Prawa Człowieka / Human Rights, no. 19, 2016, pp. 321-340
Description
Looks at the framework of human rights protection in Canada from the perspective of the case of missing and murdered aboriginal women.
Full issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 321 to access article.
Looks at the Federal Court of Appeal's decision to endorse the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's ruling regarding challenges to discriminatory federal legislation.
National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center
Description
Includes information on historical context, vulnerabilities and rick factors, data trends, health consequences, and services for victims, a sample of tribal codes addressing trafficking, and six recommendations.
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 29-51
Description
Looks at the relationship between nature and culture on the Northwest Coast, and also examines the contrasts between the natural and the supernatural of western and Coast Salish peoples.
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2013, pp. 48-63
Description
Analyzes how the press responded to humanitarians' criticism of the treatment of Indigenous people during the war in New Zealand and upheld the notion that white British settler society was entitled to take possession of Maori land.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, 2013, p. article no. 20324
Description
Findings show an increased likelihood of experiencing hunger dependant on lower income, larger household size and living in a predominately Inuit region.
Reviews key developments in previous theories, which usually produced binary classifications, and suggests that classification based on territorial ownership may be preferable.
Discusses the colonial marginalization of "country foods" and the resulting food insecurity in Inuit communities in Nunavut.
Geography [Honours] Thesis (B.A)--McGill University, 2016.
Awarding-Winning Novelist on the Link Between Residential Schools and the Devastation of Native Suicide
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joseph Boyden
Maclean's, vol. 123, no. 25/26, July 5, 2010, pp. 20-23
Description
Award-winning novelist believes that there is a direct correlation between the high Aboriginal youth suicide-rate and the legacy of residential schools.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 69, no. 4, September 2010, pp. 361-372
Description
Comments on the increase of hypertension as a growing health challenge in Nunavik due to a population believed to have a predisposition for cerebrovascular disease.
First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada
Description
Links to material related to the complaint laid against the Government of Canada alleging inequitable funding for provision of welfare services to First Nations children living on reserves.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010, pp. 137-155
Description
Explores the writer's use of narrative inquiry, autoethnography, and Indigenous research paradigms to address her research on Indigenous spirituality and her journey with learning the Cree language.
Qualitative study conducted in six remote communities in British Columbia. Variables included personal descriptors, social norms, stress, gender, and involvement with community life.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 28, no. 2/3, Spring, 2010, pp. 63-70
Description
Using the photovoice approach with twelve Aboriginal breast cancer survivors in Saskatchewan to argue the need for more research on the effects of race, gender, and class on cancer care and experiences.
Looks at the stereotypes constructed in movies, television and other popular American media and allows the reader to question identity, history, popular culture and humour.
Literature Senior Paper (B.A.)--University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2013.
AlterNative, vol. 12, no. 5, [Indigenous Peoples, Popular Pleasures and the Everyday], 2016, pp. 541-557
Description
Analyzes two YouTube videos by the popular sketch comedy troupe; Indian Store and I'm an Indian Too. Group focuses on stereotypes about what constitutes a "real Indian".
Examines how the traditional activities of the Yukaghirs are determined by the landscape they inhabit and how their identity has managed to survive because of these traditional activities.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 3, 2016, pp. 23-46
Description
Examines the emergence of a spiritual entity during a period of warfare waged by the Lakota and Cheyenne on the Pawnee. Argues that their desperate situation triggered a spiritual crisis since the traditional sacred power of Morning Star seemed to provide no protection from enemy threats.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 53, no. 2, 2016, pp. 11-32
Description
Examines how intensified hunting of seals for their skins and oil in order to trade with the Alaska Commercial Company altered northern societies' relationship with their natural environment.
Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
Jennifer Kramer
Ḳi-ḳe-in
Description
Provides overview of anthology which chronicles the history of perceptions about cultural objects as "art".
Preface and introduction to Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas edited by Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ḳi-ḳe-in.
Uses primary source which recorded heads of households, their age, religion, country of origin, martial status, number of offspring, and agricultural data (livestock numbers, kind and number of buildings and number of cultivated acres). Concludes that at that point in time, the socio-economic structure of the Red River Settlement was not necessarily arranged in a hierarchy with a powerful settler élite at its apex.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 5, 2016, pp. 34-58
Description
Looks to Indigenous knowledge and values held by American Indian/Alaskan Native communities in order to properly evaluate programs for improving health and well-being.