Children & Youth

Project involved facilitated weekly group meetings in which participants shared common experiences and gained empowerment through discussion, counselling and role modeling. Sources of information for evaluation include project files, key informant interviews, and documents and data collected by community support coordinator.

Comments on the success of the classroom model which has successfully helped a large percentage of participants gain employment in the childcare field.

Using interviews with Indigenous high school students to discuss the influences to the their educational experiences and what can be learned from those students' voices.

Presents a students perspective on how Richard Henry Pratt, founder and superintendent of Carlisle residential school, planned to assimilate students, and discusses how students found ways of interpreting and mastering their environments through storytelling.

Review of all infant deaths from the Nunvavut Bureau of Statistics. Shows unexpected infant deaths have the highest cause for infant mortality.

Clip filmed at the Bishop Horden Memorial School located in Moose Factory, Ontario. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section. Duration: 2:44.

Third edition.

Construction of an Early Childhood Learning Center at Chief Dull Knife College.

Comments on education, training and marriage of Half-caste people.

Study uses socio-demographics, drug use patterns, injections practices, sexual experiences, and HIV and HCV prevalence to compare women using drugs and in the sex trade with women who are not.

Brief comment on a study which revealed links between intergenerational trauma and the rates of HIV and Hepatitis C in young Aboriginal people in British Columbia.

Concludes that suicide prevention and intervention programs must address historical and lifetime trauma among young people with substance dependence.

Examines the link between sexual abuse and negative health outcomes such as mental, sexual and drug-related vulnerabilities.

Discusses the variables and barriers associated with a medication-assisted treatment for First Nations, Inuit and Métis individuals using drugs.

Study interpretation concluded that deaths were occurring at an alarming rate, particularly young women or those using injection drugs. Argues that these results reflect intersections of current and historical injustices, substance use and barriers to care.

Study identifies associations between high transience and sex and drug related HIV vulnerabilities.

Discusses various factors associated with injection drug use and the transition to injection drug use to inform the development of prevention programs and policies.

Public Health Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2009.

An examination of the creation of the augmented reality (AR) mobile place-based learning game Vision Quest developed at the University of Wyoming that teaches Arapaho language and culture developed. The author further discusses the adaptability of Indigenous people to combat colonization through the app.

Discussion on the power of family caring and love.

Indigenous youth discuss the changes needed by the state as they celebrate Oxlajuj B'ak'tun.

Guide to maintaining emotional and mental health during pregnancy, childbirth and after giving birth.

Explores the prevalence of central adiposity in Canadian Cree children and promotes preventative strategies including physical fitness and a healthy diet.

Interview with Murray Sinclair of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission discusses the aim of residential schools in Canada.

Preventive Dental Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 1978.

Examines the sources of resilience and positive health strategies for Indigenous youth in urban settings.

Investigation examined RCMP members' conduct in six areas: public intoxication, cross-gender searches, missing persons reports, domestic violence reports, use of force, and handling of files involving youth. Appendices include interim report and RCMP Commissioner's preliminary review and response.

Discusses the history & conditions of boarding schools and the impact on Native children.

Concludes that persistence and an extensive research period gradually grew the trust of a community.

Looks at successful example of the delivery of family and children's services for other small communities to follow.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Guelph, 2010.

Documentary about poverty in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and the accompanying problems of homelessness, gang violence and sexual exploitation. Duration: 35:15.

Looks at smoking behavior in youths between grades six to nine.

Explored the aspects of self-worth, peer deviance, and alcohol-related problems in a sample of 224 youth.

Discusses the social, material, and political changes taking place in Inuit communities and their impact on behaviours, attitudes, and lifestyle of the younger generation.

Found that effective interventions in non-Aboriginal United States groups may also be working among American Aboriginal adolescents.

Looks at a study that examined school community relations and parental involvement in schooling.

Explores relationship between markers of self and cultural continuity and suicide behaviour.

Uses information from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2013. Statistics for child functioning issues, caregiver risk factor concerns, and household risk factors.

This study examines the context, function, and consequences of binge drinking among 69 youth from the White Mountain Apache Tribe (WMAT), and looks specifically at it as factor in self-harming behaviours.

A photograph in a scrap book (A-792-2) that shows Santa (Charlie Beattie) with Edwin Gopher at the North Battleford Indian Hospital 25 December 1953.

A photograph in a scrap book (A-792-2) that appears alongside the same photograph as it appeared in a North Battleford newspaper on 7 January 1954. Part of the caption reads: "Florence Fiddler, a bed patient, was completely nonplussed by it all, what with the photographer, a life-sized doll, a telephone set, and Santa in person with another gift." Charlie Beattie plays Santa.

An interview that describes some boyhood memories. The interviewee also describes two dances, the Give Away and Wolf Feast ceremonies.

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.

A historical perspective on the boarding school experience.

Looks at the services provided by the Child Hunger Education Program and their collaborations with other organizations. Article located by scrolling to page 8.

A photograph of Chief Eagle from Whitecap Indian Reserve, as he opens Young Canada Book Week in the Children's reading area, 2nd floor of the Main Branch of the Saskatoon Public Library. He wears feathered headdress and buckskin with bead work and fringes. Two Aboriginal women and four non-Aboriginal children are in the photo as well.

"D. McDonald" at Dunvegan Lake, N.W.T. Photograph.

"U. MacDonald" at Fond-du-Lac, Saskatchewan.