Resources & References

Website for a community college that provides adult, post-secondary, community, vocational, and technical education.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2008.

Collection of best practices used by companies. Provides information on context, workforce awareness, advantages to workforce diversity, employment challenges, and the elements of a successful integration strategy.

Discusses common considerations about household and school employees' connectivity and equipment, as well as the requirements in four different scenarios: teachers and students return to school but some individuals must remain at home due to health fragility reasons; students and teachers partially back to school; teachers in school, students at home; and neither teachers nor students are at school.

Offers resources, strategies, and lessons learned on the predominant topics on which family preservation programs focus.

Includes information on data documentation, software guide, and list of contacts.

Discussion on creating an appropriate library collection of resources and works reflective of Aboriginal women's cultural diversity and their cumulative life experiences.

Recommendations and resources for teaching an Indigenous history class at the college level in 1970s.

Website includes photographs and documents about Residential and Day Schools from Ontario with plans for the rest of Canada to follow.

Overview prepared by Research Services, Library of Parliament of the seven-volume Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Report (RCAP). "Revised 2 August 2000."

Contains links to each of the five volumes.

Report of the Saskatchewan Government Private Sector Committee indicating a need for more self-employment programs for Indian and Metis people. Interprovincial Steel and Pipe Corporation Limited (IPSCO) in Regina, SK, proposes a industrial operation with ownership and control in Indian and Metis hands to prepare and process scrap for IPSCO.

Discusses terminology, diversity and identity, variations in world views, treatment of death and deceased, access and permission, sacred sites, and other cultural sensitivities.

Ontario. Commission Appointed to Inquire into and Investigate the Several Departments of the Public Service.

A compiled list of repository sources of visual materials as a documentary resource for research and ethnographic data.

Library and Information Studies Thesis (M.L.I.S.)--University of Alberta, 2010.

Lists books and articles in the fields of history, anthropology, geography, sociology, political science, health, literature, law, education, and the arts.

Summarizes information gathered from literature reviews and surveys regarding current perceptions of Native Americans, potential stakeholders, developing and advocating a new narrative, policy issues and opportunities, and lessons learned from the activism which took place at Standing Rock.

Discusses five topics: suggested core values, value and validity of Indigenous knowledge, cultural aspects of research, stewardship of information, sovereignty, and benefits of research.

Related material: Supporting Indigenous Researchers: A Practical Guide for Supervisors.

Examines the Native American population in Southern California and the significant amount of research which has been conducted in the area, concentrating on the Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties.

Discusses organizations and resources dealing with Indigenous peoples and international law. Revised document originally presented at the 1992 Annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Although aimed at people applying for citizenship in the Métis Nation of Ontario, contains some useful general information about genealogical research.

Lists institutions for which former attendees are eligible for compensation under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.

Short list of significant dates in the residential school crisis.

Suggests five areas for future research surrounding the themes of youth and resilience.

Lists over 2300 resources covering a broad spectrum subject areas. Can be sorted by title or author.

Assists United Nations Country Teams to engage with and incorporate Indigenous perspectives in the development processes. Includes information on international agreements and legal frameworks.

Presents information on how to provide culturally and linguistically correct services in Ontario. Divided into professional associations, federal and provincial websites, websites for national Aboriginal organizations and historical content of Indigenous languages, health and education of Aboriginal population and cultural sensitivity.

Topics include Indigenous identity, cultural competency, residential schools, language and dialect differences, education, and speech-language pathology and students.

List of works relating to Indigenous language and Indigenous knowledge that foster a spiritually rooted Native identity. Draft.

Contains links to: provincial/territorial resources, National Literacy Secretariat, National Literacy Database, etc.

Medical journal articles were studied to determine whether there had been adequate research into Aboriginal health needs. Findings revealed research coverage lacking in several areas.

Literature review between 1965 and 2011 on alcohol and drug treatments resulting in 24 unique studies on treatment outcomes.

Book reviews of: As Long as the Rivers Run: Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada by James B. Waldram. Sun Journey: A Story of Zuni Pueblo by Ann Nolan Clark. Maricopa Morphology and Syntax by Lynn Gordon. The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History by John H. Moore. Pride of the Indian Wardrobe-Northern Athapascan Footwear by Judy Thompson. Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View of the Sioux War of 1876 by Sherry L.

Article of themed journal articles.

Two copies of the premiere issue of the bulletin published by the University of Alberta. Article subjects include a letter written by Louis Riel, dated 16 November 1885, the day of his execution; and the Riel Mini-Conference, held in October 1978 at the University of Alberta.

Historical note:

Pamphlet for the major eastern Canadian Riel conference, held at the University of Guelph, Ontario, 14-16 November 1985. Goals for the conference were to re-evaluate the presence of Louis Riel and other key figures in the Red River and Northwest Resistances, in Canadian cultural expression avenues such as newspapers, school textbooks, novels, poems and plays.

Guide in the six stage process of developing a treaty.

Presents findings of community-based research study to develop the prototype for the toolkit.

Listed alphabetically.

File contains a presentation by Chief Councillor Jack Thompson regarding the distribution and structure of Social Services on the reserves of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) First Nation. Thompson makes some suggestions about how resources could be better utilized, and discusses the amtter with Commissioners Erasmus, Robinson, and Keitlah.

This file contains a presentation by Gloria Thomas and Jan Longboat relating to the Community Health Review's work for the Six Nations Confederacy. This two-year project addresses the lack of resources and health planning for Six Nations. Other concerns include transferring of First Nations health services, lack of access to mental health services, non-insured health benefits and traditional healing. A question-and-answer session with the Commissioners follows the presentation.

Program expected that individuals would provide labour required to erect their own houses and examined the use of simplified housing "kits" which met design requirements and budget limitations. This company's consultant produced house plan, detailed construction manual, associated shop drawings, and summary report which included cost data.