Report: The Aboriginal Justice Research Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vivien Carli
Description
Responding to the increasing number of Aboriginal people in Montreal coming into contact with the criminal justice system this study looks at over-reliance of imprisonment and lack of programming regarding a prevention approach.
Reporting Métis in Urban Centres on the 1996 Census
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
Lorna Jantzen
vol. 1
Description
Argues that combining concepts of ethnic origin and Métis identity would provide a more complete picture of the population. Looks at statistics for Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver.
Chapter five from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 1 which is also vol. 1 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.
Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.
Representation Strategies in Public Participation in Health Policy: The Aboriginal Community Health Council
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Darryl Quantz
Wilfreda E. Thurston
Health Policy, vol. 75, no. 3, February 2006, pp. 243-250
Description
Case study of the Calgary Health Region's council, with its model of participation by Aboriginal population; assesses strengths and future challenges of the process.
Research Report: Background for an Inuit Children and Youth Strategy for Ontario
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catalyst Research and Communication
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2015, pp. 57-64
Description
Provides specific suggestions for Inuit-specific service system to improve educational and health outcomes for youth in urban centres.
Reserving Identities
Alternate Title
Asha Reports
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Asha Siad
Levi First Charger
Casey Eagle Speaker
Kristy North Peigan
Carissa Auger
Description
Looks at the challenges faced by Aboriginal youth who are trying to find a balance between maintaining cultural roots and living in the mainstream world.
Duration: 31:30.
Resettling Musqueam Park: Property, Landscape, and "Indian Land" in British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer A. Hamilton
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 29, no. 1, May 2006, pp. 88-109
Description
Discusses the ramifications of a dispute between the band and its tenants over rent increases.
Residential Mobility of Aboriginal Single Mothers in Winnipeg: An Exploratory Study of Chronic Moving
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ian Skelton
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 17, no. 2, April-June 2002, pp. 127-144
Description
Includes a literature review on residential mobility and an examination of the specific case of women in Winnipeg.
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives, Part I: Services and Staff
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bentson H. McFarland
Dale Walker
Patricia Silk-Walker
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2017, pp. 61-106
Description
Study found that agencies provided a substantially broader range of services, including culturally specific programs, "mainstream" treatments, and ancillary services such as care for clients children.
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives, Part II: Costs
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bentson H. McFarland
Dale Walker
Patricia Silk-Walker
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2017, pp. 107-126
Description
Found that one agency was within national norms and the other's expenditures were less than expected. Proves that services can be provided within budgets found at mainstream facilities.
Residential Urban Reserves: Issues and Options for Providing Adequate and Affordable Housing
E-Books
Author/Creator
Joseph Garcea
Description
Explores the possibility of creating these reserves as solution to the housing issues facing First Nation members in Saskatoon. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
Resilience and Urban Aboriginal Women
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gina Scarpino
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Resistance and Resiliency: Addressing Historical Trauma of Aboriginal Peoples, March 2007, pp. 33-55
Description
Looks at the research focusing on the strengths of four urban Aboriginal women, including a critique of the Western concept definition of resilience, and the process of resilience from the cultural framework of the Medicine Wheel, while applying post-colonial Indigenous epistemological and methodological approaches.
Resiliency in Crisis: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Urban American Indian Nonprofit Sector
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Urban Indian Family Coalition
Description
Reports results of national survey of members, partners, and grantees (over 40 organizations) about issues they were experiencing on the front lines. Primary community needs were employment placement, housing stability, food security, and mental health services. Organizations' were facing severe budget issues as a result of disruption of revenue streams and therefore were being forced to scale back operations. Includes recommendations for governments and philanthropies.
Respiratory Isolation for Tuberculosis: The Experience of Indigenous Peoples on the Canadian Prairies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M. Mayan
T. Robinson
R. Gokiert
M
Tremblay
S. Abonyi ... [et al.]
Public Health Action, vol. 7, no. 4, 2017, pp. 275-281
Description
Using interviews to create an overview of the experiences of Indigenous people living with tuberculosis and the impact of isolation policies.
Responding to Racism: Insights on How Racism Can Damage Health From an Urban Study of Australian Aboriginal People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anna M. Ziersch
Gilbert Gallaher
Fran Baum
Michael Bentley
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 73, no. 7, October 2011, pp. 1045-1053
Description
Study shows that two thirds of the 153 participants interviewed, felt racism impacted their health.
Restoring Our Roots: Land-Based Community by and for Indigenous Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Fast
Melanie Lefebvre
Christopher Reid
Brooke Wahsontiiostha Deer
Dakota Swiftwolfe ... [et al.]
