Discusses yearlong community-based project undertaken by Saskatchewan First Nations Family and Community Institute, QBOW Child and Family Services and Nechapanuk Centre Child and Family Services. Highlights the need for building a stronger continuum of care and core recommendation is that agencies focus on programming, partnerships, and building capacity before, during and after a child comes into care.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, January 14, 2019
Description
Article presents findings of a research conducted in collaboration with Pinaymootang First Nation between 2015 and 2017; researchers use formal and informal interviews to detail the barriers and subsequent impacts faced by First Nation children with special needs and their caregivers in seeking healthcare services.
Severed Connections - Historical Overview of Indigenous Adoption in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lara di Tomasso
Sandrina de Finney
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Special Issue on Custom Adoptions, 2015, pp. 7-18
Description
Presents a short history of adoption in Canada and examines the impact of forced, external, and closed adoptions on Indigenous adoptees, families, and communities.
Part 2.
Discussion of international legal principle created and justified by ideas of European superiority; doctrine provided newly arrived Europeans with automatic property rights and entitled them to exercise governmental, political, and commercial power over the original inhabitants.
Panel discussion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's closing events.
Duration: 1:03:21.
Post Script , vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 27-[?]
Description
Discusses impact two women filmmakers have had on the National Film Board of Canada's productions and their re-imagining of western cinematic traditions.
Examines the structural factors behind disproportionality in the system and reviews approaches that go beyond traditional limits of social welfare systems.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 303-316
Description
Examines the belief systems about diabetes in American Indian elders with two practice models, one an Indigenous model, valuing traditional American Indian culture, the other a mainstream model, aligned with western biomedicine.
Argues that First Nation communities must look beyond timber harvesting to develop strategies encompassing new and different approaches to forest-based development.
Journal of Development Economics, vol. 116, September 2015, pp. 43-56
Description
Discusses impact of clarifying property rights on local economic conditions by using employment and income data found in census data micro-data on reservations.
BMC Public Health, vol. 15, 2015, p. article no. 1222
Description
Cross sectional survey (2012/13) conducted with Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation and Montreal Lake Cree Nation involved 580 households and 1570 adult participants. Found that residential school attendance and cultural disruption were not predictive of diabetes, while those experiencing the highest level of racism had low prevalence. Authors suggest that the latter finding may be the result of increased interaction with off-reserve society.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 2, December 5, 2019, pp. 1-22
Description
Article discusses the different ways that Something Inside is Broken brings attention decolonization and how the language and music in the piece are both made to serve this purpose.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 39-45
Description
Presents a study to determine if there is a difference in birth outcomes among First Nations women living
on-reserve versus off-reserve in Manitoba.
ita [Industry Training Authority] Aboriginal Initiatives
Description
Discusses challenges and issues and the essential elements in employment counseling services and training programs including finding candidates, defining program's purpose, assessing participant readiness, and providing support and resources. Based on experiences of organizations in British Columbia.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019, pp. 43-76
Description
Uses historical resources (oral histories, interviews, and archival materials) and contemporary popular culture to describe and discuss the elaborate Diné clan systems and extended kinship relationships and networks.
Architecture Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Waterloo, 2015.
Looks at the Mohawk Institute Residential School, Birtle Indian Residential School, Brandon Indian Residential School, and Shingwauk Indian Residential School.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 69-92
Description
Looks at how Two-Spirit critiques, critiques that centralize Native peoples, nations, identities, land bases, and survival tactics, challenge and strengthen work in queer studies.
Canadian Journal of Public Health , vol. 110, no. 4, August 2019, pp. 414-421
Description
Assess whether there are specific motives which affect the drinking and binge drinking behavior of Inuit youth; survey of 174 youth finds motives to include enhancement, social, and coping, some gender variation in motivators.