Theses
Author/Creator
Anthony James Gordon Hanley
Description
Community Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2000.
Project Jewel
Alternate Title
Project Jewel: Helping Aboriginal People Re-Discover Their Value
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sarah Rogers
Faith Raymond
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, Innovations in Community Health and Wellness, July 2017, pp. 41-44
Description
Program works with individuals to manage stress, grief, trauma, or any other emotions they are experiencing.
Project Summary: Opportunities to Improve the Financial Ecosystem for Aboriginal Entrepreneurs and SMEs in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Conference Board of Canada - Northern and Aboriginal Policy
Description
Project consisted of three research modules which assessed availability of services and barriers to accessing financing.
Projecting Prevalence, Costs and Evaluating Simulated Interventions for Diabetic End Stage Renal Disease in a Canadian Population of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal People: An Agent Based Approach
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Gao
Nathaniel D. Osgood
Ying Jiang
Roland F. Dyck
BMC Nephrology, vol. 18, pp. [1]-14
Description
Examines case numbers projections and costs of Diabetes-Related End Stage Renal Disease to identify the resources and interventions required to deal with the disease that disproportionately affects Indigenous peoples.
The Promise and Pitfalls of C-92: An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children, youth and families
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Naiomi Walqwan Metallic
Hadley Friendland
Sarah Morales
Description
Act asserts Indigenous peoples' jurisdiction over child and family services and establishes national standards. Paper examines issues related to national standards, jurisdiction, funding, accountability and data collection.
Promises of the "Vanishing" Worlds: Re-Storying "Civilization" in the Philippine National Imaginary
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
S Lily Mendoza
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 2019, pp. 119-143
Description
Using the literary work of Filipino author Nick Joaquin to examine the Philippine discursive between the "normal" civilized and the defined "primitive" Indigenous populations.
The Promises, Purposes, and Possibilities of Montana's Indian Education for All
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Rogers Stanton
Jioanna Carjuzaa
Brad Hall
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 58, no. 3, Fall, 2019, pp. 78-104
Description
A reflection on the Indian Education for All (IEFA) Act, encouraging Montana educators to teach Indigenous perspectives and experiences.
Promising Practices and Strategies to Reduce Alcohol and Substance Abuse Among American Indians and Alaska Natives
Documents & Presentations
Description
Study focuses on three types of policy initiatives: (1) control of alcohol within tribal jurisdictions; (2) education and treatment (3) social and environmental risk factors.
Promising Practices In Eskasoni
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ken Clement
Merv Thomas
Darko Sikman
CANCON
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network
Description
Members of the Eskasoni Mi'Kmaw Nation talk about their community's experience with harm reduction and addictions treatment and recovery.
Duration: 36:38.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat
Alternate Title
NISPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Firelight Research
Description
Study includes results of literature review, working group and key informant interviews, and an environmental scan of actions and interventions. Focus is on Inuit youth and report is organized around six topic areas: links between childhood adversity and suicide, and promising practices with respect to addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters, current supports within the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promising Practices in Suicide Prevention across Inuit Nunangat: NIPSPS Research and Data Collection Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Description
Reports results of environmental scan which involved a literature review of both grey and academic publications, a series of key informant interviews with 20 individuals working in the field. Six topic areas are covered: links between childhood adversity and suicide and promising practices for addressing child sexual abuse, social emotional development, safe shelters focusing on children and youth, current supports in the justice system, and parenting and family support programs.
Promising Practices in Supporting Success for Indigenous Students
E-Books
Author/Creator
David Istance
Rowena Phair
Judith Peterka
Peggy Furic
OECD Directorate for Education and Skills
Promising Practices in Timiskaming First Nation
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Production
Ken Clement
Merv Thomas
Jason Lawrence
Description
Focuses on the community's efforts to deal with Hepatitis C through education, outreach, and healing.
Duration: 27:33.
Promoting Community Conversations about Research to End Suicide: Learning and Behavioural Outcomes of a Training-of-Trainers Model to Facilitate Grassroots Community Health Education to Address Indigenous Youth Suicide Prevention
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Wexler
Lucas Trout
Suzanne Rataj
Tanya Kirk
Roberta Moto ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1345277
Description
Evaluates training of intervention facilitators in Northwest Alaska to develop local capacity for early response to suicide care.
Promoting Essential Skills and Apprenticeship Training in Aboriginal Communities across Canada: A Summary of Discussion Findings
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Apprenticeship Forum
Description
Presents key findings from 29 workshops held from December 2010 to June 2011. Participants included employment counsellors who worked with Aboriginal clients, economic development officers, apprenticeship counsellors, and trades program coordinators.
