Descriptive analysis provides several important findings centered on risky life style factors, work in sex trade, addictions, homelessness, and elapsed time before disappearance was reported.
Examines the labour market challenges confronting Aboriginal people and attempts to identify strategies that will improve Aboriginal labour market outcomes.
Passion for Action in Child and Family Services: Voices From the Prairies
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Author/Creator
Jim Silver
Description
Looks at ways to move towards the goal of eliminating spatially concentrated racialized poverty in Prairie cities.
Chapter 11 from Passion for Action in Child and Family Services: Voices From the Prairies edited by S. McKay, D. Fuchs, I. Brown.
Australian Occupational Therapy, vol. 58, no. 1, Indigenous Health, Well-Being, Social and Economic Inclusion-Closing the Gaps, February 2011, pp. 3-10
Description
"This article aims to present occupational therapists with practice guidelines for conducting assessments with primary school-aged Indigenous children in Australia".
Looks at the history, artistic and cultural value of Alutiiq masks, and discusses some of the challenges for future masters to carry Alutiiq traditions forward.
Three artists who participated in the exhibition Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains discuss the relationship between their culture, personal lives, and their work.
Duration: 1:59:05.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 3, Summer, 2009, pp. 325-352
Description
Looks into the structure of contemporary imperialism, the role Canada plays in an imperial system, and the nature of Canadian society as a Settler society.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 5-41
Description
Discusses the conflict between anthropologists & archaeologists and Indigenous peoples on the rule for the disposition of culturally unidentifiable Native American human remains in the possession or control of museums or Federal agencies.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 7, no. 1, Summer, 2009, pp. 1-25
Description
Questions how the Community Based Participatory Research principles stand up when applied to American Aboriginal communities and whether additional contextual information is necessary to understand and work with these principles.
Native Studies Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 1992, pp. 1-21
Description
Compares Cree Elder James Wesley's narrative account of Alexander Macdonald, HBC trader with documents from the Church Missionary Society and Hudson's Bay Company archive.
Film explores historical overivew of the Coppermine community beginning with arrival of the missionaries, the tuberculosis epidemic and Dr. Russel Martin's fight for medical supplies from Ottawa.
Duration: 57:07.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 16, no. 6, November/December 1992, p. 22
Description
Looks at council established to foster a better relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and to help improve their health, housing and employment situation.