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Organizing for Community Control

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Cassidy
Northern Review, no. 7, Rural and Northern Social Work, Summer, 1991, pp. 17-34
Description
Looks at a selective review of the literature on community development and participation to assess and describe measures of control.
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Orientation of New Health Workers at Their Workplace

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Edgar Williams
Sue Rayner
John Austin
Bev McDonald
Ann Gray
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, July/August 1997, pp. 18-20
Description
Describes the development of employment orientation package for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers employed by the Queensland (Australia) Health Authority.
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Our Generation

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sinem Saban
Damien Curtis
Description
Award-winning documentary about Aboriginal rights and the response to the Australian Federal Government's Northern Territory Intervention which exerts compulsory control over 73 communities. Duration: 1:13:42. Accompanied by Study Guide
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Our Generation: A Study Guide

Alternate Title
Screen Education
E-Books
Author/Creator
Robert Lewis
Description
To accompany to award-winning film about violations of Aboriginal rights in Australia.
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Our Home on Native Land: Pauingassi

Alternate Title
Our Home on Native Land Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jonathan Craven
Description
Documentary on the Ojibwa community of Pauingassi, Manitoba. Duration: 59:29.
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Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery: An Archaeological Approach to Cemetery Management

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mike A. Markowski
Kara Wolfe
Troy Zimmer
Saskatchewan History, vol. 67, no. 1, Spring, 2015, pp. 20-27
Description
Describes a project undertaken by the St. Laurent Shrine Committee, with the help of Canada North Environmental Services, in 2013 to complete a detailed recording of all marked and unmarked graves located in Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery in the Métis community of St. Laurrent. Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 20.
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Our Land, Our Language: Connecting Dispossession and Health Equity in an Indigenous Context

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen J. Brown
Gladys McPherson
Ruby Peterson
Vera Newman
Barbara Cranmer
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research , vol. 44, no. 2, Indigenous Peoples Health and Health-Care Equity, 2012, pp. 44-63
Description
Discusses how neoliberal ideologies sustain medical colonialism and inequities and the implications for nursing actions.
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Our Northern Citizen

Alternate Title
Perspective: Arctic Essay: 3
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Howe
Description
Covers three topics: relocation of Aklavik, effects of development and project to introduce reindeer herds to the area. Duration: 30:00.
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Our Physical Environment: What We Must Do About It

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stan Linco
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 2, March 1978, pp. 24-28
Description
Reports on requirements for minimal physical environment standards in remote communities in Australia.
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Our Sacred Water: Theorizing Kuuyam as a Decolonial Possibility

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Sepulveda
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 40-58
Description
Describes the polluted state of the Santa Ana River in southern California and how it came to be so. Considers traditional perspectives of the Acjachemen and Tongva tribes regarding "guests" as a way to re-center a Indigenous view of the land.
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Our Social Environment: Views From Health Workers

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Naiti Munungguritj
Judy Purray Burray
Dorothy Gemuluwuy
Phyllis Bara
Elaine Mamarika
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, March 1978, pp. 4-8
Description
Australian health workers discuss the cross cultural challenges and rapid change as it impacts a remote area of the Northern Territory.
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Out in the Cold: The Legacy of Canada's Inuit Relocation Experiment in the Arctic

Alternate Title
IWGIA [International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs] ; document 71
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alan R. Marcus
Description
Examines the government's decision to move families to the High Arctic where they found conditions very different from their traditional territory, as well as its refusal to move them back at the of end two years as promised. Government claims it was done for humanitarian reasons, while others assert that it was carried out to establish sovereignty over the area.
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Overcoming a Culture of Low Expectations

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jessica Brown
Issue Analysis, no. 131, March 28, 2012, pp. [1]-[4]
Description
Comments on the attitude of disadvantaged Australians as well as the governments and the communities attitudes.
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Overcoming the Obstacles: Postsecondary Education and Aboriginal Peoples

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane P. Preston
Brock Education Journal, vol. 18, 2008, pp. [57]-65
Description
Discusses the historical, educational, social, economical, geographical, cultural, and financial obstacles that prevent Indigenous people from qualifying for a post secondary education and some suggestions to help overcome these obstacles.
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An Overview of NRPR's Public Engagement Process, 2011-2013 [Part 2]

Alternate Title
Annual ReSDA [Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic] Conference ; 3rd, 2013
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Anna Ziegler
Description
Discusses process to talk about engaging the public through community sessions and building on themes for action in regional roundtable discussions. Duration: 16:07.
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An Overview of Registered Indian Conditions in Canada

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
N. H. Lithwick
Marvin Schiff
Eric Vernon
Description
Historical data based on 1981 Census. Analysis of key demographic, social and economic indicators and comparison between on- and off-reserve populations.
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Pan-Territorial Report: A Study of Women's Homelessness North of 60

Alternate Title
Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Judie Bobb
Rian van Bruggen
Shylah Elliott
Lyda Fuller
Mira Hache ... [et al.]
Description
Results of interviews or focus group sessions with 205 women (66 in the Northwest Territories, 66 in Yukon and 73 in Nunavut). Fifty-three percent were Inuit, 30 percent First Nations, 10 percent Caucasian, 5 percent Inuvialuit, 1 percent Métis, and 1 percent immigrant. Chapter 4.5 of Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada edited by J. David Hulchanski, Phillippa Campsie, Shirley B.Y. Chau ... [et al.].
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Pap Smears in Normanton

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Audrey Callope
Sheila Rainbow
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, June 1983, pp. 5-8
Description
Describes how a remote community set up a screening process.
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Parasuicide, Self-Harm and Suicide in Aboriginal People in Rural Australia: A Review of the Literature with Implications for Mental Health Nursing Practice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicholas G. Procter
International Journal of Nursing Practice, vol. 11, no. 5, October 2005, pp. 237-241
Description
Contends innovative leadership and clinical practices can benefit the design and delivery of mental health services as well as the individuals for whom it is intended.
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Parental Roles in Rural Alaska Education: A Model for the Circumpolar North?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Erickson
Gerald A. McBeath
Northern Review, no. 20, Summer [Winter], 1999, pp. 11-40
Description
Looks at environment of school-community interactions, involvement in children's schooling, and patterns of control related to student success. Interviews were conducted with parents, teachers, administrators and influential community members in over 20 sites between 1982 and 1993.
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Participatory Video Making for Research and Health Promotion in Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities: Methodological and Ethical Implications

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Craig Sinclair
Peter Keelan
Samuel Stokes
Annette Stokes
Christine Jeffries-Stokes
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2015, pp. 2-16
Description
Comments on the use of the participatory video method to engage children in remote Aboriginal communities to participate in health research.
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