Produced as result of workshops held during the Front Line Voices: Manitobans Working Together to End Child Sexual Exploitation summit. Recommendations and plans of action grouped into four themes: legislation and law enforcement, continuum of services, breaking the silence, and child, youth, family and community empowerment.
Paper assesses the impact the Protocols have had on issues and concerns relating to Indigenous materials and services to Indigenous peoples in libraries.
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 61, no. 1, The Transcultural Education of American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Teachers and Students ..., Autumn, 1983, pp. 6-15
Description
Looks at how teachers can help or hinder learning in the classroom. Provides suggestions for future teacher training.
Studies in the Novel, vol. 40, no. 1/2, Spring/Summer, 2008, pp. 203-223
Description
Discusses, by way of two novels, the idea of an historic traumatic "event" that has negatively impacted First Nations peoples and argues that not all events are singular, easily recognizable or chronologically-bounded.
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
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Author/Creator
Rachael Price
Description
Describes how elements from these novels serve as a mirror of hybridity theory with an emphasis on stories and the idea of journeys for true cultural unity.
Explains the experience of trauma and the vulnerability of youth because of lack of services, education, poverty, high death rates, victimization and chronic health problems.
Video of representative from the Office of the Treaty Commissioner speaking at the 2010 Growing Saskatchewan Conference.
Five parts. Viewer is automatically sent to next part.
Total duration: 59:10.
International Journal of Mental Health Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 320-335
Description
Reviews existing research of alcohol and illicit drug treatments and looks at two integrated treatment programs for Aboriginal women, New Choices and Sheway.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 1, January 2010, p. 14
Description
Comments on the consortium between two Saskatchewan tribal councils and K-Mech Constructors in an effort to create economic development in local communities.
Article located by scrolling to page 14.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 68-75
Description
Discusses Allen's many contributions as a scholar, poet, novelist, theorist, political activist, and professor.
To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
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Author/Creator
Marija Kneževiċ
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Discusses how the comic mobility of the trickster is used to address serious social issues in Sherman Alexie's volume of short stories.
Excerpt from Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium edited by Mark B. Spencer.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 21-34
Description
Discusses tropes or traditions, the organizing devices societies cohere to, by comparing a book and a movie. As key elements of belief systems, tropes act as powerful mediators between the world and how we experience the world’s meaning . By structuring a shared reality cultures are created, however, sometimes tropes can structure incompatible realities across cultures and distort our ability to understand cultures different from our own.
Western American Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, Spring, 2010, pp. 30-52
Description
Discusses the social and national implications of lying in the popular Western formula through a reading of three works that cross gender and cultural lines.
Anglican Journal, vol. 134, no. 2, February 2008, p. 15
Description
Comments on the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions mandate to hear from those who have been affected by residential schools, including the Anglican Church of Canada.
Information gathered from four individuals who attended the "A Window to Seeing the World Differently, National Symposium of Aboriginal Special Education". Objective was to explore possibilities for incorporating Aboriginal attitudes into the education of special needs children.
Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand
RAL-e ; no.3, 2008
Research in Anthropology & Linguistics-e ; no. 3, 2008
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Author/Creator
Agapi Mavridis
Description
Discusses links between attempted eradication of TB with the social conditions that allow the disease to thrive.
Chapter 4 from : Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer.
Scroll down to page 43 to read chapter.
Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand
RA&L-e ; no.3, 2008
Research in Anthropology & Linguistics-e ; no. 3, 2008
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Paul Hackett
Description
Highlights several factors including inability of government and church to protect children and the conflict between economics of running the schools and medical personnel.
Chapter 10 from: Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer.
Scroll down to page 113 to read chapter.
Anglican Journal, vol. 134, no. 4, April 2008, p. 4
Description
Discusses a speech given by Bob Watts, the interim executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, regarding residential school abuse and how it is now time to work towards healing.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 6, June 2010, pp. 1-2
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Comments on the annual SaskTel Aboriginal Youth Awards of Excellence, and highlights the achievements of some exceptional youth.
Article found on pages 1 and 2.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 4, April 2008, p. 20
Description
Looks at the Aboriginal Apprenticeship Initiatives program which trains skilled workers to fill labour market needs.
Article located by scrolling to page 20
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 41, no. 1, 2008, pp. 75-79
Description
Looks at two essays by Richard Wagamese titled, What It Comes To Mean which discusses the legacy of forced adoption, residential schools and racism, and Learning Ojibway which looks at how learning Ojibway opened the door of discovery, homecoming, reclamation and rejuvenation.
Looks at the challenges affecting performance of Aboriginal students and the benefit of using principles which combine both Indigenous and western perspectives in the classroom.
George Wright Forum, The, vol. 27, no. 2, 2010, p. 222–233
Description
Examines the unique legal and constitutional relationship with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and Parks Canada including the legislative policy and corporate changes that have occurred over the last 30 years.