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Solutions from Fort Simpson: Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Kulchyski
Study focused on public spending as it related to Aboriginal recipients of social assistance, unemployment insurance, pensions, family allowances, worker's compensation, harvester's assistance program, and the homeless.
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Sombre Service Recalls Missing Native Woman

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 131, no. 2, February 2005, p. 10
Discusses a service to remember the approximately 500 Aboriginal women who have disappeared in Canada during the last 20 years.
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Some Issues in Sentencing of Aboriginal Offenders

Alternate Title
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Tim Quigley
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing the disproportionate and increasing rate of incarceration of Indigenous peoples, contributing factors, disparities in sentencing, fines, bail etc., sentencing circles and the need for change. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
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Some Practical Ideas For Teaching Nutrition

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bob Rowley
Karen Rowley
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, September 1978, pp. 45-47
Brief article offers advice on procuring a healthy lifestyle in rural and urban environments.
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Someone's Mother, Sister or Daughter: Street Sex Workers, Their Families and Transitioning Out of Street Sex Work

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Susan Strega
Leslie Brown
Sinéad Charbonneau
Sohki Aski Esquao (Jeannine Carriére)
Caitlin Janzen
Qwul'sih'yah'maht (Robina Thomas)
Project consisted of analysis of print media coverage and interviews. Five topics came to the forefront: leadership, mothering, families and transitioning out of sex work, ethical and effective service, and the media.
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'Sorry'

Articles » General
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, March/April 2008, pp. 6-7
Contains the text of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology statement which was read in Parliament and brief reactions from the assembled crowd outside.
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Sources of Stress among Midwest American Indian Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jessica H. L. Elm
Melissa L. Walls
Benjamin D. Aronson
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 26, no. 1, 2019, pp. 33-62
Report uses an inductive/deductive analytical approach to analyze focus group transcripts from five tribal communities; constructs a Continuum of American Indian Stressor Model from categorization of nineteen stressor categories within four domains. Also identified poverty, genocide, and colonization as fundamental causes of contemporary stress and health outcomes and notes that stressors are generally experienced as chronic.
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The Southeast Syndrome: Notes on Indian Descendant Recruitment Organizations and Their Perceptions of Native American Culture

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William W. Quinn
Jr.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 147-154
Author examines the appropriation of Indigenous cultures in the United States, and the phenomenon of settler self-indigenization. Response: "The Southeast Syndrome: The Prior Restraint of a Non-Event"
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The Spatial and Socioeconomic Analysis of First Nation People in Toronto CMA

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joe T. Darden
Sameh M. Kamel
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, 2002, pp. 239-267
Findings from the 1996 Census revealed that while Aboriginal peoples are not segregated, they do occupy poorer quality neighbourhoods at a higher rate than non-Aboriginal people in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area
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“Speaking My Truth”: Reflections on Reconciliation & Residential School

Alternate Title
From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools
E-Books
Author/Creator
Shelagh Rogers
Garnet Angeconeb
John Amagoalik
Madeleine Dion Stout
Fred Kelly ...
David Joanasie
Jose Amaujaq Kusugak
Rita Flamand
Drew Hayden Taylor
Richard Wagamese ...
Cheryil L'Hirondelle
Joseph Naytowhow
b. h. Yael

Selections from <i>From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools</i>, part of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation's three-volume Truth and Reconciliation series. 

Book club edition.

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Speaking Out: Voices of Native American Female Playwrights

Alternate Title
Images, Imaginations, and Beyond: Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium
Native American Symposium ; 8th, 2009
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Richard Moon
Discusses remarks made by participants in a roundtable discussion hosted by the Native American Women Playwrights Archive in March 1999.
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Special Report: Aboriginal Children: Canada Must Do Better: Today and Tomorrow

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates
Submission contends that Canada has failed to adequately address issues facing Aboriginal children and therefore has not complied with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other human rights instruments.
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Special Supplement on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women in British Columbia: Group Submission to the Human Rights Committee on the Occasion of the Consideration of the Sixth Periodic Report of Canada Submitted June 5th, 2015

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
BC CEDAW

Gives background to the issue, discusses the reports produced by the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights Watch, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and reports on the response of the federal and provincial governments.

