Public Health Report Series 3 on Diabetes: Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Elena Kuzmina
Pierre Lejeune
David Dannenbaum
Jill Elaine Torrie
Description
Annual report discusses the goals of CDIS, methodology of data sources, definitions of terms, prevalence of diabetes, incidence of diabetes, and duration of the illness.
The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Winona Wheeler
Description
Discusses the importance of Elders as storytellers and oral historians.
Chapter from The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region edited Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortna.
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Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 139-161
Description
Discusses various aspects of the Medicine Wheel, including knowledge about human development from the mainstream paradigm and Indigenous wisdom and ways of knowing from an ecological position, thus linking human development concerns to a wholistic view.
"This book is an expanded and edited version of Canadian Ethnology Service Paper no. 30, published by the National Museum of Man in the Mercury Series in 1975".
Social Justice, vol. 29, no. 1/2, Globalization and Environmental Harm, 2002, pp. 144-160
Description
Examines the historical domination and continued oppression created and continued by Western nations and its relation to the perpetuation of crime and injustice in Aboriginal communities.
Buffalo Criminal Law Review, vol. 5, no. 2, January 2002, pp. 451-495
Description
Looks at social and cultural inequalities between Aboriginal and non-aboriginal persons in the criminal justice system. Discusses the Indian Act, the White Paper of 1969 and Constitution Act of 1982.
Describes Inuit Tapiriit Kanatmai (ITK) president Jose Kusugak's national speaking campaign between May 2004 and early 2005 to raise Canadian public awareness about Inuit issues.
Working Paper (Sustainable Forest Management Network) ; 2002-2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David C. Natcher
Clifford G. Hickey
Working Paper (Sustainable Forest Management Network)
Description
Describes the community-based process of the Little Red River Cree Nation and the development of a self-improving forest management system that is responsive to the values, expectations and changing needs of community members.
Shows how processes and restrictions of government affected the inclusion/exclusion of certain information based on interviews of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who worked for the Commission.
Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program, AAEDIRP
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tom Cooper
Terry Hickey
Leon Sock
Gerald Hare
Description
Purpose of study is to help guide First Nations communities in developing policies, procedures and controls that will ensure effective fisheries management.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 499-514
Description
Literary criticism piece which defines enthymemes and uses that definition as a framework that makes meaning from Momaday’s novels House Made of Dawn and The Ancient Child.
Provides a summary and recommendations of smart practices to the BC government regarding an Aboriginal Businesses Directory, and discusses current initiatives regarding Aboriginal procurement in Canadian government and non-government organizations.