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Toku Toa, He Toa Rangatira: A Qualitative Investigation of New Zealand Māori End-of-Life Care Customs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tess Moeke-Maxwell
Rawiri Wharemate
Stella Black
Kathleen Mason
Janine Wiles ... [et al.]
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 13, no. 2, Death and Dying, December 2018, pp. 30-46
Reports on Pae Herenga pilot study undertaken to explore how care customs contribute towards strengthening extended family (whānau) resilience and bereavement. Results indicate a need for further study, wider understanding of whānau practices among health professionals, and a digital resource centre.
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Tools of Resiliency: Addressing the Wellbeing Needs of Indigenous People by Honouring Culture as Treatment

Alternate Title
Tools of Resiliency: Addressing the Well-Being Needs of Indigenous People by Honouring Culture as Treatment
Tools of Resiliency: Addressing the Wellbeing Needs of Indigenous People by Honoring Culture as Treatment
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Primary Health Care Council

Purpose of study was to collect and analyze data on Indigenous community-governed Mental Health and Addictions programs in Ontario.

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Total Health

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Anthony Dillon
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 6, November/December 1999, pp. 3-4
Contains suggestions for Indigenous health workers in Australia when working with others.
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Toward a Better Tomorrow: Addressing the Challenge of Aboriginal Youth Suicide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Del Graff
Child and Youth Advocate for Alberta reports on seven suicides which took place in 2013-2014. Each individual was either involved with Child Intervention Services at the time of their death, or had been within the previous two years. Includes 12 recommendations for improvements to provincial services and programs.
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Toward an Understanding of Suicide in First-Nation Canadians

Alternate Title
Clinical Insight: Toward an Understanding of Suicide in First-Nation Canadians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. Cutcliffe
Crisis, vol. 26, no. 3, 2005, pp. 141-145
Argues that to understand suicide in First Nations there must be more of a shift away from the current quantitative methods to that of qualitative, including listening to the voices of the people themselves.
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Toward More Effective, Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention in Nunavut

Alternate Title
Northern Exposure: Peoples, Powers and Prospects in Canada's North
[Art of the state (Montréal, Québec) ; v. 4]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jack Hicks
Looks at statistical trends in number of suicides, age, sex, region and community. Discusses past and current research, areas for future study, and seven working hypotheses. Excerpt from Northern Exposure: Peoples, Powers and Prospects in Canada's North edited by Frances Abele, Thomas J. Courchene, F. Leslie Seidle and Frances St-Hilaire.
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Towards A Deeper Understanding of the Indigenous Experience of Urban Homelessness

Alternate Title
Research on the Intergenerational Impact of Colonialism and Aboriginal Homelessness in Edmonton
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Blue Quills First Nations College
IRM Research and Evaluation Inc.
Study focused on: linkages between intergenerational trauma caused by residential schools and involvement in child protection systems and homelessness; the effect on sense of identity and connection to heritage; promising practices in providing supports and services; and life factors and experiences which mitigate effects of intergenerational trauma.
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Towards An Aboriginal Model of Community Healing

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bonnie Freeman
Bill Lee
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Resistance and Resiliency: Addressing Historical Trauma of Aboriginal Peoples, March 2007, pp. 97-120
Looks at a community development model that focuses on traditional knowledge and cultural practice to assist Aboriginal communities to heal from historical and ongoing trauma, and for the restoration of health and well being.
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Towards an Experiential Analysis of Shamanism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larry G. Peters
Douglass Price-Williams
American Ethnologist, vol. 7, no. 3, August 1980, pp. 397-418
Examines shamanic ecstatic states from a psychiatric and comparative perspective.
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Towards Mauri Ora: Examining the Potential Relationship Between Indigenous-Centric Entrepreneurship Education and Māori Suicide Prevention in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Alternate Title
Towards Mauri Ora: Examining the Potential Relationship Between Indigenous-Centric Entrepreneurship Education and Maori Suicide Prevention in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine Love
Keri Lawson-Te Aho
Shamia Shariff
Jan McPherson
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 2, September 2017, pp. 116-128
Participants of the Ahikaa programme shared stories of hope and reported the programme as both life-changing and healing.
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Towards the Development of a Nunavut Suicide Prevention Strategy: A Summary Report on the 2009 Community Consultations

Alternate Title
http://www.tunngavik.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/towards-the-development-of-a-nunavut-suicide-prevention-strategy-eng.pdf
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ellen Bobet
Concludes that Nunavummiut desire a range of prevention services, from community initiatives focused on primary prevention through to professional care for people at higher risk.
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Towards Understanding and Supporting Marginalized Children and Youth in Ontario: The Case of Growing Up Indigenous

Alternate Title
Supports for Success
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stephanie Elliott
Malaika Hill
James Iveniuk
Rumaisa Khan
Angela Mashford-Pringle
Emma Ware
Presents evidence gathered from focus groups involving youth, parents, service providers and community leaders, as well as statistical information, program inventory, and social network analysis. Focuses on indicators related to education, employment, health and mental health, and sense of belonging.
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Traditional Living and Cultural Ways as Protective Factors Against Suicide: Perceptions of Alaska Native University Students

