Women
Aboriginal Women and Family Violence: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ipsos-Reid
Description
Focuses on incidence, severity, causes, and consequences of violence, and resources available both on- and off-reserve. Qualitative data gathered through focus groups of women and key informant interviews with service providers.
Aboriginal Women and Healthcare
Alternate Title
Report Card (Friends of Women & Chidlren in B.C.) ; vol. 3, no.12, 2004
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jan Hare
Description
Identifies some of the institutional barriers to wellness and argues more must be done to meet the cultural needs of Aboriginal clients.
Aboriginal Women and Housing in Western Australia
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lois Gatley
Denise Groves
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, June 1987, pp. 13-19
Description
Discusses factors contributing to the housing crisis and resulting consequences on the physical and metal health of women and children.
Aboriginal Women and Self-Determination: An Issue Paper: Prepared for the National Aboriginal Women's Summit June 20-22, 2007 in Corner Brook, NL
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Description
Argues that issues regarding health, safety, wellness, equality and empowerment cannot be fully achieved without the recognition to the right to self-determination and the role women play in that right.
Aboriginal Women and Self-Government: Challenging Leviathan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine Beaty Chiste
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 19-43
Description
Examines the grassroots rejection of the 1992 Charlottetown Accord, which was spearheaded by the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC).
Aboriginal Women and the Constitutional Debates: Continuing Discrimination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, Gender Equity and Institutional Change, 1992, pp. 14-17
Description
Comments on the struggle for equality faced by Aboriginal women despite the advent of section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Aboriginal Women as Providers: The 1830s on the Swan
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sylvia J. Hallam
Aboriginal History, vol. 15, no. 1, 1991, pp. 38-53
Description
Looks at the ways the European settlers kept Aboriginal women from accessing their own land and depriving them of harvesting their staples.
Aboriginal Women at Midlife: Grandmothers as Agents of Change
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynn M. Meadows
Wilfreda E. Thurston
Laura E. Lagendyk
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, Womens Health and Well-Being, Fall, 2005, pp. 159-165
Description
Study findings suggest that women who focus on the future for either themselves or their grandchildren may improve health for themselves and others.
Aboriginal Women Badly Served by Health Care
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 5, September 2002, pp. 26-27
Description
Studies commissioned by the Atlantic Centre for Excellence for Women's Health (ACEWH) reveal issues which include treatment access, communication, and lack of understanding affects culturally appropriate treatments.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.14.
Aboriginal Women Building Solid Careers in the Trades
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Lagimodiere
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 17
Description
Promotes the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies Women in Trades Program which has had great sucess in employment of women in the construction industry.
Article located by scrolling to page 17.
Aboriginal Women Caregivers of the Elderly in Geographically Isolated Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
K. E. Crosato
C. Ward-Griffin
B. Leipert
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 7, no. 796, September 21, 2007, pp. 1-12
Description
Findings indicate that perceptions of care are informed by cultural values in five themes: passing on traditions, being chosen as caregiver, support within the circle of healers, establishing circles of care and accepting of refusing external resources.
Aboriginal Women Fleeing Violence in Saskatoon: "Looking For A Safe Place For My Family": Final Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
Shelley Thomas Prokop
Joan Sanderson
Description
Assessment of the requirements for shelters and the current capacity in Saskatoon to deal with these women. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
Aboriginal Women in Canada: On the Choice to Renounce or Reclaim Aboriginal Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Danielle Naumann
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, 2008, pp. 343-361
Description
Examines the history of identity as it relates to Aboriginal women and argues that Aboriginal recognition should not be awarded on the basis of inherited ethnicity.
Aboriginal Women in Unity: NSW Aboriginal Women's Conference, Dubbo
Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, September 1990, pp. 28-30
Description
Conference brought together Aboriginal women from different community organizations to meet, exchange information, and compose recommendations to present to Government.
Aboriginal Women, Justice and the Charter: Bridging the Divide?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer Koshan
University of British Columbia Law Review, vol. 32, November 1998, pp. 23-54
Description
Argues that the Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence is making a transformation that was unlikely to happen from Charter legislation, but that most of the progress has come about due to political process and will of women.
Aboriginal Women: Police Charging Policies and Domestic Violence: A Study on the Policies that Impact Aboriginal Communities: An NWAC Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Description
Investigates how mandatory charging policies are not uniform throughout various federal, provincial and territorial jurisdictions regarding domestic violence against Aboriginal women.
Aboriginal Women & Policy Development: Aboriginal Women's Conference Report
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Women's Conference Report
Provincial Aboriginal Women's Conference ; 4th, 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Judy White
Luanne Leamon
Tammy Drew
Stella Saunders
Melita Paul ... [et al.]
Description
Historical overview of Aboriginal women and how gender based analysis could be applied to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Aboriginal Women: Profile and Changing Population
Alternate Title
Research Report (Correctional Service of Canada) ; no. R-341
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Janelle Beaudette
Madelon Chevrie
Renée Gobeil
Description
Looks at characteristics of Aboriginal women offenders as a whole, and of First Nations and Métis women separately. Focus is on demographic information, sentences and offences, risk and need variables, and release types.
Aboriginal Women’s Access to Justice Video Project Report
Alternate Title
A Message to You from the Hearts of Aboriginal Women
Don't Need Saving: Aboriginal Women and Access to Justice
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Audrey Huntley
Description
Background and information to accompany the videos: Don't Need Saving: Aboriginal Women and Access to Justice and A Message to You from the Hearts of Aboriginal Women.
Aboriginal Women's Community Economic Development: Measuring and Promoting Success
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Quality of Life [Series]
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Isobel M. Findlay
Wanda Wuttunee
IRPP Choices, vol. 13, no. 4, August 2007, pp. 1-26
Description
Discusses three case studies: Great Bear Co-op in the Northwest Territories, Neechi Foods Co-operative Limited in Winnipeg, Manitoba and ET Development in northern Manitoba.