Canadian Issues, Journeys of a Generation: Broadening the Aboriginal Well-Being Policy Research Agenda, Winter, 2009, pp. 37-44
Description
Highlights the foundational role of language in ensuring long-term academic, social, and economic success.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 37.
Provides an overview of the current situation, describing five pathways to involvement, critiques present preventative/intervention methods and discusses alternate approaches.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 9, September 2009, p. 16
Description
Comments on the first annual Aboriginal Youth Entrepreneurship Camp which taught ten Aboriginal students how to run their own business in one week!
Article located by scrolling to page 16.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 2, 2009, pp. 152-160
Description
Outlines programs and strategies to prevent Aboriginal youth gangs, and discusses positive opportunities for youth to interact with community role models and participate in community programs.
Assert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film
Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth
Napi: Creation
Media » Film and Video
Description
Video presentation of Assert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film, hosted by the Museum of Anthropology. Shows short films followed by discussion and question period with filmmakers and artists. Companion to exhibition Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth.
Part 2.
Duration: 1:52:21.
ssert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film
Media » Film and Video
Description
Video presentation of Assert, Defend, Take Space: Aboriginal Youth Conference on Identity, Activism and Film, hosted by the Museum of Anthropology. Continuation from part one. Shows short films followed by discussion and question period with filmmakers and artists. Companion to exhibition: Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth
Duration: 2:55:59.
Part 1.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 2, February 2009, p. 8
Description
Looks at Health Canada statistics that reveal much higher suicide rates for First Nations youth and what type of programs could be put in place to reduce this statistic.
Article located by scrolling to page 8.
Borderlands E - Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-8
Description
Explores the dichotomy between cultural relativism and universalism and examines how these tensions are used to legitimize assimilation by the Australian colonial state.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Margaret B. Blackman
Description
Looks at the materials needed for mask making and comments on mask sales.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Qualitative Report, vol. 19, no. 12, March 24, 2014, pp. [1]-19
Description
Strategies proposed to increase student success were: appointing Indigenous nursing professors; partnerships between nursing schools and Indigenous Education Support Units; and tailored cross-cultural awareness programs.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 13, no. 1, October 1973, pp. [14-19]
Description
Investigation into textbooks and teachings at an elementary school in Lawrence, Kansas. Sixty of sixty-six books discussed Native Americans/Indians as people of the past.
Comments on the gaps and barriers in health care service for Aboriginal patients, groups, and communities and what can be done to improve health outcomes.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 41, no. 3, Social Network, Social Support, and Health / Le réseau social, lappui de lentourage et la santé, 2009, pp. 168-185
Description
Highlights experiences of both stigmatization and discrimination based on interviews with 16 Aboriginal and 17 non-Aboriginal persons with HIV and 27 health care providers.
Alexander Campbell served as a sergeant with the 7th Fusiliers, a battalion of militia which was headquartered in London, Ontario. This unit was called into active service on 1 April 1885 and, within a week, had embarked on their journey west -- a journey made more arduous by the gaps in the railway above Lake Superior. After stops in Winnipeg and Swift Current, the 7th Fusiliers did not reach the area of the fighting until after General Middleton's forces had defeated the Métis at Batoche.
Diversity in Health and Care, vol. 6, no. 1, 2009, pp. [11]-22
Description
Describes the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health model of cross-cultural care based on 5 key service aspects: governance, patient support, traditional healing practice, medicines, and foods.
Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Globalising Indigeneity: New Research Directions, 2009, pp. 1-4
Description
Keynote speaker's address opens this special issue which aims to showcase the depth and breadth of Indigenous Studies in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach for the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1383-1399
Description
Looks at upper respiratory tract infection and treatment options in children.
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach For the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1343-1361
Description
Looks this common disease infecting aboriginal children living on reservations and remote locations where adequate sanitation is lacking.
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach for the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1401-1419
Description
Research shows link between these diseases and socioeconomic disadvantages and lack of cost-effective approaches to prevention.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 68, no. 5, 2009, pp. 421-432
Description
Studies whether Acylation Stimulating Protein (ASP) plays a role in the lower risk of ischemic heart disease in the Inuit of Nunavik in northern Quebec compared to a southern Quebec Caucasian population.
American Journal of Public Health , vol. 104, no. S3, Supplement 3, June 2014, pp. S255-S247
Description
Uses links to Indian Health Services (IHS) patient records to lessen misclassification of race and identify eligibility for services from federally recognized tribes.
Rural Social Work & Community Practice, vol. 14, no. 2, December 2009, pp. 38-48
Description
Contends that a Federal government policy change from welfare focused transfer payments to one of economic development is required to benefit Canadian First Nation communities.