Special Report (Representative for Children and Youth)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Description
Critiques government spending, mainly channelled through the Ministry of Children and Family Development, on initiatives that have not produced concrete, successful outcomes through delivery of front-line services.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 39, no. 3, Fall, 2005, pp. 9-41
Description
Discussion of the treatment of prisoners taken captive in the Battle of La Belle Famille and what this treatment reveals about Indigenous and European values.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 16-19
Description
Describes design and execution of window installed in the John Bell Chapel, Appleby College.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 16.
Looks at the background and history of Aboriginal Early Childhood Development including the development of government policies and funding initiatives.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, 2013, p. article no. 21813
Description
Study of almost 15,000 participants revealed that the choice of Sámi inclusion criterion had a clear influence on the size and geographical distribution of the defined populations.
Photo of illustration made from photograph of White Cap, Sioux Chief, pledging friendship to his white brother, taken from Illustrated War News, 25 April 1885.
Looks at the Department of Indian Affairs as the only written record keeper for legal, social, economic and cultural Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relationships.
Review of International American Studies, vol. 6, no. 1-2, Decoding American Cultures in the Global Context, Spring-Fall, 2013, pp. 187-214
Description
Comments on aspects of literary ethnic/cultural shape-shifting in Canadian and American literature since the Millennium.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 187.
Law and History Review, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 95-131
Description
Explains how the concept of terra nullius (empty land) once underway was very difficult to reverse, while in North America the opposite occurred where Aboriginal people were recognized as owners of the land.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 4, Winter, 2005, pp. 27-78
Description
Discusses a joint project, which utilized online interactive discourse, between students of Western Washington University and Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish writer Louis Owens regarding his novel Wolfsong.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 27.