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Literacy: More Than Words: Literacy for Aboriginal Populations

Alternate Title
Literacy for Aboriginal Populations
Literacy More Than Words: Presentations: Literacy for Aboriginal Populations
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Council of Ministers of Education
Canada
Contains links to webcasts and presentations on Aboriginal literacy from the Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum 2008: Legacy, which was put on by the Council of Ministers of Education and took place in nine different locations across Canada.
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Literature Review of the Interplay between Education, Employment, Health and Wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Remote Areas: Working towards an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Framework

Alternate Title
Working Paper (Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation) ; CWO13
E-Books
Author/Creator
Oanh K. Nguyen
Sheree Cairney
Working Paper (Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation)
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A Longitudinal Study of Welfare Exit among American Indian Families

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shanta Pandey
Baorong Guo
Social Work Research, vol. 31, no. 2, June 2007, pp. 95-107
Examines the Navajo Nation, San Carlos, and Salt River reservations in Arizona and how these areas, unlike the rest of the nation, have not had a decline in welfare caseloads.
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Lost in Translation? Exploring Outcomes of Nunavut’s Resource Development Training and Employment Policies for Inuit of Northern Baffin Island

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew Hodgkins
Northern Review, no. 47, Dealing with Resource Development in Canada's North, August 03, 2018, pp. 31-57
Examines the Mary River Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement (MRIIBA) and discusses causes for the disparity between the intent and results of the Agreement with a focus on the communication gap between community members and other stakeholders. Uses Mittimatilik (Pond Inlet) as a case study.
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Louis Laliberte Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Louis Laliberte
Murray Dobbin
Indian History Film Project
Mr. Laliberte was involved in the early establishment of the Metis Association of Saskatchewan and talks about conditions in the north and how the Metis Association has improved them.
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Lullaby

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leslie Silko
Chicago Review, vol. 26, no. 1, 1974, pp. 10-17
Presents a short story from the perspective of an old woman reminiscing about some of the most tragic events of her life.
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Making Connections: Key Economic Drivers in Aboriginal Rural and Remote Communities - Aboriginal Youth, Colleges and Industries

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sharon Taylor
David Perley
Diana Lewis
Looks at barriers faced by Aboriginal students trying to acquire post-secondary education and move into the skilled labour force. Study consisted of interviews/focus groups in three case study communities located in Atlantic Canada, a literature search, and identification of promising practices.
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Making Sense of Work on the Wind River Indian Reservation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Garth M. Massey
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3/4, The Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge, Summer/Autumn, 2004, pp. 786-816
Focuses on the cycle of employment and unemployment on a reservation in Wyoming.
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Making the Case for Culture in Economic Development: A Cross-Section Analysis of Western Tribes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen Pickering
David Mushinski
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, 2001, pp. 45-64
Combines data, compiled by Joseph Jorgensen, looking at a variety of pre-reservation cultural characteristics for eighty groups in the western United States with data from the 1990 United States Census to evaluate the economic development of those tribes involved.
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Making the Grade: A Guide to Success for Corporate-Aboriginal Initiatives

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Laureen Whyte
Report commissioned by the Industry Council for Aboriginal Business to assist in developing and building effective relationships. The report uses case studies of corporate and Aboriginal partnerships and successful initiatives garnered in British Columbia and Yukon. 2nd ed.
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Making the Lazy Indian

Alternate Title
Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[John Lutz]
Looks at European's perception that Indigenous peoples were not engaged in productive labour. Chapter from Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations by John Lutz.
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Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Margaret Seguin Anderson
BC Studies, no. 163, Autumn, 2009, pp. 133-134
Book review of: Makuk by John Sutton Lutz. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 133.
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Man Hauling Freight and Angus McKay

Images » Photographs
Angus McKay (right) helps a man hauling freight adjust his pack sack. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.
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Man in Canoe on Water

Images » Photographs
Man in canoe on water. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.
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Management & Coordination of Apprenticeship Training Opportunities for Aboriginal Students in Residential Construction - Final Report

Alternate Title
Management and Coordination of Apprenticeship Training Opportunities for Aboriginal Students in Residential Construction: Final Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
Saskatoon & Region Home Builders' Association Inc.
Discusses aspects of the program such as recruitment, placement, profiles of participants and outcomes. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
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Managing Legitimacy in Ecotourism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas B. Lawrence
Deborah Wickins
Nelson Phillips
Tourism Management, vol. 18, no. 5, 1997, pp. 307-316
Examines the legitimacy problem currently facing ecotourism and how the management of legitimacy in ecotourism should proceed.
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Managing Saskatchewan's Expanding Aboriginal Economic Gap

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marv Painter
Kelly Lendsay
Eric Howe
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter, 2000, pp. 31-45
Assesses the disparities in current income, employment and education between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations. [One or more images have been omitted from this article due to copyright restrictions. These images are accessible in the print version of this journal.]
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Manitoba's Hydro Employment Program For Native Northerners

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James B. Waldram
Native Studies Review, vol. 1, no. 2, 1985, pp. 47-56
Article examines the components of the employment policy compared to past construction practices and gives recommendations for future success
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Many Nations, One Movement

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bradley Shreve
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 4, Nation Building, Summer, 2014
Introductory article to this themed issue discusses how tribal colleges and universities aim to preserve and communicate traditional native culture, provide higher education and career or technical opportunities to tribal members, enhance economic opportunities within the reservation community, and promote tribal self-determination.
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Māori Tertiary Education Students in 2009

Alternate Title
Maori Tertiary Education Students in 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Mieke Wensvoort]
Comments on the increased enrolment, fields of study, employment outcomes and the links between education, skills and unemployment rates.
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Māori Tertiary Education Students in 2014

Alternate Title
Maori Tertiary Education Students in 2014
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Mieke Wensvoort]
Comments on the increased enrolment, fields of study, employment outcomes and the links between education, skills and unemployment rates.
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Measuring the Well-Being of Aboriginal People in Ontario

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bakhtiar Moazzami
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2011, pp. 117-123
Study concludes that the well-being of the Ontario Aboriginal population has deteriorated from 1991 to 2006 contrary to research done for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
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