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.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 5, no. 12, July 15, 1975, p. 8
Description
Minister of Indian Affairs states that the Trudeau government has done more "than any other government to give natives control over their own affairs."
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
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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
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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.
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.
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
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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.
Health Education Research, vol. 23, no. 5, 2008, pp. 904-914
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Suggests that study findings support the hypothesis that the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project is more closely aligned with a model of community-directed research than a model of shared decision-making between academic and community stakeholders.