Falling on Deaf Ears? Listening to Indigenous Voices Regarding Ear Disease ('Otitis Media') and Hearing Loss
Indigenous Studies Thesis (PhD) -- Australian National University, 2020.
Indigenous Studies Thesis (PhD) -- Australian National University, 2020.
Examines the link between having parents who attended Residential Schools and the likelihood of Indigenous children ending up in foster care during the Sixties Scoop.
Examines the use of the words "band controlled" for schools, when in actuality the schools remains under the control of the federal government.
Reprint of a contracted report including recommendations, based on 1997-1998 interviews in the Springhill Institution, Prison for Women, the Regional Psychiatric Centre (Prairies) and the Saskatchewan Penitentiary. Report notes significant drop in percentage of Aboriginal women incarcerated during period of report writing.
Scholarly, peer reviewed paper argues the idea that emphasis on "culture" will improve educational outcomes with urban Aboriginal youth is not working and that the issue of race is more important in the urban context.