Children & Youth

Website contains early intervention strategies providing ideas and examples to enhance early childhood (birth to six years old) development; six components: culture and language, education, health promotion, nutrition, parent and family involvement and social support.

Discusses the evolution of the community-driven Program and offers items for further consideration.

Assessment focuses on six key areas: livelihoods, infrastructure, community participation, education/recreation, children and parents and mental and physical health.

Looks at two crises faced by the Kanesatake (Oka) community and the resulting implementation of programs and services to assist the community deal with lasting trauma.

Analyzes Richard Van Camp's novel of a Dogrib Indigenous teenager trying to cope with a painful past and find his place in the world.

Book review of: Beaver Steals Fire by Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

Description of the Taking Action! Building Aboriginal Leadership in HIV Prevention Using Arts-based Methods research project. Focuses on four pieces created by participants from Kahnawá:ke First Nation, Kettle and Stony Point & Aamjiwnaang First Nations, Montreal, Toronto, and Charlottetown.

Findings show that arts-based approaches to the development of HIV-prevention knowledge and Indigenous youth leadership are helping to involve youth in a critical dialogue about health.

Uses two picture books, that focus on the experience, as the basis of the lesson.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2008.

Participant's description of the Canadian Armed Forces' Junior Canadian Rangers (JCR) program, which gives 12-18 old youth discipline and increased traditional knowledge.

Outlines the modernist beginnings of Aboriginal literature in Canada. Part one.

Curriculum Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2006.

Recommends the development of interventions based on healing and cultural connectedness, power-culture and multiple literacies.

Author reflects on the value of ritual and how a researcher must balance personal involvement and objective observation.

Author's interpretation of Michael Chandler's essay, On Being Indigenous: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of 'Cultural Identity'.

Discusses ways Inupiaq youth stay grounded while transitioning to adulthood in the face of social change.

Study concludes that there is a strong need for better behavioural health programming and support services for at risk youth in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Looks at initiatives for girls and the impact from sport for development and peace. Chapter in the book: Beyond Sport for Development and Peace: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice edited by L.M.C. Hayhurst, T. Kay and M. Chawansky.

Bernard Irkogartuk with his children (including his daughter [Netsitih]) at Pelly Bay, N.W.T. [NU] (community changed name to Kugaaruk in 1999).

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Regina, 2003.

Comments on a groundbreaking collaboration between The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and the Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center.

Looks at the terms 'best-practice' and 'evidence-based practice' from an Indigenous perspective and the implications of what this means for service providers.

Report identifies elements of best practice in the treatment and rehabilitation of youth with substance abuse problems.

Disputes issues discussed in the 1997 national inquiry report, Bringing Them Home, such as specific cases, comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal child removal and the claim of genocide.

Discusses the treatment of young aboriginal girls and women removed from their families between the years 1920 and 1934.

Comments on the response to the publication of the Bringing Them Home report.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--James Cook University, 2004.

Revised edition 1991.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Oregon, 2015.

Looks at the reaction of teacher education students to a course in Aboriginal Children's Literature. Discusses issues surrounding stereotyping and learning in a multicultural environment.

Describes the development of a culturally relevant preschool curriculum model for training programs and services.

Comments on the food security crisis in Nunavut and the need for new policy approaches.

Theology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saint Paul University, 2016.

Discusses a touring Native theatre company in Ontario and its dedication to helping young actors develop their craft through a unique outreach program.

Looks at challenging popular misconceptions and expanding and enhancing children's social awareness.

Looks at the need for an inclusive and thoughtful policy-making process to address discrimination experienced by Indigenous hockey players.

Over 700 citations for books, catalogues of exhibitions, and other sources.

Comments on the Business Development Bank of Canada's E-Spirit Business Plan Competition for Youth which was held in Regina, Saskatchewan, with over 200 Aboriginal high school student entrepreneurs in attendance. Article located by scrolling to page 26.

Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, March 24, 1980 regarding a petition by individuals supporting a proposal to hire an Aboriginal staff person for the Big Sisters Association of Saskatoon.

Health Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Lethbridge, 2017.

Author was founder of the Woodcraft Indians, a youth movement which appropriated Aboriginal culture.

Book review of: The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich.

Compares rates of preterm birth, small-for-gestational-age birth, large-for-gestational-age birth, stillbirth, and infant mortality (neonatal, postneonatal, and cause-specific) in cohort of 17,547 births to Indigenous mothers and 112,112 births to non-Indigenous mothers from 2004 through 2006.

Indigenous family outside teepee holding a birthday cake for Bernice their Pion-Era baby.

Group photograph taken from 'The Canadian Magazine,' consisting of an unidentified bishop, three unidentified non-Aboriginal women and Aboriginal boys and girls. Outdoor scene.