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Perceptions of Safety of Indigenous People During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alternate Title
StatCan COVID-19: Data to Insights for a Better Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Paula Arriagada
Tara Hahmann
Vivian O’Donnell
StatCan COVID-19
Description
Participants were asked about concerns regarding the impact of confinement on family stress and violence in the home, their sense of safety in their neighbourhood, and whether they felt that people were being harassed or attacked because of ethnicity or skin colour. Based on information from two crowdsourcing data collecting initiatives : Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians–Mental Health and Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians–Perceptions of Safety.
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The Performance of American Indian and Alaska Native Fourth and Eighth Grade Students on NAEP 2005 Reading and Mathematics Assessments: Statistical Analysis Report

Alternate Title
National Indian Education Study [2005]: Part I
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
B. D. Rampey
Anthony D. Lutkus
Arlene W. Weiner
Taslima Rahman
Description
Reports national results as well as regions and selected states. See Part II - The Educational Experiences of Fourth and Eighth Grade American Indian and Alaska Native Students: Statistical Analysis Report.
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Performance of American Indian and Alaska Native Students at Grades 4 and 8 on NAEP 2007 Reading and Mathematics Assessments

Alternate Title
National Assessment of Education Progress
National Indian Education Study 2007: Part I
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[R. Moran
B. D. Rampey
G. Dion
P. Donahue]
Description
Reports on results of survey of 10,000 participants in reading assessment and 10,300 in mathematics assessment. Compares results to National Indian Education Study for 2005. See Part II - The Educational Experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native Students in Grades 4 and 8: Statistical Analysis Report.
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Permanency for Children & Youth in Care [British Columbia]: Case Data and Trends [as of May 31, 2018]

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD)
Government of British Columbia]
Description
Data for Indigenous and general population on: caseloads, reasons for care and court orders for protection; breakdown of 'neglect', care plan current and complete rate; residential placement types; hotel placements; trend for numbers in care; and youth agreements.
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Personal Persistence, Identity Development, and Suicide: A Study of Native and Non-Native North American Adolescents

Alternate Title
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; vol. 68, no. 2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael J. Chandler
Christopher E. Lalonde
Bryan W. Sokol
Darcy Hallett
Description
Brief overview of findings from a set of five studies dealing with the problems which arise when youth do not have a sense self-continuity. Synopsis of book of the same title.
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Personal, Social, and Environmental Correlates of Physical Activity in Native American Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janice L. Thompson
Venita K. Wolfe
Novaline Wilson
Marla N. Pardilla
Georgia Perez
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 25, no. 3, Supplement 1 Physical Activity in Women from Diverse Racial/Ethnic Groups, October 2003, pp. 53-60
Description
Detailed quantitative survey personal, social environmental, and physical environmental factors that influence physical activity levels.
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Perspective: Issues in Evaluating Fish Consumption Rates for Native American Tribes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jamie Donatuto
Barbara L. Harper
Risk Analysis, vol. 28, no. 6, 2008, pp. 1497-1506
Description
Argues that risk assessment methods which were developed to estimate maximum safe exposures for the general population are not adequate when dealing with populations that rely more heavily on hunting, fishing and trapping as primary food sources.
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Physical Activity Experiences of Aboriginal Youth

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tara-Leigh F. McHugh
Native Studies Review, vol. 20, no. 1, 2011, pp. 7-26
Description
Surveyed eight high school students for their attitudes toward physical activity. Five themes developed: unstructured participation, relationships, expense, community support, and benefits.
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Physical Activity of Aboriginal People in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
T. Kue Young
Peter T. Katzmarzyk
Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, vol. 32, no. S2E, 2007, pp. S148-S160
Description
Summarizes available information on patterns of activity, their determinants and consequences and results of interventions.
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Physician and Nurse Perspectives on Implementation of Universal Adult HIV Screening Guidelines in the Indian Health Service: Results of a Randomized Survey

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brigg Reilley
John T. Redd
Scott Giberson
Juanita K Lee
Don Haverkamp
James Cheek
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, vol. 16, no. 5, September/October 2010, pp. 450-456
Description
Survey results of four facilities, which implemented HIV screening on persons 13 to 65 years old, concluded that more information and training is needing on HIV screening guidelines, execution of strategies and state regulations.
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Physicians' Attitudes Toward Collaboration with Traditional Healers

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yvon Gagnon
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, pp. 175-186
Description
Discusses the views of doctors on the advantages and disadvantages of joint co-operation between traditional practitioners and non-traditional practitioners for a better health care system.
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A Pilot Behavioral and Biological Surveillance Survey for HIV and Other Bloodborne Infections Among Aboriginal People in Regina, Saskatchewan

Articles » General
Author/Creator
J. Tarasuk
S. Ogunnaike-Cooke
C. Archibald
M. Poitras
M. Hennink ... [et al.]
Canada Communicable Disease Report, vol. 40, no. 18, Blood, Cell and Tissue Transplant Surveillance, November 2014, pp. 388-396
Description
Pilot study of the A-Track system, which monitors prevalence of infections and associated risk behaviours and socio-demographics. Sample size was 1,064 and data was gathered from 2011 to 2012. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 388.
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The Pima-Papago Educational Population: A Census and Analysis

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Harland Padfield
Peter Hemingway
Philip Greenfield
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 6, no. 1, October 1966, pp. [1-24]
Description
Findings indicate 65% of students are behind their grade, suggesting cultural adjustment problems in the school experience.
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Police-Reported Aboriginal Crime in Saskatchewan

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nathalie L. Quann
Shelley Trevethan
Description
Three main sources of data were the 1996 Census of the Population and the 1997 aggregate and incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR).
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Police-reported Crime in Inuit Nunangat

Alternate Title
Catalogue No. 85-561-M, no. 20
Crime and Justice Research Paper Series
Research Paper (Statistics Canada); no.20
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mathieu Charron
Christopher Penney
Sacha Senécal
Research Paper (Statistics Canada)
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Police-Reported Hate Crime in Canada, 2013

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mary Allen
Juristat, vol. [35], no. [1], June 9, 2015, pp. 1-29
Description
Reports on the 1,167 reported incidents that were motivated by hate in Canada in 2013.
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Policing on American Indian Reservations: A Report to the National Institute of Justice

Alternate Title
Research Report (National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stewart Wakeling
Miriam Jorgensen
Susan Michaelson
Manley Begay
Description
Study consisted of literature review, visits to Indian police departments and the Indian Police Academy in New Mexico, a two-part survey administered to Indian police departments, and site visits to four reservations.
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The Policy Implications of Revitalizing Traditional Aboriginal Religions

Alternate Title
Learning, Technology, and Traditions
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 3rd, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Marc Fonda
Aboriginal Policy Research, vol. 6
Description

Discusses religious revitalization by using the analogy of language revitalization.

Chapter eleven from Learning, Technology, and Traditions, which is vol. 6 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.

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Political Learning among Members of a Racial-Ethnic Minority

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Morris A. Forslund
Betty L. Wells
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 1979, pp. 1-22
Description
Reviews previous research which assessed influence of sex, social class and race, and investigates whether Native American children exhibit the same pattern of political disaffection as Black children. Study involved 480 children from Grades five to eight on, or in close proximity to Wind River Reservation.
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Serum of the Siberian Yupik People from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David O. Carpenter
Anthony P. DeCaprio
David O'Hehir
Farooq Akhtar
Glenn Johnson
Ronald J. Scrudato
Lucy Apatiki
Jane Kava
et al
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 64, no. 4, 2005, pp. 322-335
Description
A study to determine serum levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Siberian Yupik adults.
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