Looks at women's experiences in Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Montreal. Research involved literature review and interviews with forty-six Inuit women, twenty-two service providers, and, when possible, focus groups. Four objectives of study were to identify motivations for migration/relocation to urban centres, examine challenges faced, discuss primary effects on roles and responsibilities, and to identify supports needed.
Study focused on: demographic and mobility patterns, service delivery, culture and identity, issues specific to children, youth, and women, racism, health, and income and poverty.
Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey. Sample size of 288 respondents.
Joint Steering Committee Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
Description
Study undertaken to provide information for development of strategic resource allocation, understanding of current policy approaches and legislative frameworks, and on-going issues faced by the population in the cities of Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Barrie/Midland/Orillia, Sudbury and Kenora.
Study focused on: education, income, employment, housing, culture and identity, racism, health, issues specific to youth, women and men and provision of social services. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey.
Sample size of 280 participants 96 percent of whom were Aboriginal.
Study focused on: education, culture and identity, political representation, housing, economic development, racism, health, economically successful residents, youth issues, and gaps in social services. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey.
Sample size of 340.
Joint Steering Committee Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
Description
Study focused on: demographics and mobility patterns, culture and identity, service delivery, racism, health, housing, income and employment, and issues specific to youth and women. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey.
Sample size of 441 respondents; 182 participated in qualitative component and 259 participated in quantitative component.
Study focused on: demographics and mobility patterns, service delivery, culture and identity, issues specific to youth and women, racism, and health.
Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey. Sample size of 425.
Statistics for sexual assault, maltreatment of Indigenous girls before the age of 15, spousal violence, injury, interpersonal violence after separation, and contact with victim services.
Looks at the history of Thanadelthur, a young Dene women who is famous for her involvement in the early Canadian fur trade, linking together the Hudson's Bay Company and northern Dene peoples living west of Hudson's Bay.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 45-67
Description
Explores the book for autobiographical sections and passages that could also be classified as myth, legend or fiction and how this influences the reader's treatment of the work as life writing.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.
Interview with creator of a documentary about Native American participation in World I and II, Korea and Vietnam, produced for Wisconsin Public Television.
Looks at a project that brought together low-income mothers of preschool-aged children who wanted to learn more about making their community a healthier place to live.
Published by the Prairie Women's Centre for Excellence.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 23-42
Description
Discusses the controversy surrounding Disney's casting of Depp in the role of Tonto and Comanche activist Ladonna Vita Tabbytite Harris's decision to customarily adopt the actor.
Article explores the posts and comments from three different Blogs by Indigenous women; examines how intersectional rhetoric is constructed and used in these spaces, and how it serves to defend Indigenous rhetorical sovereignty.
Based on in-depth interviews with 9 women who had been involved in abusive relationships. Looks at the environmental and cultural factors which contribute to the situation and the culturally appropriate services that are needed to address the problem.
Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tina Hotton Mahony
Joanna Jacob
Heather Hobson
Description
Statistics on violent crime, criminal and violent victimization, childhood assault, spousal violence, homicide, and females charged with violent offences.
International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Solveig Joks
Description
Discusses some of the problems caused by the focus on meat production and on reindeer husbandry as a one-man job.
Chapter 20 from International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship edited by Léo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson.
Entire e-book on one pdf. To access chapter, scroll to page 246 or select chapter 20 on side bar.