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[Speech by Shawn Atleo, February 15, 2012, University of Saskatchewan]

Alternate Title
[The 4th Annual Gertler Family Lectureship in Law Honouring the Robert McKercher Family]
[The 4th Annual Gertler Family Lectureship in Law]
[University of Saskatchewan College of Law Guest Speakers Series]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Shawn Atleo
Video of lecture by Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in which he discusses the future of the relationship between Canada and its Indigenous people. Duration: 47:48.
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[Speech Given by Priscilla Settee at the Community Economic Development International Meeting Held in May 2008 in Saskatoon]

Alternate Title
National CED Conference, 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Priscilla Settee

Explains the Cree concept of wakohtowin, the betterment of all human relations. Presented at Waves of Change, 2008 National Community Economic Development International (CED) Conference held May 21-24 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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The Spirit Is Still Dancing: Joe Duquette High School

Alternate Title
Communities and Schools (Caledon Institute of Social Policy)
E-Books
Author/Creator
Anne Makhoul
Looks at school in Saskatoon which offers an educational option for Aboriginal students who have been unsuccessful in mainstream programs.
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Spiritual Appropriation As Sexual Violence

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Smith
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 97-111
Asserts that withholding knowledge is an act of resistance and argues that to fully understand Native American people is how a dominant society gains a sense of mastery and control.
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Sports System Works Against Aboriginal Athletes

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joe Bailey
Windspeaker, vol. 18, no. 8, December 2000, p. 6

Contends that graduates in the sports and recreational field do not learn what life is like in an Aboriginal community and so attempts to develop effective sports and recreation programs in the communities almost always fail.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.6.

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Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alanis Obomsawin
Randy Horne
Ironworker describes the dangers as a Mohawk construction worker and the 1990 Oka crisis. Duration: 57:50.
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The "Squaw Drudge": A Prime Index of Savagism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David D. Smits
Ethnohistory, vol. 29, no. 4, Autumn, 1982, pp. 281-306
Apologia: There is no intention to offend, insult or embarrass by inclusion of this article. Describes colonial views held of Native Americans as "uncivilized" and discusses the social standing of white and Indigenous women.
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“Squaw Men,” “Half-Breeds,” and Amalgamators: Late Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Attitudes Toward Indian-White Race-Mixing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David D. Smits
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, 1991, pp. 29-61
Apologia:There is no intention to offend, insult or embarrass by the inclusion of this article. Explains, illuminates, and interprets the complex and often antithetical views of authoritative non-Indigenous commentators.
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Standing Alone

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Colin Low
Documents the successes, challenges and transformations experienced by Pete Standing Alone and the Blood Reserve in Alberta over the past 25 years. Accompanying material: An Integrated Educator's Guide. Duration: 57:50.
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Standing Together and Moving Forward: Report of the Pre-Hearing Conference in Prince George and the Northern Community Forums: A Consultation Report Prepared for the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

Documents & Presentations
Seven themes emerged in presentations: need to stand together and move forward, concerns about limitations of Commission process, impact of missing women and girls on their communities, connections between investigations in Vancouver and along the Highway of Tears, transportation issues, frustration over inaction, and the importance of understanding First Nations and northern realities.
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Stanley Middleton's Response to Assimilation Policy in His Fight for Aboriginal People's Equality, 1948-62

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Lapham
Aboriginal History, vol. 40, 2016, pp. 27-64
Focuses on the attitudes of the most senior public servant responsible for the administration of Western Australia's Aboriginal population and his role as an advocate for citizenship rights, access to social security benefits, housing and education.
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Starblanket

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Donald Brittain
Indian chief Noel Starblanket is seen in action, from talking to government officials for grants, to solving the domestic problems of his reserve. Duration: 27:20.
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State of Northern Knowledge in Canada

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Polar Commission
Four themes provided framework for analysis and context for findings: preparing for large-scale resource development, increasing community sustainability, strengthening resilience, and understanding environmental change.
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