Family & Kinship

Identifies family and university role modelling and support; indigenous teaching and learning practices, and coping mechanisms for racism as factors facilitating student success.

Five areas assessed: physical health and motor development, emotional health, social knowledge and competence, cognitive learning and language, and communication. Also provides overview of families in which children are growing up. Excerpt from The Well-Being of Canada's Young Children: Government of Canada Report. To access this section scroll to p. 39.

Describes the programming that has been established to meet the cultural needs of the Indigenous community.

Nursing Thesis (M.N.)--University of Victoria, 2008.

English Language and Literature (Ph.D.)--Masaryk University, 2011.

Black and white photograph of a young blood farmer driving a wagon with what appears to be his family. A woman in the back has a large beaded board strapped to her back with baby in moss bag attached.

Explores the characteristics of Indigenous youth gangs in rural and urban spaces, and examines the social conditions that foster gang membership.

Study uses results from interviews with eight young Sámi men about their experience with moving from rural to urban spaces and with becoming part of a minority group after having been the majority. Findings indicated that the men experience changes in the main actors and activities in their lives, as well as in their aims for the future.

Summarizes the findings of 30 face-to-face storytelling interviews conducted with participants aged 18 to 30 on how traditional leadership knowledge is transmitted to youth in leadership roles.

Examines why the youth justice system in B.C. fails Indigenous youth, and discusses the need for programs built on respect and cultural values.

Researchers consulted with service providers, youth, municipal government workers, community members, and researchers and students from local universities. Identifies structural issues, systems failures, and individual, family and relational factors.

Reports results of interviews with 17 youth between the ages of 14 and 19 living in Nunavut.

Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 13 (p. [1]-133).

Focuses on the third objective of the report which is to engage Aboriginal women in setting priorities and set the direction for future work on Aboriginal women's issues in Yukon. Held October 13 and 14, 2012, Whitehorse, Yukon.

Looks at three case studies about Yukon interagency committees and provides a collection of practical resources.

Book review of Yupik Transitions by Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov.

Book review of: Yupik Transitions by Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 35, (pp15-22).

Forms part of the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 18 (p.39-[205]).