Dogs are perceived as an integral part of the traditional life of the Inuit, but archaeological evidence indicates this was only true in the recent past.
Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada
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Judie Bobb
Rian van Bruggen
Shylah Elliott
Lyda Fuller
Mira Hache ... [et al.]
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Results of interviews or focus group sessions with 205 women (66 in the Northwest Territories, 66 in Yukon and 73 in Nunavut). Fifty-three percent were Inuit, 30 percent First Nations, 10 percent Caucasian, 5 percent Inuvialuit, 1 percent Métis, and 1 percent immigrant.
Chapter 4.5 of Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada edited by J. David Hulchanski, Phillippa Campsie, Shirley B.Y. Chau ... [et al.].
Looks at development of past and current programs, initiatives in other jurisdictions, content of programs, parent needs, and effective program elements, and provides key recommendations.
English Studies in Canada, vol. 36, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 49-70
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Argues that the Canadian state's efforts to disrupt Aboriginal family life and isolate children from their parents, are not being recognized in redress claims.
Book review of: Part of the Land, Part of the Water by Catherine McClellan with Lucie Birckel, Robert Bringhurst, James Fall, Carol McCarthy, Janice Sheppard.
Scroll down to page 81 to read review.
Canadian Social Trends, no. 90, Winter, 2010, pp. 49-56
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Study examines factors that may be associated with participation in extracurricular activities. Data taken from the children and youth section of the 2006 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS).
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 3, no. 1, Special Issue on Sustainability, Summer, 2002, pp. 9-17
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Examines the benefits and policies of the TCIG and how these policies have minimized politics in the operations of the board, thus contributing to it's success.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 12, December 2010, p. 3
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Presents Myrna Yuzicapi, receipient of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, honoured for her devotion to Aboriginal students and education.
Article found by scrolling to page 3.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 1977, pp. 8-18
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Discusses Roger Williams' challenges to Puritans' assertion that they had jurisdiction over both Indigenous peoples and their lands, and uses the conflict between the Narragansett and dissident Rhode Islanders as a case study.
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 16, no. 1, January 2010, pp. 68-76
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Reports American Indians living on reservations and those who have bicultural competence have less hopelessness than those living in non-reservation areas.
Case involved request for an interlocutory injunction of the final land claim agreement in order that the independence of the North Slave Métis Alliance could be established.