Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association ; 2012
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dwight Newman
Description
Analyzes the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples related to consultation with Indigenous groups and its formations of customary international law.
Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, 12-15 June 2012, Edmonton, Alberta.
Sport in Society, vol. 15, no. 7, Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australia Sport, September 2012, pp. 987-996
Description
"This article examines the complexities of the Australian Aboriginal sporting experience including long entrenched racist barriers that denied Aboriginal participation on the sporting field".
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, Water and Indigenous Peoples, 2012, pp. 1-15
Description
Studies the challenges to Indigenous water rights in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru due to hydro-power development, diverted water for mega cities, and large scale irrigation projects.
Capstone Seminar Series, vol. 2, no. 1, Belonging in Canada: Questions and Challenges, Spring, April 2012, pp. 1-19
Description
Argues that the federal government's Nutrition North Canada program fails to meet the needs of northern residents because it fails to take into account the health and cultural aspects of traditional foods.
Diabetes Care, vol. 35, no. 10, October 2012, pp. 2005-2011
Description
Study to determine if the inequalities that exist between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples affect the care, control, and complications of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology Series
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret Noori
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 1, Spring, 2012, pp. 82-85
Description
Book review of: Contributions to Ojibwe Studies by A. Irving Hallowell, edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown and Susan Elaine Gray.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 82.
Native Studies Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 1992, pp. 1-21
Description
Compares Cree Elder James Wesley's narrative account of Alexander Macdonald, HBC trader with documents from the Church Missionary Society and Hudson's Bay Company archive.
Film explores historical overivew of the Coppermine community beginning with arrival of the missionaries, the tuberculosis epidemic and Dr. Russel Martin's fight for medical supplies from Ottawa.
Duration: 57:07.
A copy of illustration: "Escape of the McKay family through the ice to Prince Albert", from souvenir number of CANADIAN PICTORIAL & ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, 4 Jul 1885. It depicts Metis rowing boat through ice as his wife and children huddle in back. McKay was a farm instructor near Battleford. Incident described p.21.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 16, no. 6, November/December 1992, p. 22
Description
Looks at council established to foster a better relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and to help improve their health, housing and employment situation.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society/Revue Canadienne Droit et Societe, vol. 27, no. 2, 2012, pp. 231-247
Description
Advocates for the use of intercultural dispute-resolution principles to be used in courts in order to facilitate a better relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Edition: Aboriginal Justice, 1992, pp. 5-40
Description
Discusses traditional justice systems, systemic discrimination and cultural clashes in the present act and its application of criminal law, new initiatives in law enforcement, court systems, corrections and rehabilitation, and recommendations for change.
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Edition: Aboriginal Justice, 1992, pp. 41-146
Description
Lengthy review (100 pages), is a background study for the Law Reform Commission of Canada's report on Aboriginal Peoples and Criminal Justice; covers wide range of topics, both historical and contemporary, concerning the Canadian justice system's treatment of Aboriginal peoples.
A Critical Appraisal of Responses to Maori Offending
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Juan Marcellus Tauri
Robert Webb
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 4, 2012, pp. 1-16
Description
Article critically analyzes the role that criminological theory and specific policy formulations of culture play in New Zealand's state response to Māori crime.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 1, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 1-17
Description
Examines a conceptual framework used with food security movement that helps young people understand their social context and values and engages them in social justice work.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2012, pp. 67-78
Description
Professor discusses revisions he has made to formal writing requirements for his classes. Changes were undertaken to force students to think more deeply about the underlying racism which perpetuates the current status of Aboriginals in Canada.
Without Consent: [Confronting Adult Sexual Violence: Proceedings of a Conference held 27-29 October, 1992]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jane Lloyd
Nanette Rogers
Description
Paper from Without Consent: Confronting Adult Sexual Violence.
Looks at the unique Aboriginal customary laws which are in place to deal with violations.
Speaks about ways to begin conversation: obligation to know the history; open your eyes to current realities linked to the past; be respectful allies.
Duration: 53:54.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 8, Indigenous Social Work Practices and Theories, August 2012, pp. 129-142
Description
Comments on the need for all social workers to be knowledgeable about the oppressive issues facing Aboriginal peoples and to understand cultural differences between Western and Indigenous societies.