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The Potential Impacts of COVID-19 on Inuit Nunangat

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Description
Discusses factors which could make the Inuit more susceptible to the disease such as overcrowded housing, access to healthcare, and Tuberculosis, as well as how the disease may affect education, livelihoods, and increase family violence.
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Preconditions Leading to Market Housing on Reserve

Alternate Title
Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 09-011
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Summary of study involving eight First Nations communities selected on the basis of innovative approaches to promoting home ownership and developing support programs. A minimum of six interviews was conducted at each site with community leaders, housing professionals and home owners.
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Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Chronic Bronchitis in First Nations People

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Punam Pahwa
Chandima P. Karunanayake
Donna C. Rennie
Joshua A. Lawson
Vivian R. Ramsden ... [et al.]
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, vol. 17, 2017, pp. [1]-10
Description
A study on the determinants that impact the prevalence of chronic bronchitis among Indigenous people compared to the rest of the Canadian population.
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Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Asthma in Off-Reserve Aboriginal Children and Adults in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hsiu-Ju Chang
Jeremy Beach
Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan
Canadian Respiratory Journal, vol. 19, no. 6, November-December 2012, pp. e68-e74
Description
Study shows a lower prevalence of asthma in Aboriginal children but higher prevalence of asthma in Aboriginal adults compared to that of the general Canadian population.
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Prince Albert - Indians

Archival » Archival Items
Description
File contains information on activism, agriculture, reserve life, medical services, drug prescriptions, land claims, the Indian Act, Metis, Indigenous rights, chiefs, sterilization of indigenous women, the "Red Paper", discrimination, treaties 8 and 11, recreation, Liquor Act, provincial law, housing, Local Initiatives Programs, utilities on reserves, and poverty.
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Prints: "Esquimaux, Peels River"

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brock Silversides (photographer)
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Description
Entitled: "Esquimaux, Peels River". (Fort MacPherson, N.W.T). Family in front of home. Man holding large knife. Lake/river visible in background.
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Prints: "Trading with the Esquimaux"

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brock Silversides (photographer)
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Description
Entitled: "Trading with the Esquimaux". One non-Indigenous man holding a knife and looking at something. Man and woman stand beside him while a child looks on in the background.
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Profile of Homelessness in Nunavut: Full Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Cassandra Vink
Description
Study consisted of point-in-time homeless count, survey of those experiencing homelessness, consultations with key stakeholders, and information-gathering in gateway communities outside the territory.
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Progressive Conservative Party - Publicity

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Progressive Conservative Party
Description
File contains a page from a speech making reference to the banishment of 118 indigenous persons from the Hobbema Reserve; from "Two Years of Great Achievement - A summary of Accomplishments of the Progressive Conservative Party" referring to achievements of the Department of Indian Affairs, the Indian Act, and housing assistance; a pamphlet and a memorandum also highlighting achievements in the area of indigenous affairs; a memorandum highlighting accomplishments in the area of Indian and Northern Health Services; and a page out of the Conservative Canadian with mention of scholarships present
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Providing Housing Services for Off-reserve Aboriginal Peoples: Analysis and Recommendations

Alternate Title
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Description
Looked at housing delivery problems related to funding, government policy, and delivery system and explored factors essential to new policy such as methods of financing and changes to administration processes.
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Provincial Archives of Alberta: "Indians at Home"

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Brock Silversides (photographer)
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Description
Entitled: "Indians at Home". Family gathered around wagon. A long pole (approx 12-15ft high)holds up a jacket high in the air.
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Provincial Archives of Alberta: "Micakiu &Mucayiomoxin Otokeman, Sarcee Squaws"

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Brock Silversides (photographer)
Charles W. Mathers (photographer)
Description
Note: The title and description of this document uses wording that was common to mainstream society of that time period in history. As such, it contains language that is no longer in common use and may offend some readers. This wording should not be construed to represent the views of the Indigenous Studies Portal or the University of Saskatchewan Library. Titled: "Micakiu & Mucayiomoxin Otokeman, Sarcee Squaws". Micakiu with infant on lap, seated in front of teepee. One other woman (Mucayiomoxin Otokeman?) standing with young person.
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Public Health Should Promote Co-operative Housing and Cohousing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Lubik
Tom Kosatsky
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 110, no. 2, April 2019, pp. 121-126
Description
Advocates models of housing based on First Nations’ Longhouses in order to promote social cohesion and combat social isolation. Argues that this strategies would be especially helpful to seniors.
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Public Housing on the Reservation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roger Biles
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 49-63
Description
Gives a brief history of the US Federal government's policy on affordable housing, the proliferation of low income housing units on reserves and how housing became a symbol of the government's commitment to self-determination.
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QTC Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq

Alternate Title
Qikiqtani Truth Commission Final Report: Achieving Saimaqatigiingniq
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Qikiqtani Truth Commission
Description
Commission was established to create a record of how government policies between 1950 and 1975 affected the Inuit living in the Baffin region. Report based testimonies and interviews, and archival research. Includes recommendations.
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