Discusses the Métis Training to Employment program's response to displacement that took place due to the 2011 Slave Lake fire and 2013 flood in Southern Alberta. Includes brief literature review, best practices and recommendations.
Alberta Law Review, vol. 36, no. 1, Symposium on Aboriginal Legal Issues, December 1997, pp. 9-45
Description
Examines the development, use and impact of term sui generis (meaning of its own kind or genus being unique in characteristics) to describe Aboriginal rights.
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding the lawfulness of the surrender of IR 7 to the Crown for sale to the Soldier Settlement Board. ICC recommended that there be joint research into whether the Band received fair market value for their land in 1919 and if not the Band should receive compensation. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Journal of Sport History, vol. 41 , no. 2, Summer , 2014, pp. 313-329
Description
"This paper examines processes of cultural contact and change in the Canadian western Arctic resulting from the dual impacts of the fur trade and of missionary activities between 1850 and 1940."
Synthesis of academic and grey literature gathered from sources such as websites, online documents, government reports and presentations. Five themes were identified: cultural care, client-centered care, skills building, community-support and healing traumas for recovery, well as program or activity descriptions.
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Sketch showing the surrender to French's Scouts, led by Lord Melgund, General Middleton's chief of staff. Sketch caption : "Three Dakota scouts told their captors that they had been forced to join Riel."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
American Journal of public Health, vol. 104, no. S3, Supplement 3, June 2014, pp. S490-S495
Description
Uses patient data from the US Renal Data System to compare AI/AN population to other racial /ethnic groups to explain survival differences among the groups,
Arctic, vol. 67, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 271-295
Description
Concludes that reliance on imported foods is due to historical events and developmental processes which are continually influenced by environmental and socioeconomic factors.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, From the Heart of the Earth, March 2014, p. [?]
Description
Bried overview of activist's thoughts on corporate engagement and shareholder activism for creating social change and respecting Indigenous rights and interests.
Overview of ecological and management principles and challenges such as wildlife groups and their habitats and ideas of stewardship and sustainability.
[Master of Environmental Sciences Research Project (MES)]--University of Guelph, 2014.
Ethnohistory, vol. 29, no. 2, Spring, 1982, pp. 103-115
Description
Describes a relationship between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Cree and how that relationship went from mutual dependence to dominance of the trading post.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. S3, June 2014, pp. e1-e8
Description
Evaluates data for scientific and cultural relevance concluding that successful interventions include Aboriginal view of health, community involvement, and are tailored to culture.
Homicide Survey, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM).
Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table. For example, by date range.
Homicide Survey, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM).
Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table. For example, by sex or date range.
Website mapping application used to showcase Tlingit Place names and the stories associated with those places; also to convey Tlingit ideologies of stewardship and relationship with the land.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 26-39
Description
Discusses Howe's work as a tool to facilitate decolonial thinking and connect time, space, and place.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.