Canadian Issues, Journeys of a Generation: Broadening the Aboriginal Well-Being Policy Research Agenda, Winter, 2009, pp. 85-92
Description
Compares the educational levels, labour levels, and the income and housing quality and quantity levels in Métis communities to other aboriginal communities.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.
Presentation to 6th International Conference on Restorative Justice describing prevention, intervention, rehabilitation and support Program implemented in 1992 in northwest British Columbia.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer/Fall, 2003, pp. 533-547
Description
Recalls how women in 1971, supported by the American Indian Movement (AIM), took over a United States Coast Guard Station in Milwaukee to establish a school.
Working Paper (Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network) ; no. 78
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marc Frenette
Description
Using the Youth in Transition Survey (which excluded people who lived on-reserve or in the North) author found that 90 percent of the university attendance gap was associated socio-economic and academic characteristics.
Journal of the Manitoba Educational Research Network, vol. 3, 2009, pp. 45-72
Description
Students consider having a teacher that cares about them and their success as students, greatly influences their classroom learning.
Scroll down to page 45 to read article.
University of the Fraser Valley Research Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Through Students Eyes: Selected Papers From the Stó:lō Ethnohistory Field School, Spring, 2009, pp. 54-72
Description
Comments on the reclamation of ancestral names and the continuous ritual cycles of naming.
The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative. Pt. 5
[2003 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Thomas King
Description
In speech, noted author uses a coyote story as a springboard for a discussion on European-Aboriginal relations throughout the history of Canada and United States. To listen to this audio, scroll down to Part 5.
Duration: 54:22.
What is the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement Act?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Chartrand
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 7, July 2011, p. 6
Description
Comments on the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement Act and its uniqueness in being both an Act and part of the Consitution of Canada.
Article located by scrolling to page 6.
Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Globalising Indigeneity: New Research Directions, 2009, pp. 27-54
Description
Contends that there is no clear evidence that self-determination policies are the answer to improving Indigenous health outcomes.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 27.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring, 2003, p. [?]
Description
Draws on the authors' experience in teaching a cross-cultural course to a predominantly non-Aboriginal class to identify attitudes that cause resistance to admitting racism is a problem.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 162-182
Description
Discussion of changes made over the years by the federal government to policies regarding Aboriginal peoples living in cities as opposed to "Registered Indians"
Discusses research project activities including literature review of family literacy, assessment of literacy programs in Saskatchewan, environment mapping, and the development of a province wide online survey tool.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Winter, 2003, pp. 333-348
Description
Critical analysis of This Bridge Called My Back, relating classroom experience and sense of responsibility held by a lone Indigenous woman student in a mainstream classroom.
Ethnic and Racial Studies , vol. 32, no. 5, June 2009, pp. 781-801
Description
Presents interview data gained from wide range of people living in southeast Australia about what they know and how they feel about Australian Aboriginal people and issues.
Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing, vol. 5, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 20-29
Description
Explores the diverse group of traditional healing elders and what they believe are the important attributes and principles for mental health providers.