Journal of Pregnancy and Child Health, vol. 1, no. 2, 2014, pp. 1-8
Description
Looks at the relationship between income and marital status on pregnant mothers suffering from depression. Indigenous women are more likely to experience lower education, income and social support, increasing their vulnerability for depression during and after pregnancy.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 131-144
Description
Review essay of:
Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Sa by Tadeusz Lewandowski.
A Warrior of the People: The Indomitable Courage of Susan la Flesche - America's First Indian Doctor by Joe Starita.
Medicine Woman directed by Christine Lesiak and Princella RedCorn.
American Indian Women by Patrick Deval and translated by Jan-Marie Todd.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 2, Spring, 2014, pp. 198-200
Description
A review of Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada edited by Robin Jarvis Brownlie and Valerie J. Korinek.
Women's History Review, vol. 23, no. 6, 2014, pp. 976-995
Description
Using a gendered approach to look at the history of Indigenous women's participation and impact on sports culture. Focuses on the Indigenous boarding school basketball team the Fort Shaw Blues.
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, vol. 5, no. 1, MOthering, Popular Culture and the Arts, Spring/Summer, 2014, pp. 35-53
Description
Looks at historical maternal traditions and the empowering influences on contemporary motherhood practices.
Biographical account of the life of the first known child born to a Aboriginal woman and European male in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Comments on the variations of the narrative to suit the dominant interests.
Northern Review, no. 43, The North and the First World War, April 2017, pp. 9-30
Description
Discusses the participation of the Yukon in the war including those who enlisted, those committed to efforts at home, women volunteers who fund raised and personal stories of participation by such folks as Joe Boyle, Robert Service, George Black, Martha Black and others.
Argues that the legal framework has not kept up with demographic shifts because it focuses on land-related rights and ignores off-reserve and non-status population. As such, it disproportionately affects women who have been displaced through discriminatory effects of the Indian Act.
CMAJ, vol. 189, no. 46, November 20, 2017, pp. e1408-e1409
Description
Highlights Saskatoon Health Region's external review into allegations of Indigenous women being coerced into having tubal ligations, and the interim report on the death of Brian Sinclair, who was ignored for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency department.
Northwest Territories Research Project Report for Territorial Stakeholders: Rural and Northern Community Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Report for Territorial Stakeholders
Rural and Northern Community Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pertice Moffitt
Heather Fikowski
Description
Study focused on identifying the needs of women, gaps and associated challenges in service provision, and strategies for developing non-violent communities. It took place over the course of five years and involved individual interviews and focus groups with RCMP, community health nurses, shelter and victim services workers, counsellors and social workers.
Investigation into the disappearance and murdered women on highway 16 in northern British Columbia known to the locals as the highway of tears.
Duration 39:12.
Two chapters deal specifically with Aboriginals:
Chapter 3: Helpers, Not Helpless: Honouring the Strength, Wisdom and Vision of Aboriginal Women Experiencing Homelessness or Marginal Housing by Billie Allan and Izumi Sakamoto,
Chapter 4: Homelessness and Health in the Crowded Canadian Arctic: Inuit Arctic Experiences by Nathanael Lauster and Frank Tester.
Provides historical background about issues relating to the play about the murdered and missing women from the "Highway of Tears", a section of highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia.