Aboriginal Health Human Resources "A Pillar For The Future": A Discussion Paper for the International Network for Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development Forum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bernice Downey
National Aboriginal Health Organization
Description
Discusses the need for health human resources planning for the general Canadian population and Aboriginal peoples.
Looks at the results of research undertaken to assess forest tenure as one indicator of Aboriginal participation in the management and economic aspects of forestry. The document also assess the progress made in achieving increased Aboriginal participation in the forest sector.
University of British Columbia Law Review, vol. 26, Special Edition: Aboriginal Justice, 1992, pp. 1-3
Description
Highlights the five papers in volume, which were originally commissioned as background studies to the Law Reform Commission's report Aboriginal Peoples and Criminal Justice: Equality, Respect and the Search for Justice.
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.
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.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, September 1985, pp. 59-60
Description
Notice asking for expressions of interest for up to ten interested Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander individuals seeking to add to their skills and experience through short term overseas observational study.
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Edition: Aboriginal Justice, 1992, pp. [239]-279
Description
Various contributors give the "Aboriginal perspective" on the current applications of the Criminal Code, workings of the justice system in general, and required improvements.
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.
Brief profiles of the following politicians: Joan Beatty, Buckley Belanger, Carole James, Bonnie Leonard, Len Marchand, Bob Nault, Charles Fox, and Steve Kakfi.
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.
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.
Outlines the transfer of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the Dominion of Canada, and compares the Hudson Bay Company's claim versus the Aboriginal claim.