Mortality

Brief article about death of young boy who, in 1966, died while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School located in Kenora, Ontario. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 4.

Consists of an interview with Chief Martin Morigeau where he gives general reminiscences of his life, including an amusing prank that he played on a preacher.

Case involved a 20-month-old who died while in a foster home and under the care of the Saskatchewan Dept. of Social Services. Concluded that the death was preventable.

Looks at areas of concern that directly impact the well-being of Aboriginal children and highlights the discrimination experienced by children that are not common to children in other parts of Australia.

Study concludes that continued risk factor surveillance will be necessary due to the heterogeneous health status of Aboriginal populations in Canada's north.

Looks at the health gap and risk factors for chronic diseases in Canada's Aboriginal populuation.

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 11 (p. [537]-733).

Statistical data from Health Transitions in Arctic Populations used to compile statistical tables on all circumpolar countries and their northern regions outlining health status, determinants and healthcare.

Author of Clearing the Plains speaks about how government policy, use of food as a weapon to force First Nations to sign treaties, and its failure to fulfill treaty obligations contributed to the famine and disease which decimated Indigenous population. Duration: 1:40: 58.

Provides information on morbidity rates people and animals that have been impacted by climate changes.

Describes changes over the past fifty years due to the interaction of climate change with social, economic, political, and technological changes.

Article chronicles efforts that activists are undertaking to persuade the government to make changes to, 'close the gap' within a generation.

Reviews current services, initiatives & challenges to the delivery of safe maternity services for Aboriginal women in rural and remote areas of Australia.

Presents a speech, delivered by the Prime Minister of Australia, addressing narrowing the gap in life expectancy and life opportunities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Authors examine colonial traumas—Indigenous separation from land, culture, and relations—which occur as a result of ongoing and neo-colonial practices, as a determinant of Indigenous peoples’ physical and mental health.

Discusses the large discrepancy between incidence and mortality rates reported by Indigenous Services Canada and those reported by communities themselves and compares the two sets of numbers in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec. Argues that jurisdictional battles between federal and provincial governments have negatively impacted both delivery of services and accumulation of accurate information, with the result being lack of accountability at both levels of government.

Disaggregated data for Blacks, Latinos, Indigenous peoples, Pacific Islanders and Asians including actual and age-adjusted mortality rates per 100,000 and total deaths experienced by each group. Current as of Sept. 15, 2020. July 2022 update.

Consists of an interview where he shares a story of the origin of death. He also gives an account of healing practices.

Comments on a palliative care model which reduces the disparities in access to quality palliative home care and is grounded in community values and Indigenous culture.

Examines the case in which a young man from the Red Pheasant Reserve was shot and killed on a farm property near Biggar, Saskatchewan by Gerald Stanley, the property owner. The Commission inquired into the conduct of the RCMP investigation and interactions with the Bousie family.

Looks into 6 suicides in a span of 3 months in an isolated northern Manitoba First Nations community.

Studies the effects and implications community characteristics have on birth outcomes and infant mortality.

Biomedical Sciences Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montreal, 2009.

Determines there is a need for more effective perinatal and infant care programs in remote First Nations communities to reduce mortality rates.

Public Policy Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2007.

Comments on the high morbidity and mortality rates of indigenous peoples and how to make improvements in their health status.

Clinical Psychology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 1998.

Abstracts of works in the Research Series. Aboriginal Sexual Offending in Canada by John H. Hylton. Mental Health Profiles for a Sample of British Columbia's Aboriginal Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System by Raymond R. Corrado, Irwin M.

Community Health and Epidemiology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2012.

Contains links to a series of 24 videos in which Elders, family members and health professions discuss death and end of life care from an Indigenous perspective.

Elders from Saskatchewan discuss their beliefs about death and dying. Duration: 54:01.

Identifies risk factors such as culture and intergenerational trauma and ways to lessen poor health outcomes resulting in suicide.

Outlines policy and legal issues that governments must address, in consultation and cooperation with Indigenous peoples, in order to develop a suitable framework and discusses international approaches that exist when dealing with similar circumstances. Appendix discusses terminology.

Brian Sinclair was a 45-year-old Aboriginal man who died after sitting for 34 hours waiting for medical attention at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre's emergency department.

Methodology designed to keep participants safe involved five components: whānau (family), wāhi haumaru (providing a safe space), whakaaro (engaging in Māori philosophies), kaitiaki (being empathetic), and hononga (building and maintaining relationships).

Group of 12 Indigenous scholars from Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada convened and agreed that Indigenous health could be improved by promoting culturally safe public health practices.

Study undertaken in Saskatchewan to estimate health care expenditures for diabetes and its complications.

Describes the counselling process health care professionals are advised to take when encountering AIDS patients in Australia.

Discusses the kinds of family counseling services provided: viewing a body and identification, postmortems, inquests and resulting information, guidance through the inquest, information about rights, and short, medium and long-term counseling.

Using official records from the first and largest off-reservation Indian boarding school in his case study, the author challenges the objectivity of morality rates. Factors such as definition of a student or alumni and including ill students that were discharged before their deaths can change the numbers drastically.

Customs relating to death written about in Hudson's Bay Company journals from Île-à-la-Crosse between 1819-1827.

Elders discuss: payment for chiefs; conduct of and assistance at ceremonies; need for respect towards ceremonies and ceremonial locations. No date given, probably in the early 1970's.

Discussion of the educational system: relative merits of day schools, residential schools, integrated schools, etc.; need for inclusion of Indian culture into the curriculum at all levels ; the role of the elder as teacher.

Discussion of Indian ceremonies: how these are passed on from generation to generation; the role of women. Tipis: particular kinds of tipis; decorated tipis; tipis inrelation to death customs. No date given but probably January 1974, same as the others in this series.

Comments on the low priority that Aboriginal health occupies in government priorities.