Women

Results based on survey and focus groups to determine best possible outcomes and identify barriers to leadership.

Overview of iSisters Technology Mentoring, a program that helps Inuit women obtain technology training to address literacy, basic skills upgrading, and find jobs.

Highlights collaborations and tensions between faculty, research assistants, and community-based researchers.

Study looks at experiences and policy changes that could be made to address health disparities.

Studies the effects and implications community characteristics have on birth outcomes and infant mortality.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2012.

Study found that users were more likely to be housing insecure, female, middle-aged, unemployed, Aboriginal and lack a high school education. Compares results with those from a previous study conducted in Iqaliut, Nunavut.

Covers different types of violence, best practices, and culturally relevant resources to help Aboriginal women.

Discusses the disparity in Native Hawaiian breastfeeding rates and aims to describe the perceptions influencing the reduced breastfeeding rate.

Discusses how the people of Saskatchewan support their social agencies in order to serve the needy and less fortunate people in the province. Agencies include the Saskatoon Friendship Inn, Women of the Dawn, and the Friendship Centre in Regina.

Determines there is a need for more effective perinatal and infant care programs in remote First Nations communities to reduce mortality rates.

Study of 343 Indigenous women Southern California examines the “effect of community-specific risk and protective factors on risky alcohol consumption and vulnerability to having an alcohol-exposed pregnancy in women.” Results showed that both risk and protective factors varied, and that interventions should be rooted in community strengths.

Survey of 60 female leaders at both the grassroots and elected or appointed level in national, state, local or tribal politics.

Descriptive analysis provides several important findings centered on risky life style factors, work in sex trade, addictions, homelessness, and elapsed time before disappearance was reported.

Looks at comparisons between urban Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women regarding physical abuse, physical health and mental health.

Uses the Women’s Computerized Assessment of Substance Abuse (W-CASA) to provide statistics on those who reported using opioids versus those who used other types of substances in the twelve months prior to arrest.

Brief description of successful programs. More in-depth information about each one is found in the Compendium Annex: Detailed Practice Descriptions.

In-depth information about each program. Brief descriptions can be found in Compendium.

Explores one woman's experience of intimate partner violence and the subsequent murder of her abusive partner.

Discusses the oppressive nature of child welfare systems as they relate to the criteria for "good" mothers imposed by dominant, Western cultural values.

Paper presented at the 12th International Congress on Circumpolar Health discussion on what constitutes health and well-being from the perspective of adult and elder Métis women. Also looks at how these views should be incorporated into Métis designed health surveys.

For materials relevant to Aboriginal women, see points 17-20 (matrimonial real property) and 29-32 (violence and missing or murdered).

Examined pattern and impact of conditions imposed on 1,351 federal Indigenous and non-Indigenous offenders on their first conditional release between April 2013 and March 2017.

Discusses background research associated with the authors thesis and the importance of reflecting the cultural worldview of the researcher and the participants.

Looks at a conference held in Regina, Saskatchewan to discuss the disturbing number of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada and Mexico. Article located on page 1 and by scrolling to page 3.

Reports that the Annual Aboriginal Women's Conference recommended the need for governments to deal with the issue of economic development for Aboriginal women.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.14.

Conference highlighted the importance of diversity in gender, social realities, education, economics and cooperation between public and private sectors and living conditions of men and women in the Circumpolar North.

Goals of the conference were to share stories, discuss what is being done and what can be done in Aboriginal communities and discuss plans and priorities for lasting change with each other and government leaders. Conference held March 13-15, 2006.

Looks at Canadian Aboriginal women activists and their fight for constitutional sex equality rights.

A discussion of Indigenous feminist politics and the relationship between Indigenous women and water using the Flint water crisis and NoDAPL action at Standing Rock to illustrate.

(Theatre and Performance Studies?) Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2011.

Indigenous women exchanged experiences on how the lack of consultation on mining, forestry, oil and natural gas extraction and hydroelectric projects have affected their communities.

States that power, control and isolation are key components in maintaining "good order" and are also key components of colonialism.

Overview of the development and functions of the Congress Alukura which provides essential medical, welfare, dental and rehabilitation services.

Psychology Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Western Ontario, 2013.

Addresses current health care practices affected by historical events and identity, changing nature of identity, and racism in health care decisions.

Writer/activist looks at the relationships between the land, other living beings and each other and suggests advise to reconnect. Presents a video lecture, from First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in and Community Gathering, given by a teacher and activist. Duration: 54:47.

Presents a video lecture given by a scholar/activist on the topic of her book. Duration: 1:16:30.

Argues that sexual violence much be approached from an anti-colonial perspective. Duration: 1:14:19.

Discusses the sexual abuse of Aboriginal women by white men and the lack of protection from colonial law in Australia.

Discusses the Aboriginal Protection Act legislation.

The author examines her own intellectual and personal colonization and the continued oppression of First Nations people and discusses how Aboriginal women need to be involved in restorative justice.

Compares three interviewing techniques: computer-assisted or self-administered questionnaire, and face to face interview.

Act allows signatory First Nations the authority to create their own system for making reserve land allotments as well as the authority to deal with matrimonial interests or rights. Current as of May 12, 2016.

Looks at the similar issues discussed in the novel with the deaths of Sarah Lee Circle Bear on July 6, 2015 and Sandra Bland on July 13, 2015.

Lawyer discusses her involvement in court cases which addressed the question of who is entitled to status as an Indian under the Indian Act. Duration: 1:08:34.

Looks at the organization, The National Métis Women of Canada (NWAC) and their involvement in the Charlottetown Accord.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 1999.