Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 2, Crossing Borders, Winter, 2010
Description
Comments and observations from a writer and photographer, who toured five tribal colleges in Montana, including noting a strong female presence in leadership roles and feeling very welcomed by all campuses.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 45-52
Description
Discusses the history of the American Indian women who initiated legislative changes to the Indian Child Welfare Act, and looks at recommendations to address the problems associated with the lack of compliance to current legislation across Canada and the United States.
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 151-176
Description
Proposes that “Indigenous futurism is a deliberate, intentional, and purpose-driven position that addresses not only inclusion but intersectionality for its protagonists and themes;” and ask the reader to consider it both an aesthetic and a framework for critical theory. Examines different dystopian YA texts in this context.
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 10, no. 3, August 6, 2010, p. article no. 1383
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Reviews current services, initiatives & challenges to the delivery of safe maternity services for Aboriginal women in rural and remote areas of Australia.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, January 2010, pp. 32-38
Description
Determines there is a need for more effective perinatal and infant care programs in remote First Nations communities to reduce mortality rates.
Focuses on reforms that could be make by provincial and/or federal government justice departments in the areas of policing, prosecutions, corrections, victim services, crime prevention, policy and legislation.
Act allows signatory First Nations the authority to create their own system for making reserve land allotments as well as the authority to deal with matrimonial interests or rights.
Current as of May 12, 2016.
[United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Government's response to Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women's recommendation about investigation of cases of missing or murdered Aboriginal women.
Presents a selection of papers presented April 29-30, 2009, Faculty of the VCA and Music, The University of Melbourne about the business of Indigenous performing arts, its history and its future.
Provides examples for health and social service providers in Ontario to help pregnant women create a support system. Includes list of resources for programs and services.
Focuses on over-incarceration and criminalization, new approachs to prostitution, murdered and missing women inquiry, inequalities in education, and sex discrimination in the Indian Act.
Results of interviews with 16 study participants grouped into five themes: identity, family and community, violence, systemic racism/colonialism, social networks/supports, and resiliency and integrity.
Court considered whether registration provisions, which determine eligibility for status, in the Indian Act continued to discriminate against women and their descendants and limited their ability to pass on status, as compared to men. Found that several sections infringed on rights found in section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, declared those sections inoperative, and gave Canadian government 18 months to enact new legislation.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 101, no. 1, January/February 2010, pp. 101-105
Description
Discusses the diagnosis of primary invasive breast cancer between First Nations and non-First Nations women, and the need for screening programs aimed at detecting breast cancers earlier.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 3, Fall , 2016, pp. 23-51
Description
Argues that the character's response to the continued abuse by her husband, which leads her to murder him in order to possess their money and land, is a reference to settlers' feelings of entitlement to Indigenous lands.
Post Script , vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 27-[?]
Description
Discusses impact two women filmmakers have had on the National Film Board of Canada's productions and their re-imagining of western cinematic traditions.
Dispelling Common Myths about Indigenous Peoples: Nine Myths & Realities
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Author/Creator
Bob Joseph
Description
Covers issues such as adequacy of reserve lands and resources, housing, tax exemptions, post-secondary education funding, residential schools, connection between unemployment and health and social problems, and missing and murdered women and girls.