Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 25-42
Description
Author argues that the federal government of Canada perpetuates systemic racism through official publications responding to fire deaths on reserve; accuses the government of playing a “blame game” to detract from the reality that a lack of funding is primarily responsible for the fire deaths.
Recommendations based on literature review and responses to 71 survey questions. Survey included questions about substance use and addictions, history of sexual abuse, reasons for entering sex trade, and barriers to leaving it. Sample consisted of 14 current or former workers between the ages of 19 and 34.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 2012, pp. 1-23
Description
Explores the lack of consultation of Bill 191 beginning in 2009 and concludes that minimum standards and protocols are not being met and there has been little improvement in process.
Father Involvement in Canada: Diversity, Renewal, and Transformation
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Jessica Ball
Kerry Daly
Description
Looks at the experiences of fathers varying by age, ethnicity, marital status, and context.
Chapter 1 from Father Involvement in Canada: Diversity, Renewal, and Transformation. Scroll down to appropriate page.
Discusses similarities and differences between Canada's residential schools and the practice of fostering out Native American children to Mormon homes.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 9, no. 1, November 2012, pp. 52-59
Description
Studies the use of opioid substitution therapy as treatment for prescription dependence.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 52.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 3, 2018, pp. 52-77
Description
Article examines smoking cessation programs directed at Indigenous peoples; highlights the need to differentiate between traditional use and non-traditional commercial tobacco use. Authors asses the efficacy of interventions based on the United States Public Health Service’s 5A model, and cultural approaches used in three American Indian health clinics in Minnesota.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 11, March 19, 2018, p. E341–E342.
Description
Discusses the health-related allocations of the 2018 Canadian Federal Budget, including: Tuberculosis prevention and treatment, culturally informed addiction treatment, clean drinking water on reserves, a Métis national health strategy, medical services in remote communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 306-328
Description
Article describes the key issues surrounding and the causes of the decline of the irrigation system; considers historical and institutional factors and makes focused recommendations for improving the state of the system.
English and Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--Madurai Kamaraj University, 2012.
Focuses on works by Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the process of theorizing life experience through storytelling. Asserts that the stories told by Indigenous women about their lives should be considered as theories for the purposes of research, writing, and living.
Ethnohistory, vol. 43, no. 4, Native American Womens Responses to Christianity, Autumn, 1996, pp. 683-712
Description
Analyzes and clarifies feminist approaches and their strengths and weaknesses in the discussion of Christianity among Native American women since 1980.
Aboriginal Policy Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, pp. 34-61
Description
Overview of trends, primarily between 1996 and 2011. Provides total rates and rates by age group, and data for population as a whole as well as individual groups. Sources include past censuses, National Household Survey, vital statistics, and the Indian register.
Arbutus Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Focus on Indigenous Governance, 2012, pp. 98-115
Description
Looks at the Supreme Court of Canada's tendency to characterize Aboriginal rights as arising from the Crown's fiduciary responsibilities, rather than being inherent.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 91-122
Description
Describes the process of the Mohican people of Wisconsin as they negotiated Mission House Museum for the repatriation of a Bible and Communion set over more than 30 years. Highlights issues of material culture; of accessibility, possession, and control.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3, Summer, 2018, pp. 344-374
Description
Article uses a critical race analysis of oral histories and documents to examine how and why the first historically Native American fraternity and sorority (HNAFS), Alpha Pi Omega, was created, and the role that it played in experience of Indigenous students attending UNC – Chapel Hill in the mid-1990s.
Former reporter and host of Sharing Circle discusses her previous experiences and her latest production, We Were Children, which deals with residential schools.
Episode of Trailbreakers which aired August 21, 2012.
Duration: 27:30.
Looks at the issue in the context of gender-based violence as a human rights violation which is rooted in deep, structural discrimination and intersects with socio-economic and cultural rights violations. Outlines essential elements of a human-rights based response and identifies three keys to effectiveness.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 331-349
Description
Author explores what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action ask of teacher educators and specifically in the field of science education. Considers how Indigenous and Western ways of knowing might be brought together to highlight “the role that Land and the natural world might play in reconciliation via science teacher education.”