ellen Kachuck Rosenbluth
Description
Discusses the changes needed to the structure and funding of educational services to meet the needs of Aboriginal students.
Decolonizing Disability, Indigeneity, and Poetic Methods: Hanging Out in Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Petra Kuppers
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, [Special Issue: Disability and Indigeneity], 2013, pp. 175-193
Description
Explores arts-based research methods.
Decolonizing Home: A Re-conceptualization of First Nations Housing in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Lindsay Monk
Description
Environmental Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2013.
Decolonizing Mi'kmaw Memory of Treaty: L'Sitkuk's Learning With Allies in Struggle for Food and Lifeways
Theses
Author/Creator
Sherry Mae Pictou
Description
[Interdisciplinary] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University, 2017.
Decolonizing Sex Work: Developing an Intersectional Indigenous Approach
Alternate Title
Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy and Research on Sex Work in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sarah Hunt
Description
Recommendations include: embracing sex workers as members of communities and accepting various cultural beliefs and practices, meeting workers basic needs, acknowledging agency and voice, and supporting mobility.
Excerpt from Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy and Research on Sex Work in Canada edited by Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love.
Defining Food Security for Urban Aboriginal People: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jaime Cidro
Evelyn Peters
Jim Sinclair
Description
Using Winnipeg, Manitoba, as a case study, looked at concept of food security, challenges of maintaining access to culturally valued food, and made recommendations concerning policy which would facilitate access. Information gathered through interviews and focus groups.
Defining Traditional American Indian Identity Through Anishinaabe Cultural Perspective
Theses
Author/Creator
Joshua Edward Maudrie
Description
Sociology and Ethnic Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Minnesota State University, 2014.
Definition of Indigenous Homelessness in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jesse A. Thistle
Description
Discusses historical and contemporary factors which contribute to high rate of homeless found in the Indigenous population and looks at 12 different dimensions: historic displacement, contemporary geographic separation, spiritual disconnection, mental disruption and imbalance, cultural disintegration and loss, overcrowding, relocation and mobility, nowhere to go, escaping or evading harm, emergency crisis, and climatic refuge,
The Demographic and Economic Characteristics of the
Aboriginal Population in Saskatchewan
Alternate Title
Sask Trends Monitor
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Doug Elliott
Description
Most information derived from the 1996, 2001, and 2006 Statistics Canada census and the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS).
Final version.
Demographic Profile of First Nations in Canada
Alternate Title
Canada Lecture
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Keith Conn
Description
Chief Operation Officer of the First Nations Statistical Institute summarizes data gathered from a variety of sources including 2006 Census, 2009 General Social Survey, 2009 Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, and Health Canada.
Duration: 59:12.
The Determinants of Employment among Aboriginal Peoples
Alternate Title
Moving Forward, Making a Difference
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 3
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 2nd, 2006
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Coryse Ciceri
Katherine Scott
no. 2
Description
Examines key factors associated with employment, compares them for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians, and looks at probability that full-time jobs match Aboriginal's education and skills. Uses data from the 2001 Census.
Chapter one from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 1, which is also vol. 3 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.
Development of a Strategic Plan for Food Security and Safety in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Myriam Fillion
Brian Laird
Vasiliki Douglas
Linda Van Pelt
Diane Archie ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 73, 2014, p. article no. 25091
Description
Looks at findings of a planning workshop including future research and intervention projects.
Devising a Sustainable Housing Program of Quebec's Cree First Nations: The Potential of Homeownership
Theses
Author/Creator
Marion Gale
Description
Urban Planning Project (M.U.P.)--McGill University, 2014.
Uses Cree Nation of Chisasibi and Oujé-Bougoumou Cree Nation as case studies.
Diabetes and the Off-Reserve Aboriginal Population in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Stephanie A. Crocker
Description
Social Dimensions of Health Program Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Victoria, 2013.
Differences Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Women Engaged in Street Prostitution in Sudbury
Theses
Author/Creator
Bernadette Walicki
Description
Human Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Laurentian University, 2017.
Digital Economy Talent Supply: Indigenous Peoples of Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[A. Cameron
A. Cutean]
Description
Examines characteristics of current participants in the Information and communications technology sector and their employment experiences, and makes recommendations designed to further engagement and increase number of entrants to the field.
The Dilemma of Equality and Diversity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Jindra
Current Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 316-334
Description
Examines the sources of tension rising from the relationship of culture and poverty.
Disability
Alternate Title
2011 Census Paper Series
CAEPR Indigenous Population Project 2011 Census Papers ; no. 6
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nicholas Biddle
Mandy Yap
Matthew Gray
Description
Uses data from 2006 and 2011 Australian censuses to analyze geographic and demographic distribution of disability within Indigenous population and compare results to non-Indigenous population.
Disability and Native North American Boarding School Narratives: Madonna Swan and Sioux Sanitorium
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Penelope Kelsey
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, [Special Issue: Disability and Indigeneity], 2013, pp. 195-211
Description
Analyzes Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story by Mark St. Pierre, the only book-length narrative of a tuberculosis survivor.
Disability Services and Carer [sic] Program Gaps in Central Australian Indigenous Communities
Alternate Title
Disability Services and Career Program Gaps in Central Australian Indigenous Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Craig Ashley Eibeck
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 99-132
Description
Report summarized research conducted on the gaps in disability and career program services provided to Indigenous Australians. Questionnaires were administered to each of 10 program managers, gaps were noted in transportation, housing, outreach services, residential respite, and career support, as well as for assessment, treatment, counseling, and case management.
"The Disappearance of Aboriginal Women in Canada"
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carrigan Desjardins
Description
Looks at Canadian government response towards inquiry, how public inquiry should be addressed and prevention of further disappearances.
Criminology Honours Thesis (B.A.)--Saint Mary's University, 2014.