Aboriginal Policy Research:
Setting The Agenda For Change — Vol. I & II

Editors: Jerry P. White, Paul Maxim, University of Western Ontario
and Dan Beavon, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Volume 1    240 pages, paper    ISBN 1-55077-142-6 ( 2004)
$34.95 CDN / US

Volume 2    312 pages, paper    ISBN 1-55077-143-4 ( 2004)
$34.95 CDN / US

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The research and policy discussions included in Aboriginal Policy Research, Volumes 1 and 2, offer a portion of the original papers presented at the first Aboriginal Policy Research Conference held in Ottawa in 2002.

Co-hosted by Indian and Northern Affairs and the University of Western Ontario, the conference promoted interaction between researchers, policy-makers, and Aboriginal peoples. It expanded on the knowledge of the social, economic, and demographic determinants of Aboriginal well-being, and it sought to identify and facilitate the means by which this knowledge may be translated into effective policies.

The texts are divided into complementary themes. Volume 1 begins with contextual research, followed by issues of demography and well-being, and concludes with the topical issue of education. The chapters in Volume 2 address the themes of economic development; health; gender issues; and crime, victimization, and healing.

Dan Beavon is director of the Research and Analysis Directorate, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. He has worked in policy research for twenty years and manages an Aboriginal research program on a variety of issues, including increasing the amount and quality of strategic information available to the policy process.

Jerry White is chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Western Ontario. He is co-director of the First Nations Cohesion Project at Western and co-author of Aboriginal Conditions: The Research Foundations of Public Policy (UBC Press, 2003).

Paul Maxim is Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Social Science, University of Western Ontario. He is co-director of the First Nations Cohesion Project at Western and co-author of Aboriginal Conditions: The Research Foundations of Public Policy (UBC Press, 2003).

Volume 1: Table of Contents

Introduction, Dan Beavon, Jerry White, and Paul Maxim

Part One: Historical   

1. The Policy Agenda of Native Peoples from World War II to the 1969 White Paper, John Leslie
2. History, the Courts, and Treaty Policy: Lessons from Marshall and Nisga’a, Jim Miller

Part Two: Demography and Well-Being   

3. Measuring the Well-Being of Aboriginal People: An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1981-96, Martin Cooke, Dan Beavon, and Mindy McHardy
4. Income and First Nations Elderly, Stephen Obeng Gyimah, Jerry White, and Paul Maxim
5. Reporting Métis in Urban Centres on the 1996 Census, Lorna Jantzen
6. Housing Discrimination among a Sample of Aboriginal People in Winnipeg and Thompson, Manitoba, Irwin Cohen and Raymond Corrado

Part Three: Education

7. An Examination of Educational Success, Jerry White, Paul Maxim, and Nicholas D. Spence
8. Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Canada, 1996, Jeremy Hull
9. Education and Lifetime Income for Aboriginal People in Saskatchewan, Eric Howe
10. Student Performance Data and Research Tools to Ensure Aboriginal Student Success, Heather Morin 
11. Educational Outcomes of Students Funded by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada: Illustration of a Longitudinal Assessment with Potential Application to Policy Research, Annette Vermaeten, Mary Jane Norris, and Marion Buchmeier

Volume 2: Table of Contents

Introduction, Dan Beavon, Jerry White, and Paul Maxim

Part One: Economic Development   

1. American Indian Tribes’ Financial Accountability to the United States Government: Context, Procedures and Implications, Catherine Curtis and Miriam Jorgensen
2. Situation de faible revenu de long terme des Autochtones hors reserve au Canada, Dominique Fleury
3. Aboriginal Development: The Process Is Critical to Success, Cynthia Chataway

Part Two: Health   

4. A Framework for Aboriginal Health Systems, Laurel Lemchuk-Favel and Richard Jock
5. Transforming Whose Knowledge? Exchanging Whose Best Practice? On Knowing about Indigenous Knowledge and Aboriginal Suicide, Michael Chandler and Christopher Lalonde
6. Social Capital in First Nations Communities: Concept and Measurement, Javier Mignone, Janet Longclaws, John O’Neil, and Cameron Mustard

Part Three: Gender Issues   

7. Matrimonial Real Property Issues On-Reserve, Wendy Cornet and Allison Lendor
8. Urban Aboriginal Women in British Columbia and the Impacts of Matrimonial Real Property Regime, Karen Abbott
9. Aboriginal Single Mothers in Canada, 1996: A Statistical Profile, Jeremy Hull
10. La Fécondité des Indiennes à 15 à 19 ans, 1980-99, Norbert Robitaille, Ali Kouaouci, and Eric Guimond
11. Unstated Paternity: Estimates and Contributing Factors, Stewart Clatworthy

Part Four: Crime, Victimization, and Healing   

12. Childhood Experiences of Aboriginal Offenders, Shelley Trevethan and John-Patrick Moore
13. Aboriginal Resource Access in Response to Criminal Victimization in an Urban Context, Raymond Corrado, Irwin Cohen, and Jesse Cale
14. Aboriginal Sexual Offending in Canada: A Review of the Evidence, John Hylton
15. A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Hollow Water First Nation’s Community Holistic Healing Process, Ed Buller