Social Justice, vol. 31, no. 4, Native Women and State Violence, 2004, pp. 70-86
Description
Identifies factors effecting the high rates of violence against American Native women and presents a readiness model to help tribal communities deal with the violence.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 61, no. 2, 2002, pp. 110-122
Description
Analyses the prevalence of violence and sexual abuse among the Inuit in Greenland. The article also studies associations between health and having been a victim of abuse.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 2, Tribal College Research, Winter, 2004
Description
Looks at the life of Violet Tso, a council delegate, community leader and the person who started the first student body government at the Tuba City branch of Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 48, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-18
Description
Looks at a language revitalization program in Kenai, Alaska which partners the community with the university and reports the challenges and compromises that accompany this partnership.
Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia. 2004.
Focuses on exhbition about Blackfoot history and culture mounted at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta.
Video records one class's experience with incorporating Aboriginal art and culture into the curriculum by utilizing community mentors and Elders.
Duration: 17:00.
Saskatchewan First Nations Family and Community Institute
Description
Includes comprehensive literature review and results from engagement process which involved seven participant groups, key informant interviews and 24 focus groups. Five themes emerged: programs and services (family centered), honouring youth (child centered), capacity building (community centered/stewardship), practice approach (guardianship), and systemic factors (all functions).
Looks at women-centred care within Saskatchewan and Manitoba and compares findings with other women-centred models.
Published by the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 2 & 3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 2002, pp. 35-38
Description
Book review of: Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance by Siobhan Senier.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Canadian Diversity=Diversitié canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, pp. 69-76
Description
Analyzes community well-being in Manitoba using three measures: self-assessed personal health, reported improvements in family finances, hope for the community's economy.
Scroll down to page 69 to read article.
Includes new life stories, updates to the list of missing and murdered women, expanded research framework, and outlines trends and recommendations.
2nd edition.
Presentation by the United Church General Council Officer for Residential Schools in British Columbia on taking responsibility for the forced assimilation of First Nations through residential schools.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 34, no. 2, 2009, pp. [5]-21
Description
Comments on an award winning novel by Jacques Poulin that tells the story of a writer who takes a road trip to look for his brother and to overcome his writer's block.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 1-21
Description
Discusses case law pertaining to Section 5 of the Act, which prohibts practices which deny the right to vote as well as those that dilute the power of voters to elect representatives of their choice.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 85-104
Description
Describes ideas of discovery, ideologies of purchase, and misinterpretations, for example that of Native American women as battered women, by Lewis and Clark in their explorations, 1804-1806.
Discusses Old Crow community's holistic approach to a sustainability plan which is part of the funding requirement under the Canada Yukon Gas Tax Agreement.