Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 35, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 1, Summer, 2011, pp. 136-143
Description
Identifies information important for a non-Aboriginal professional to know before working with Aboriginal peoples.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Description
Looks at the effectiveness of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Service to Science initiative which provided training and customized evaluation technical assistance to locally-developed substance abuse prevention programs.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 7, July 2011, p. 9
Description
Discusses the donors responsible for raising money to build a community center which will house, among other things, a grocery store, Kids First program and a multi-purpose room.
Article located by scrolling to page 9.
Indigenous lawyers and law students from British Columbia recount their experiences with stereotyping, race-based assumptions, and discrimination within the legal profession and while practicing in the justice system.
Duration: 25:43.
Related material: Part 2.
TESL Canada Journal, vol. 28, Special Issue 5, Summer, 2011, pp. 53-71
Description
Explores three interrelated ethical issues: current spoken dialect and ancestral language, implications for classroom, and issues for researchers working in Aboriginal fields.
Calder et al. v. Attorney-General of British Columbia, [1973] Supreme Court Reports 313
Frank Calder et al., Suing on Their Own Behalf and On Behalf of All Other Members of the Nishga Tribal Council [...]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Supreme Court of Canada
Description
Argues that Aboriginal title had never been extinguished in territories around Nass River Valley, Observatory Inlet, Portland Inlet and the Portland Canal, in northwestern British Columbia.
Author speaks about his new book The Economic Dependency Trap including the dependency First Nations people have on the federal government.
Duration: 14:54.
Part II.
Part III.
Continuation of talk with author about his new book The Economic Dependency Trap including the dependency First Nations people have on the federal government.
Duration: 13:08.
Part I.
Part III.
Continuation of talk with author about his new book The Economic Dependency Trap including the dependency First Nations people have on the federal government.
Duration: 12:38.
Part I.
Part II.
Evidence given by Camoose Bottle, aged 71, including an account of the taking of Treaty #7 following a deterioration in Indian life after introduction of alcohol; allocation of lands to various tribes and later loss of part of the Blood Reserve.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 9, October 2011, p. 23
Description
Looks at the successful bear and deer camp operation, Saskatchewan Adrenaline Outfitters, located northeast of Green Lake, Saskatchewan.
Article located by scrolling to page 23.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 10, November 2011, p. 1,6
Description
Comments on a First Nations woman elected to the Legislative Assembly and the many attributes that she brings to the government and the people of Saskatchewan.
Article located on page 1 and by scrolling to page 6.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 11, December 2011, p. 10
Description
Comments on various activities in the Native Studies Department at the University of Saskatchewan, including a possible name change.
Article located by scrolling to page 10.
Chronicles significant developments in the relationship between the Federal government and First Peoples.
Chapter from Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues (3rd ed.) edited by Olive Patricia Dickason and David Long.
Primary focus is the personal narratives of two survivors of the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School, with some general information of the school system and the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Duration: 47:30.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 5, no. 12, July 15, 1975, pp. 7-8
Description
Essay by Verna Kirkness of the Fisher River First Nation, Manitoba, publishes report in Encyclopaedia Britannica, the first Indigenous person to do so.
Shifting Terrain: Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rob McMahon
Heather E. Hudson
Lyle Fabian
Description
Looks at how Indigenous-led initiatives have dealt with the lack of private sector investment in provision of information and communication technologies in the region due to its sparse population and remote locations.
Chapter from Shifting Terrain: Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in Canada edited by Nick J. Muléandd Gloria C. DeSantis.
Occasional Paper (Centre for Military and Strategic Studies) ; no. 4
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Calgary Papers in Military and Strategic Studies, vol. 4, Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives , 2011, pp. 345-381
Description
Looks at the Canadian Rangers, developed as part of the armed forces northern strategy to be the eyes and ears of the Canadian Forces Northern Area (CFNA) in isolated areas.
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, Truth and Reconciliation, August 30, 2011, pp. 1-18
Description
Reviews the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in terms of a legal settlement agreement, and discusses the challenges that arise from a societal decision to create such a process to deal with past history.
Catalogue of useful school library resources, organized first by appropriate grade level, then alphabetically by title, with subject areas and curriculum areas included.