Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nihaya Daoud
Janet Smylie
Marcelo Urquia
Patricia O'Campo
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. 4, July/August 2013, pp. 278-283
Description
Raw statistics showed that Aboriginal women were four times more likely to suffer from intimate partner violence (IPV) than non-Aboriginal women.
Contributions of Culture and Language in Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities to Children’s Health Outcomes: A Review of Theory and Research
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jessica Ball
Ken Moselle
Description
Uses social determinants of health model to identify immediate and long term benefits.
Summarizes method and key findings from the report Healthy Aboriginal Child Development and Health Promotion/Chronic Disease Prevention: Prospects for Integration and Inter sectoral Coordination.
Conversations About Historical Trauma: Part One
Alternate Title
Spotlight on Culture
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Vivian H. Jackson
Impact Newsletter (National Child Traumatic Stress Network), Spring, 2013, p. [?]
Description
Comments on the historical trauma intervention model which uses four components designed to foster healing from grief: confronting the history, understanding the trauma and its effects, releasing the pain, and transcending the trauma.
Part 1 of 3.
Conversations About Historical Trauma: Part Two
Alternate Title
Spotlight on Culture
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Vivian H. Jackson
Impact Newsletter (National Child Traumatic Stress Network), Summer, 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discusses Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
Part 2 of 3.
Conversations With Ricardo's Daughter: The Minority Experience at the University of Arizona Between 1925 and 1994 From a Critical Race Theory Perspective
Theses
Author/Creator
Jay Michael Rochlin
Description
Higher Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1995.
Conveying Traditional Indigenous Culture: From Ethnographic Film to Community-Based Storytelling
Theses
Author/Creator
Gyde Shepherd
Description
Communication Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2013.
A Convoy of Northwest Police on the March - Sketch. - 1885.
Images » Photographs
Description
Sketch of a convoy of Northwest Police on the march.
Cooperative Research Governance: A Novel Approach in Nunavut
Alternate Title
ReSDA (Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic) Annual Conference ; 3rd, 2013
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Linnea Ingebridtson
Description
Representative from Inter-agency Human Health Review Board speaks on research practices and accountability when approaching human health research, licenses for projects and research partnerships.
Duration: 12:00.
Coordinating First Nations Health Care: Policy and Implementation Challenges and Opportunities
Theses
Author/Creator
Lisa (Marie) Nixon
Description
Examines service fragmentation due to poor inter-jurisdictional coordination, especially in cases where patients are moved to and from reserves, and makes recommendations for improvement.
Public Policy Research Project (MPP)--Simon Fraser University, 2013.
Coping With "New Normal" in Climate
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tebtebba Indigenous Information Service
Mauricio Malanes
Tebtebba, vol. 14, 2013, pp. 41-43
Description
Comments on abnormal weather patterns and the need for disaster-preparedness.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 41.
Coppers from From the Hood: Haida Manga Interventions and Performative Acts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicola Levell
Museum Anthropology, vol. 36, no. 2, September 2013, pp. 113-127
Description
Looks at works by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas who infuses Haida form lines, ideas, and oral histories with Manga, a Japanese genre of cartoon illustration.
Copy of illustration: "Escape of the McKay family through the ice to Prince Albert"
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Grip Printing & Publishing (staff artist)
Description
A copy of illustration: "Escape of the McKay family through the ice to Prince Albert", from souvenir number of CANADIAN PICTORIAL & ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, 4 Jul 1885. It depicts Metis rowing boat through ice as his wife and children huddle in back. McKay was a farm instructor near Battleford. Incident described p.21.
Copy of Illustration from ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, April 4, 1885
Images » Photographs
Description
Copy of Illustration from ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, April 4, 1885 depicting Battle of Duck Lake, March 7, 1885.
Copy of Official Reports (116H) from Major General Middleton, C.B. (Commanding North-West Field Force), Concerning the Engagements at Fish Creek, on the 24th April, 1885, Poundmaker's Camp (Near Cree's Reserve) 2nd May, 1885, Batoche, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th May, 1885
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fred Middleton
[W.D. Otter]
Cora Sanderson Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Cora Sanderson
Janet R. Fietz
Archdeacon J.E. McKay
Indian History Film Project
Description
Cora Sanderson and Archdeacon J.E. McKay tell of their lives in the bush and in La Ronge.
Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country
E-Books
Author/Creator
Giordano Nanni
Andrea James
Core Competencies for Indigenous Public Health, Evaluation and Research (CIPHER): A Health Inequity Mitigation Strategy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lauren Y. Baba
Jeffrey L. Reading
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 44, no. 2, Indigenous Peoples Health and Health-Care Equity, 2013, pp. 123-128
Description
Group of 12 Indigenous scholars from Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada convened and agreed that Indigenous health could be improved by promoting culturally safe public health practices.
