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Tough on Kids: Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ross Gordon Green
Kearney F. Healy
Justice as Healing, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter, 2003, p. [?]
Description
Asserts that the British legal system cannot be successfully transfer to Indigenous people, due to philosophical differences.
Excerpt from chapter four of Tough on Kids: Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice.
Canadian Nurse, vol. 104, no. 4, April 2008, pp. 24-28
Description
Discusses a survey conducted by the Association of University Schools of Nursing as a follow-up to the original report entitled Against the Odds: Aboriginal Nursing, published in 2002.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 10-11
Description
Describes partnership between Aboriginal Medical Services (Australia) and a local hospital to create an ear, nose and throat outreach clinic in New South Wales.
Discusses Treaty 8, provincial government policies and initiatives to accommodate Aboriginal rights and interests, and initiatives of the resource sector.
Examines sentencing circles and their potential to change the lives of victims, offenders, and community; also looks at a new relationship between community and government.
Resources are listed under the following headings: General readings, Statistical Overviews - Canada, Alcohol Issues, Policy & Health System Initiatives, Prevention & Education, Treatment & Recovery, Gambling, Solvent Abuse, Tobacco Use, Youth, Key Websites, Journals
Canadian Public Administration, vol. 51, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 317-333
Description
Examination of differences in equality rights, due to the Indian Act, as to why Aboriginal women do not have the same rights as Aboriginal men living on-reserve and non-Aboriginal women living off-reserve.
Background Paper (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; BP-359E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Niemczak
Célia Justras
Description
Briefly looks at experiences in Maine, New Zealand, Australia, and the Sami parliaments, with more in-depth look at the Canadian context.
2008 version.
Brief profiles of the following politicians: Joan Beatty, Buckley Belanger, Carole James, Bonnie Leonard, Len Marchand, Bob Nault, Charles Fox, and Steve Kakfi.
First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC)
Description
Explores the importance of governmental recognition, inclusion and support of Aboriginal institutions for the retention of Aboriginal students. Provides general policy recommendations.
Examines the increase in incarceration from 1991 to 2001, and found that Aboriginal people were not being assisted while in prison or when released from prison.
IRPP Choices, vol. 14, no. 9, August 2008, pp. 1-26
Description
Reviews changes that have taken place since the signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement using various indicators such as income, education, and life expectancy.
Examines how the federalisation of Aboriginal people and the racial reactions to it gave birth to a redefinition of Aboriginality in Australia.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 133.
Study examines three options that have been recommended for improving Aboriginal representation at the federal level in Canada. Looks at examples from Maine, New Zealand, and the Sami parliaments in Finland, Norway, and Sweden.