The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 24-25
Description
Comments by a former Secretary of War, U.S. Senator from Michigan, Secretary of State and a Presidential candidate in 1848.
Originally published in The North American Review, January, 1840.
Report of investigation into factors that may have led to the suicide of an 18-year-old Métis youth who was under the care of the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development.
Discusses the relationship between bronchitis and environmental factors that increase the likelihood of contracting the illness amongst Indigenous populations.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 177-178
Description
Highlights the difficulties faced by reserve residents when accessing urban amenities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2019, pp. 168-203
Description
Critical essay in which the author argues that Coups’s autobiography, originally published in 1930 as American: The Life Story of a Great Indian, Plenty- coups, Chief of the Crows is best read as multivocal text that presents both human and more-than-human voices and perspectives.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 2, Collaborative approaches to wellness and health equity in the Circumpolar North..., 2019
Description
Study uses survey data from 207 males and 279 females from 2 Ontario First Nations to examine whether or not social support can offset the negative results of perceived racism, historical trauma and loss on depression and/or anxiety.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 14, no. 1, Physical Activity and Cultural Safety, May 28, 2019, pp. 107-125
Description
Describes the research process and results of a participatory project on how Indigenous girls and the female family members that care for them. Results show that flexible design that allows for intergenerational involvement can prove beneficial for both participants and for researchers.
Proceedings of the 2017 Northern, Rural, and Remote Health conference
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Polina Anang
Elizabeth Haqpi Naujaat Elder
Ellen Gordon
Nora Gottlieb
Maria Bronson
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 2, Collaborative approaches to wellness and health equity in the Circumpolar North..., 2019
Description
Describes the process used by researchers, Inuit youth, and a Naujaat Elder to create a resiliency based community youth project designed increase protective factors against youth suicide.
Article reframes the discussion surrounding mental health recognizing that Indigenous peoples have a holistic view of health that encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and environmental spectrum of wellbeing. Notes implications for government policy and for frontline practice.
Examines issues related to quality education for First Nations learners; factors which are associated with First Nations control and jurisdiction; overview of how First Nations are looking to build their governments; provisions for education in their treaties; and education provisions in modern day treaties.
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.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 98, no. 3, March 2008, pp. 515-519
Description
Discusses differential rates of HIV incidence among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal injection drug users, and the need for a culturally sensitive and evidence-based response to the epidemic.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 265-298
Description
Literary criticism article which explores the way that Indigenous bodies appear and are used to articulate the struggles between Indigenous and Euro-American cultures in the novels Winter in the Blood and Bearhear.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, June 25, 2019
Description
Conceptual article argues that Indigenous sovereignty remains valid throughout the Americas and that the settler colonial laws are therefore illegitimate and illegal; all systems that function on the assumption of settler colonial sovereignty must be re-centered around Indigenous laws and ethics.
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.
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.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 191-209
Description
Discusses negotiations between the United States Federal Government and Native Americans, with a focus on the repatriation process set in motion by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 7-31
Description
Explores the linkages between the diversity of Aboriginal cultures and the diversity of the total collection of organisms in California. The article shows how the diminishment of one adversely affects the other.