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Urban Aboriginal Task Force: Ottawa Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joint Steering Committee
Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
Don McCaskill
Kevin Fitzmaurice
Study focused on: education, culture and identity, political representation, housing, economic development, racism, health, economically successful residents, youth issues, and gaps in social services. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey. Sample size of 340.
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Urban Aboriginal Task Force: Sudbury Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joint Steering Committee Urban Aboriginal Task Force (UATF)
Study focused on: demographics and mobility patterns, culture and identity, service delivery, racism, health, housing, income and employment, and issues specific to youth and women. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey. Sample size of 441 respondents; 182 participated in qualitative component and 259 participated in quantitative component.
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Urban Aboriginal Task Force: Thunder Bay Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joint Steering Committee
Urban Aboriginal Task Force (AFT)
Don McCaskill
Kevin Fitzmaurice
Study focused on: demographics and mobility patterns, service delivery, culture and identity, issues specific to youth and women, racism, and health. Research conducted through key informant interviews, life histories, focus groups and community survey. Sample size of 425.
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Urban Aboriginal Women in British Columbia and the Impacts of Matrimonial Real Property Regime

Alternate Title
Setting the Agenda for Change ; vol. 2
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 2
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 1st, 2002
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Karen L. Abbott
vol. 2

Study based on positive and negative experiences of women during marital breakdown.

Chapter eight from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 2, which is also vol. 2 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.

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Urban Aboriginals and Self-Government

Alternate Title
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Allan Blakeney
p. 356
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, raises implementation questions and suggests self-government transition could begin with institutional service-delivery to Aboriginal peoples being in the hands of Aboriginal peoples. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
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Urban Aboriginals Need a Voice

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Leader Post, April 5, 2004, p. B1
Argues that the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples don't address all the needs of First Nations people living in urban Saskatchewan.
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Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Data Sovereignty: Ethical Issues

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emily A. Haozous
Juliet Lee
Claradina Soto
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 77-97
While the majority of Indigenous people in the United States live in city areas their sovereign rights are left undefined or unprotected compared to if they lived in their traditional tribal communities. This article examines the ethical issues for researchers working with or about urban Indigenous people.
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Urban American Indian Caregiving During COVID-19

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Felina M. Cordova-Marks
Terry A. Badger
Robin B. Harris
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples, Part 1, 2020, pp. 5-19
Discusses the results of interviews with twenty survey participants; five themes emerged: concern about care recipient contracting the virus, increased caregiving intensity and medical care issues, changes to personal health behaviors, and support during the pandemic.
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An Urban American Indian Health Clinic's Response to a Community Needs Assessment

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Kate Dennis
Sandra L. Momper
Circle of Care Project Team
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 5, 2016, pp. 15-33
Looks at present services provided by the American Indian Health and Family Services of Southeast Michigan and results from needs assessment project, Gda'shkitoomi" (We are able).
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Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robert K. Whelan
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, Autumn, 2007, pp. 400-403
Book review of: Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives edited by Harry H. Hiller.
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Urban Clan Mothers: Key Households in Cities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Lobo
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer/Fall, 2003, pp. 505-522
Focuses on women who are strong, but low key activists, who extend many services to other urban community members and play many different roles to the people around them.
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Urban FASD Interventions: Bridging the Cultural Gap Between Aboriginal Women and Primary Care Physicians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Masotti
Karen Szala-Meneok
Peter Selby
Jennifer Ranford
Alison Van Koughnett
Journal of Fetal Alcohol Research International, vol. 1, no. e17, October 2003, pp. 1-8
Identifies core operational characteristics when developing intervention programs to fit the needs of both physicians and Aboriginal mothers.
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Urban First Nation Residential Development Manual

E-Books
Author/Creator
Jess Chhokar
Outlines sources of potential funding, partners available to assist First Nations, financing options and resources required purchase affordable housing. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
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Urban First Nations Health Research Discussion Paper

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Annette J. Browne
Heather McDonald
Denielle Elliott
Topics examined in report are: demographics, data sources, health status, determinants of health, jurisdictional issues, trends in research, and suggested topics for future research.
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Urban First Nations People with Disabilities Speak Out

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Douglas Durst
Shelly Manuel South
Mary Bluechardt
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 3, no. 1, The Health of Urban Aboriginal People: From Woundedness to Resilience, September 2006, pp. 34-43
Study reveals the Aboriginal rate of disabilities is twice the national average.
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Urban First Nations People Without Homes in Saskatchewan: Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies
Focuses on Prince Albert, Saskatoon, and Regina. Uses data from the 1996 Statistics Canada census survey and information gathered from interviews. Profiles homeless and identifies available resources, gaps in services, and barriers to access.
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Urban Hidden Homelessness and Reserve Housing

Alternate Title
Moving Forward, Making a Difference ; vol. 2
Aboriginal Policy Research ; vol. 4
Aboriginal Policy Research Conference ; 2nd, 2006
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Evelyn Peters
Vince Robillard
vol. 4

Based on project between Prince Albert Grand Council Urban Services Inc. and University of Saskatchewan. Chapter twelve from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 2, which is also vol. 4 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.

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Urban Housing and Aboriginal Governance

Alternate Title
National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
J. D. Crookshanks
Analyzes two programs, the Wichitowin in Edmonton and Aboriginal Visioning in Winnipeg, in terms of their ability to determine and carry out community goals. Excerpt from Well-Being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, Daniel Jetté. Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.
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Urban Indian Adjustment

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph H. Stauss
Bruce A. Chadwick
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 1979, pp. 1-22
Study conducted with 93 residents of Seattle, Washington looked at levels of economic, social and psychological adjustment, and correlations between those variables and length of residence and strength of cultural identity.
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The Urban Indian Experience in America

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Liz Grobsmith
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 142-143
Book review of: The Urban Indian Experience in America by Donald L. Fixico.
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Urban Indian Psychiatric Patients in Community Care

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ron Peters
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 1, no. 2, October 1987, pp. 16-31
Compares socioeconomic factors, social support, selected clinical characteristics, and more, between First Nations and Anglo Canadian mental health patients.
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Urban Indians and the Occupation of Alcatraz Island

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam (Nordwall) Fortunate Eagle
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 33-58
Discussion about the ideals of assimilation and regaining one's culture.
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Urban Indians, Native Networks, and the Creation of Modern Regional Identity in the American Southwest

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cathleen D. Cahill
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 71-92
Article explores how Indigenous opera singers in the Southwestern United States in the 1920's used their platform as performers to publicize Indigenous histories; highlights the mobility of Indigenous peoples and how they helped to create modern urban spaces in the Southwest.
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