Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 11, November 2010, p. 12
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Comments on the important role Métis people played in Canada's war efforts, the impact on families, and how we must all remember their sacrifice.
Article found by scrolling to page 12.
Métis Centre of the National Aboriginal Health Organization
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Fact sheet summarizes data from the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) on Métis women and disease prevalence, treatment, screening behaviours, and preventive measures.
American Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 3, September 2010, pp. 639-661
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Looks at how Todd Downing appropriates and refigures Mexico's Indigenous history and culture to reveal evidence of the modern Indigenous people obscured by Indigenismo discourse. The article also anticipates the anticolonial discourses of the American Indian civil rights movement.
Discusses the variety of influences present in such works as the illustrated book Red: A Haida Manga
Excerpt from Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast edited by Aaron Glass.
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)
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Purpose is to look at jurisdictions several years after the approach has been implemented to address relevance, performance, efficiency, effectiveness and alternatives.
Black Diaspora Review , vol. 1, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 4-30
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Analysis of the three groups looks at internal problems encountered, the role and contributions of women, and methods used by the groups to get noticed.
Comments on demands made by Indigenous peoples and compares them to demands of non-Indigenous peoples: self-determination, territory, prior informed consent, human rights, cultural rights, and treaties versus land rights and issues of land tenure.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 1, Fall, 2010, pp. 11-18
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Case study based on 25 interviews revealed social, economic and political factors effecting Inuit perspective of uranium mining, problems with consultation meetings, and some recommendations for improving Inuit participation in discussions.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 3, March 2011, p. 1,21
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Comments on the appointments of Russ Mirasty, a member of Lac La Ronge First Nation, to the Chief Superintendent of the RCMP's F Division and Corporal Dani Herman, a member of Cowessess First Nation, to the position of Métis coordinator for the RCMP.
Article found on page 1 and continued on page 21.
Detailed chronology and analysis of police actions in case involving disappearance and murder of numerous women by serial killer Robert Pickton from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Vancouver Police Department report gives chronology of events and analysis of factors of that contributed to failure to recognize that serial killer Robert Pickton was operating in the area.
President of the Native Women's Association of Canada discusses the validity of British Columbia's inquiry, the reasons for the organization's withdrawal from the process, and the need for a national inquiry.
Duration: 44:31.
Tells the story of a Métis woman who appears to be quite happy and content in her common-law marriage to a Hudson's Bay Company clerk until he deserts her because of her background and company policy.
Duration: 57:01
Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work, vol. 1, no. 1, February 2010, pp. 1-18
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Study examines issues of diversity disaster relief, recovery and the need to develop culturally appropriate methods for future training and preparation.