Promoting Indigenous Youth Recruitment and Retention in Aboriginal Non-Profit Organizations: A Handbook
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
anpBC
Description
Developed as part of the Aboriginal Nonprofit (ANP) BC Strategy to assist service organizations in developing human resource capacity and creating workforce supports.
Pronouns and Pronominals in Eastern Labrador Eskimo
Theses
Author/Creator
Leila Mirjam Clase
Description
Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1974.
The Proper Role of Technology in the Determination of Cultural Affiliation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brett Lee Shelton
Bryan A. Marozas
Jhon Goes in Center
Description
"This paper surveys the reasons why attempts to utilize genetic science in repatriation should be abandoned, and more intensive efforts to use spatial information should be implemented instead."
Property Insurance On-reserve: Present Arrangements, and Innovations to Reduce the Cost: Final Report
Alternate Title
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Report. External Research Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tony Wellman
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Description
Focuses on results of survey conducted with 116 First Nations.
Proscription of Cross-Cousin Marriage among the Southwestern Ojibwa
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James G. E. Smith
American Ethnologist, vol. 1, no. 4, November 1974, pp. 751-762
Description
Argues that changes in the kinship system took place in the early 19th century due environmental, economic and demographic factors that became more acute during the reservation period.
Protect and Promote Your Culture: A Practical Guide to Intellectual Property for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Begoña Venero Aguirre
Hai-Yuean Tualima
Description
Discusses key features of intellectual property protection, copyright, patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, protection against unfair competition, and trade secrets. Includes examples from various countries around the world.
Protecting the Arctic: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Milton M. R. Freeman
Arctic, vol. 53, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 194-5
Description
Book review of: Protecting the Arctic by Mark Nuttall.
Protecting the Sacred Water Bundle: Educating About Fracking at Turtle Mountain Community College
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stacie Blue
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 4, Oil and Indian Country, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Discusses why the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians has banned fracking.
Protocols for Using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terri Janke
Description
Includes: overview of important concepts including rights to cultural heritage and Australian and international legal and policy protections; ten guiding principles and their accompanying protocols; numerous case studies; and project checklist and templates.
Province Approves Plans to Train Indian Mounties
Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 4, no. 6-7, August-September 1974, p. 4
Description
Special Constable program awaits final approval by Chiefs of Saskatchewan.
Provincial Gang Strategy: Forum & Community Consultation Reports
Alternate Title
Building Healthier Communities: Final Report on Community Recommendations for the Development of the Saskatchewan Prevention / Intervention Street Gang Strategy
Saskatchewan Communities Speak: Provincial Gang Strategy Phase 2 Community Consultation Forums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Robert Henry
Dave Shanks]
Description
Reports on Phase I and II of the project. Five overarching themes emerged: infrastructure and leadership; addressing trauma, colonization, and settler colonialism; knowledge translation and mobilization; addressing systemic oppression and structural issues of poverty and homelessness; and institutional supports. Consultations took place in communities throughout Saskatchewan.
Psychiatric Assessment? Don't Despair! - A Simple and Effective Approach For Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Workers
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Charanjit Singh
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, July/August 2000, pp. 7-9
Description
Discusses how the mental health assessment model was modified to ensure cultural appropriateness for the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander society.
Psychiatric Research in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986: A Systematic Review
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jouko Miettunen
Marianne Haapea
Lassi Björnholm
Sanna Huhtaniska
Teija Juol ...[et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Systematic literature search of PubMed and Scopus reveals 94 articles on psychiatric research conducted on the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986. Research includes information on early predictors of several psychiatric diagnoses, and novel findings related to brain imaging and cognition.
Psychological Distress Among the Cree of James Bay
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Lucy J. Boothroyd
Adrian Tanner
Naomi Adelson
Elizabeth Robinson
Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 37, no. 1, March 2000, pp. 35-56
Description
Identified potential risk factors associated with psychological distress from a random general population health survey in 1991. The article states that gender and generational differences should be considered when planning strategies.
Psychometric Examination of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale with Older American Indians: The Native Elder Care Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marc Shure
R. Turner Goins
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health, vol. 24, no. 3, 2017, pp. 1-13
Description
Looks at the reliability and factor structure of full and shortened depression scales.
Psychosocial Correlates of Suicide Ideation and Attempt among Inuit from Nunavut, Nunatsiavut and Inuvialuit
Theses
Author/Creator
Cassandra Poirier
Description
Psychiatry Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2017.
