Factors Associated With Current Smoking Among Off-Reserve First Nations and Métis Youth: Results From the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Ryan
Scott Leatherdale
Martin Cooke
Journal of Primary Prevention, vol. 38, no. 1-2, April 2017, pp. 105-119
Description
Study examines the associations between culturally specific factors and current smoking off-reserve First Nations and Métis aged 15-17 years old compared to non-Indigenous Canadian youth.
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Factors That Support Indigenous Involvement in Multi-actor Environmental Stewardship

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicholas J. Reo
Kyle P. Whyte
Deborah McGregor
M. A. (Peggy) Smith
James F. Jenkins
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 2, 2017, pp. 58-68
Description
Discusses the results of a cross-case study of 39 regional partnerships in the Great Lakes region. Found six factors influence willingness to stay engaged: respect for Indigenous knowledge, control of knowledge mobilization, intergenerational involvement, self-determination, cross-cultural education, and early involvement.
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Failure of Mainstream Well-being Measures to Appropriately Reflect the Well-being of Indigenous and Local Communities and its Implications for Welfare Policies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kamaljit K. Sangha
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, Winter, 2019
Description
Criticizes the way that the majority of contemporary measures of well-being fail to consider the role that natural systems and the natural environment play in many, especially Indigenous, people’s health. Proposes a framework for considering the influence of these factors and advocates for health policy that considers them.
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Failures by Design: The On-Reserve First Nations’ Housing Crisis and its Roots in Canadian Evaluation Frameworks

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shelagh McCartney
Jeffrey Herskovits
Lara Hintelmann
Canadian Journal of Native Studies , vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 101-124
Description
Article examines the history of on-reserve housing evaluation, government policies and interventions and contrasts that framework with First Nations cultural understandings of housing and self-determination. Authors interrogate the assimilationist roots of policy that continues to implement Western housing models First Nations.
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A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Elizabeth A. Lange
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 55, no. 3, Expanding Knowledge Systems in Teacher Education, Fall, 2009, pp. 428-431
Description
Book review of: A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada by John Ralston Saul.
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Fair Play for the Indian (February 1891)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Truman Kercheval
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 79-80
Description
Reaction to the article The Future of the Indian Question by Nelson A. Miles. Author urges citizenship and fair-dealing for Native Americans. Originally published in North American Review, February 1891.
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Family and Nation: Cherokee Orphan Care, 1835-1903

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie L. Reed
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 312-344
Description
Describes the history of the Cherokee Orphan Asylum in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, including the devestating fire in 1903.
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Family Tremors: Margot Nash's Call Me Mum

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pauline Marsh
Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, vol. 4, no. 1, Indigenous Marriage; Family and Kinship in Australia:The Persistence of Life and Hope, 2013, pp. 103-116
Description
Film looks at three troubled mothers in protagonists life: his birth mother, foster mother and foster grandmother.
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The Farmington Report: Civil Rights for Native Americans 30 Years Later

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Emma Armendariz
John I. Binkley
Rebecca Bustamante
Dale B. Carmichael
Patrick D. Collins... [et al.]
Description
Follow-up to the The Farmington Report: A Conflict of Cultures. Reports an improvement in relationship between the city of Farmington, New Mexico, San Juan County and the Navajo people living on the Navajo Reservation.
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Father Louis Pierre Gravel and the Settlement of the Gravelbourg Area

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beckey Hamilton
Saskatchewan History, vol. 59, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 3-19
Description
A historical sketch of the Gravelbourg Saskatchewan area; examines previous assumptions about the role played by Catholic priests in the settlement of Western Canada. Contains information on different Francophone and Métis families that settled in the area. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 3.
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Fearing Social and Cultural Death: Genocide and Elimination in Settler Colonial Canada: An Indigenous Perspective

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Wildcat
Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 17, no. 4, Special Issue on Canadian and Colonial Genocide, 2015, pp. 391-409
Description
Looks at the theory of refusal in Mohawk Interruptus by Audra Simpson and details of the changes on the northern plains in late nineteenth century in Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk and Metis and the Medicine Line by Michel Hogue.
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The Fears of Navajo Children: Adaptation or Pathology?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank D. Tikalsky
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 2, no. 2, 1988, pp. 27-31
Description
Studies fear as a cultural pattern with regards to fear response, structure, and frequency.
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Feb. Conference Dealt With Urban Aboriginal Issues

Alternate Title
February Conference Dealt With Urban Aboriginal Issues
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 3, March 2008, p. 8
Description
Looks at a conference held to discuss the Urban Aboriginal Strategy, its' successes, failures, and ideas for moving forward. Article located by scrolling to page 8.
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Federal Court Update [February 2006-February 2007]

Alternate Title
[Indigenous Law & Policy Center Occasional Paper Series]
[Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper ; 2007-09?]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jake J. Allen
Hannah Bobee
Bryan T. Newland
Description
Provides United State Supreme Court Decisions and Federal Courts of Appeal case information.
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Feeling Reconciliation, Remaining Settled

Alternate Title
Theatres of Affect
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Dylan Robinson
Description
Examines two examples of inclusionary music performance. Chapter from Theatres of Affect edited by Erin Hurley.
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Felix Ovide Boyer Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Felix Ovide Boyer
Indian History Film Project
Description
The interview includes discussion concerning home, work and social situations.
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Female Archetypes in Select Canadian Writing

Theses
Author/Creator
M. Peratchi Selvi
Description
English and Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--Madurai Kamaraj University, 2012. Focuses on works by Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
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Female First Nations Chiefs and the Colonial Legacy in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cora J. Voyageur
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 59-78
Description
Looks at women leading First Nation communities and their experiences with the social, political, economic, and cultural effects of colonization.
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Feminist Neo-Indigenism in Chicana Aztlán

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arthur Ramirez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 71-78
Description
Looks at the development of Chicana feminist thought, focusing on the development of the Chicano Renaissance of the sixties, the upsurge of Chicana feminisms in the seventies, and continuing on into the present. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Fiduciary Relationship as Contemporary Colonialism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Yui Iwase
Arbutus Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Focus on Indigenous Governance, 2012, pp. 98-115
Description
Looks at the Supreme Court of Canada's tendency to characterize Aboriginal rights as arising from the Crown's fiduciary responsibilities, rather than being inherent.
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