The Relation Between Education and Labour Force Participation of Aboriginal Peoples: A Simulation Analysis Using the Demosim Population Projection Model

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martin Spielauer
Canadian Studies in Population, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Spring/Summer, 2014, pp. 144-164
Description
Uses Statistics Canada's model to assess the impact an increase in educational attainment will have on future labour force inclusion of Aboriginal people.
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Renewal: A Twenty-Year Commitment

Alternate Title
Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ; Vol. 5
E-Books
Author/Creator
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Description
Volume 5 of Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
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Renewing Funding Relationships: Certifying First Nations Social Service Administrators

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gayle Broad
Micheal Nadeau
Canadian Review of Social Policy, no. 67, The Role of Social Economy in Supporting, Challenging, and Innovating Canadian Social Policy, 2012, pp. [74]-79
Description
Looks at building relationships between government and First Nations based on a better understanding of perspectives to provide opportunities involving community determined priorities.
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Renovating Programs in Support of Lands and Economic Development: Gender Roundtable

Alternate Title
Roundtable on Gender and Aboriginal Economic Development
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Allan Clarke
Vera Pawis Tabobondung
Beverley O'Neil
Roberta Stout
Nadine Roach ... [et al.]
Description
Looks at the National Association of Friendship Centres and the Friendship Centre Movement perspective on urban Aboriginal economic development and the basic systemic, socio-economic and educational barriers facing urban Aboriginal women.
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Report: Annotated Bibliography of Available Studies on Elders in Nunavik

Alternate Title
Annotated Bibliography of Available Studies on Elders in Nunavik: Research Report Presented to the Kativik Regional Government
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Émanuèle Lapierre-Fortin
Description

Focus is research studies on and consultations done with elders from 1992 to 2012. Sources for list were interviews with scholars and institutions focused on Inuit research and keyword searches in academic journals and databases, as well as non-scientific online sources.

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Report of the Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs - 1874

Documents & Presentations
Description
Report for the year ending 30 June 1874; including "condition of the various tribal accounts...the quality of land sold during the year and...the state of various schools established for the benefit of the Indians, and another detailing...the population of each Indian band or tribe...a schedule descriptive of the position and area of the Indian reserves in the several Provinces, is appended to this report."
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Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

Alternate Title
Background Paper (Parliamentary Research Branch) ; PRB 99-24E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary C. Hurley
Jill Wherrett
Description
Overview prepared by Research Services, Library of Parliament of the seven-volume Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Report (RCAP). "Revised 2 August 2000."
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Report on Family Law Research in Nunavut: Background Paper

E-Books
Author/Creator
Kelly Gallagher-Mackay
Description
Presents research about adoptions, divorces, and separation, including the use of services and how Inuit families deal with family matters, and looks at increasing the knowledge and access to family rights and available services.
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Researchers, Indigenous Peoples, and Place-Based Learning Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Iain J. Davidson-Hunt
Michael R. O'Flaherty
Society & Natural Resources, vol. 20, no. 4, April 2007, pp. 291-305
Description
Suggests that the creation of place-based learning communities will engage researchers and indigenous people as collaborators in the process of knowledge production.
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Resistance Though Re-Presenting Culture: Aboriginal Student Filmmakers and a Participatory Action Research Project on Health and Wellness

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ted Riecken
Frank Conibear
Corrine Michel
John Lyall
Tish Scott ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 265-286
Description
Summarizes research project, Traditional Pathways to Health developed in partnership with teachers to help Aboriginal youth identify factors impacting their health and wellness using video as a tool of understanding.
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Resource Development and Well-Being in Northern Canada

Alternate Title
ReSDA Gap Analysis Report ; no.7
Resource Development and Well-Being in Northern Canada: Myth or Opportunity
Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic Workshop Report ; no.7
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brenda Parlee
Description
Discusses if resource development will improve the well-being of people in the northern communities or add to the growing gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.
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Resource Development Sector Barriers and Opportunities: Summary of the Findings of the Aboriginal Women Literature Review and Survey Results

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description
Identifies barriers to doing business or becoming employed, opportunities for employment, companies directly employing Aboriginal women, what is being done to facilitate participation, impacts of development, and types of training needed.
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Restory-ing the Sami Strength

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rauna Kuokkanen
ReVision, vol. 21, no. 1, Summer, 1998, pp. [11]-
Description
Discusses the use of story telling as part of the education system of the Sámi people.
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Rethinking Cultural Theory in Aboriginal Education

Alternate Title
Racism, Colonialism and Indigeneity in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Verna St. Denis
Description

Chapter from book: Racism, Colonialism and Indigeneity in Canada edited by Martin J. Cannon and Lina Sunseri. 

