Efficacy of a 3-hour Aboriginal Health Teaching in the Medical Curriculum: Are We Changing Student Knowledge

and Attitudes?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alysia W. Zhou
Samantha Boshart
Jennifer Seelisch
Reza Eshaghian
Ryan McLeod
Jeff Nisker
Chantelle A. M. Richmond
John M. Howard
Health Education Journal, vol. 70, no. 1, February 24, 2011, p. 1–9
Description
Looks at the effectiveness of an Aboriginal health seminar in altering medical students’ knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of Aboriginal health issues, and their preparedness and willingness to work in an Aboriginal community.
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Elder/Healer: The Elements of Promise

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joseph E. Couture
FORUM on Corrections Research, vol. 12, no. 1, Aboriginal People in Corrections, January 2000, pp. 38-39
Description
Outlines the origins and strategy of the Elders who work with Correctional Service Canada (CSC) in the prairie provinces.
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Election 2015: Closing the Aboriginal Health Gap

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 187, no. 16, November 3, 2015, pp. E469-E470
Description
Reports on the health disparity that exists in Canada between Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals and the ramifications going into the October 2015 federal election.
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The Elephant in the Room: Self-Determination

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chris Graham
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 35, no. 5, August 2011, pp. 12-16
Description
Looks at government reports indicating the disadvantaged First Nations people of Australia and the need for action to address the issue.
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Eleven Years Later: Inuit Leadership and Governance in Nunavut

Alternate Title
Inuit Studies Conference, 17th, 2010
[Inuit People and the Aboriginal World] Inuit Studies Conference : 17th]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Louis McComber
Description
Comments on the lack of improvement in housing, education, and health since the creation of Nunavut and the signing of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.
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Ellen Fairclough on Mistawasis Petition, Funding Cuts to Indian Affairs

Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains correspondence by Ellen Fairclough and John Diefenbaker. Includes a letter from Diefenbaker mentioning a petition from the people of Mistawasis signed by members of the Dreaver family, and a letter from Fairclough to Donald Fleming protesting cuts to her Departmental Budget, stating that such cuts will hurt the Indian Affairs branch.
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Elucidating Abstract Concepts and Complexity in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine Through Metaphors of Quilts and Quilt Making

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Weagel
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, 2007, pp. 79-95
Description
Examines the use of quilts and quilt making as a concept in Native American literature, such as incorporating quilts into metaphors that help illustrate more abstract ideas, like wholeness, or to clarify further the novel's structure and complexity.
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The Embodiment of Inequity: Health Disparities in Aboriginal Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Naomi Adelson
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, no. Supplement 2, Reducing Health Disparities in Canada, March/April 2005, pp. S45-S61
Description
Presents evidence that differences in health are directly and indirectly associated with social, economic, cultural and political inequities.
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Emergent Cigarette Smoking, Correlations with Depression and Interest in Cessation among Aboriginal Adolescents in British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter J. Hutchinson
Chris G. Richardson
Joan L. Bottorff
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 99, no. 5, September/October 2008, pp. 418-422
Description
Discusses a survey on smoking among Aboriginal adolescents and examines demographic and social factors, previous smoking experience, interest in cessation, life satisfaction and depression.
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Emerging Trends in Philanthropy for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities in Canada: A Focus on Manitoba

Alternate Title
Measuring the Circle 2017
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada]
Description
Defines the sector, maps funding economy, identifies key issues, gives insights from focus groups, and makes recommendations. Includes five case studies: Got Bannock, Bear Clan, Indspire, Families First Foundation, and the Royal Bank of Canada.
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Employment Prospects for Aboriginal People

Alternate Title
Members' Briefing (Conference Board of Canada) ; November 1998
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 245-98]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stelios Loizides
Janusz Zieminski
Description
Looks at barriers and challenges Aboriginal people face in finding jobs and firms creative approaches to promoting greater Aboriginal employment.
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Enabling First Nations Children to Thrive

Alternate Title
An Assessment of Major Phases of the Research Methodology Used in IFSD’s First Nations Child and Family Services Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Halaina Gaspard
[Scott Edward Bennett]
Description
Study conducted as a result of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling that First Nations children were being discriminated against in the existing child welfare system. Purpose was to: develop reliable data collection, analysis and reporting methodology; provide technical expertise to analyze current agency needs and advice on how to monitor and respond to needs from fiscal and governance perspectives; analyze complete needs assessments; and complete a cost analysis.
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Enabling Women to Live the Life They Choose: Women’s Work

Articles » General
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, The Electronic Drum: Community Radios Role in Indigenous Language Revitalization, March 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the benefits of fair trade crafts made by the San Bushmen women of southern Africa.
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Encounters with the North: Psychiatric Consultation With Inuit Youth

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Azaad Kassam
Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 15, no. 4, November 2006, pp. 174-178
Description
Review of literature dealing with consultation found that traditional model had limitations and openness to other ways of thought, cultural competence and understanding of social factors were needed.
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End Isolation of Urban Aboriginal Families

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, September 3, 2004, p. A11
Description
Reviews the desperate search for Tamra Keepness and how Aboriginal people need to continue to work together as one unified community.
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Ending Isolation?: Leprosy, Welfare and Indigenous Australians 1950-86

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charmaine Robson
Aboriginal History, vol. 40, 2016, pp. 65-88
Description
Looks at why the policy, which largely targeted Aboriginals, persisted even after effective treatment had been found for the disease and governments were pursuing assimilationist goals.
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"The English Has Now a Mind to Make Slaves of Them All": Creeks, Seminoles, and the Problem of Slavery

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claudio Saunt
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 157-180
Description
Article examines the difference between the type of slavery practiced by Indigenous people and that practiced by the early European settlers and considers the moral and ethical issues the practice of slavery created for Indigenous peoples.
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Enhancing Student Achievement: The Importance of Second Level Educational Services in First Nation Schools in One Tribal Council in Saskatchewan

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larry Steeves
Sheila Carr-Stewart
Jim Marshall
in education: exploring our connective educational landscape, vol. 17, no. 2, Summer, 2011, p. [?]
Description
Researches how First Nations cultural access, practice & preservation are essential to the development and enhancement of second level support services to help Aboriginal students succeed.
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