Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, January 2010, pp. 32-38
Description
Determines there is a need for more effective perinatal and infant care programs in remote First Nations communities to reduce mortality rates.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-6
Description
Ojibwe Traditional Elder briefly discusses the pipe ceremony, language, clan system, legends/stories, code of conduct, beginning of man and womanhood, and the eagle feather.
Purpose of brief compilation is to provide historical and current context for Aboriginal health status. Lists significant legislation and events chronologically, as well as discusses benefits, social determinants of health, gaps in services, etc.
Compares on-reserve "registered population" to other Canadians with respect to education, family, health, labour force participation, income and housing; based on Census data.
Abstracts of works in the Research Series.
Aboriginal Sexual Offending in Canada by John H. Hylton.
Mental Health Profiles for a Sample of British Columbia's Aboriginal Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System by Raymond R. Corrado, Irwin M.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 44-63
Description
Author uses the writings of early Euro-American explorers and anthropologists to describe the gender roles of male and female Lenni Lenape people; covers household/familial duties, lineage tracing, ceremony, social/political agency. Discussion queer individuals is not present.
Results of qualitative survey conducted in response to amendments to the Youth Protection Act which gives courts the power to issue permanent placement orders outside of the immediate family.
International Dental Journal, vol. 60, no. 3 suppl.2, June 2010, pp. 245-249
Description
Comments on an intervention that did not produce any significant change in oral health behaviours, clinical measures of oral hygiene, or community programs promoting oral health.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 125-133
Description
Article introduces the second section of this is issue of AIQ and the articles contained therein. Focuses on issues of identity, cultural hybridity and marginality.
Summarizes findings from meetings with elected leaders, elders, community members, and representatives of agencies, government and industry. Makes recommendations in the areas of collaboration, coordination, community, capacity, communication and commitment.
Follow-up Report.
Literature review identifies secondary information in these areas: barriers to employment, career aspirations, rates of success and factors associated with them, and comparison to non-Aboriginal youth.
Presents updates from Early Childhood Development Working Group by region and looks at items from the National Inuit Early Childhood Education Gathering.
"The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a range of options for constitutional reform in order to promote discussion and exploration of specific possibilities for Australia".
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, 1998, pp. 131-150
Description
Examines the exclusion and then limited inclusion into the dominant society, and also the dominant society's construction of the alternative group's identity.
Discusses intent of a building to house indigenous spirituality in order to understand limits to environment and the implications socially, subjectively and economically for Indigenous Australians.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter, 1998, pp. 9-31
Description
Discussion of the struggle for identity and the complications not only of ethnicity and mixed heritage, but of gender and sexuality.
Scroll to page 9 to access article.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 12, no. 1, Series 2; Children’s Literature, Spring, 2000, pp. [35-]-55
Description
Reviewer of Native American literature for the journal Hornbook discusses an editor's rejection of one of her reviews and the subsequent study she conducted with librarians and teachers.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Oral History Review, vol. 37, no. 2, Summer/Fall, 2010, pp. 170-190
Description
Looks at written documents and oral recollections to uncover the experiences of Indigenous soldiers and their contributions in World War II, the Northern Territory, and Australian history.
Looks at Thomas Hobbes' theory of the "state of nature" and how it has shaped Europeans' treatment of Indigenous peoples.
Chapter 1 from: Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision edited by Marie Battiste.
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. xxxii-xxxiv
Description
Overview and historical look at Native American And First Nation communities and their attitude towards "Two-Spirit" personhood.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page xxxii.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 187-198
Description
Shows how declining agricultural results forced people to look at other means of survival, how the arrival of railroading provided the alternative employment opportunity needed, and how this all led to the departure of many Laguna to distant areas as wage laborers.
[United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Government's response to Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women's recommendation about investigation of cases of missing or murdered Aboriginal women.