Abuse

Manual designed to help Indigenous women and service providers address key aspects of violence, as well as understand Indigenous women’s legal rights on matters related to leaving a violent relationship.

Investigates the experiences that Aboriginal victims have with the Canadian criminal justice system.

Annotated bibliography.

Discussion of feedback that developed between researchers of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and people from First Nations Child and Family Services Agencies (FNCFS Agencies).

Examines research literature and finds that biochemical studies do not support this theory; cautions against simplistic approach to a complex issue.

Comments on a two-year study of abuse and neglect of Native American and Native Alaskan children based on records from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS).

Peace and Conflict Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2014.

Social Welfare Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 1994.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2004.

Provides synopsis of limited information available on this specific population. Appendix includes Review of the Literature on Aboriginal Sex Offenders of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia by Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2002.

Educational Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2007.

Initiative strives to prevent exposure to violence, mitigate the negative impact of exposure when it does happen and spread awareness.

Author discusses the first World Conference of Women's Shelters arguing that governments need to understand that social problems have an economic and historical social basis.

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

Child was 20-month-old who sustained severe and permanent injuries due to child abuse while under the supervision of the Montreal Lake Child and Family Agency. Panel made findings and recommendations in six areas: information sharing, staffing, case management, coordination of services, and government support.

Shares the experiences of a Métis man who has struggled with his bipolar disease.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2007.

Comments on a group working to help women escape from abuse and poverty by offering a support system that includes meeting weekly to learn moccasin making and traditional beading. Article located by scrolling to page 19.

Author reflects on the value of ritual and how a researcher must balance personal involvement and objective observation.

Book review of: Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts by Elizabeth Sheehy.

Chapter 1 of : Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence edited by Sara Deer. Discusses protection of American Indian women eroded by court actions.

Discusses the treatment of young aboriginal girls and women removed from their families between the years 1920 and 1934.

Theology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2002.

An examination about settler colonialism targeting Indigenous women and how Indigenous feminism may provide solutions to fight for decolonization in Canada and United States.

Discusses contributing factors such as poverty, access to health care, physical illness, and organizational and systemic effects.

Applied Psychology and Human Development (Ph.D.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2013.

Discusses Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn's film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open set in Vancouver, BC. The film is about the interactions between two Indigenous women in a lower income neighborhood.

Book review of: Traplines by Eden Robinson.

Book reviews of 18 books: Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie. Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg. How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield. I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John. Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.

Book reviews of: Legends of our Times: Native Cowboy Life by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America by Conlin Callway (Editor). Women in Trouble: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their Histories of Abuse by Elizabeth Cormack. Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon: Critical Edition by Ives Goddard (Editor). White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring.

Book review of: Booze: A Distilled History by Craig Heron.

Essay about breaking the silence of abuse and the strength of family & community to protect children.

Website contains links to materials for workshop, teacher's kit, videos, and extended interviews.

Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D)--Arctic University of Norway, 2017.

Report addresses call from United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues (UNPFII) for United Nations agencies and the United States to contribute to the study of violence against girls and women, particularly in areas where armed conflict is taking place.

Tells the story of a brewery in Papua New Guinea whose Operation Moderation responsible drinking campaign was banned by the government.

Overview of NSW Aboriginal Women's Conference, Aboriginal Women in Unity held in Dubbo, June 25-27 1990.

Study results show little difference between male/female bullying and victimization rates or Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal differences.