Paper prepared for the Eighth Annual Conference of the Indigenous Women’s Conference “Celebrating Our Diversity” Trent University, Peterborough, ON, March 15-17, 2007.
Journal of the Southwest , vol. 30, no. 3, Autumn, 1988, pp. 325-355
Description
Discusses how Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller combines fiction, poetry, family history, and oral tradition to create a sense of personal, cultural, feminist, and human identity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 109-119
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Explores the controversy surrounding overemphasis on Native American fictional literature in American Indian Studies and the dire need for understanding and solutions for social issues and challenges currently faced by Native Americans.
Deviant Behavior, vol. 28, no. 3, 2007, pp. 219-246
Description
Tests Robert Agnew's general strain theory to explain suicide in minority groups. Results shows how coercive parenting, caretaker rejection, and negative school attitudes contribute to youth suicide.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 66, no. 1, 2007, pp. [50]-60
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Results of a health and wellness survey reported participants who identified with a more traditional Yup'ik way of life reported greater happiness and less frequent use of drugs and alcohol than those participants who reported living a more Kass'aq way of life.
Survey which used a sample of 24 youths living in Toronto, Ontario found a strong link between homelessness and involvement in the child welfare system.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Social Suffering, 2007, pp. 16-21
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Explores consequences resulting from ethnic discrimination, racism, sexism, exploitation, poverty and political violence.
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Research Paper (National Centre for First Nations Governance)
Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shin Imai
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Focuses on three situations where Chief and Council exercise some authority: allocation of reserve land, law-making powers and elections, and analyzes how the Indian Act allows both too much and too little power in these areas.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, 2007, pp. 24-35
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Looks at history, economics and politics to explain internal instability and the exploitation of resources.
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Journal of College Student Development, vol. 48, no. 4, July/August 2007, pp. 405-416
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Based on a study using a sample of 643 students who had taken the College Students Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ), two variables affecting student success were identified.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 7, July 2007, p. 2
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Looks at the economic benefits the Treaty Land Entitlement Settlement, approximately $10.4 million, will bring to Sturgeon Lake First Nation and surrounding communities.
Article located by scrolling to page 2.
Substance Use & Misuse, vol. 42, no. 9, 2007, pp. 1379-1400
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Looks at likely influences of ethnocultural factors on drinking and smoking among Sami adolescence and their perceptions of their own drinking in adulthood.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 1, Tribal College Students Today, Fall, 2007, pp. 30-35
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Findings of a three-year study of science students who had transfered to larger institutions to complete their degrees found three predictors of success: academic readiness, financial security and support systems.
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 15-19
Description
Provides evaluation of the program reporting that current and previous participants were very satisfied with the program with almost all wishing to repeat their participation in the program.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2007, pp. 479-501
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Studies found that suicide is multi-determined and that there are no simple answers to the youth epidemic experienced worldwide. However, colonialism, and the residual effects of it, are cited as a common factor in all worldwide studies of suicide rates among Indigenous Peoples.
Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 15, no. 1, Supplement, February 2007, pp. S63-S67
Description
Looks at value where by older people grow up to protect younger people and if it can offer any insight or response to the high rates of suicide among young Aboriginal men.
Provides a summary of suicide by Greenland and Alaska Indigenous youth and how social determinants can effect those numbers.
Chapter in Children and Youth in Greenland - An Anthology edited by W Kahlig & N Banerjee