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 16, no. 2, Wisdom of the Elders: Honouring Spiritual Laws in Indigenous Knowledge, 2021, pp. 120-138
Description
Restoring Our Roots is research project that creates an inclusive sense of community using traditional land-based teachings to improve mental health by encourage Indigenous youth to reconnect with their own culture.
Restoring the Blessings of the Morning Star: Childbirth and Maternal-Infant Health for First Nations Near Edmonton, Alberta
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adrienne Dawn Wiebe
Sylvia Barton
Laura Auger
Em Pijl-Zieber
Caroline Foster-Boucher
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 47-68
Description
Interviewed 75 Cree and Stoney women and found a feeling of loss and geographic separation from elders, family and community as pregnancy care moved out of the community.
Results of a Culturally Relevant, Physical Activity-Based Wellness Program for Urban Indigenous Women in Alberta, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sonja Wicklum
Megan Sampson
Rita Henderson
Shelley Wiart
Grace Perez ... [et al.]
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 14, no. 2, Growing Roots of Indigenous Wellbeing, October 31, 2019, pp. 169-204
Description
Study evaluates the impact of an eight week wellness program designed to support Indigenous women’s efforts to increase physical activity levels, improve nutrition, and develop support systems for improved health. Results show that program was well-received and has potential for wider implementation.
Rethinking Image and Narrative at the Heart of Empire: Notes from Indigenous London
Alternate Title
Frank Davis Memorial Lectures 2018
Art History: Decentred Recentred
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Coll Thrush
Description
Presenter discusses how there has been a record of an Indigenous travelers to London dating as far back as 1502, which debunks the common attitude that Indigenous peoples and urbanity and modernity are mutually exclusive.
Duration: 48:36
Rethinking Research: Learning Opportunities within a Native American Urban Context
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lori Faber
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 55, no. 1, Spring, 2016, pp. 4-22
Description
Looks at the benefits in participating in community-based research for Indigenous youth in Urban Indigenous communities.
Rethinking the Jurisdictional Divide: The Marginalization of Urban Aboriginal Communities and Federal Policy Responses
Alternate Title
Public Policy Paper (Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy) ; no. 28
SIPP Public Policy Paper ; no. 28
E-Books
Author/Creator
Janice Stokes
Ian Peach
Raymond B. Blake
Description
Discussion of urbanization and the limitations of services to off-reserve people. Argues that past policies and programs have not met with real success.
Rethinking the Seeming Naturalness of Reserves: The Role of the City in Contemporary Aboriginal Territories from a Legal Perspective
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ioana Comat
INDITERRA, no. 5, [Nouvelles géographies des pratiques autochtones], 2013, pp. [13]-24
Description
Article based on a presentation given during the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers held February 2012.
Retribalization in Urban Indian Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terry Straus
Debra Valentino
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 103-115
Description
Looks at, what the author calls "internal colonialism", how a whole generation have been born, raised and socialized in the city and cut off from the "natural" world.
Reverberations of Narrative Inquiry: How Resonant Echoes of an Inquiry With Early School Leavers Shaped Further Inquiries
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jean Clandinin
Sean Lessard
Vera Caine
Educacao Sociedade & Culturas, no. 36, 2012, pp. 7-24
Description
Looks at educational experiences of youth that did not complete high school and Aboriginal youths and their families in an urban junior high school.
Review Essay: Justice and Healing: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Alternate Title
Purich's Aboriginal Issues Series
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dara Culhane
Critical Criminology, vol. 6, no. 2, 1995, pp. 140-160
Description
Book reviews of:
Indigenous Peoples of the World: An Introduction to Their Past, Present, and Future by Brian Goehring.
The Cypress Hills: The Land and its People by Walter Hildebrandt and Brian Hubner.
Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: Current Trends and Issues edited by John Hylton.
Continuing Poundmaker and Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice edited by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson and Roger Carter.
REVIEW ESSAYS: Urban Survival Stories: The Poetry of Chrystos
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Victoria Brehm
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 73-82
Description
Discusses themes and issues incorporated into the poems in such works as Not Vanishing, In Her I Am, Fugitive Colors, and Fire Power.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Review of: Aboriginal People and Other Canadians Shaping New Relationships. Edited by Martin Thornton, Roy Todd, and David N. Collins.
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 2004, p. 158
Description
Book review of: Aboriginal People and Other Canadians edited by Martin Thornton, Roy Todd, and David N. Collins.