Discusses three misconceptions: that there is a large migration taking place from reserves and rural areas to urban centres, that once in these centres they become members of an impoverished ghetto, and that Aboriginals face huge challenges in building culture and community in urban settings.
American Antiquity, vol. 62, no. 2, April 1997, pp. 273-284
Description
Discusses lack of consensus on settlement patterns based on wide variation in number of dwellings. Study of a site at Porden Point, N.W.T. found structures were not all constructed or occupied at the same time.
First Nations Métis Education Provincial Advisory Committee (FNMEPAC)
Description
Working draft of strategy with vision to build local capacity through relationship and understanding, excellence and equity, and accountability to First Nations and Métis learners and all learners across Saskatchewan.
Access Catalyst Leaders' Toolkit.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 5, no. 1, First Nations Communities in Crisis, November 2009, pp. 26-42
Description
Explores literature that suggests traditional medicine and indigenous knowledge as protective factors for at risk Aboriginal communities and populations.
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 105-112
Description
Describes prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and associated neuropsychiatric problems among two communities, one in the Southwest U.S., and one in the U.S. Northern Plains.
Montana Law Review, vol. 80, no. 2, August 1, 2019, pp. 229-268
Description
Essay identifies the domestic and international legal principles that control data governance. Discusses how tribal sovereignty is impacted by these principles and argues for a critical look at the structures for data governance and the need for intergovernmental cooperation.
Looks at the investigation, and the findings, that resulted from cases of laboratory-confirmed tuberculosis in the municipality of Port Alberni and on the nearby Aboriginal reserve. The report offers recommendations for future tuberculosis prevention and control activities.
Western Policy Analyst, vol. 4, no. 5, 2013, pp. 6-8
Description
Discusses results from the University of Saskatchewan survey Taking the Pulse, 2012. Contains data on Aboriginal issues, health, wellbeing, family, economics, and crime.
Scroll down to page 6 to read article.
Ethnohistory, vol. 62, no. 4, October 2015, pp. 729-750
Description
Looks at reasons why Indian agents and national census takers often could not obtain accurate information, including: linguistic and cultural differences, distrust, uncertainty of racial categories, geographic mobility, and isolation of communities.
American Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 48, no. 3-4, 2011, pp. 426-438
Description
Presents a study which demonstrates that family life is essential to Inuit conceptions of well-being and that interventions for mental health promotion should be community-based and family centered.
CAEPR Indigenous Population Project 2011 Census Papers ; no. 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mandy Yap
Nicholas Biddle
Description
Data from the 2011 Australian Census shows that a high proportion of caring activities are being undertaken in regional and remote areas of the country.
Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 06-024
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Brett Holmes]
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Variables studied were: population, age, mobility, household income, homelessness, education, unemployment, homelessness, household type, home ownership, and core housing need.
Highlights from research report of same name.
Uses data from the 2006 Aboriginal Peoples Survey and 2006 Census to analyze size, concentration, and characteristics (age, sex, mobility, language), and to draw comparisons with lower-income and higher-income Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2013, pp. 34-63
Description
Looks at income disparities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, reasons for this disparity and proportions of Aboriginal people in the middle-income category.
National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Kevin FitzMaurice
Don McCaskill
Jaime Cidro
Description
Focuses on seven of the fourteen research topics: general demographics; poverty and social services; the emerging middle class; the two-spirited community; law and justice; racism; and the arts.
Chapter from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté.
Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.
Study focused on: education, culture and identity, political representation, housing, economic development, racism, health, economically successful residents, youth issues, and gaps in social services. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey.
Sample size of 340.
Summarizes trends in diabetes services and clinical outcomes among American Indian/Alaska Native patients at participating Urban Indian Health Institutes.
Topics examined in report are: demographics, data sources, health status, determinants of health, jurisdictional issues, trends in research, and suggested topics for future research.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 25-31
Description
Looks at the differences in rural versus urban birth and infant outcomes for Indigenous peoples in Quebec.
Reports on results of survey of housing providers conducted between the end of December 2018 and March 2019; explains the changing demographics of Indigenous populations; and gives the background to the Urban Native Housing Program and the Rural and Native Housing Programs and discusses the implications of the expiry of Operating Grants under them.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 15-27
Description
Contends that many Native American peoples have lived highly urbanized lives for many millennium, thus dispelling the myth that all these people live in rural areas with a low density of population.