Family & Kinship

Research looked at the development of a local conceptual framework exploring the views of men and their families in relation to their healthcare and healthy families.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waikato, 2001.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waikato, 2001.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 1996.

Looks at the Indian Children Welfare Act (ICWA), conceptions of the family, and a child's best interests. Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.

Comments on the reclamation of ancestral names and the continuous ritual cycles of naming.

Comments on the issue of Indigenous people experiencing harm while trying to access services in health care, justice, child and family services and education.

Author examines settler colonialism through the context of her own history and genealogy.

Contends that the best results come from a combination of good teaching and management on the school side, and support and determination on the community side.

Comments on the importance of passing culture from one generation to another.

Discusses research project activities including literature review of family literacy, assessment of literacy programs in Saskatchewan, environment mapping, and the development of a province wide online survey tool.

Presents information on negative social, behavioral, and environmental factors affecting the mother and child.

Examines the social and emotional impact of being moved from an island to the mainland as a result of hydro-electric development on an Aboriginal community.

Appendix B, Summary of Assessed Items, to accompany What Works to Overcome Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Learnings and Gaps in the Evidence, 2009-10.

Appendixes to accompany What Works to Overcome Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Learnings and Gaps in the Evidence, 2011-2012.

Short story follows narrator as he tries to raise money to retrieve his grandmother's powwow regalia from a pawn shop. Questions what it means to give and receive, and what obligations we have to those we give to and/or serve.

Describes the settlement history of Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest.

Book review of: When Did Indians Become Straight? by Mark Rifkin. Scroll to page 111 to read article.

Book review of: When Did Indians Become Straight? by Mark Rifkin.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Toronto, 2009.

Poem which recalls the authors experience of their childhood home and community.

Author examines the multiple factors at play in defining the term indigeneity. Considers the right of people to self-identify, the legal implications and complications that result based on the definition, and the gap between the legal definition and the sociocultural practice thereof. Discuss both United States contexts and global ones.

Non-fiction story about an experience with an unstable aunt.

Discusses the importance for all state court practitioners to understand the application of different laws and standards when handling Native American citizens in family law cases.

Presents the short story, Where Are We Going by Brian Sloan, that discusses the viewpoint that each generation seems to be moving further away from nature.

Reports results from the Alaskan Yup'ik site of the Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood (CIPA) study.

Book review of: Where the Ancestors Walked by Philip Clarke. Review located by scrolling to page 162.

Looks at the background and history of Aboriginal Early Childhood Development including the development of government policies and funding initiatives.

Study designed to provide a vehicle for communities to articulate the nature and structure of child care in their community; to provide recommendations for the development of First Nations quality child care programs; and to examine options for First Nations jurisdiction in child care.

Results divided into four sections: description of regional contexts, influences on, and aspects of quality services, and legislative frameworks. Includes literature review and recommendations.

First Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2007.

Book review of: Whispers of This Wik Woman by Fiona Doyle. Review located by scrolling to page 176.

Comments on Prime Minister John Howard's refusal to listen to or apologize to Australian's stolen generations.

Book review of, White Lies About the Inuit by John L. Steckly.

Compares and contrasts the social and mores existing in American Indian societies of the nineteenth century with those of the Anglo-Europeans. The article also discusses the effects of assimilation and post-assimilation policies on those social structures.

Anthropology and Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2004.

Discusses how the context of reserves affects viability of the process because communities are small and isolated, with interconnected populations. Issues include: coercion to conceal the problem, competing loyalties, lack of alternatives and resources, and keeping the family intact.

Author explores the concept of self-identity by looking at his own family background.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 1997.

Discusses the Northwest Coast peoples and how they cared for their dependents.

Two senior Aboriginal health workers explore and explain how Australian Aboriginal desert principles operate.

Discusses a controversial lesson in history through art, by presenting nstitutions devoted to nostalgic theme-park versions of history; the exhibit contrasts violence, defiance, racism, alienation and suicide with family harmony, friendship, creativity and work.

Discusses the cost of living and prevalence of poverty in the North.

Paper makes five recommendations for setting a National Agenda.

Information from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth looks at family income, neighborhood environment, and demographic characteristics and parental preferences.