Discusses the Métis Training to Employment program's response to displacement that took place due to the 2011 Slave Lake fire and 2013 flood in Southern Alberta. Includes brief literature review, best practices and recommendations.
Looks at the results of a study which indicate that some of the relationships between suicide risk and explanatory variables are more complex then they appear.
"Position paper for the 5th NRF open Assembly, September 24th-27th 2008", Anchorage, Alaska.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, July/August 2008, pp. 15-16
Description
Reviews current literature and reinterprets it to provide more accurate comparisons between Indigenous and non-Indigenous uses of Kava, a psychoactive substance.
National Aboriginal Women's Summit: Strong Women, Strong Communities
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Aboriginal Women's Summit
Description
Summarizes discussions which centered around three themes: health, safety and wellness, equality and empowerment, and strength, balance and honour. Summit produced 137 recommendations.
Journal of Sport History, vol. 41 , no. 2, Summer , 2014, pp. 313-329
Description
"This paper examines processes of cultural contact and change in the Canadian western Arctic resulting from the dual impacts of the fur trade and of missionary activities between 1850 and 1940."
Synthesis of academic and grey literature gathered from sources such as websites, online documents, government reports and presentations. Five themes were identified: cultural care, client-centered care, skills building, community-support and healing traumas for recovery, well as program or activity descriptions.
Looks at the youth initiatives of the theatre companies, including the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company, Full Circle, and Native Earth Performing Arts, Inc.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 10.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 71, no. 4, April 1981, pp. 403-407
Description
Contends that incidence of abortions and tubal sterilizations is still lower among Navajo women than among the total United States population, but it has risen, especially among 20-34 year olds.
American Journal of public Health, vol. 104, no. S3, Supplement 3, June 2014, pp. S490-S495
Description
Uses patient data from the US Renal Data System to compare AI/AN population to other racial /ethnic groups to explain survival differences among the groups,
Arctic, vol. 67, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 271-295
Description
Concludes that reliance on imported foods is due to historical events and developmental processes which are continually influenced by environmental and socioeconomic factors.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, From the Heart of the Earth, March 2014, p. [?]
Description
Bried overview of activist's thoughts on corporate engagement and shareholder activism for creating social change and respecting Indigenous rights and interests.
Overview of ecological and management principles and challenges such as wildlife groups and their habitats and ideas of stewardship and sustainability.
[Master of Environmental Sciences Research Project (MES)]--University of Guelph, 2014.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 40, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 132-149
Description
Study examines the development of the Northern Bachelor of Nursing Program through a partnership with the University of Manitoba from its inception in 1982 to its closure in 1994.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 2, February 2008, p. 8
Description
Introduction to the Student Wellness Initiative Toward Community Health (SWITCH) program and comments on it having received a federal award.
Article located by scrolling to page 8.