Article describes the ways that colonial governments identified and signaled out “criminal tribes” in India, how the identity, language and culture of these tribes was stigmatized and consequently diminished. Describes present-day efforts to protect and revitalize these languages and cultures and provides commentary on the effectiveness of these efforts.
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens.
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Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
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Opinion piece in which the author works to document their efforts to close the spatial distance between researcher and researched through a series of vignettes, and later reflects on the results of their work.
Research Project Report (Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network) ; 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John R. Sylliboy
Tuma Young
Description
Through 20 in-depth interviews project gathered information on socio-cultural context, state of mental health and well-being during process, and supports which were relied upon.
Anglican Journal, vol. 130, no. 2, February 2004, p. 3
Description
Indigenous Covenant Implementation Commission explores issues of indigenous self-sufficiency, governance and the position of a national Indigenous bishop.
Final Report from the Commission on First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform.
[Volume I: Leagacy of Hope: An Agenda for Change]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kearney Healy
Ronna Jevne
Rae Mitten
Gerald T. G. Seniuk
John Burrows
Paul Joffe
Willie Littlechild
Description
Content consists of selected submissions and contracted papers that reflect research and opinion of organizations and writers on critical issues in justice reform in Saskatchewan.
Volume I Legacy of Hope: An Agenda for Change.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 142-163
Description
Based on analysis of transcripts of Hirsekorn case in which judges had to render a decision on the Métis identity of the accused and his membership in a rights-holding Métis community.
Reports on issues raised by Indigenous clients themselves and discusses features of Aboriginal varieties of English and how linguistic prejudice may affect interactions between lawyer and client and court outcomes.
Journal of Transcultural Nursing, vol. 15, no. 1, January 2004, pp. 69-73
Description
Discusses the need for research & scientific data on HIV/AIDS among Aboriginals youth in order to improve evidence based nursing practice and educational programs.
Case Study (Conference Board of Canada) ; December 2004
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 693-04]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Alison Campbell]
Description
Overview of iSisters Technology Mentoring, a program that helps Inuit women obtain technology training to address literacy, basic skills upgrading, and find jobs.
Community Housing And Design Options: Final Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
Saskatoon & Region Home Builders' Association
Description
Presents results of a workshop held February, 2004 and recommendations for increasing the affordable housing available to Aboriginal people in Saskatoon. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
Discusses how the people of Saskatchewan support their social agencies in order to serve the needy and less fortunate people in the province. Agencies include the Saskatoon Friendship Inn, Women of the Dawn, and the Friendship Centre in Regina.
Presents the methodology and results of a survey conducted in Saskatoon's five core neighbourhoods. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3/4, The Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge, Summer-Autumn, 2004, pp. 480-498
Description
Presents the results of a study which examined how exposure to Indigenous Knowledge in early childhood influenced both individuals and the community as whole.
Behavioral Health Risks for American Indian/Alaska Native Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Serafini
Dennis M. Donovan
Dennis C. Wendt
Brandon Matsumiya
Carolyn A. McCarty
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-17
Description
Study found that Indigenous youth suffered from more depressive symptoms, discrimination, and generalized anxiety, and were more likely to have initiated substance abuse than the rest of the cohort.
University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2017, pp. 1-8
Description
An analysis of four primary sources published by William Johnson, Superintendent of Northern Indian Affairs, British General Charles Lee, University of Pennsylvania Provost William Smith, and plantation owner and British soldier Peter Williamson.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-22
Description
Studies barriers to implementing the Zimbabwean language education policy in primary school grades and the perception of socio-economic benefits that come with the English language.
Canadian Journal of Women & the Law, vol. 16, no. 1, 2004, pp. 137-164
Description
Argues that individual cases occur within a particular historical and social context and that this has to be taken into account when evaluating specific cases.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, Supplement 2, 2004, pp. 107-113
Description
Paper presented at the 12th International Congress on Circumpolar Health discussion on what constitutes health and well-being from the perspective of adult and elder Métis women. Also looks at how these views should be incorporated into Métis designed health surveys.
Protocol is comprised of six key principles: self-determination and inclusion in all stages of the research process; acting in good faith; understanding determinants of health; recognition of culture and vision and culturally-grounded research and solutions; respect for local peoples and their ways of knowing, Elders and ancestral understandings; and incorporating Two-Eyed Seeing into process.