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Statistics on Violence Against Native Women

Alternate Title
Policy Insights Brief (National Congress of American Indians)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center
Description
Synthesizes previously reported data to facilitate policy development and inform media reporting.
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The Status of Navajo Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Shepardson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1/2, Change and Continuity as Experienced by Navajo Women, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp. 149-169
Description
Discusses women's predisposition for innovations due to their traditional cultural backgrounds. Focus is placed on the Navajo's shift from self-sufficient agricultural work to wage-based work in the service, industrial and large farm-based industries.
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Steering through Métis Feminism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lindsay DuPré
Lucy Fowler
Pawaatamihk, vol. 1, no. 1, 2023, pp. 134-150
Description

Discusses the need for Métis centered approached to feminism to create a new form of knowledge.  

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Stepping into the Circle

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Alberta Council of Women's Shelters
Description
Contains links to a series of eight modules and videos in the series In Conversation with Lewis Cardinal. Designed to educate staff and participants in Sharing Circles about Indigenous history, culture and knowledge. Topics include Indigenous worldviews, missing and murdered Indigenous women, treaty relations, building relationships, women in Indigenous societies, contemporary women's leadership, and the circle process.
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Stepping Up Indigenous Knowledge and Technologies for Higher Incomes for Women in Rural Tanzania: A Case of Food Processing and Storage

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gerald Phocus Lesseri
Jehovaness Aikaeli
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 4, 2018, pp. 95-132
Description
Data collected in 2016 suggests that food processing activities in these areas are largely primary— they are meant to help with transportation and/or storage and are completed by hand. Poor food storage facilities are shown to discourage any increase in farm production. Authors make recommendations for different food storage methods.
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Stepping Up Traditional Knowledge and Technologies for Higher Women Employment and Income: A Case of Women Milk Producers in Arumeru and Hai Districts in Tanzania

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gilliard Loth
Jehovaness Aikaeli
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 4, 2018, pp. 26-67
Description
Compares producers in the two districts, identifies challenges faced by them, and discusses methods by which they could organize to increase value addition and improve traditional selling practices.
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The 'Stolen Generations' of Mothers and Daughters: Child Apprehension and Enhanced HIV Vulnerabilities for Sex Workers of Aboriginal Ancestry

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Putu Duff
Brittany Bingham
Annick Simo
Delores Jury
Charlotte Reading
Kate Shannon
PLoS One, vol. 9, no. 6, June 13, 2014, pp. 1-6
Description
Findings reveal high levels of child apprehension among sex workers, with over a third of women having their children removed from them.
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Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amnesty International
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 105-121
Description
Examines nine case studies involving missing and murdered Indigenous women and the factors which have contributed to the high risk of violence.
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[Stolen Sisters: Indigenous Women and Violence in Canada]

Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Beverly Jacobs
Description
Speaker discusses Amnesty International report, Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada and her part as an independent researcher contributing to it. Duration: 1:08:26.
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Stop and Think: Addressing Social Injustices Through Critical Reflection

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sherry Ramrattan Smith
Education Canada, vol. 47, no. 1, Making Space For Critical Reflection: Dreams & Solutions For Aboriginal Children, Winter, 2007, pp. 48-51
Description
Through the author's experiences, looks at how power and privilege spills over into the classroom setting through oppression that is related to gender, race, class and sexual orientation.
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Stories of Haka and Women’s Rugby in Aotearoa New Zealand: Weaving Identities and Ideologies Together

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Farah Rangikoepa Palmer (Ngāti Mahuta [Waikato]; Ngāti Maniapoto)
The International Journal of the History Sport, vol. 33, no. 17, Women, Sport and History-Australian and New Zealand, 2016, pp. 2169-2184
Description
Uses pūrākau storytelling to analyze the use of the Haka by women in tribal narratives in relation to identity around the sport of rugby.
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The Story is Brimming Around: An Interview with Linda Hogan

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol Miller
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 2, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1990, pp. 1-9
Description
Presents an interview with Linda Hogan and discusses the roles of storytelling and healing traditions in novels by American Indian women writers. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Storyteller: Grandmother Spider's Web

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda L. Danielson
Journal of the Southwest , vol. 30, no. 3, Autumn, 1988, pp. 325-355
Description
Discusses how Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller combines fiction, poetry, family history, and oral tradition to create a sense of personal, cultural, feminist, and human identity.
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'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country': Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia

Alternate Title
Law and Society Series ;
Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jay Nelson
Law and Society Series
Description
Considers several factors affecting intermarriage: geography, law, morality, race and sexuality. Chapter 1 from Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law edited by John P. S. McLaren, Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn.
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