Public Attitudes towards Indigeneity in Canadian Prairie Urbanism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ryan Walker
Loleen Berdahl
Erin Lashta
David Newhouse
Yale Belanger
Canadian Geographer, vol. 61, no. 2, 2017, pp. 212-223
Description
Uses 2014 survey data collected from non- Indigenous residents of seven cities. Respondents were asked about a stronger Indigenous presence in governance and public places.
Public Health Should Promote Co-operative Housing and Cohousing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Lubik
Tom Kosatsky
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 2, April 2019, pp. 121-126
Description
Advocates models of housing based on First Nations’ Longhouses in order to promote social cohesion and combat social isolation. Argues that this strategies would be especially helpful to seniors.
Public Housing on the Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roger Biles
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 49-63
Description
Gives a brief history of the US Federal government's policy on affordable housing, the proliferation of low income housing units on reserves and how housing became a symbol of the government's commitment to self-determination.
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Final Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Inquiry Commission on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress: Summary Report
Alternate Title
Commission d'enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics
Viens Commission
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jacques Viens
Description
Public Opinion on Canadian Aboriginal Issues, 1976-98: Persistence, Change and Cohort Analysis
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Rick Ponting
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, September 1, 2000, pp. 44-75
Description
Patterns in attitudes towards Aboriginal issues held by Canadians born in five different eras.
Public Resource Management and Inuit Toponymy: Implementing Policies to Maintain Human-Environmental Knowledge in Nunavut
Theses
Author/Creator
Lynn Peplinski
Description
Environment and Management Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2000.
Public Servant Schools in Canada: A Concept for Reconciliation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark Weiler
The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, vol. 29, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 1-20
Description
Discusses call to action 57 from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission regarding the provision of education to public servants on the history of Aboriginal peoples and residential schools.
Pueblo Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies: vol. 2
Alternate Title
American Indian Art Series
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Gregory Schaaf
Pugtallgutkellriit: Developing Researcher Identities in a Participatory Action Research Collaborative
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sabine Siekmann
Joan Parker Webster
Sally Angass'aq Samson
Catherine Keggutailnguq Moses
Panigkaq Agatha John-Shields ... [et al.]
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 58, no. 1/2, Spring/Summer, 2019, pp. 124-146
Description
Examines a collaborative effort by Indigenous graduate students and non-Indigenous professors on Indigenous community research.
Puritan Imperialisms: The Limits of Identity and the Indian Missions of Massachusetts Bay
Theses
Author/Creator
Zubeda Jalalzai
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2000.
The Pursuit of Aboriginal Rights: The Negotiation of Comprehensive Claims in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Russell D. Geddes
Description
Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1983.
The Pursuit of Inuit Sovereignty in Greenland
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rauna Kuokkanen
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, Innovations in Community Health and Wellness, July 2017, pp. 46-49
Description
Looks at the Greenland Self-Government Act which is an extension of the Home Rule Act
Pushing the Needle: Collections Based Museum and Source Community Collaborations
Theses
Author/Creator
Molly Winslow
Description
Museology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 2017.
"Put on the Kettle": Study on Identifying Theoretical Premises of Muskego and Asini Cree Counselling Methods
Theses
Author/Creator
Shirley Ida Brass
Description
Educational Psychology and Special Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2000.
Putting an End to the Silence: Educating Society about the Canadian Residential School System
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jamie Lee Kuhl
Bridges, vol. 2, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-5
Description
Discusses the importance of revealing the truth regarding residential schools in order to promote healing and prevent repetition of mistakes.
Q'epethet ye Mestiyexw, A Gathering of the People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carolyn Kenny
Jo-ann Archibald
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 24, no. 1, Q epethet ye Mestiyexw, 2000, pp. 1-5
Description
Introduces a special edition of the Canadian Journal of Native Education (CJNE), regarding a collection of scholarly work on the spirit of the "gathering of the people." Articles include oral tradition, curriculum, language, policy and governance.
Qaqamiigux "to hunt for food and collect plants; subsistence": Head Start Traditional Foods Preschool Curriculum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Moses Dirks
Julia Sargent
Tracy Stewart
Suanne Unger
Description
Provides series of lessons and activities to teach nutritional value of local, traditional foods. Structured into six units according to animals and plants found in the region.
Qu'Appelle Faces a Precarious Future
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 126, no. 9, October 2000, p. 9
Description
Saskatchewan diocese in the second worst financial position in Canada due to the expense of dealing with 330 residential school lawsuits.