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A Look Back, A Look Forward

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Phil Fontaine
Speaker looks at issues surrounding poverty in First Nations communities and economic development through resource exploitation. Duration: 38:56.
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Looking to the Land: Local Responses to Food Insecurity in Two Rural and Remote First Nations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Leibovitch
Michael Robidoux
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 103-128
Article examines local food initiatives in two rural and remote First Nations. Compares price, quality, and extended community benefits of local food sources to those of market sourced food. Two communities are Wapekeka First Nation and Gitxaala First Nation.
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Low-Income Canadian Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Parent-Child Interactions

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
N. L. Letourneau
K. M. Hungler
K. Fisher
Child: Care, Health and Development, vol. 31, no. 5, September 2005, pp. 545-554
Purpose of the study was to develop a knowledge base that describes the parent-child interactions observed in Canadian low-income samples and explore the relationship between parent-infant interactions and ethnicity.
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Low Socioeconomic Status and Coronary Artery Disease

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Saburo Onishi
Masafumi Ono
Yoshihisa Nemoto
Yasuko Nozaki
Toshiji Saibara
Bernd C Eber
Robert Berent
Johann W Auer
Lancet, vol. 359, no. 9310, March 16, 2002, pp. 979-980
Aboriginal peoples and people of European descent, of low socio-economic status are at increased risk for both heart problems and infections.
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Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Hospitalizations Among American Indian/Alaska Native Children and the General United States Child Population

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric M. Foote
Rosalyn J. Singleton
Robert C. Holman
Sara M. Seeman
Claudia A. Steiner ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 74, 2015, p. article no. 29256
Concludes that while the lower respiratory tract infection associated hospitalization rate declined, the American Indian/Alaska Native child rate remained higher that the general U.S. child population rate.
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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 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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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 First Nations Regional Health Survey Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
Provides information on background of the national survey, recommendations of feasibility study, development Manitoba survey and questionnaire, and presents results of key variables in graphic form.
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Māori Women Leading Local Sustainable Food Systems

Alternate Title
Maori Women Leading Local Sustainable Food Systems
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karyn Stein
Miranda Mirosa
Lynette Carter
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 147-155
Article examines four long-term case studies of women who are engaged in food sovereignty work in their communities. These women combine the use of community food gardens and local farms to combat food poverty in their families and communities.
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MDGs, Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Africa

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Nigel Crawhall
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Africa and the Millennium Development Goals, 2006, pp. 6-13
Outlines Millennium Development Goals, the UN's role, and examines the threat to cultural survival of the African Indigenous peoples. To access this article, scroll down to page 7.
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Measuring Low Income and Poverty in Canada: An Update

Alternate Title
Income and Labour Dynamics Working Paper Series
[Income Research Paper Series (Statistics Canada) ; no. 13]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Maryanne Webber
Examines low income rates based on Low Income Cutoff (LICO) or Low Income Measure (LIM), neither are intended as a poverty line, but they are sometimes used as such.
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Measuring the Well-Being of Aboriginal People: An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1981-2001

Alternate Title
Setting the Agenda for Change ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 1
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 1st, 2002
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Martin Cooke
Daniel Beavon
Mindy McHardy
vol. 1

Examines data from census years 1981 to 2001 to identify whether any progress had been made in narrowing disparities in education, life expectancy, and income.

Chapter three from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1, which is vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.

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Meet "The People of the Kattawapiskak River"

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barb Nahwegahbow
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 8, November 2012, p. 23

Discusses a state of emergency at Attawapiskat First Nation due to a severe housing crisis and introduces a documentary by Alanis Obomasawin showcasing the trials of this community.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.31.

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Metis Activist Just Wanted a Fairer Deal for His People

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joan Black
Windspeaker, vol. 16, no. 12, April 1999, p. 8 s

Brief profile of Howard Adams, recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for education. The article discusses what drove his academic and political aspirations.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.28.

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Métis Welfare: A History of Economic Exchange in Northwest Saskatchewan, 1770-1870

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Liam Haggarty
Saskatchewan History, vol. 61, no. 20, Glimpses of Métis Society and History in Northwest Saskatchewan, Fall, 2009, pp. 7-16
Argues that most studies which examine poverty and government income supports to Métis and other Indigenous communities fail to consider Aboriginal systems of reciprocity, wealth distribution and social obligations. Compares Métis and Euro-Canadian conceptualizations of social welfare. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 7.
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Mi'kmaq Women and Our Political Voice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Doyle-Bedwell
Atlantis, vol. 27, no. 2, Health Panic and Womens Health, 2003, pp. 123-127
Comments on the issues facing Mi'kmaq women and the healing process that needs to occur.
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Migration and Mobility of Canada's Aboriginal Population

Alternate Title
Research and Development Highlights (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation). Socio-economic Series ; no. 24, 1996
Research and Development Highlights. Socio-Economic Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Research and Development Highlights (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation). Socio-economic Series
Looks at patterns relating to movement of more than 321,000 individuals between the years 1986 and 1991.
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Missing Persons and Social Exclusion

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Kiepal
Peter J. Carrington
Myrna Dawson
Canadian Journal of Sociology, vol. 37, no. 2, 2012, pp. 137-168
Comments on alternatives to choosing to go missing including counseling and crisis intervention.
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Monetary Poverty in Inuit Nunangat

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Duhaime
Roberson Édouard
Arctic, vol. 68, no. 2, June 2015, pp. 223-232
Analyzes the impact of poverty in areas of northern Canada where the majority of Inuit live.
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Mr. Ron Elliott (Quttiktuq) on Uranium Mining in Nunavut, NWT Premier Bob McLeod's Opening Address, and Ms. Wendy Bisaro (Frame Lake) on the NWT's Anti-Poverty Strategy

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ron Elliott
Peter Taptuna
Bob McLeod
Wendy Bisaro
Northern Pubic Affairs, vol. 1, no. 2, The Conservative Vision For Canadas North, Fall, 2012, pp. 8-12
Reprint of Mr. Ron Elliott asking the Minister of Economic Development and Transportation the Hon. Peter Taptuna about Nunavut's mining policy, NWT Premier Bob McLeod's Opening Address at the Third Session of the 17th Legislative Assembly on October 17, and Ms. Wendy Bisaro (Frame Lake) about the NWT's Anti-Poverty Strategy. Editors note: Statements were edited for length.
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Narratives of Social Justice: Learning in Innovative Clinical Settings

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sheryl Reimer Kirkham
Lynn Van Hofwegen
Catherine Hoe Harwood
International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, vol. 2, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1-14
Looks at a study that examined undergraduate nursing students in innovative clinical placements, and how they bear witness to poverty, inequities, critical awareness, critical engagement, and social change.
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