Corporeal Punishment: Canadian Legal Culture, The Legacy of Colonialism, and the Bodies of Aboriginal Women
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Allison Smith
Description
Addresses the issue that Aboriginal women in Canada are regularly abused and murdered and little is done at official levels to counter this.
[Corpse Whale]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jasmine Johnston
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 4, Animal Studies, Winter, 2013, pp. 111-115
Description
Book review of Corpse Whale by dg nanouk okpik.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 111.
Correspondence
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott Clark
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, p. [?]
Description
Letter to the editor commenting on the article Native Settlements and Native Rights: A Comparison of the Alaska Native Settlement, the James Bay Indian/Inuit Settlement, and the Western Canadian Inuit Settlement. by J. S. Frideres (vol. 1, no. 1, p. 59).
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Hollow Water First Nation’s Community Holistic Healing Process
Alternate Title
Setting the Agenda for Change ; vol. 2
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 2
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 1st, 2002
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Ed Buller
vol. 2
Description
Study objectives included: development of protocols for participatory research, design and implementation of holistic process, assessment of success of financial investments relative to healing processes, and other unintended benefits to community.
Chapter fifteen from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 2, which is also vol. 2 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.
The Cost of Early Canada's Native Alliances: Reality and Scarcity's Rhetoric
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine M. Desbarats
William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 4, 3rd series, October 1995, pp. 609-630
Description
Discusses the mutually beneficial relationship between the French and First Nations, including Abenakis, Mi'kmaq and others, during early history.
The Cost of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Hospital Admissions in the Canadian Arctic
Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anna Banerji
Val Panzov
Joan Robinson
Michael Young
Kaspar Ng
Muhammad Mamdani
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, no. Supplement 1, 2013, p. article no. 21595
Description
Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) hospital admission rates are among the highest in the world with Nunavut and Nunavik topping the list.
Cost of the Revised Northern Food Basket in 2012-2013
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Nutrition North Canada (NNC)
Description
Measures cost of a nutritious diet for a family of four for one week using 67 standard food items. Used by Nutrition North Canada to determine subsidies. Prices from 2011 to March 2013 for comparison purposes. Includes link to list of items in the basket.
The Costs of Local Food Procurement in Two Northern Indigenous Communities in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shinjini Pal
François Haman
Michael A. Robidoux
Food and Foodways, vol. 21, no. 2, 2013, pp. 132-152
Description
Looked at costs associated with obtaining nutritionally beneficial country food in order assess its viability as a alternative to expensive purchased foods. Found that while it required significant energy and time, it was economically comparable. Worked with the five Shibogama First Nations.
Coulee at Fort Qu'Appelle, N.W.T.
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
On back of photograph: "(North-West Rebellion - 1885) Coulee at Fort Qu'Appelle, N.W.T. 12th and 35th Regiments and Winnipeg Cavalry, York and Simcoe Batteries, en route through Touchwood Hills to Humboldt [Sask.]. [Lt.-Col. Wm. E. O'Brien on white horse commanding the York and Simcoe Battalions."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Countering Civilization: Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
Ethnic & Racial Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, April 1995, pp. 382-383
Description
Book review of: Countering Civilization: Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900 by Carol Devens.
"Counting Coup" on Children's Literature About American Indians: Louise Erdrich's Historical Fiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle Pagni Stewart
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Summer, 2013, pp. [215]-235
Description
Discusses a series of books for children which critics and scholars see as a cultural counterpoint to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books.
Country, Native Title and Ecology
Alternate Title
Aboriginal History Monograph ; 24
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica K. Weir
Luke Taylor
Patrick Sullivan
Hanson Boxer
Warford Bujiman ... [et al.]
Aboriginal History Monograph
The Cowboy Cavalry: The Story of the Rocky Mountain Rangers
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Brian Hubner
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 3, Summer, 2013, pp. 191-192
Description
Book review of: The Cowboy Cavalry by Gordon E. Tolton.
Coyote and the Stars
Alternate Title
The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest ; Level 1, Book 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Members of the Warm Springs Reservation Committee
Description
A Coyote Columbus Story
Alternate Title
One Good Story, That One
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Thomas King
Description
Humorous short story that tells the story of Columbus from an Indigenous point of view.
Excerpt from One Good Story, That One by Thomas King.
Coyote: Polymorphous But Not always Perverse
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dell Hymes
[Weber Studies], vol. 12, no. 3, Native American Special Issue, Fall, 1995, p. [?]
Description
Examines various re-tellings of the tale of Coyote, the best known Native American trickster.
