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Construction Program Grads Hammering Out a Career

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 10, October 2008, p. 15
Description
Describes the success of graduates of Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies Construction Careers, Women in Trades program. Article located by scrolling to page 15.
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Consuming Passions: Reconciliation in Women's Intellectual Memoir

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gillian Whitlock
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 23, no. 1, Where in the World is Transnational Feminism?, Spring, 2004, pp. 13-28
Description
Focuses on three autobiographies: How Should I read These? Native Women Writers in Canada by Helen Hoy, Tiger's Eye by Inga Clendinnen and My Skull by Antjie Krog.
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Contemporary Native American Women Artists of the Great Plains

Alternate Title
[Plains Women Artists]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Carol Emarthle-Douglas
Anita Fields
Teri Greeves
Nancy Marie Mithlo
Description
Three artists who participated in the exhibition Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains discuss the relationship between their culture, personal lives, and their work. Duration: 1:59:05.
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Contemporary Native Women's Voices in Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Agnes Grant
Canadian Literature, no. 124-125, Native Writers & Canadian Writing, Spring/Summer , 1990, pp. 124-132
Description

Looks at one way to cross the cultural boundary in Aboriginal literature by examining the purpose of author Maria Campbell, in Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton, in In Search of April Raintree, and Lee Maracle, in I Am Woman

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Contemporary Tribal Codes and Gender Issues

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce G. Miller
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1994, pp. 43-74
Description
Compares the categories of code that eight Western Washington tribes have created and how they influence women's lives.
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Contested Space: The Australian Aboriginal Sporting Arena

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Maynard
Sport in Society, vol. 15, no. 7, Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australia Sport, September 2012, pp. 987-996
Description
"This article examines the complexities of the Australian Aboriginal sporting experience including long entrenched racist barriers that denied Aboriginal participation on the sporting field".
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Contesting Tradition: Inuk Vocalist Tanya Tagaq

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andrew Timar
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3, Fall, 2014, pp. 32-39
Description
Comments on the career of a solo throat singer. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.
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Contours of a People: Métis Family, Mobility, and History

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Scott P. Stephen
BC Studies, no. 184, Winter, 2014/2015, pp. 140-141
Description
Book review of Contours of a People edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access review scroll to p. 140.
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Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Liam Haggarty
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 95, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 463-465
Description
Book review of: Contours of a People edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda MacDougall. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 463.
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The Contribution of Socio-Economic Position to the Excesses of Violence and Intimate Partner Violence Among Aboriginal Versus Non-Aboriginal Women in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nihaya Daoud
Janet Smylie
Marcelo Urquia
Patricia O'Campo
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. 4, July/August 2013, pp. 278-283
Description
Raw statistics showed that Aboriginal women were four times more likely to suffer from intimate partner violence (IPV) than non-Aboriginal women.
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Interim Report in Follow-up to the Review of Canada's Sixth and Seventh Reports

Alternate Title
[United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Government's response to Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women's recommendation about investigation of cases of missing or murdered Aboriginal women.
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A Conversation with Diane Glancy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Andrews
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4, Autumn, 2002, pp. 645-658
Description
Interview focuses on the significance of poetry and other works by Diane Glancy, a Native American poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer.
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Conversations with Our Elders

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne-Marie Miller
[Irene Adamson
Mary Hager
Martha Taylor]
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, Women of the North, Fall, 1994, pp. 70-71
Description
Presents brief interviews with an female Elders.
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Coocoochee: Mohawk Medicine Woman

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen Hornbeck Tanner
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, 1979, pp. 23-41
Description
Biography.
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Copy of illustration: "Escape of the McKay family through the ice to Prince Albert"

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Grip Printing & Publishing (staff artist)
Description
A copy of illustration: "Escape of the McKay family through the ice to Prince Albert", from souvenir number of CANADIAN PICTORIAL & ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, 4 Jul 1885. It depicts Metis rowing boat through ice as his wife and children huddle in back. McKay was a farm instructor near Battleford. Incident described p.21.
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Counseling Women to Breastfeed

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Annette Randall
Aboriginal and Island Health Worker Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, June 1987, pp. 50-52
Description
Information is given on the advantages of breastfeeding, care during pregnancy, after birth care, and nutrition and health.
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Couple in Tent

Images » Photographs
Description
Photograph of Indigenous family in tent (teepee) with assorted skins and furs on the floor. Woman appears to be stitching.
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