Reconciling Indigenous Need With the Urban Welfare State? Evidence of Culturally-appropriate Services and Spaces for Aboriginals in Winnipeg, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Geoffrey DeVerteuil
Kathi Wilson
Geoforum, vol. 41, no. 3, May 2010, pp. 498-507
Description
Discussion on the effectiveness of a non-Aboriginal recovery system and the provision of culturally appropriate services and programs to meet the needs of Aboriginal people.
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Recovery of Saskatoon Artifacts Sent to Winnipeg

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
City of Saskatoon
Description
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, October 26, 1981 regarding certain archaeological and anthropological pre-European contact artifacts from the Saskatoon area that were given to depositories in Winnipeg, and some that reside at the University of Saskatchewan. Reference is made to an associated document further discussing these matters.
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Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carol Muree Martin
Harsha Walia
Description
A comprehensive report on the participatory research project funded by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG, MMIW) facilitated through the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC). Project engaged 113 Indigenous and 15 non-Indigenous women drawing on their experience and expertise as survivors of gendered colonial violence.
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Reducing the Cost of Inequality

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Trevor Hancock
CMAJ, vol. 190, no. 3, January 22, 2018, p. e92
Description
Briefly discusses the ethical and pragmatic reasons for reducing the burden of disease.
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Reflection: My Transpacific Life

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Margarita James
BC Studies, no. 204, (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific, January 09, 2020
Description
Author’s autobiographic account of her family’s history and experiences as mixed race people.
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Reflections

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jadine Jessamy
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Aboriginal Women and Decolonization, 1999, p. 108–114
Description
Author describes process of healing by questioning her identity and reflecting on her lived experiences of abuse, violence & racism.
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Reflections on the 2002 APSAD Conference

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Margaret O'Neill
Jodie Shoobridge
Ann Roche
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, March/April 2003, pp. 9-10
Description
Reviews presentations and topics discussed at the Australian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs (APSAD) in Adelaide, Australia.
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Reframing the Issues: Emerging Questions for Métis, Non-Status Indian and Urban Aboriginal Policy Research: Workshop Summary Report

Alternate Title
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 79th
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute on Governance
Aboriginal Policy Research
Description

Information on a workshop that explored the issues raised by current scholarly research; provides a general sense of the issues relevant to Aboriginal peoples.

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Regional Centres

Alternate Title
2011 Census Paper Series
CAEPR Indigenous Population Project 2011 Census Papers ; no. 12
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nicholas Biddle
Francis Markham
Description
Using statistics from the 2011 Australian Census of Population and Population analyzed index of mobility alongside index of socioeconomic outcomes. Found four cities in particular where population was relatively disadvantaged and highly mobile.
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Regional Report of Inquiry in Queensland

Alternate Title
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/rciadic/regional/qld/
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
[Parliamentary paper ; no. 1991/132]
E-Books
Author/Creator
L.F. Wyvill
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"A Relationship and Interchange of Experience": H. B. Hawthorn, Indian Affairs, and the 1955 BC Indian Research Project

Alternate Title
The First Hawthorn Report, The Indians of British Columbia: A Survey of Social and Economic Conditions
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Byron King Plant
BC Studies, no. 163, Autumn, 2009, pp. 5-31
Description
Discusses the historical development, operation and implications of the project which was a comprehensive survey of Aboriginal life, society and economy.
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The Relative Earnings Position of Canadian Aboriginals in the 1990s

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard E. Mueller
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2004, pp. 36-63
Description
Using 1996 Census Canada data the article compares earning differentials of Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal populations and comparison of the majority population to the non-visible minority population.
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Remember The Children: Residential School Resource Centre

Archival » Collections (primary materials)
Author/Creator
National Residential School Survivors' Society (NRSSS)
Description
Website includes photographs and documents about Residential and Day Schools from Ontario with plans for the rest of Canada to follow.
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Remembering Inninimowin: The Language of the Human Beings

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jules Koostachin
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 27, no. 1, 2012, pp. 75-80
Description
Describes the author's film project of her journey and rediscovery of her first language, and her story of loss and reclamation.
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Remembering Why We Sit at the Table

Theses
Author/Creator
Faith Decontie
Description
Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2017. Discusses the Cree Nation of Chisasibi's Land Based Healing Program.
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Renaissance Man: The Tribal "Schizophrenic" in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stuart Christie
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 4, 2001, pp. 1-19
Description
Argues that the American Indian Renaissance in literature, of which Sherman Alexie is an included member, encourages readers to address the persisting question of homeless tribal identities on and off the street as well as on and off the literary reservation.
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