Research Insight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Insight. Housing Indicators and Analytics ; October, 2016
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Combines statistics on housing needing only regular maintenance or minor repairs with degree of accessibility by road.
Data from 2011 National Household Survey and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada's First Nations communities geography.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 1998, pp. 24-25
Description
Describes the publication on the housing status of Australia's Indigenous people. Less than 30% of Indigenous people owned their home compared to a 70% home ownership rate of non-Indigenous Australians.
Research Insight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Insight. Housing Indicators and Analytics ; October, 2016
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Combines statistics on extent of crowding (fewer bedrooms than household requires) with degree of accessibility by road.
Data from 2011 National Household Survey and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada's First Nations communities geography.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 40, January-December 2016, pp. 25-33
Description
Examines impact of incarceration and return to community on family members and discusses results of the SPRINT (Services and Primary health care needs for Recently released Inmates in Need of Treatment and health management) study.
Looks at the organization's participation in economic projects using program data, survey research, and a comparative case study and discusses critical success factors, barriers, and limitations.
Prawa Człowieka / Human Rights, no. 19, 2016, pp. 321-340
Description
Looks at the framework of human rights protection in Canada from the perspective of the case of missing and murdered aboriginal women.
Full issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 321 to access article.
Discusses the colonial marginalization of "country foods" and the resulting food insecurity in Inuit communities in Nunavut.
Geography [Honours] Thesis (B.A)--McGill University, 2016.
First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada
Description
Links to material related to the complaint laid against the Government of Canada alleging inequitable funding for provision of welfare services to First Nations children living on reserves.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 259-279
Description
Literary criticism article in which the author examines the ways that Hopkins uses liminality and liminal identity as a means of social critique and of subversion, as well as an intersection of creativity.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 4, 2016, pp. 16-43
Description
Research shows three protective factors within support systems have an effect of the sexual health and behaviours of youth: school, family, and enculturation.
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 221-228
Description
Personal essay in which the author articulates the relationship between her practice of the traditional West African religion Ifa and her practice as a science fiction writer.
[Capstone Seminar: A Focus on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Sept.-Dec. 2015)]
[Existing Measures & Engagement on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls: A Preliminary Response to "Invisible Women"]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Winnie Babou
Drew Meerveld
Jessie Wallace]
Description
Lists initiatives undertaken by federal and provincial governments, and civil organizations in response to the recommendations made in the House of Commons Special Committee on Violence against Indigenous Women report. Includes summary and additional notes for each initiative.
Reports the results of a survey completed by 62 women, aged 19 or older which asked questions about experience, perceptions and feelings with respect to the Meadow bank goldmine which operates in the vicinity.
Related content:
Qualitative Assessement.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 5, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1-19
Description
Study surveyed 1,593 emerging adults ages 18 to 30 who had lived in a stepfamily for at least one year to examine impact of stress on formation of secure and insecure attachments.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 40, January-December 2016, pp. 38-47
Description
Data for research obtained from National Coroners Information System and Northern Territory Coroner’s Office, and covers years 1981-2010; 1991-2010 and 2001-2010. Argues that since Elders have little or no suicide rate, their involvement with youth could have a positive effect. Discusses several programs currently in operation.
Transmotion, vol. 2, no. 1 - 2, November 28, 2016, pp. 96-119
Description
Literary criticism article examines and compares depictions of Indigenous masculinities in the two novels. Author dissects warrior stereotypes and discusses the ways that those masculinities are affected by relocation overseas.
Looked at circumstances which positively and negatively impact use of fish, shellfish and game in programs for children from birth to age six. Study consisted of environmental scan and literature review, key informant interviews, and four case studies.