Covers issue and causes of disengagement with educational system, types of programs and the effective elements they incorporate, and summary and proposed future directions.

Presents key research findings and suggestions for classroom teachers and as well as strategies taken from the Alberta Education, Aboriginal Services Branch, First Nations, Métis and Inuit School-Community Learning Environment toolkit.

Book review of: Little Buffalo River by Frances Beaulieu.

A posed postcard image showing an Aboriginal man seated on a chair; a small girl stands on the man's knee and looks at the camera. The man is dressed in a suit and the girl is wearing ceremonial clothing with beads around her neck.

The story of Little Wolf an Omaha Indian boy.

Book review of: The Littlest Sled Dog by Michael Kusugak and illustrated by Vladyana Krykorka.

Book review of: The Littlest Sled Dog by Michael Kusugak and illustrated by Vladyana Krykorka.

Discusses four common themes and changes to birthing practices to support young mothers.

Study uses data from the National Household Survey and includes results about children who lived with a lone parent, with grandparents, or in a stepfamily. Also provides key statistics about Aboriginal foster children

She was born on the Little Pine Reserve, the first girl from that reserve to attend high school. She tells of some childhood memories; naming ceremonies; significance of Indian names; the training of children, especially girls; menarche seclusion; women: influence of, in religion and ceremonialism, pregnancy; her education: traditional; experiences in Anglican boarding school (integrated) in Saskatoon; training for roles as wife and mother.

Studied language proficiency in order to adapt scale so that learning difficulties can be separated from cultural differences.

Study explores students understandings and experiences of citizenship at two high schools in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Comments on juvenile over-incarceration and Native youth in the tribal juvenile justice system.

Discusses compensation to redress the physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse suffered by Aboriginal children in the school system.

Forecast of market income.

Looks at poverty as one roadblock towards achieving an education on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Duration: 8:31.

Findings suggest that attendance at a residential school improved economic and educational outcomes but also reflected a decrease in participation in traditional activities and Aboriginal language use.

Used Saskatchewan Ministry of Health data covering the period between 1980 and 2005. Concluded that First Nations people experience higher long-term risks for both contracting the disease and death, and that primary prevention initiatives were needed to delay onset and reverse trends.

Data collected in 1994/95 among 2,950 high school students and in 1997/98 among 1,510 follow-ups. Key findings for Sami adolescents included lower drinking rate, higher levels of parental abstinence, and tendency to drink in public places.

Clinical Child Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2007.

Examines issues and recommendations to post-secondary education for Aboriginal students.

Analyzes results of the 1990 Nishnawbe-Aski Nation consultations on causes of suicide and possible community responses.

Book review of Looks Like Daylight by Deborah Ellis.

Comments on the drug problem in Native American communities and the treatment programs necessary for rehabilitation.

Describes how the loss of trust can impede the ability of social workers to implement child protection initiatives.

Book reviews of: The Lost Children edited by Coral Edwards and Peter Read. Reaching Back edited by Judy Thomson. Reviews located by scrolling to page 237.

Links to twenty-two television and radio clips beginning with a report in March, 1955.

Explains how two groups of girls, one made up of First Nations and the other made up of white, could share the same boarding school for years and not talk to one another.

There are 28 photographs of the Louis Riel Race in Saskatoon. Pictures of people running, canoeing and doing various other activities in July, 1970. fifteen of these pictures were selected and scanned for the database.

Discusses gender discourse and territorial expansion policies in Louisa May Alcott’s novels and its negative effect on many Native American people.

Authors use several typing methods to describe the genetic characteristics and the carriage dynamics of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) isolates collected prior to and during the vaccination period of Aboriginal infants from the Northern Territory of Australia. Study found high carriage rates of nonencapsulated H. influenzae (NCHi) with concurrent colonization with Hib being common, while also observing NCHi isolates that were genetically similar to Hib.

Purpose of the study was to develop a knowledge base that describes the parent-child interactions observed in Canadian low-income samples and explore the relationship between parent-infant interactions and ethnicity.

Concludes that while the lower respiratory tract infection associated hospitalization rate declined, the American Indian/Alaska Native child rate remained higher that the general U.S. child population rate.

Book review of, The Lubicon Lake Nation: Indigenous Knowledge and Power by Dawn Martin-Hill.

This document is a summary of the original interview in Chipewyan. The summarized sections are too short to be of value to researchers, and it will be necessary for them to refer to the original.

Animated short tells story of a woman who blinds and mistreats her son, a loon that restores his vision, and the act of revenge which turns her into a narwahl. Part of a legend. Accompanying material: Lumaajuuq: Lesson Plan. Duration: 7:36.

Guide to accompany film, Lumaajuuq. Target audience Grades three to six in the subject areas of First Nations, English, and Visual Arts.

Docudrama about incident in 1884 when a lynch mob of approximately 100 Americans crossed the border and hung the fourteen-year-old St´:lõ boy who they accused of killing a American shopkeeper named James Bell. Based on article "The Lynching of Louis Sam", B.C. Studies, No. 109, Spring 1996, pp. 63-79, by Keith Thor Carlson. Duration: 52:04.

Environmental Studies Thesis (MES)--Dalhousie University, 2012.

Looks at the specific goals of the program including improving attendance and graduation rates of Aboriginal students.

Discusses the blurring of lines between the living and dead, and past and present as a literary device in the novel. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Looks at the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons minutes and proceedings from 1949 which recommended a move away from segregated to integrated schools for Aboriginal children.

Author reflects on the New Year, Christmas, the government and more. Article located by scrolling to page 10.

Examines of the educational aims, practices, successes and failures of the institution which sought to assimilate Native American students.

Comments on a project aimed to provide better mathematical outcomes for Indigenous children. Chapter from Mathematics: Traditions and [New] Practices edited by Julie Clark, Barry Kissane, Judith Mousley, Toby Spencer, Steve Thornton.

A set of 31 photos of Napthelie McKenzie and Lillian Charles showing the making of a tikunagun or cradleboard.

Educational & Social Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1990

Facilitator's handbook on same pdf as participant handbook. To access facilitator's handbook, scroll past participant handbook.