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Twenty Years and Ticking: Aboriginal Women, Human Rights and Bill C-31

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sandra Delaronde
Morgan Albl
Margaret Haworth-Brockman
Bill was meant to correct gender-discrimination with respect to loss of Status, for both women and their children, due to marriage to non-Status men. Amendment created new issues in terms of band membership, two-tiered system of Status and second-generation cut-off rule, and insufficient funding for First Nations to provide housing and services to new registrants.
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Two Aboriginal Women and Bicycle

Images » Photographs
A photograph of two Aboriginal women in white blouses and long dark dresses in front of a building. A bicycle leans against the wall behind them. These women were probably acquaintances of the George Mann family who worked on Onion Lake, Saddle Lake and Hobbema reserves between 1883 and 1915.
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Two From the Island: Recent Work Relating to the Micmacs of Prince Edward Island

Alternate Title
Two From the Island: Recent Work Relating to the Mi'kmaq of Prince Edward Island
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John Crossley
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 1990, pp. 143-150
Review of the article: "Theophilus Stewart and the Plight of the Micmac" by Alan Andrew MacEachern in The Island Magazine, 28:3-11 (Fall/Winter 1990) and the book Micmac by Choice: Elsie Sark, and Island Legend by M. Olga McKenna.
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Two native women with a child

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
unknown
A photograph of two Native women with a child and dog in background. They are dressed in traditional beaded clothing and have braids and long dresses. They stand in a grove of what looks like willow bush.
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Two Perspectives on Aboriginal Female Suicides in Custody

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle G. Grossmann
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3-4, July-October 1992, pp. [403]-416
Argues that an integrated approach, incorporating both deprivation (influences external to the individual) and importation (internal to the individual) theory, is necessary when analyzing risk factors for suicide in the inmates.
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Two Perspectives on the Etiology of Pibloktoq

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet Lister
Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, vol. 20, 1989, pp. 111-129
Looks at a disorder known as Arctic Hysteria which affects different cultural groups living in circumpolar regions.
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Two Tiered Prostitution Law: Aboriginal Women in the Sex Trade

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michelle M. Mann
Canadian Diversity=Diversité canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, pp. 103-108
Brief article argues that Aboriginals are the most disadvantaged of an already marginalized class and discusses whether other legal options would improve the situation. Entire issue on one pdf. To access this article, scroll to p. 103.
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Two Women in Transition: Separate Perspectives

Alternate Title
North American Indian Thought and Culture
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Gretchen M. Bataille
Kathleen Mullen Sands
Chapter excerpted from American Indian Women Telling Their Lives (p. [83]-112).
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UN Will Support Aboriginal Women by Studying the Violence That Surrounds Them

Alternate Title
United Nations Will Support Aboriginal Women by Studying the Violence That Surrounds Them
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shari Narine
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 6, September 2012, p. 11

Comments on murdered and missing women, the epidemic of violence against Aboriginal women, and the lack of federal government support.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.

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An Uncomfortable Discussion

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Val Napoleon
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 45-48
Looks at the respect and disrespect displayed between elders and youth.
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Under-treatment, Over-treatment, and Coerced into Treatment: Identifying and Documenting Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Care in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Jane Logan McCallum
Yvonne Boyer
Aboriginal Policy Studies , vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, pp. 190-193
Looks at the reports Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women and Out of Sight: A Summary of the Events Leading Up to Brian Sinclair's Death and the Inquest That Examined It and the Interim Recommendations of the Brian Sinclair working Group.
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Understanding Healthy Pregnancies: The Perspective of Inuit Midwives in Northwestern Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Ellen Macdonald
Laakkuluk Williamson Batbory
Hannah Shenker
Hope Weiler
Margaret Berry ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, vol. 19, no. 4, 2014, pp. 128-133
Concerns by the midwives in the region include unhealthy behaviours in young women, the decline of traditional beliefs particularly during pregnancy, and nutritional deficiencies.
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Understanding Participant Driven Intervention Research through Three Vignettes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth J Cooper
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, pp. 42-57
The experiences of three different participants in an intergenerational, multi-week research workshop which explored how the concept of wellness is understood are portrayed through the lenses of a girl, a mother, and a grandmother.
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Understanding the Needs of Urban Inuit Women: Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Looks at women's experiences in Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Montreal. Research involved literature review and interviews with forty-six Inuit women, twenty-two service providers, and, when possible, focus groups. Four objectives of study were to identify motivations for migration/relocation to urban centres, examine challenges faced, discuss primary effects on roles and responsibilities, and to identify supports needed.
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Uneasy Ethnocentrism: Recent Works of Allen, Silko, and Hogan

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet St. Clair
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 1, Series 2: Feminist and Post-Colonial Approaches, Spring, 1994, pp. 83-98
Discussion on the contemporary Native American crises of identity and injustice and how community and kinship can be restored and strengthened without sacrificing the rights and the differences of individuals and cultures. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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