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Families Bond in Search For Relatives

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Warren Goulding
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 4, April 2007, p. 7
Description
Looks at a woman who has searched for her missing mother for over two decades and comments on some frustrations she has met along the way. Article located by scrolling to page 7.
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Family Gathered Around Campfire

Images » Photographs
Description
A photograph of a family gathered around a fire cooking outdoors. Probably on the Red Earth Reserve. A woman kneels in foreground with pots while four children stand in the background (nd).
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Family Tremors: Margot Nash's Call Me Mum

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pauline Marsh
Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, vol. 4, no. 1, Indigenous Marriage; Family and Kinship in Australia:The Persistence of Life and Hope, 2013, pp. 103-116
Description
Film looks at three troubled mothers in protagonists life: his birth mother, foster mother and foster grandmother.
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Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile, 2015

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marta Burczycka
Shana Conroy
Juristat, vol. 37, no. 1, February 16, 2017, pp. [1]-77
Description
Statistics from the General Social Survey, Incidence-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey and its Trend Database, and the Homicide Survey.
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The Far North

E-Books
Author/Creator
C.W. Mathers
Description
This book contains photographs of people and places in the Canadian Far North, taken while Mathers was "on a trip from Edmonton to the mouth of the MacKenzie River". There are a number of images of "Esquimaux" wearing traditional clothing and stone lip ornaments, as well as of Native people carrying out tasks at various forts along the Athabasca and Slave Rivers.
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FASD Training Study: Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kathryn Irvine
Mélanie Vincent
Description
Study hopes to add knowledge and research of FASD by mapping kinds of services and available training opportunities, and using findings to make recommendations for sustainable development of FASD services and training opportunities.
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The Fatality of Bias

Alternate Title
Global Policy Review
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Edith Denny
Description
Discusses how colonialism and systemic racism have produced women's negative experiences in the Canadian healthcare system and their poor health outcomes.
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FBI Resources in Missing Person Cases

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Bedford
Alethea Duncan
Christina Palazzolo
Joseph P. Shevlin
Department of Justice Journal of Federal Law and Practice, vol. 69, no. 1, Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons: Law Enforcement and Prevention, January 2021, pp. 149-158
Description
A description of Federal Bureau of Investigation specialized units that can be invaluable in cases of missing, abducted, or murdered victims. They are: Child Abduction Rapid Deployment, the Behavioral Analysis Units dealing with crimes against children, and crimes against adults, and the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to page 149.
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Federally Sentenced Aboriginal Women in Maximum Security: What Happened to the Promises of "Creating Choices"?

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
SkyBlue Morin
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2020, pp. 92-128
Description

Reprint of a contracted report including recommendations, based on 1997-1998 interviews in the Springhill Institution, Prison for Women, the Regional Psychiatric Centre (Prairies) and the Saskatchewan Penitentiary. Report notes significant drop in percentage of Aboriginal women incarcerated during period of report writing.

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Federally Sentenced Aboriginal Women Offenders: An Issue Paper

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Description
Outlines policies and practices that if implemented could result in improved outcomes for Aboriginal women. Prepared for the National Aboriginal Women's Summit, June, 2007, Newfoundland.
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Female Archetypes in Select Canadian Writing

Theses
Author/Creator
M. Peratchi Selvi
Description
English and Comparative Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--Madurai Kamaraj University, 2012. Focuses on works by Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
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Female First Nations Chiefs and the Colonial Legacy in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cora J. Voyageur
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, 2011, pp. 59-78
Description
Looks at women leading First Nation communities and their experiences with the social, political, economic, and cultural effects of colonization.
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Female Genital Mutilation

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Naomi Kipuri
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Indigenous Women, 2004, pp. 22-27
Description
Examines female circumcision in ethnic groups in Kenya and gives an overview of attempts to eradicate the practice. To access this article, scroll down to page 22.
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The Female Offender in Canada: A Statistical Profile

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alison Hatch
Karlene Faith
Canadian Journal of Women & the Law, vol. 3, no. 2, 1989, pp. 432-456
Description
Contends that cultural, social, and economic factors affect both criminal behaviours by women and the responses of the criminal justice system.
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Females, the Strong Ones: Listening to the Lived Experiences of American Indian Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Riley Mukavetz
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the process of theorizing life experience through storytelling. Asserts that the stories told by Indigenous women about their lives should be considered as theories for the purposes of research, writing, and living.
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Feminism and First Nations: Conflict or Concert?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leslie Brown
Cindy Jamieson
Margaret Kovach
Canadian Review of Social Policy, no. 35, 1995, pp. 68-78
Description
Looks at how mainstream feminism works in a First Nation context.
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Feminist Neo-Indigenism in Chicana Aztlán

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arthur Ramirez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 71-78
Description
Looks at the development of Chicana feminist thought, focusing on the development of the Chicano Renaissance of the sixties, the upsurge of Chicana feminisms in the seventies, and continuing on into the present. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Feminist Theory and the "Invasion of the Heart" in North America

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pauline Turner Strong
Ethnohistory, vol. 43, no. 4, Native American Womens Responses to Christianity, Autumn, 1996, pp. 683-712
Description
Analyzes and clarifies feminist approaches and their strengths and weaknesses in the discussion of Christianity among Native American women since 1980.
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