Strategic Planning and Policy Development

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Murray Browne
Jeanie Lanine
Kathryn Deo
Woodward & Company
Description
Looks at strategic planning and developing policies by First Nations governments to ensure that they are operating efficiently, effectively, and in ways that are respectful of their culture and vision.
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A Strategy for Change: Supporting Teachers and Improving First Nations, Métis, and Inuit School Success in Provincially Funded Northwestern Ontario Schools

Alternate Title
Report (Northern Policy Institute) ; no. 6
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John A. Hodson
Julian Kitchen
Description
Contends that in order to achieve student success, access to traditional knowledge and access to contemporary knowledge through a culturally responsive and relational pedagogy is necessary.
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Strength-based Well-being Indicators For Indigenous

Children and Families: A Literature Review of Indigenous Communities' Identified Well-being Indicators

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Rountree
Addie Smith
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 3, Strength-based Approaches to Wellness in Indian Country, 2016, pp. 206-220
Description
Reviews literature using a relational worldview as a framework for Indigenous well-being in American Indians and Alaskan Natives, First Nations, Native Hawaiians, Māori, Aboriginal Australians and Sámi.
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Strength of the Earth

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dawn Karima Pettigrew
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 3, Issue 271, 2010, p. 33
Description
Book review of: Strength of the Earth by Frances Densmore. Scroll down page to read review.
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Strengthening Aboriginal Health Through a Place-Based Learning Community

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John F. Anderson
Basia Pakula
Victoria Smye
Virginia Peters (Siyamex)
Leslie Schroeder
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 7, no. 1, Social Networks and Health, March 2011, pp. 42-54
Description
Looks at the Sts’ailes Primary Health Care Project, a participatory community-academic research partnership, that provides programs and services to identify and meet the primary health care and wellness needs of the Aboriginal clients who reside in the region.
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Strengthening Indigenous Communication in Abya Yala

Articles » General
Author/Creator
María del Rosario Sul González
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, The Future We Want: Indigenous Women of the World Unite, December 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the efforts to create a permanent space for Indigenous media to share experiences, challenges and aspirations in the field of communications.
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Strengthening the Role of Indigenous People and Their Communities in the Context of Sustainable Development

Alternate Title
Working Paper (Sustainable Forest Management Network) ; 1999-17
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mike Robinson
Working Paper (Sustainable Forest Management Network)
Description
Looks at how First Nations communities have played an important role in the development of unique co-management regimes that promote regional natural resource sustainability.
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Structures Last Longer than Intentions: Creation of Ongomiizwin – Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing at the University of Manitoba

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 2017 Northern, Rural, and Remote Health conference
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine Cook
Melanie MacKinnon
Marcia Anderson & Ian Whetter
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 2, Collaborative approaches to wellness and health equity in the Circumpolar North..., 2019
Description
Article describes the origins and mandate of Ongomiizwin; highlights the five themes of the University of Manitoba’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences’ (RFHS) Reconciliation Action Plan for health science education: (1) Honoring traditional knowledge systems and practices, (2) Safe learning environments and professionalism, (3) Student support, mentorship and retention (4) Education across the spectrum and 5) Closing the gap in admissions.
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Student Success Research Consortium: Two Worlds Community-First Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dawn Zinga
Sandra Styres
Sheila Bennett
Michelle Bomberry
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and Education, 2009, pp. 19-37, 129-130
Description
Looks at the approach to community-based research, ethical issues, and Aboriginal research.
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Students Design Project with Traditional Knowledge

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christine Fiddler
Windspeaker, vol. 26, no. 2, May 2008, p. 22
Description

Three recent teaching graduates of NORTEP advocate Aboriginal knowledge be added to the curriculum in Saskatchewan schools, focusing mainly on science.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.30.

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Study of Bows and Arrows

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.13, no.9
E-Books
Author/Creator
Saxton T. Pope
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 13, (pp329-414).
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Substitution and Continuity in Southern Chukotka Traditional Rituals: A Case Study from Meinypilgyno Village, 2016–2017

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Konstantin Klokov
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 2, 2018, pp. 117-133
Description
Discusses the resilience of reciprocity rites practiced by the Chukotka people in Russia; describes how the people continued to practice these rites, which honour their relationships with the reindeer and the salmon on which they subsisted, even as the Soviet state reordered the social and economic structures in their region.
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Successful Aging through the Eyes of Alaska Natives: Exploring Generational Differences Among Alaska Natives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jordan P. Lewis
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 385-396
Description
Examines the concept of successful aging from an Alaska Native perspective that is designated when an individual has demonstrated wisdom because of the experiences he or she has gained throughout life.
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Suicide and Aboriginal Youth: Cultural Considerations in Understanding Positive Youth Development

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cynthia Howard
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 163-180
Description
Examines the need for culturally appropriate mental health services for the prevention of Aboriginal youth suicide and the importance of positive youth development to foster healthy mental, emotional, social, spiritual and physical development.
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Sundance Teachings Part 1: Women During Moon

Alternate Title
Elder Knowledge Sharing
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Josephine Small
Nancy Cattleman-Ermineskin
Description
Nancy Cattleman-Ermineskin, an Neyaskweyahk Elder, answers questions regarding protocol, ceremony and women in their moon or menstrual cycle. Duration: 9:13.
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Symposium on “Parental Education” at the ICCH17

Alternate Title
17th International Congress of Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Ingemann
Siv Kvernmo
Helle Møller
Pertice M. Moffitt
Shirley Tagalik ...[et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Description
Summary of the presentations included in the Symposium on Parental Education at the 17th International Congress of Circumpolar Health (ICCH17).
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A Systematic Review of Community Interventions to Improve Aboriginal Child Passenger Safety

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tukuro Ishikawa
Eugenia Oudie
Ediriweera Desapriya
Kate Turcotte
Ian Pike
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. S3, June 2014, pp. e1-e8
Description
Evaluates data for scientific and cultural relevance concluding that successful interventions include Aboriginal view of health, community involvement, and are tailored to culture.
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