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher R. DeCou
Monica C. Skewes
Eleen D. S. López
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, Supplement 1, 2013, p. article no. 20968
Interviews conducted with 25 university students indicated that those who had a greater levels of traditional practice and subsistence activities tended to be less prone to suicide.
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The Trail of Stress

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arthur W. Blue
Meredith A. Blue
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 311-327
Survey of Aboriginal university students and their experience with stress.
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Trance, Possession, Shamanism and Sex

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
I. M. Lewis
Anthropology of Consciousness, vol. 14, no. 1, March-June 2003, pp. 20-39
Reviews the role of altered states of consciousness (ASC) in the anthropology of religion.
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Transcending the Borderlands: Elements of the Anzalduan Mestiza Consciousness in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

Alternate Title
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rachael Price
Describes how elements from these novels serve as a mirror of hybridity theory with an emphasis on stories and the idea of journeys for true cultural unity.
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The Transition from the Historical Inuit Suicide Pattern to the Present Inuit Suicide Pattern

Alternate Title
Moving Forward, Making a Difference ; vol. 2
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 4
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 2nd, 2006
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jack Hicks
Peter Bjerregaard
Matt Berman
vol. 4

Traces trends in Nunavut, Nunavik, Alaska, Greenland and the Circumpolar region, and discusses possible explanations for increases in the suicide rate.

Chapter three from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 2, which is also vol. 4 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.

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Trauma and Healing in Aboriginal Families and Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Lederman
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 2, Applying Circles in Aboriginal Social Work Practice, April 1999, pp. 59-90
Looks at how a continuing history of repeated traumatic events, that have affected entire Aboriginal communities, make it difficult for the process of healing to take place.
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Trauma and Suicide Behaviour Histories Among a Canadian Indigenous Population: An Empirical Exploration of the Potential Role of Canada's Residential School System

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda Elias
Javier Mignone
Madelyn Hall
Say P. Hong
Lyna Hart
Jitender Sareen
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 74, no. 10, May 2012, pp. 1560-1569
Looks at inter-generational effects by investigating direct or indirect exposure to trauma experiences of two groups: community members who were residential schools survivors and community members who did not attend residential schools.
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Trauma, Child Development, Healing and Resilience: A Review of Literature with Focus on Indigenous Peoples and Communities

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Patti LaBoucane-Benson
Nicole Sherren
Deanna Yerichuk
Search of literature published between 2010 and 2016 which focused on either Alberta or Canada produced 44 results. Results are arranged under the headings interconnected worldview, development of legal traditions, positive individual and collective identity, and self-determination.
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"The Trauma Experienced by Generations Past Having an Effect in Their Descendants": Narrative and Historical Trauma Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Allison Crawford
Transcultural Psychiatry, vol. 51, no. 3, Historical Trauma, June 2014, pp. 339-369
Looks at narratives outside of the official Truth and Reconciliation Commission, such as oral histories and Inuit art and film, for aspects of the colonial trauma and the impacts of history.
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Trauma Exposure in American Indian/Alaska Native Children

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dolores Subia BigFoot
Sadie Willmon-Haque
Janie Braden
Explains the experience of trauma and the vulnerability of youth because of lack of services, education, poverty, high death rates, victimization and chronic health problems.
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Trauma-Informed, Culturally Relevant Psychological Response in Cases of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Peoples

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melissa Tehee
Royleen J. Ross
Charlotte McCloskey
Iva GreyWolf
United States Attorney's Bulletin, vol. 69, no. 2, Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons: Legal, Prosecution, Advocacy and Healthcare, March 2021, pp. 251-263
Discusses the benefits of psychological and cultural responses to the prevention, intervention, and response to missing or murdered Indigenous people cases.
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Trauma-informed: The Trauma Toolkit

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary Jo Bolton
Shannon Buck
Edward A. Conners
Kate Kiernan
Cheryl Matthews ... [et al.]
"A Resource for Service Organizations and Providers to Deliver Services That are Trauma-Informed." 2nd edition.
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Trauma Related Symptomatology Among American Indian Adolescents

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Monica C. Jones
Paul Dauphinais
William H. Sack
Philip D. Somervell
Journal of Traumatic Stress, vol. 10, no. 2, 1997, pp. 163-173
Study of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) conducted on a Northern Plains reservation found a correlation between test results and prevalence of behavioural problems and substance use, but did not seem to affect academic performance.
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Trauma, Substance Abuse, and HIV Risk Among Urban American Indian Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karina L. Walters
Jane M. Simoni
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 5, no. 3, HIV/AIDS and Ethnic Minority Women, Families, and Communities, August 1999, pp. 236-248
Study found that found that domestic violence and physical or sexual abuse were more relevant than attitudes toward the disease itself.
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Traumatic Brain Injury and Mental Health Among Two American Indian Populations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lonnie A. Nelson
Dorothy A. Rhoades
Carolyn Noonan
Spero M. Manson
AI-SUPERPFP Team
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 105-112
Describes prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and associated neuropsychiatric problems among two communities, one in the Southwest U.S., and one in the U.S. Northern Plains.
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