[Literature Review for Closing the Gap 10 Year Review]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Murawin Pty. Ltd.
[Cultural & Indigenous Research Centre Australia]
Description
Study commissioned by the Department of the Prime Minister, Australia to gather a qualitative assessment of initiatives undertaken as part of the Closing the Gap policy. Includes literature review and results of consultations with 200 stakeholders.
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing: Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin, vol. 3, no. 1, July 2018, pp. 3-17
Description
Critical summary of 21 articles on cancer screening rates among Indigenous peoples in Canada; researchers identify both barriers and facilitators, and advocate for community consultation in developing screening improvement programs.
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing: Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin, vol. 3, no. 1, July 2018, pp. 18-29
Description
Recommends drawing on the traditional knowledge and historical roles of Métis women to create healthcare services that can bridge the culturally-safe healthcare gap and overcome disparities in health determinants.
Goal of research was to identify examples on reserves, key principles which guide the process in that context, and lessons learned. Thirteen articles are reviewed.
Discusses how Crown and Indigenous governments can engage with each other on the basis of a nation-to-nation relationship to develop regimes for management of resources which ensure mutually beneficial outcomes.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 350-361
Description
Three non-Indigenous teacher-educators reflect on the ways their responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and the corresponding provincial mandates have been positively and constructively influenced by their professional relationships with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 1, 2017, pp. 22-31
Description
Discussion of how members of this Russian group choose to relay stories about events surrounding Soviet confiscation of reindeer herds during the collectivization period.
Article describes the ways that colonial governments identified and signaled out “criminal tribes” in India, how the identity, language and culture of these tribes was stigmatized and consequently diminished. Describes present-day efforts to protect and revitalize these languages and cultures and provides commentary on the effectiveness of these efforts.
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens.
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Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
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Opinion piece in which the author works to document their efforts to close the spatial distance between researcher and researched through a series of vignettes, and later reflects on the results of their work.
Coming Into Wisdom: Community, Family, Land, and Love
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 1, The Pan-Territorial on-the-Land Summit, July 2018, pp. 12-17
Description
Simpson uses traditional stories and teachings to talk about traditional knowledge systems, ways of knowing and learning, and the interconnectedness of ecosystems and of generations.
Video of Conference Presentation: Freedom Sings: Indigenous Brilliance on the Land
Duration: 42:29
Research Project Report (Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network) ; 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John R. Sylliboy
Tuma Young
Description
Through 20 in-depth interviews project gathered information on socio-cultural context, state of mental health and well-being during process, and supports which were relied upon.
Searched conducted for articles and reports published between August 2015 and January 2017 using PsychINFO, Embase, CINAHL and Medline. Identified 14 items of strong and moderate quality with content pertaining to the U.S., New Zealand, and Australia.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 520-532
Description
Article examines non-fiction texts about the search for the Northwest Passage to illustrate the contributions of Inuit people and communities to Arctic exploration.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 142-163
Description
Based on analysis of transcripts of Hirsekorn case in which judges had to render a decision on the Métis identity of the accused and his membership in a rights-holding Métis community.
Reports on issues raised by Indigenous clients themselves and discusses features of Aboriginal varieties of English and how linguistic prejudice may affect interactions between lawyer and client and court outcomes.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 162-190
Description
Discusses the growing trend for self-identifying as Métis, particularly in Eastern Canada, based genealogical records rather than cultural ties to long-established communities located in Western Canada.
Northern Review, no. 47, Dealing with Resource Development in Canada's North, August 03, 2018, pp. 187-207
Description
Based on the Labour Mobility And Community Participation in the Extractive industries (LACE) research project, this article outlines the key elements of CBPR (community based participatory research): establishing partnerships, knowledge sharing and co-production, and data and research-product ownership.
Guide for developing plans to deal with short-term situations such as fire, extreme weather conditions, hazardous spills, disease outbreak, search and rescue of missing citizens, and alleged suicide, homicide, assault, etc. Based on the work of Kwanlin Dün First Nation.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 109, no. 2, April 2018, pp. 2019-222
Description
Discusses root causes and barriers to treating opioid addiction in rural and remote northern communities; describes success of land and community based healing strategies and issues a call to medical regulators and government bodies to implement these programs alongside opioid agonist therapy.
Behavioral Health Risks for American Indian/Alaska Native Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Serafini
Dennis M. Donovan
Dennis C. Wendt
Brandon Matsumiya
Carolyn A. McCarty
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-17
Description
Study found that Indigenous youth suffered from more depressive symptoms, discrimination, and generalized anxiety, and were more likely to have initiated substance abuse than the rest of the cohort.
University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2017, pp. 1-8
Description
An analysis of four primary sources published by William Johnson, Superintendent of Northern Indian Affairs, British General Charles Lee, University of Pennsylvania Provost William Smith, and plantation owner and British soldier Peter Williamson.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-22
Description
Studies barriers to implementing the Zimbabwean language education policy in primary school grades and the perception of socio-economic benefits that come with the English language.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 1-20
Description
Article critically examines the ways in which current standards around community-research partnerships tend to reinforce the colonial structures of heteronormative patriarchy, and continue to engage with Indigenous peoples as a single homogenous group. Author proposes Indigenous feminist and Indigenous women’s methodologies as a solution.