Reports on public discussions which took place to gather recommendations with respect to changes in police practices and new police initiatives to protect vulnerable and marginalized women.
Journal of Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, vol. 11, no. 1, Maternal Health and Well-Being, Spring/Summer, 2009, pp. 122-135
Description
Looks at kind of experiences women had giving birth in a non-Aboriginal health care setting in Nova Scotia.
Goal of the program was to provide early intervention services which prevent entry and escalation of families in the statutory child protection system.
Participants in the National Museum of the American Indian Artist Leadership Program from Canada, United States and Peru discuss their work and participate in a panel discussion.
Duration: 1:39:43.
Cultural and Social History, vol. 9, no. 4, 2012, pp. 497-525
Description
Looks at conflicts over land owned by the Haudenosaunee and the backgrounds of John Brant and Robert Johnson Keer as negotiators for the Grand River Six Nations.
Report of investigation into factors that may have led to the suicide of an 18-year-old Métis youth who was under the care of the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development.
Discusses the relationship between bronchitis and environmental factors that increase the likelihood of contracting the illness amongst Indigenous populations.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 15, no. 6, June 2012, pp. 1, A-10
Description
Overview of the visit to Regina by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
Article located on page 1 and by scrolling to page A-10.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, January/February 2009, pp. 16-17
Description
Summary of Baseline Evaluation Report provides snapshot of childbearing population revealing need for support and treatment, awareness raising, and professional education and training.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 35, no. 1, Indigenous Pedagogies Resurgence and Restoration, 2012, pp. 98-116, 222-223
Description
Describe the learning journeys shared by two First Nations schools, one in a British Columbia city and the other in a Northern Ontario rural community.
Journal of Rural and Community Development, vol. 7, no. 1, Human Resources and Remote Indigenous Communities, 2012, pp. 1-15
Description
Netchain analysis dealing with harvested bush tomatoes sold by Aboriginal people to non-Aboriginal people. Identifies relationships in the chain as being of value.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 2012, pp. 29-39
Description
Investigates principle which states that First Nations children should have the same access and level of services as non-First Nations children in Canada.
Indigenous lawyers and law students from British Columbia recount their experiences with stereotyping, race-based assumptions, and discrimination within the legal profession and while practicing in the justice system.
Duration: 25:43.
Related material: Part 2.
An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework
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Author/Creator
Gemma Hunting
Description
"Demonstrates the necessity and utility of interrogating and shifting the current FASD policy paradigm in order to strengthen the capacity of polity to promote health and social equity."
Chapter from An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework edited by Olena Hankivsky.
Scroll down to page 93 to read chapter.
Expands on a previously published research brief.
Outlines three areas in which the interests and goals of government and Aboriginals may differ: scope of injustices, government's attempt to draw a line through the past and legitimate current policies, and government's use of the process as an attempt to assert authority.
Primary focus is the personal narratives of two survivors of the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School, with some general information of the school system and the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Duration: 47:30.
SA-eDUC Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Special Edition on Education and Ethnicity, November 2009, pp. 100-116
Description
Supports the need to understand First Nations history from an Aboriginal perspective and the effects the Indian Act and residential school systems had on First Nations people in Canada.