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    Indigenous Language Knowledge and Educational Attainment Among First Nations ...

    This study investigated whether associations between Indigenous language knowledge and educational outcomes might be changing for cohorts of language speakers over time. Using...
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    A Community-Based Leadership Development Program for First Nations Women: Rev...

    Over 400 First Nation women participated in leadership development workshops developed by First Nation women for First Nation women. We collected survey data and conducted focus...
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    No Jordan’s Principle Cases in Canada? A Review of the Administrative Respons...

    Jordan’s Principle is a child first principle intended to ensure that First Nations children do not experience delay, denial, or disruption of services because of jurisdictional...
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    Aboriginal Language and School Outcomes: Investigating the Associations for Y...

    Being taught an Aboriginal language at school has generally been associated with positive school outcomes for Aboriginal children but not adults. This study attempted to...
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    Digital Data Management as Indigenous Resurgence in Kahnawà:ke

    Indigenous peoples are addressing the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism through a variety of expressions of community resurgence. Among these initiatives are those...
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    Multi-Barrier Protection of Drinking Water Systems in Ontario: A Comparison o...

    In some way or another, all levels of government in Canada and First Nations share responsibility to implement multi-barrier protection of drinking water. The goal is to protect...
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    The Far North Act (2010) Consultative Process: A New Beginning or the Reinfor...

    In northern Ontario, Canada, there have been two “negotiated” documents that required consultation between First Nations and the federated government of the land: Treaty No. 9...
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    First Nations Women in Northern Ontario: Health, Social, and Community Priori...

    This article reports on data from women dwelling in First Nations communities regarding (1) baseline statistics about women’s circumstances, needs, interests, and opportunities...
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    Aboriginal Knowledge Infusion in Initial Teacher Education at the Ontario Ins...

    Knowledge of the Aboriginal socio-political history in Canada has historically been excluded from public education. In Ontario, public school children learn about Aboriginal...
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    Finding Common Ground: A Critical Review of Land Use and Resource Management ...

    This article provides an in-depth analysis of selective land use and resource management policies in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It examines their relative capacity to...
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    Book Review: Daschuk, J. (2013). Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of St...

    This article is a critical review of James Daschuk's book, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics, Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life.
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    Do Factors Other than SES Explain Differences in Child Outcomes Between Child...

    This study used data from the Aboriginal Children’s Survey (ACS) to explore differences in behavioural outcomes for First Nations children born to teen and older mothers living...
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    Square Peg, Round Hole: First Nations Drinking Water Infrastructure and Feder...

    Despite nearly a decade of targeted federal government efforts to provide potable water to First Nations communities in Canada, drinking water advisories and piped-water...
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    Media Representations of Policies Concerning Education Access and their Roles...

    We employed postcolonial theory, a case study methodology, and critical discourse analysis to investigate the ways in which non-First Nations and First Nations news sources...
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    Disrupting the Continuities Among Residential Schools, the Sixties Scoop, and...

    In Canada, it is estimated that 3 times as many Indigenous children are currently in the care of the state compared to when the residential schools’ populations were at their...
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    Policy Writing as Dialogue: Drafting an Aboriginal Chapter for Canada's Tri-C...

    Writing policy that applies to First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada has become more interactive as communities and their representative organizations press for...
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    Transforming First Nations Health Care in British Columbia: An Organizational...

    Following a series of agreements on First Nations health care in British Columbia beginning in 2005, several organizations were created to contribute to the development of a...
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    Water Ethics for First Nations and Biodiversity in Western Canada

    The increasing division of academic disciplines and bureaucracy has led to the compartmentalization of knowledge on water security, biodiversity, Indigenous rights, and...
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    Discrimination Against First Nations Children with Special Healthcare Needs i...

    First Nations children face systemic barriers in their access to health, education, and social services ordinarily available to other Canadian children. This article summarizes...
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    "Is it Safe?" Risk Perception and Drinking Water in a Vulnerable Population

    Access to safe drinking water is a pressing social policy issue globally. Despite the milestones reached in this area of Canadian public health, marginalized and vulnerable...