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Budget Didn't Meet Raised Expectations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 11, March 2003, p. 1

First Nations leaders contend that the federal government failed to provide funding, as promised, to poverty issues. The issues include contaminated water, black mold, and lack of funding for graduates to pursue post secondary education.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.

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Budget Pays Lip Service to Tackling Needs

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, February 25, 2005, p. A11
Author advocates federal governments invest more resources in economic development and education instead of just "managing poverty".
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Buenaventura Declaration

Articles » General
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, Indigenous Youth, 2005, pp. 19-22
Discusses the Declaration to the Colombian People, developed at a meeting between young people. To access this article, scroll down to page 19.
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Building on Her Legacy of Leadership

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brian Lin
Windspeaker, vol. 23, no. 12, March 2006, p. 5

Recounts the achievements of Wendy Grant-John, the recipient of the 2006 National Aboriginial Achievement Award for community development.

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A Call for a Policy Paradigm Shift: An Intersectionality-Based Analysis of FASD Policy

Alternate Title
An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Gemma Hunting
"Demonstrates the necessity and utility of interrogating and shifting the current FASD policy paradigm in order to strengthen the capacity of polity to promote health and social equity." Chapter from An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework edited by Olena Hankivsky. Scroll down to page 93 to read chapter.
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Canada and the First Nations: Cooperation or Conflict?

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Canada and the Natural Resource Economy Series ; 2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Douglas L. Bland
Report looks at the real possibility of a confrontation between Canada's Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities based on five determinants.
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Canada's Aboriginal Peoples: Social Integration or Disintegration?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russel Lawrence Barsh
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 1994, pp. 1-46
Surveys statistical data dealing with population, economy, health, family integrity and social conditions which demonstrate persistent inequalities and relationships among poverty, health and social structure.
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Canada's Colonial Mission: The Great White Bird

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andrea Bear Nicholas
Aims to demonstrate that colonialism has continued throughout time, not only as a political ideology ordering relations between Native and immigrant nations, but also the primary ideology underlying the education of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
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Canada's First Nations People: Ethnicity and Leadership

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacqueline Ottmann
SA-eDUC Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, Special Edition on Education and Ethnicity, November 2009, pp. 100-116
Supports the need to understand First Nations history from an Aboriginal perspective and the effects the Indian Act and residential school systems had on First Nations people in Canada.
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Canadian Urban Aboriginals: A Focus on Aboriginal Women in Toronto

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Allison M. Williams
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 75-101
Verifies the social and economic impoverishment of urban Aboriginal women, especially female lone parents, and the increasing poverty of women in metropolitan Toronto.
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Challenges in Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge Systems through Creation of Employment for Rural Women in Tanzania: The Case Study of Barabaig Leather Products in Manyara Region

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John M. Mtui
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 4, pp. 68-94
Study surveyed 100 households on use of traditional knowledges in production of leather hides for clothing. Identifies opportunities and barriers for sustained poverty reduction, and makes recommendations for both improving the perception, transmission, and use of traditional knowledge and techniques, and for integrating methods.
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A Chance to Speak

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
DT Productions
Vernon Boldick
Jordan Bzdel
Londa Bray
Documentary about poverty in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and the accompanying problems of homelessness, gang violence and sexual exploitation. Duration: 35:15.
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The Changing Face of Homelessness

Alternate Title
Pressure Point
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Brad Newcombe
Karen O'Shannacery
Doug Peat
Discussion on how best to reach out to the homeless and the services that are available including Lookout Emergency Aid Society and Dunsmuir House Hostel for Men. Duration: 27:39.
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Changing Land Tenure, Defining Subjects, Neoliberalism and Property Regimes on Native Reserves

Alternate Title
Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jessica Dempsey
Kevin Gould
Juanita Sundberg
Advocates for promotion of private property ownership as opposed to collective ownership as the path to poverty reduction. Chapter 12 from Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada edited by Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron and Audrey Kobayashi.
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The Changing Well-Being of Older Adult Registered Indians: An Analysis Using the Registered Indian Human Development Index

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martin Cooke
Eric Guimond
Jennifer McWhirter
Canadian Journal on Aging, vol. 27, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. 385-397
Adapted index using data from the Census of Canada and the Indian Register to see if the older generation's scores between 1981 and 2001 had improved in the same manner as the larger registered population. While levels had improved, the gap between this group and other older Canadians had increased.
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CHEP More Than Just Apples and Oranges

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andrea Ledding
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 12, December 2008, p. 8
Looks at the services provided by the Child Hunger Education Program and their collaborations with other organizations. Article located by scrolling to page 8.
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Child Maltreatment in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Integrating Culture, History, and Public Health for Intervention and Prevention

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lemyra DeBruyn
Michelle Chino
Patricia Serna
Lynne Fullerton-Gleason
Child Maltreatment, vol. 6, no. 2, May 2001, pp. 89-102
Looks at intervention and prevention focusing on population and individual level risk and protective factors. Includes suggestions.
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Child Poverty in Canada and the Rights of the Child

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. Brian Howe
Katherine Covell
Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 4, 2003, pp. 1067-1087
Examines child poverty in accordance to the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child ratified in 1991.
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