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A sketch of a steamboat, possibly the Northcote, coming under Metis fire during the Northwest Resistance. The title is apparently erroneous as there was only one relief expedition to Battleford and it neither came under fire or involved river boats.
First Nations and Inuit Health Branch - Atlantic Region
[Health Canada]
Description
Data sources: First Nations and Inuit Health program reports, Non-Insured Health Benefits Pharmacy Claims, Regional Health Survey, Aboriginal Peoples' Survey, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC), and Statistics Canada. Covers period from 2009 to 2013.
Saskatchewan First nations and the Province s's Resource Future
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Perry Bellegarde
Description
National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations discusses Saskatchewan's current resource-based boom, necessity for collaboration, and impact and benefit agreements with governments and companies.
Duration: 2:00:34.
Reports on seven health indicators: life expectancy, mortality rate, youth suicide rate, infant mortality rate, diabetes prevalence, childhood obesity, and number of practising, certified First Nations health care professionals.
"This report was prepared in accordance with commitments in the 2005 Transformative Change Accord."
Related material:
The Health and Well-Being of the Aboriginal Population in British Columbia: Interim Update [2007].
Argues that we have to change our concepts of property, contract, sovereignty and constitutional right to allow for growth of First Nations' self government.
Provides overview of the historical and contemporary contexts of racism which have resulted in health disparities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians and examines possible responses and interventions.
Provides overview of the historical and contemporary contexts of racism which have resulted in health disparities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians and examines possible responses and interventions.
Report - 1885 on the north-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada
E-Books
Author/Creator
Committee on North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Horatio Hale
Description
"Reports on the physical characters, languages, industrial and social condition of the North-western tribes of the Dominion of Canada," focuses on Blackfoot, Cree and Ojibwe/Ojibway, 1885 era.
A photograph of dead Canadian soldiers at Fish Creek, NWT, 1885, taken shortly after the Battle of Fish Creek. A soldier is shown covering one of the corpses with a blanket.
Collection of Dr. Peter Purdue, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan.
Published in [Montreal Star?], [?1885].
No article associated with this image in the newspaper.
Facsimiles of sketches furnished to the Montreal "Star" by a member of the expedition.
English and Education Thesis (M.A.)--Arctic University of Norway, 2015.
Focuses on Sherman Alexie's short storiesThis Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona and Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, and the movies Pocahontas and Smoke Signals.
File contains three negatives showing the Prince Albert Tribal Council Flags at full mast, outside the PATC building in Prince Albert, SK on December 24, 1991.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, December 1985, pp. 9-10
Description
Profiles an association which advocates for land rights, housing requirements, employment projects and other social issues on the island with an Aboriginal population of 120 located of the north east coast of Tasmania.
MELUS, vol. 12, no. 1, Native American Literature , Spring, 1985, pp. 65-78
Description
Contends that N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko show linkages between their writings and specific folk traditions, although they are expressed differently.
Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 32, no. 3, September 2015, pp. 431-444
Description
Argues that the term "food sovereignty" invites contestation. Looks at the White Earth Anishnaabeg's experience with selling surpluses of wild rice harvested by the community.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 3, Global Indigenous Higher Education, Spring, 2015
Description
Discusses the establishment of a borderlands educational program by the Tohono O'odham Community College (TOCC) focused on environmental issues and spiritual relationships with the land.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 39, no. 4, 2015, pp. 1-18
Description
Describes the events leading up to and after the shooting of the partially deaf artist John T. Williams by Officer Ian Birk of the Seattle Police Department in 2010.