Reports statistics on the number people per 100 between April 1, 2006 and March 31, 2009 with: acute coronary syndromes, congestive heart failure, cerebrovascular disease, atrial fibrillation, congenital heart disease, and rheumatic heart disease. Also includes number of hospital re-admissions and deaths.
Data sources: citizenship registry of the Métis Nation of Ontario (as of spring 2005), Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Discharge Abstract Database, and National Ambulatory Care Reporting System.
[Research Data Alliance International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group
Global Indigenous Data Alliance]
Description
Designed to complement the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles of the open data movement as means to use Indigenous data in ways determined by Indigenous peoples and for their benefit. Principles are related to collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, and ethics.
International Journal of Transitional Justice, vol. 6, no. 1, July 2012, p. 1–23
Description
Discusses how the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission appears to have taken a “victim-centred” approach to truth, leaving Canadian institutions unaccountable for the injustices associated with the residential schools.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, vol. 52, no. 2, June 1996, pp. 85-94
Description
Field study based on interviews and information sessions aimed at gathering information about the use of medicinal plants by the Carrier people of northcentral British Columbia.
Book review of: Carvings and Commerce by Michael D. Hall and Pat Glascock, with contributions from Robert Davidson, Kate Duncan, Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis, Christopher W. Smith and Charlotte Townsend-Gault.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 137.
Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases From Research, Policy, and Practice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Mona Shum
Donna Atkinson
Chris Kaposy
Ted Shrecker
Description
Chapter in book: Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases From Research, Policy, and Practice by Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Population and Public Health.
Scroll down to page 92 to read article.
Looks at race and ethnicity, multiculturalism and diversity and the bases of Aboriginal relations within Canada. Uses case studies in each chapter.
Material accompanies book Unequal Relations: An Introduction to Race, Ethnic, and Aboriginal Dynamics in Canada, 7th edition.
Study consisted of a literature review, ten interviews, and four case studies: Tłı̨chǫ All‐season Road Project, Hope Bay Mining Ltd, Offshore Oil and Gas Strategic Environmental Assessment, and Adams Lake Cumulative Effects Land Use and Management Assessment
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International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Article summarizes anthropological research into the Indigenous knowledge system (IKS) surrounding pregnancy and birth of the Tundra Nenets people. Author articulates the importance of these IKS and advocates for their continued use alongside mainstream healthcare models.
This interactive Google Earth project is a guided tour that introduces the user to over 80 Indigenous languages from around the globe. At each point on the map the user can view a photo and bio of an Indigenous language speaker from that region and listen to clips of them speaking their language.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 15, no. 8, August 2012, p. 11
Description
Comments on a guide book which lists people interred in marked and unmarked graves in the Saint Antoine-de-Padoue Cemetery, Batoche National Historic Site.
Article located by scrolling to page 11.
Identifies community-level research initiatives and demonstrations of cultural and practice-based strategies for prevention and intervention. Findings are organized around models, and strengths and challenges are listed for each model.
Vancouver Island Pre-Confederation Treaties Conference, 2012
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Lutz
Cole Harris
Raymond Frogner
Louise Mandell
Description
Speakers discuss: ambiguity in both oral accounts and written versions of the Douglas Treaties; litigation arising from treaties; archival treatment of colonial documents pertaining to the treaties and the bound register; contradictory views about the issue of treaty annuities versus lump sum payments.
Followed by question and answer period.
Duration: 2:01:00.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 182-201
Description
Argues that teaching the history of residential schools in Canada requires an examination of how that history has been recorded and preserved; that this examination reveals an incompatibility between the colonial frameworks in archival institutions and structures of Indigenous knowledges. Discusses the impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Canadian archival practices.