First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Issue: Adolescent Development, Mental Health, and Promising Research Directions , 2007, pp. 52-55
Description
Argues that a holistic approach, coupled with Aboriginal healthcare professionals, was necessary for an effective smoking prevention program for youth.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 6, June 2007, p. 18
Description
Comments on a ceremony held to reintroduce culture and bring awareness to a community with a long history of violence, gangs and drugs.
Article located by scrolling to page 18.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Author/Creator
Con Hnatiuk
pp. 145-149
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing the financial and social costs that will continue, if changes are not made.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Tourism Management, vol. 28, no. 3, June 2007, pp. 917-919
Description
Examines issues related to data collection for tourism by examining the reliability and validity of results of exit surveys especially when related to cross cultural factors.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Social Suffering, 2007, pp. 30-37
Description
Looks at statistical data to determine suicide rates are higher among young Inuit men than women, of the same age, and of their peers in Denmark, southern Canada and United States.
To access this article, scroll down to page 30.
Challenges the fact that communication or solicitation for the purpose of sex, otherwise known as prostitution, is illegal and yet is so open, with 14 escort agencies listed in Saskatoon and 17 in Regina.
Study focused on public spending as it related to Aboriginal recipients of social assistance, unemployment insurance, pensions, family allowances, worker's compensation, harvester's assistance program, and the homeless.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Tim Quigley
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing the disproportionate and increasing rate of incarceration of Indigenous peoples, contributing factors, disparities in sentencing, fines, bail etc., sentencing circles and the need for change.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 8, August 2007, p. 18
Description
Looks at how the Saskatchewan Police Aboriginal Recruiting Committee is working to attract First Nations and Métis people to policing careers.
Article located by scrolling to page 18.
An overview of the social work practice and spirituality literature on recent peer-reviewed publications, since 2004, illustrating the current topics, areas, and work being conducted in this field.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, January/February 1994, p. 21
Description
Shows how the mental health of Aboriginal people is a direct result of landlessness, poverty, welfare dependency, vulnerability and the breakdown of Aboriginal law, values and family caused by past and present government policies.
The State of the Native Nations: Conditions Under United States Policies of Self-Determination
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ellen L. Lutz
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 3, Reparations for Indigenous Peoples, Fall, 2007
Description
Book review of: The State of the Native Nations: Conditions Under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.
Objectives of study were to explore practices within healthcare that were perceived to be stigmatizing, develop design to eliminate these practices, and describe process to re-align services to reflect this design.
Education Canada, vol. 47, no. 1, Making Space For Critical Reflection: Dreams & Solutions For Aboriginal Children, Winter, 2007, pp. 48-51
Description
Through the author's experiences, looks at how power and privilege spills over into the classroom setting through oppression that is related to gender, race, class and sexual orientation.