Infrastructure

Discusses prevention, programs, services, and initiatives to help address violence and abuse against Aboriginal girls and women.

Includes toolkit to help with workshop templates for environmental violence teach-ins, resources for healing and traditional land-based medicines, and community health assessments.

Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1998.

City Planning Thesis (M.C.P.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.

Analyzes community well-being in Manitoba using three measures: self-assessed personal health, reported improvements in family finances, hope for the community's economy. Scroll down to page 69 to read article.

Discusses Old Crow community's holistic approach to a sustainability plan which is part of the funding requirement under the Canada Yukon Gas Tax Agreement.

Guide for conducting research in a appropriate way though partnership using relationship building, cultural learning, communication, trust and reciprocity. Provides examples of successful partnerships.

Study results indicated that initial closures of the facilities providing public showers, laundry and flush toilets, probably resulted in increased skin infection rates. Further study is recommended.

Examines issues surrounding waste management on First Nations communities.

Mixed methods study that examines the challenges and opportunities of waste management—including household waste and accumulations generated by military installations and extractive industries—in Nain and Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

The project is a First Nations-owned and led electricity transmission initiative to eliminate reliance of diesel generation of power. Study looks at benefits to First Nations, whether it is a good use of government/public funding, overall rate of return from a societal perspective, and one-time and ongoing impacts.

Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2014.

Current as of 2012. Includes general and as well as Aboriginal-specific material.

Outlines activities undertaken in three priority areas: enhanced capacity building and training, enforceable standards and protocols, and infrastructure investments. Also summarizes capital investments and outcomes of recent inspections of systems.

Suggests that more needs to be done to improve drinking water safety in First Nation communities.

Interviews were conducted with 28 residents and 9 key informants from Coral Harbour, Nunavut. Argues that decisions regarding water management should take into account the human dimension rather than focusing solely on the physical environment.

Narrative review of 112 documents (articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, etc.), identifies two main categories of factors affecting water vulnerability in Arctic communities: Biophysical: climate change, extreme weather, etc.; Anthropogenic: infrastructure, economics, governance, etc. Discusses the need to consider the range of factors in policy frameworks.

Daphne Hutt-MacLeod and Sharon Rudderham from Eskasoni Health Centre speak about how their community is responding to the health and wellness of their residents. Presentations begin at 27:45. Duration: 2:46:33.

Community profile of Deschambault Lake. Page one: four pictures, a sign saying 'Welcome To Deschambault Lake', a photo of Band Counsellor Cornelius Ballentyne, a picture of AMNSIS local president Larry Beatty, and the industrial arts area in the new school. Page two, a photograph of the local sawmill.

Discusses the importance of context for social work education, illustrated by the First Nations Bachelor of Social Work program, which was delivered as a satellite program in a First Nations community.

Analyzes whether protest can be explained by resource mobilization, political opportunities or the construction of PanAboriginal collective identity.

Examines issues surrounding the supply, quality, ownership and location of housing in aboriginal communities in Australia.

Discussion, at the structural level, about the kind of education that is provided to Canada’s Indigenous peoples. The article also discusses a social activist, Shannen Koostachin, and her campaign to engage in social action in order to pressure the federal government to build a new school.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2005.

Architecture Thesis (M.A.)--University of Waterloo, 2011.

Reports on a project that used a collaborative process to create a 13 minute whiteboard video about changing environments in Northern Canadian communities and distributed it to local people. Project stakeholders were able to resolve multiple challenges and feel whiteboard videos may provide a viable and culturally relevant way of disseminating information.

Discusses the strategies used by the First Nations Innovation initiative to deal with challenges and the opportunities created in providing infrastructural support in Indigenous communities. Provides a framework for creating sustainable telecommunications systems in isolated communities.

Provides information to help in the development of an Aboriginal school. Related documents: Report of the Aboriginal Education Task Force: Executive Summary. Aboriginal Culturally Focused Secondary School Initiative Report. Summary Report: SD #91 Aboriginal Education Needs Asse

William and Helen Trudeau discuss the traditional ways of gathering, preserving and storing food. They also talk about the origins of some traditional stories. Interpreter : E. Debassigae ; transcribed by J. Greenwood.

Negotiations of Treaty #8 regarding promises made, and requests for reserve land at Fort MacKay.

City Planning Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2009.

Assesses the efforts made to include Aboriginal peoples in the use of information and communications technologies and discusses constraints unique to Indigenous communities.

Comanche community in Oklahoma introduced a strategic planning process to restore harmony into the governance process.

Suggests that funds from land claim settlements be invested in local community small enterprises that will likely prove the most viable and culturally satisfying.

Eight residents reflect on their lives in the community. Information was gathered through a series of conversational interviews.

Interview is a general account of Mr. Ouellette's life.

Discussion of the opening ceremonies of a healing building for the terminally ill at the Whitehorse General Hospital.