Social Issues

Women's Rights Questioned

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 2, no. 8, October 1971, p. 4
Description
Jeannette Corbiere Lavell case about discrimination heard in Federal Court of Appeal.
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The Work Of The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre

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Author/Creator
Cheryl Fulton
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, December 1985, pp. 16-17
Description
Article reports on the programs for legal aid, health and alcohol, family support and play group.
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Working Together for Safer Communities

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Justice
Saskatchewan Corrections and Public Safety
Description
Plan submitted to the Commission on First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform.
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Working Together: The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network - Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network Project on Legal Issues, Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS

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Author/Creator
Stefan Matiation
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, HIV/AIDS: Issues within Aboriginal Populations, September 2000, pp. 217-231
Description
Description of the The CHALN/CAAN Project including their history and goals, issues & conclusions, and recommendations for best practices in projects related to Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS undertaken by non-Aboriginal or Aboriginal organizations or Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal partnerships.
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Workshops Raise Awareness of SIS Campaign

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Author/Creator
Laura Suthers
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 8, November 2007, p. 11
Description

Discusses the Sisters in Spirit initiative which organizes workshops and special events to raise awareness about violence against Aboriginal women in Canada.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.

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"Wouldn't Piss on Them If They Were on Fire": How Discrimination Against Sex Workers, Drug Users and Aboriginal Women Enabled a Serial Killer: Report of Independent Counsel

to the Commissioner of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jason Gratl
Description
Five topics: police failure to protect women at risk, how discriminatory attitudes, biases and stereotyping undermined investigations, suppression of information about risk of a serial killer, and Crown counsel's decision to stay attempted murder charge against Robert Pickton in January 1997.
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The Years That Never Were

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Author/Creator
Lorraine Peeters
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 3, May/June 1995, pp. 16-19
Description
Relates personal experience of removal from family, culture and identity.
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The Yolngu 'Headache'

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Author/Creator
Jack Dangatanga
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, March 1982, pp. 21-24
Description
Yolngu author describes seven various forms of, 'headache' which are chiefly caused by jealousy among the Yolngu clan.
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"You Can't Say You're Sovereign If You Can't Feed Yourself": Defining and Enacting Food Sovereignty in American Indian Community Gardening

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Hoover
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 31-70
Description
Discusses how farmers and gardeners define food sovereignty and how the concept has been put into practice to attain the goals of promoting health and traditional culture.
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'You Need to Protect the Community': Representations of Young Indigenous Men in Mainstream News Media Coverage of the 'Gang of 49'

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clemence Due
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2013, pp. 41-52
Description
Article examines media depictions of the so-called gang of young men who were blamed for hundreds of crimes and depicted as violent and lawless by mainstream Australian news starting in late 2007.
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Youth Assembly Dealing With Hard Choices

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Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, August 12, 2005, p. A11
Description
Focused on the disproportionate number of Aboriginal youth in Saskatchewan and the health, legal and education choices facing them.
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Youth Conference Short on Aboriginal Participants

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Author/Creator
Blue Pelletier
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 2, February 2007, p. 1
Description
Reports on the more than 400 participants who attended the conference studying Saskatchewan youths future in the province.
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Youth Homelessness in Canada: The Road to Solutions: A Document That Outlines Solutions to Youth Homelessness, based on three years of Research and Consultation with Stakeholders across Canada

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeff Evenson
Description
Research project, "Youthworks", provides a snapshot of youth homelessness focusing on three important components in services and support systems: prevention, emergency response and transitioning out of homelessness.
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Youth Homelessness: Including the Voices of Youth Who Are Homeless or at Risk of Becoming Homeless in Northern Manitoba: Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marleny Bonnycastle
Maureen Simpkins
Description
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.
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Yva Poty Rising: From the Ashes, a Cause for Hope

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Author/Creator
Eric Michael Kelley
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, The Electronic Drum: Community Radios Role in Indigenous Language Revitalization, March 2013, p. [?]
Description
Account of the eviction process that the community of Yva Poty suffered as their lands became targets of individual and national development projects.
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The Zuni Life Skills Development Curriculum: A Collaborative Approach to Curriculum Development

Alternate Title
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, [Monograph No. 4, pp. 98-121]
Calling From the Rim: Suicidal Behavior Among American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents
[Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health] ; Monograph 4, 1994
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Teresa D. La Fromboise
Beth Howard-Pitney
Description
Describes a skills-based approach to suicide prevention developed for the Zuni Pueblo.
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