Website contains early intervention strategies providing ideas and examples to enhance early childhood (birth to six years old) development; six components: culture and language, education, health promotion, nutrition, parent and family involvement and social support.
Explores how differing genres of Native storytelling process the contemporary literatures of removal within the Trail of Tears, a forced relocation, following passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Speaker discusses stereotypes of both Indigenous men and women, Canada 150 celebrations, and reactions to the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald erected on the Wilfred Laurier University Waterloo campus, including the video she made, Canadian Conversation.
Duration: 34:22.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 10, no. 1, Sharing Knowledge Across Nations, 2014, pp. 16-34
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Findings show that arts-based approaches to the development of HIV-prevention knowledge and Indigenous youth leadership are helping to involve youth in a critical dialogue about health.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 53, no. 4, Winter, 2007, pp. 387-400
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Looks at women graduates from the Native Teacher Education Program (NTEP), the three stages of becoming a role model and how the program can support role modeling.
Documentary follows three First Nations students as they compete in Saskatchewan's first-ever First Nations Provincial Spelling Bee and their subsequent trip to the National Championships in Toronto.
Duration: 44:08.
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 38, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 2, Summer, 2014, pp. 218-223
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Comments on the high prevalence of hearing loss due to otitis media and noise exposure.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 1, January 2007, p. 9
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Looks at the social issue of homelessness across Canada and a committee trying to set up a Men's Shelter in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Article located by scrolling to page 9.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 3, Summer, 2007, pp. 410-440
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Authors use discourse analysis to interrogate that narrative created by the Miner & News surrounding a six-week standoff between the Ojibway Warrior Society and the municipality of Kenora, ON. Discusses tropes of barbarism and civilization vs savagery, and the paper’s failure to differentiate between the Warrior Society and Indigenous peoples generally.