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Rev. Louis M. Adam

Images » Photographs
Description
Rev. Louis M. Adam, o.m.i.,principal of the school in Beauval, Saskatchewan.
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A Review of Training and Delivery Options Concerning Aboriginal Housing

Alternate Title
Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 04-033
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Policy and Research Division]
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Summary of project focused on identifying approaches which were innovative, could supplement more conventional teaching methods and be successfully applied in the future. Highlights from research report of same name.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Daniel M. Cobb
Samuel R. Cook
Peter G. Beidler
Barbara A. Mann
Donald B. Smith
Amelia V. Katanski
Paula Richardson Fleming
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, 1999, pp. 213-268
Description
Book reviews of: The Alabama-Coushatta Indians by Jonathan B. Hook. American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice by David E. Wilkins. The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich. Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy: Chief of the Iroquois by Robert Griffin and Donald A. Grinde. Dissonant Worlds, Roger Vandersteene Among the Cree by Earle H. Waugh. Early Native American Writing edited by Helen Jaskoski. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Inc. by Mick Gidley. A Grammar of Bella Coola by Philip W.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Raymond Wilson
David Murray
Donald L. Fixico
Donna Rosh
Kathleen A. Dahl
Francis Jennings
John F. Boatman
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Darryl Wilson
David W. Penney
James D. Nason
Terrence Cole
Eric G. Ackermann
WIlliam C. Sturtevant
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 4, 1990, pp. 67-122
Description
Book reviews of: The View From Officers' Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians by Sherry L. Smith. Indians of the Northwest Coast by Maximilien Bruggmann and Peter R. Gerber. Oklahoma Seminoles, Medicine, Magic, and Religion by James H. Howard in collaboration with Willie Lena. American Indian Identities: Today's Changing Perspectives edited by Clifford E. Trafzer. Oil Age Eskimos by Joseph G. Jorgensen. The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People by Colin G.
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Revisiting the RCNE: An Evaluation of the Recommendations Made by the Royal Commission of the Northern Environment Concerning the Native People in Northern Ontario

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Driben
Native Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 1986, pp. 45-67
Description
Focuses on Commission's recommendations for dealing with, "The Indian people in the North of Ontario" and suggests circumstances and time may have eliminated any impact the recommendations could have achieved.
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RHS Phase 2 (2008/10) Preliminary Results: Adult, Youth, Child

Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS) Phase 2 (2008/10) Preliminary Results
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC)
Description
Results of the only First Nations on-reserve and northern First Nations community longitudinal survey conducted in Canada and only national research initiative under complete First Nations control. Revised second edition.
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"Riel Rebellion"

E-Books
Author/Creator
Jules Sioui
Vernon LaChance
Neil Brodie
Description
This file contains five booklets related to the history of the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Diary of Francis Dickens by Vernon LaChance (1930), Four Months Under Arms by H. S. Nelson (nd), Twelve Days With The Indians by Neil Brodie (1932), War-Peace in Canada: The Invader Responsible for the Death of the Patriot Louis Riel by Jules Sioui (1943), and Saskatchewan Guide to Historic Sites of the North West Rebellion (1985).
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Rim First People: Participatory Design

Alternate Title
Indigenous Architecture Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Michael Fredericks
Description
Michael Fredericks discusses her company's philosophy and first project using a participate design concept at the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Facility at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Duration: 47:37.
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Rita Bouvier

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Glen Berger
Description
Fifteen images (3 shown here) of Rita Bouvier who was involved with Urban Indian Teacher Education Program in Saskatoon, December 3, 1980.
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