Describes the questionnaires used by archival and folklore societies in Saskatchewan to gather information on settler histories; discusses how they both showcase settler-Indigenous relationships in some cases and obscure them in others, creating a segregated history of the province.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 32.
Faculty of Law, University of Windsor & the Commonwealth Legal Education Association Roundtable
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Georges Erasmus
Description
Discusses the role of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in dealing with a variety problems of arising from the residential school system, and argues that a healing environment must be included in the compensation process.
Presents an introduction on how climate change will significantly impact First Nations people due to their locations, reliance on the environment, and limited adaptation strategies.
Discusses various effects that climate change will have on First Nations communities such as transportation, water quality, infrastructure, housing, and many more.
Provides insight into the challenges facing First Nations people and the ability to demonstrate effective governance that would lead to responses and decisions that could minimize climate change impacts.
Presents recommendations for climate change-related action, taking into account issues relating to First Nations peoples impact, adaptation and mitigation measures.
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Description
Looks at the legal rights First Nations people have in Canada to be able to assert to own and to use carbon in trees, and focuses on how Aboriginal, treaty, and land title rights might be exercised so that they can sell credits to industry or government.
Report (Northern Labour Market Information Clearinghouse) ; no. 105
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jim Klingle
Description
Examines cultural and environmental influences on Aboriginal learners and distance education delivery practices. Provides recommendations for distance programming.
Purpose of commission was to investigate methods of consultation which would ensure Indian and Inuit participation in decisions about the health care programs affecting them, and to make a recommendation as to which one should be adopted by the Department of Health and Welfare.
Report (Northern Labour Market Information Clearinghouse) ; no. 108
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Wendy Doughty
Jim Klingle
Description
Combines primary data gathered through interviews with career counsellors, employment/job placement specialists, and people responsible for employment training programs with data from 1996 Census and national, provincial and local reports.
Presents research about adoptions, divorces, and separation, including the use of services and how Inuit families deal with family matters, and looks at increasing the knowledge and access to family rights and available services.
Compares delivery of secondary education to Indigenous young people to other states in Australia and outcomes being achieved by remote and urban students.
Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP
Description
Investigation examined conduct relating to policing of pubic intoxication, cross-gender searches, missing persons and domestic violence reports, use of force, and handling of files involving youth.
Includes links to complaint, interim and final report, and Commissioner's response.
Survey asked indeterminate, term and casual employees with at least six months of continuous service to rate 55 statements. Twenty-one were benchmark questions common to federal, provincial and territorial government public service Engagement Surveys across Canada. Total of 1,692 respondents participated.
Outlines the Indian Claims Commission's (ICC) role in mediating a settlement summarizes events that led to resolution. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Government Relations & Aboriginal Affairs Division
Description
Outlines provincial Strategy of Métis and Off-Reserve First Nations People (MOR) and discusses questions related to issues affecting Aboriginal people.
Describes the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve and sets out the legal framework for the Sencot'en Alliance First Nations' involvement in the planning and management of the park.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 189, no. 33, August 21, 2017, pp. e1080-1081
Description
Talks about the report, Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women that confirmed allegations against the Saskatoon Health Region.
Health Policy, vol. 75, no. 3, February 2006, pp. 243-250
Description
Case study of the Calgary Health Region's council, with its model of participation by Aboriginal population; assesses strengths and future challenges of the process.
Looks at the stereotypical images found in popular culture and museums' historical practices, and goes on to analyze contemporary exhibitions in the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, Iroquois Indian Museum, Mashantucket Pequot Museum, New York State Museum, George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian and the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Anthropology Honors Capstone Project (B.A.)--Syracuse University, 2006.
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Tuesday, February 19, 1980 regarding a request from Parks Canada that a representative of the City attend an open house on the direction of future developments at Batoche National Historic Site.
Journal of Transcultural Nursing, vol. 17, no. 3, July 2006, pp. 266-271
Description
Looks at patterns and potential causes for the discrepancy in health between AI/AN populations and the general population. Suggests use of community based participatory research to engage communities.