Awarding-Winning Novelist on the Link Between Residential Schools and the Devastation of Native Suicide
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Author/Creator
Joseph Boyden
Maclean's, vol. 123, no. 25/26, July 5, 2010, pp. 20-23
Description
Award-winning novelist believes that there is a direct correlation between the high Aboriginal youth suicide-rate and the legacy of residential schools.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 69, no. 4, September 2010, pp. 361-372
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Comments on the increase of hypertension as a growing health challenge in Nunavik due to a population believed to have a predisposition for cerebrovascular disease.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 137-155
Description
Explores the writer's use of narrative inquiry, autoethnography, and Indigenous research paradigms to address her research on Indigenous spirituality and her journey with learning the Cree language.
Chapter 7 from book: Empowering Settings and Voices for Social Change edited by Mark Aber, Kenneth I. Maton and Edward Seidman.
Comments on final words of Gros Ventre medicine person, Buffalo Bull Lodge.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 28, no. 2/3, Spring, 2010, pp. 63-70
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Using the photovoice approach with twelve Aboriginal breast cancer survivors in Saskatchewan to argue the need for more research on the effects of race, gender, and class on cancer care and experiences.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, December 2011, p. [?]
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Looks at the danger of extinction of the Sauk language and a preservation program that includes pre-school curriculum, community participation, materials production, and educational gatherings.
University of the Fraser Valley Research Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Through Students Eyes: Selected Papers from the Stó:lō Ethnohistory Field School, Spring, 2009, pp. [73]-94
Description
Traces history of welfare, Aboriginal people and perceptions of stigma.
Examines how the traditional activities of the Yukaghirs are determined by the landscape they inhabit and how their identity has managed to survive because of these traditional activities.
Discusses today's Aboriginal writing in Canada at the I'POYI Aboriginal Writers' Gathering, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, March 26-27, 2009.
Duration: 9:02.
I'POYI Aboriginal Writers Gathering ; March 27, 2009
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Troy Emory Twigg
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Dancer reads an article he wrote, A Story of an Entry at Union Station, How Ancient Memories Travel Through the Blood, Peter Chen and Me, and then performs a dance.
Duration: 21:42.
Canadian Dimension, vol. 43, no. 1, January/February 2009, pp. 48-50
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Comments that while there have been some positive changes in Aboriginal education in the past 25 years, the retention rate of Aboriginal students is still low.
Project focused on developing tests that were appropriate to Aboriginal adults who were either entering or re-entering the post-secondary education system.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 4, April 2011, p. 21
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Comments on an awards gala held to honour the best Aboriginal business achievers, identifying one business and one individual each year.
Article found by scrolling to page 21.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 2, February 2011, p. 16
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Description of the plans for the annual International Association on Native Employment (IANE) national conference.
Article found by scrolling to page 16.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 7, July 2011, p. 1,3
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Looks at the many and varied accomplishments of Gordon Tootoosis who was born and raised on the Poundmaker Cree Nation.
Article located on page 1 and continued by scrolling to page 3.