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.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 8, Indigenous Social Work Practices and Theories, August 2012, pp. 13-41
Description
Looks at the disproportionate number of Indigenous children placed in child protection systems due to their mothers victimized by intimate partner violence.
Societies Without Borders, vol. 7, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-28
Description
Contends that United States has failed to meet treaty obligations to Native nations or meet international obligations of human rights within the context of Native women's health.
English and Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--Madurai Kamaraj University, 2012.
Focuses on works by Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
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.
Brief television feature focuses on the artist's controversial series of paintings of the sixty-nine murdered and missing women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Duration: 6:36.
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.
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.
Based on information gathered from Grandmothers in research circles. Participants were asked about traditional practices, what was happening in their communities, and what was needed to move forward.
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, vol. 3, no. 2, Mothering, Fathering and a Culture of Peace, Fall/Winter, 2012, pp. 49-65
Description
Comments on a community agency, WAVS, that leads the way in family violence awareness, healing intervention and prevention.
Provides an overview of tools, principles and methods to be applied when conducting research involving Aboriginal women. Includes a checklist and bibliography.