Based on five years of quantitative research drawn from Sisters In Spirit database; looks at situation in the province compared to the national context.
Based on five years of quantitative research drawn from Sisters In Spirit database; looks at situation in the province compared to the national context.
Based on five years of quantitative research drawn from Sisters In Spirit database; looks at situation in the province compared to the national context.
Based on five years of quantitative research drawn from Sisters In Spirit database; looks at situation in the province compared to the national context.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 3, Fall, 2005, pp. 67-84
Description
Demonstrates how this Chickasaw writer uses ecofeminist heuristics to demonstrate the interconnectedness between tribal cultures and the natural landscape.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 67.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 87-88
Description
Comments on the ability of A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff to understand American Indian literatures despite being non-native.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 87.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 101, no. 3, May/June 2010, pp. 196-201
Description
Looks at a community-based study in Igloolik, Nunavut on food insecurity, and how it is influenced by social, economic, political and environmental conditions.
The Journal of American History, vol. 92, no. 1, June 2005, pp. 19-46
Description
Discusses captured and enslaved Indian women used as currency by Mexican Spaniards, Frenchmen from south Illinois and Canada and Apaches, Comanches and Wichitas in north-central Texas.
Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives=Lieu et Mémoire au Canada: Perspectives Globales
[Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies ; 3rd]
[International Conference of Central European Canadianists ; 3rd]
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Author/Creator
Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek
Description
Traces changes from the 16th century when women (both immigrant and First Nations) had significant power and autonomy, through fur trade relationships, to influx of British immigrants which brought with it a paternalistic and patriarchal model.
Conference paper from: Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives: 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, April 30-May 3, 2004, Cracow, Poland edited by Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, Anna Reczyńska, and Anna Śpiewak.
Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work, vol. 1, no. 1, February 2010, pp. 1-18
Description
Summarizes lessons learnt from a project that facilitated the discussion on issues of survival in the academy and social work programs; and discusses experiences of personal and collective healing.
Reports discrimination remains in the registration provision of the Indian Act and is found in the second generation cut-off rule which was not looked at in the McIvor case.
Georgia Law Review, vol. 24, no. 4, Summer, 1990, pp. 1019-1044
Description
Uses the example of the Iroquois of upper New York to illustrate how Europeans interpreted social structure in terms of their own cultures and belief systems. In this case, the view that Indian men were lazy and the women "drudges" who nevertheless possessed a great deal of power.
Health & Place, vol. 16, no. 4, July 2010, pp. 638-645
Description
Study, through the use of interviews and surveys, assessed women's attitudes about the impact of having to travel outside the community to deliver their babies.