Guidelines not only address issues relating specifically to claimants in legal matters involving residential schools but also may apply to lawyers acting in cases involving other claims of institutional abuse of other vulnerable clients.
Provides an overview of tools, principles and methods to be applied when conducting research involving Aboriginal women. Includes a checklist and bibliography.
Investigates Campbell's work for anticolonial qualities and subsequent responses.
Chapter from Maria Campbell: Essays on Her Works edited by Jolene Armstrong.
BC Psychologist, Psychological Services for First Nations, Spring, 2012, pp. 14-17
Description
Offers some guidelines for non-First Nations therapists working with First Nations clients.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 14.
Report developed through consultation those trying to establish or already operating healing centres for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Discusses the context and origins of the public engagement process, it's implementation and the creation of the Poverty Reduction Plan, and challenges to be considered while moving forward.
Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Social Enterprises, Knowledgeable Economies, and Sustainable Communities
Research Report Series (Centre for the Study of Co-operatives) ; no. 13-01
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Julia Bidonde
Mark Brown
Catherine Leviten-Reid
Erin Nicolas
Research Reports Series (Community-University Institute for Social Research)
Description
Researchers interviewed 19 local residents to gather information about perceptions of health, access to programs, services and infrastructure, and suggestions on how to improve community well-being.
Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases From Research, Policy, and Practice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Donna Atkinson
Mona Shum
Chris Kaposy
Nicholas B. King
Description
Chapter in book: Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases From Research, Policy, and Practice by Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Population and Public Health.
Scroll down to page 153 to read article.
Health Reports, vol. 23, no. 1, March 2012, pp. 1-9
Description
Data from the 2006 Aboriginal Children's Survey. Study found that social determinants of health included parental education, household income, breastfeeding, perceived housing conditions, and community health care facilities.
The Journal of Primary Prevention, vol. 33, no. 4, August 2012, pp. 175-185
Description
Overview of a family based cultural home-mentoring intervention which addresses several lifestyle factors affecting the child and caregiver in American Indian tribes in Wisconsin.
BC Psychologist, Psychological Services for First Nations, Spring, 2012, pp. 18-21
Description
Offers an example of a client's emotional experiences of a rupture with the relationship with the therapist.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 713-728
Description
Article presents two different narratives surrounding the treaty rights of the Chippewa people, the first is the perspective of the author, Chippewa band member and Journalist, Patty Loew. The second narrative is one that has been constructed through ethnohistorical research.
Discusses a unique course of study offered at the Children of the Earth School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Medical Careers Exploration Program gives students "hands-on" experience in various aspects of medical field.
Duration: 27:29.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 151, Summer, 2012, pp. 55-59
Description
Discusses actors' perspectives on the play The Rez Sisters. The performance at the University of the Fraser Valley reunited the cast from a production staged in 2000.
Interview with co-curator Steve Loft about Home On Native Land exhibit featuring artists from around the world presenting a variety of new media works and issues facing Aboriginal People in Canada.
Duration: 8:05.
Film about conditions on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, the history behind them and photographer Aaron Huey's efforts to bring to the attention of the American public.
Premiered at ShortsFest, Seattle International Film Festival 2012. Duration: 14 min.