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Let's Talk Healing: Healing Foundation Gathering 2010

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Healing Foundation
Looks at a three day event that brought together community healing programs and initiatives from around Australia and gave the opportunity for participants to meet the people that deliver the programs.
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A Life Discarded

Alternate Title
Global 16x9 ; October 24, 2015
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Carolyn Jarvis
Claude Adams
David Dickson
Grant Charles
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Frances Robson
Reports about the years of neglect by professionals and the social care system that led to the death of a young Aboriginal woman, Paige Gauchier, from a drug overdose on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Duration: 21:13. Report by the BC Representative for Children and Youth Paige's Story: Abuse, Indifference and a Young Life Discarded.
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Life Story Board: A Tool in the Prevention of Domestic Violence

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Chase
Javier Mignone
Linda Diffey
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 2, Fall, 2010, pp. 145-154
Introduces the Life Story Board as an instrument to help understand how and why domestic violence occurs and to look for ways to break this cycle of violence in Aboriginal Communities.
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Listening to Silences in Ruby Slipperjack's Silent Words

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dee Horne
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 23, no. 2, 1998, pp. [122]-137
Examines a novel of abuse, silencing and the enduring effects of colonization.
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Listening to the Marginalized to Address Inequality

Alternate Title
@ The Edge
Big Thinking Lecture Series
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2013
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Representative for Children and Youth British Columbia discusses importance of engaging vulnerable children, putting their needs first, and supporting their success. Video of presentation given at the 2013 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Duration: 58:38.
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Literacy for Change: Northern Saskatchewan Literacy Programmes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peggy Buckley
Penny Carriere
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 9, no. 3-4, Women and Literacy, 1988, pp. 73-76
Describes two training programs designed to help women develop the knowledge and skills required to better control and make decisions about their lives.
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The Maltreatment and Adolescent Pathways (MAP) Project:

Using Adolescent Child Protective Services Population-Based Research to Identify Research Questions

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Wekerle
Eman Leung
Anne-Marie Wall
Harriet MacMillan
Nico Trocmé
Michael Boyle
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Issue: Adolescent Development, Mental Health, and Promising Research Directions , 2007, pp. 43-49
Introduction to the Maltreatment and Adolescent Pathways (MAP) study, a longitudinal study of active case files of mid-adolescents in a large urban child protective services system, that collects information on the physical and mental health of teens.
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Mana Tamariki: Cultural Alienation - Māori Child Homicide and Abuse

Alternate Title
Mana Tamariki: Cultural Alienation
Mana Tamariki: Cultural Alienation - Maori Child Homicide and Abuse
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rawiri Taonui
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 3, 2010, pp. 187-202
Examines the origins and issues of violence towards children in Maori society and looks at culturally based solutions.
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Mapping Our World: A Children's Rights Project

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Linda Dale
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Rethinking Childhood: Perspectives on Childrens Rights, Summer, 2000
Comments on a children's rights and research project aimed at providing a forum for children from around the world, one in which the children speak and the adults listen.
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Marchers Remember Victims of Violence

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shauna Lewis
Windspeaker, vol. 24, no. 12, March 2007, p. 20

Discusses the 16th Annual Women's Memorial March to commemorate women who have been victims of violence.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.

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The Mass Incarceration of Indigenous Women in Canada: A Colonial Tactic of Control and Assimilation

Alternate Title
Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Olga Marques
Lisa Monchalin
Chapter from Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women edited by Lily George, Adele N. Norris, Antje Deckert, Juan Tauri. A discussion on the high incarceration of Canadian Indigenous women due to the impact of both historical and present day colonial practices.
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Meadowlark: A Novel

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2015, pp. 224-225
Book review of: Meadowlark by Dawn Wink.
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Mediating Indigeneity, Indigenizing Media

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Peter Kilroy
Parallax, vol. 20, no. 3, Diffracted Worlds Diffractive Readings: Onto-epistemologies and the Critical Humanities, 2014, pp. 288-291
Book review of: The Fourth Eye: Māori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Brendan Hokowhitu and Vijay Devadas.
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Meeting the Needs of Victims and Offenders

Alternate Title
User Report (Solicitor General Canada, Ministry Secretariat) ; no. 1992-18
Aboriginal Policing Series
Inventory of Aboriginal Policing Programs in Canada ; part VII
Author/Creator
Julie Jarvis
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Men Exploring New Directions

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Anthony Franks
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, January/February 2000, pp. 12-13
Looks at group whose aim is to break the cycle of domestic violence in Australian Aboriginal communities.
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Mental Health among Sami People with Intellectual Disabilities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hege Gjertsen
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 78, no. 1, 2019
Article summarizes and examines results from the 2017 living condition-survey among people with an intellectual disability in Sami Areas in Norway. Findings indicate that people with an intellectual disability have poorer mental health compared to the general population, and that people who have Sami heritage have further compromised mental health.
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Mental Health and Substance Abuse Characteristics Among a Clinical Sample of Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Youths in a Large California Metropolitan Area: A Descriptive Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel L. Dickerson
Carrie L. Johnson
Community Mental Health Journal, vol. 48, no. 1, February 2012, pp. 56-62
Comments on the need to enhance culturally relevant mental health and substance abuse treatment and prevention programs for urban American Indian/Alaska Native youth.
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Métis Youth Health in BC

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[S. Tsuruda
A. Smith
C. Poon
C. Hoogeveen
E. Saewyc]
Brief report based on data from the 2008 BC Adolescent Health Survey (AHS).
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Minister's Reference on Institutional Child Abuse: Discussion Paper

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Law Commission of Canada
Justice as Healing, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter, 1998, p. [?]
Analysis and commentary by the Law Commission of Canada on abuse in residential schools. Excerpt from Discussion Paper's Executive Summary. Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
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Mino-Yaa-Daa: An Urban Community-based Approach

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cyndy Baskin
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Inaugural Edition, May 1997, pp. 55-67
Looks at a community-based program that provides education, prevention and healing services to those affected by family violence and substance abuse, through circles, ceremonies and workshops.
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Matthew Midolo
Footnotes: Undergraduate Feminist Journal, vol. 11, 2018, p. [?]
Investigation into the Canadian government's role in enforcing colonial gender ideology and its impact on Indigenous women.
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women The Role of Grassroots Organizations and Social Media in Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kaitlyn Watson
Canadian Women Studies, vol. 33, no. 1-2, Women's Human Rights: Changing the World, 2018, pp. 204-210
Discusses the importance of grassroots movements and social media to educate the general public about the impact of colonization and patriarchy in regards to violence against Indigenous women.
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