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The Urgency of Postsecondary Education for Aboriginal Peoples

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane P. Preston
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 86, November 19, 2008, pp. [1]-22
Description
Uses statistics to demonstrate that the economic gains achieved through higher education will not only benefit Aboriginals, but all of Canada.
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Using Concept Mapping to Understand Gender- and Age-Specific Factors Influencing Health Care Access among American Indian Elders,

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elise Trott Jaramillo
David H. Sommerfeld
Erik Lujan
Cathleen E. Willging
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 52-76
Description
Using concept mapping to discuss the impact of factors affecting the access to health care for Indigenous elders.
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Views of Traditional Ecological Knowledge [TEK] in Co-Management Bodies in Nunavik, Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Evelyn J. Peters
Polar Record, vol. 39, no. 1, January 2003, pp. 49-60
Description
Results of a survey of members of committees formed pursuant to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement; three elements emerged: complex views of traditional knowledge, role of Inuit in attempting to shape the role of TEK in decision-making and need for financial support to collect TEK.
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Voices For Change: Aboriginal Child Welfare in Alberta: A Special Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Del Graff]
Description
Looks at data gathered from children, youth, caregivers, and other stakeholders regarding involvement with the child welfare system and identifies issues that are contributing to the over-representation of Aboriginal young people in the system. Presents 8 recommendation to improve outcomes.
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We Are the Future: A Native Youth Narrative

Alternate Title
[Indigenous Futures Project]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth
Description
Disaggregated data from the 2020 Indigenous Futures Survey regarding identity, health and wellbeing, culture and community, and visibility, justice and dismantling racism.
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We Will Be Known Forever by the Tracks We Leave: Rising Up to Meet The Reproductive Health Needs of American Indian/Alaska Native Youth

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lori de Ravello
Scott Tulloch
Melanie Taylor
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 19, no. 1, Special Issue: Reproductive Health Programs for Youth, 2012, pp. i-x
Description
Discussion of innovative ways to address adolescent reproductive health care needs.
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Weaving Promising Practices to Transform Indigenous Population Health and Wellness Reporting by Indigenizing Indicators in First Nations Health

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Krista Stelkia
Anita Manshadi
Evan Adams
Cornelia Wieman
Jeffery Reading
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 18, no. 1, Emerging Research from a Post-Pandemic World, 2023
Description

Reports on health statistics for Indigenous populations and the need for the collection of statistics that acknowledge Indigenous worldviews and practices.

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The Well-Being of Communities With Significant Métis Population in Canada

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Russell LaPointe
Sacha Senécal
Eric Guimond
Canadian Issues, Journeys of a Generation: Broadening the Aboriginal Well-Being Policy Research Agenda, Winter, 2009, pp. 85-92
Description
Compares the educational levels, labour levels, and the income and housing quality and quantity levels in Métis communities to other aboriginal communities. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.
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Working Alliance and Its Relationship With Treatment Outcome in a Sample of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Sexual Offenders

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Danielle R. DeSorcy
Mark E. Olver
J. Stephen Wormith
Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, vol. 28, no. 4, 2016, pp. 291-313
Description
Examines the impact of and relationships between therapeutic providers and Indigenous sexual offenders. Therapists provided through the Working Alliance Inventory.
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You Count [2001 Census]

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joan Taillon
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 10, February 2003, p. 17
Description

Reports on aboriginal statistics and the efforts of the mayor of Vancouver to improve the standard of living of the city's growing Aboriginal population.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.

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Young Population Presents Opportunity, Challenge

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, June 30, 2005, p. A17
Description
Discusses the rapidly growing, increasingly urban aboriginal youth and the changes that are confronting policy makers in Western Canada.
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Yukon

Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains a brief entitled " The Yukon Territory - A Brief" which includes a statistical breakdown of the population of the Yukon from 1901- 1951, including indigenous and Inuit peoples.
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