Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration With Counselling Psychology
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Joseph P. Gone
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Foreword in the book: Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration With Counselling Psychology edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley and Ashley Hyatt.
Looks at mental health policies, practices and institutions in Aboriginal communities.
Canadian Journal of Education Administration and Policy, no. 106, June 7, 2010, pp. 1-26
Description
Looks at the federal government's responsibility for special education programs on reserves. Provides recommendations for strategies to develop a system to support students, teachers and communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 409-434
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Looks at six states with the largest percentage of American Indian populations and analyzes if a proportional representation of American Indians hold desirable positions in state and local governments.
UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Higher Education Research Colloquium
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amy Fann
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Considers access to college in an ecological context that encompasses family, tribes, life on a rural reservation and previous educational experiences.
The 49th Parallel and Other Borders Recent Directions in Native North American Literary Criticism
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sophie McCall
Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2004, pp. 205-220
Description
Book reviews of 3 books on Indigenous studies:
Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions by Arnold Davidson, Priscilla Walton and Jennifer Andrews;
How Should I Read These? Native Women's Writing in Canada by Helen Hoy;
(Ad)dressing Our Words: Aboriginal Perspectives on Aboriginal Literatures edited by Armand Ruffo.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 67-100
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Looks at a scientific theory of language and learning between linguistic researchers, postcolonial scholars, and Aboriginal language activists to preserve and teach Algonquian languages.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 47-65
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Demonstates how the novel incorporates Natives, soldiers, civilians, and the press into the political process of suppressing the culture and will of Native American people.
Adult Education for Democracy, Social Justice and a Culture of Peace: Proceedings of the Joint International Conference of (AERC) and (CASAE)
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Author/Creator
Eileen M. Antone
Peter Gamlin
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Looks at literacy from an Aboriginal perspective based on a 'wholistic' worldview.
Chapter from Adult Education for Democracy, Social Justice and a Culture of Peace: Proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) (45th National Conference) and the Canadian
Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), (23rd National Conference).
Indigenous Policy Journal of the Indigenous Studies Network, vol. 15, no. 2, Special International Indigenous Issue, Summer, 2004, p. [?]
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Discusses an interview session with George Manuel on his vision of international solidarity towards human rights promotion where social, cultural, economic, civil and political justice prevail and people live with respect and dignity.
Access through table of contents.
Looks at the Aboriginal capacity in natural resources management involving issues that encompass governance, institutional arrangements with other levels of government, and human resource development and that promote forest sustainability, contribute to social and cultural well-being, and respond to major environmental matters such as climate change mitigation.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 3, Winter, 2010, pp. 61-83
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Study reviewed ten interventions that have been used, identified common and dissimilar themes, and looked at ways to continue decolonization efforts around the world.
A Framework for Effective Industry / First Nations Collaboration: A Case Study of the Partnership Between the Alexis First Nation and Millar Western Forest Products Ltd
Theses
Author/Creator
Pia Wilkinson Chapman
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2004.
Looks at re-designing Indigenous school-based health programs and practices to include indigenous ways of knowing, learning, traditions, and values of the community.
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 1, February/March 2017, p. 8
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Editor's introductory article to issue comments on the exploitation of Indigenous peoples in the late 1800s by photographers looking to capture, "cowboys and Indians".
Inquiry looked into circumstances surrounding the death of a Mi'kmaq man who was removed from Vancouver Police Department lock-up, left in an nearby alley and subsequently died of exposure and hypothermia.
Includes review of events prior to the death, institutional responses, evaluation of responses, and recommendations for change.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-10
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Professional commentary in which the author describes how psychiatrists working with Indigenous people in Canada can draw on Fanon’s work on the intersections of colonialism, racism, and psychiatry in order to provide higher quality mental health care services.
Argues that the Federal government's Post-Secondary Student Support Program is failing in its objectives because the money is not being given directly to students and it should be replaced by a Aboriginal Post-Secondary Savings Account opened at birth for each Registered Indian.