CPSA Paper: Breaking Bad: Indigenous Unity Within Colonialism and the Breakup of the Indian and Métis Conference
Alternate Title
Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 85th, 2013
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Daniel Voth
Description
Paper looks at intra-Indigenous politics in the context of settler-colonialism.
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Martha Viehmann
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, 2013, pp. 131-133
Description
Book review of: Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo.
Review located by scrolling to page 131.
The Crazy Horse Memorial: A Study of a Sacred and Contested Landscape
Theses
Author/Creator
Taylor Danielle LaRocque
Description
Practicum towards Landscape Architecture Thesis (MLA)--University of Manitoba, 2013.
Crazywater
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Dennis Allen
Selwyn Jacob
Description
Life experiences are shared by Alex, Stephen, Paul and Desirae about alcoholism, trauma in childhood, and how maintaining a traditional Indigenous culture has helped with sobriety.
Duration: 58:16.
Creating a Better Future, In Profile: Pefi Kingi from Niue
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pefi Kingi
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, The Future We Want: Indigenous Women of the World Unite, December 2013, p. [?]
Description
Author discusses diasporic identities and cultural hybridity among Native Pacific Islanders.
Creating a Culturally Appropriate Web-Based Behavioral Intervention for American Indian/Alaska Native Women in Southern California: The Healthy Women Healthy Native Nation Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jessica R. Gorman
John D. Clapp
Daniel Calac
Chelsea Kolander
Corinna Nyquist
Christina D. Chambers
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 20, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1-15
Description
Study conducted focus groups and interviews with 21 women to modify a brief program for screening and prevention of prenatal alcohol use.
Creating a Personal Learning Path: A Benchmark Framework for Aboriginal Literacy and Essential Skills
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Literacy and Essential Skills Pilot Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Literacy Victoria
Description
Discusses pilot project to help First Nations communities develop set of benchmarks adapting Aboriginal worldviews to western benchmarks. Uses the Circle of Learning, Saskatchewan Adult Literacy Benchmarks, levels 1 and 2.
Creating for Culture: Edenshaw's Haida Roots and Cultural Transformations
Alternate Title
Charles Edenshaw
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Nika Collison
Christian White
Jim Hart
Jaalen Edenshaw
Reg Davidson
Gwaai Edenshaw
Description
Interviews with five artists connected with Edenshaw.
Excerpt from Charles Edenshaw curated by Robin K. Wright and Daina Augaitis.
Creating Opportunities in Education for Aboriginal Students
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)
Description
Presents overview of the resources and programs available for Aboriginal students to aide in their academic success.
Creating Sister Space: A Guide for Developing Tribal Shelter and Transitional Housing
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Victoria Ybanez
Description
Topics include advocacy, confidentiality, safety planning, challenging issues, and special populations.
Creating Space : My Life and Work in Indigenous Education
E-Books
Author/Creator
Verna J. Kirkness
Creating Space: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Georgina R. Martin
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 36, no. 1, Indian Control of Indian Education--40 Years Later, 2013, pp. 146-147
Description
Book review of Creating Space by Verna J. Kirkness.
Creating the Conditions for Economic Success on Reserve Lands: A Report on the Experiences of 25 First Nation Communities
E-Books
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)
Creations of Mystics and Philosophers: The White Man's Perceptions of Northwest Coast Indian Art from the 1930s to the Present
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aldona Jonaitis
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, 1981, pp. 1-45
Description
Looks at how views about Aboriginal art has changed from a ethnographic specimen to accepted as art.
"Creative Resistance" Continues Battle With "Dangerous" Policies
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David P. Ball
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 11, February 2013, pp. 10-11
Description
Comments on social activist, Sylvia McAdam, one of the founders of the Idle No More grassroots movement.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.10.
Cree Chiefs from Crooked Lake
Images » Photographs
Description
Image of four Aboriginal male chiefs and an non-Aboriginal man posing for the camera; [indoor scene]. Note with photo: "Cree Chiefs from Crooked Lake. Seated - Flying in a Circle, Big Child Star Blanket. Standing - O'Soup a Blackfoot, P. Hourie an interpreter. Taken at Brantford, Ontario, at unveiling of Brant memorial Oct. 13, 1886. O'Soup Chippewa Chief / P. Hourie Interpreter / Front: Flying in a Circle / Big Child Mistawasis / Star Blanket Ahtahkakoop / names according to two of Rev.
Cree Council on Sweetgrass Reserve
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-west Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Photograph of council held near Battleford. People; horses and terrain in foreground; buildings on extreme left and right of image.
Caption "The Battleford-bound Cree held a council on the Sweetgrass reserve in late March 1885; the meeting was interrupted by two Metis messengers who wanted the Indians to capture the fort."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-west Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.