Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 18, no. 4, May 2010, pp. 539-556
Description
Discusses tourists' motivations and satisfaction in participating in authentic Mi'kmaw tourism activities; findings regarding the Mi'kmaw perspective; and recommendations for the future success and sustainability of the Mi'kmaw cultural tourism sector.
Executive Action (Conference Board of Canada) ; August 2010
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 11-058]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Glen Hodgson
Description
Discusses components of strengthening economic growth for businesses such as looking at previously untapped sources of labour including Aboriginal people and other under-represented groups.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 86-95
Description
Looks at a framework incorporating Aboriginal culture and traditions, based on the "Métis List of Rights", to reclaim the rights and responsibilities for the care and well-being of Aboriginal children.
Reviews successful multi-component programs which include behavioural parent training, self-instructional training and school-based contingency training, that could be incorporated to treat Aboriginal children and youth with FASD.
Plan developed in response to consultations with women, front-line health care workers, professionals, and nurses about needs of women who must leave their communities to give birth.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 91-118
Description
How the Cree women teachers cherished the ordinary things they did with and for each other and shared their knowledge for the benefit of others; includes several photographs.
Presents a website that highlights a literacy program for children and their families. The program celebrates and explores stories through books, oral traditions and art.
Examines literature circles used at the Radius Community Centre For Education and Employment Training to see if participation helped students succeed with reading and communication skills.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn, 1999, pp. 32-45
Description
Argues that Native American literature, whether oral or written, serves all the functions any literature can or does serve, including spiritual inspiration and political insight.
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. lxiv-lxviii
Description
Project goal is to develop a mental health curriculum sensitive to Native American values.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page lxiv.
Guidebook developed for high school teachers with the intent to prevent the spread of TB and to encourage healthy behaviours through activities and lesson resources.
History of the Family, vol. 4, no. 4, December 1999, pp. 529-555
Description
Overview of three centuries of relations with Europeans and role played by familial ties; traces continuity and persistence as well as loss and change in Ojibwa kinship relations.
Looks at the familial relationships which developed in the community of Île à la Crosse as well as those established with representatives of the fur trade and the Church.
Introduction and Chapter 1 of: One of the Family: Métis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan.
Australian Humanities Review, no. 14, July 1999, p. [?]
Description
Review article of: The Stolen Children: Their Stories edited by Carmel Bird.
Book is a compilation of extracts from the Bringing Them Home report of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. [51]-65
Description
Examines the ways in which photography, both past and present, by Western photographers and the Aboriginal character of Will, is used as a plot device in the novel.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
Description
Discusses the way in which the tobacco contributes to Indigenous research methodology and examines how Indigenous research can draw upon Indigenous ways of knowing by connecting individuals with the spiritual and physical world.
Journal of Community Health, vol. 35, no. 6, December 2010, pp. [667]-675
Description
Study demonstrates that interventions to prevent excess adiposity in infants and toddlers are both feasible and acceptable to American Indian/Alaskan native peoples.