Aboriginal Policy Research:
Vol. III, IV, and V Moving Forward, Making a Difference

Editors for Volume 3 and 4: Jerry P. White, Paul Maxim, University of Western Ontario and Dan Beavon, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Editors for Volume 5: Jerry P. White, Paul Maxim, University of Western Ontario, and Dan Beavon, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Volume 3 348 pages, paper ISBN 978-1-55077-162-0 (2006)
$36.95 CDN / US

Volume 4 306 pages, paper ISBN 978-1-55077-164-7 (2007)
$36.95 CDN / US

Volume 5 190 pages (approx.), paper ISBN 978-1-55077-165-7 (2007)
$34.95 CDN / US

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The research and policy discussions included in Aboriginal Policy Research, Volumes III and IV, offer a portion of the original papers presented at the second Aboriginal Policy Research Conference held in Ottawa in 2006. Co-chaired by Dan Beavon of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Jerry White of the University of Western Ontario, and Peter Dinsdale of the National Association of Friendship Centres, the conference promoted interaction between researchers, policy-makers, and Aboriginal peoples. It expanded knowledge of the social, economic, and demographic determinants of Aboriginal well-being, and sought to identify and facilitate the means by which this knowledge may be translated into effective policies.
Volumes III and IV are divided into complementary themes. Volume III begins with a look at education and employment transitions, followed by issues of socio-economic well-being, and concludes with some international research. The chapters in Volume IV address the themes of health, governance, and housing and homelessness.

The fifth volume in the Aboriginal Policy Research series derives from the proceedings of a pre-conference workshop on gender issues related to defining identity and Indian status (often referred to as Bill C-31). This book has two guest editors, Wendy Cornet and Erik Anderson, who were instrumental in the organizing of the workshop.

About the Editors:

Jerry P. White is Professor and Senior Adviser to the Vice President (Provost) at the University of Western Ontario and the Director of the Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium (International). He has written and co-written 11 books on health care and Aboriginal policy.

Susan Wingert is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. She is also a Research Associate with the Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium.

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 that focuses on a variety of issues, including increasing the amount and quality of strategic information available to the policy process.

Paul Maxim became Associate Vice President for Research at Wilfirid Laurier University in July 2006. His primary research interests are in demographic processes and the socio-economic participation of Aboriginal people in Canadian society.

Volume III: Table of Contents

Introduction Jerry White, Dan Beavon, and Susan Wingert

Part One: Education and Employment Transitions

1. The Determinants of Employment Among Aboriginal Peoples, Coryse Ciceri and Katherine Scott
2. School Completion and Workforce Transitions among Urban Aboriginal Youth, Paul Maxim and Jerry White
3. Culture-sensitive Mathematics: The Walpole Island Experience, Anthony N. Ezeife
4. A New Approach to Understanding Aboriginal Educational Outcomes: The Role of Social Capital, Jerry White, Nicholas Spence, and Paul Maxim
5. Aboriginal Occupational Gap: Causes and Consequences Costa Kapsalis

Part Two: Dimensions of Socio-economic Well-being

6. Responding to Climate Change in Nunavut: Policy Recommendations James Ford and Johanna Wandel
7. Policies and Practices Affecting Aboriginal Fathers’ Involvement with their Children Jessica Ball and Ron George
8. Building Governance Capacity: The Case of Potable Water in First Nations Communities John Graham and Evlyn Fortier
9. A Glass Half Empty: Drinking Water in First Nations Communities Sarah N. Morales
10. Inuit Research Comes to the Fore Robert M. Bone
11. Aboriginal Languages in Canada: Trends and Perspectives on Maintenance and Revitalization Mary Jane Norris

Part Three: International Research

12. Introduction to International Research: Internalization Elsa Stamatopoulou and Éric Guimond
13. Natural Resource Management and Indigenous Well-being Brenda Dyack and Romy Greiner
14. Towards a Maori Statistics Framework Whetu Wereta and Darin Bishop
15. The Impact of Australian Policy Regimes on Indigenous Population Movement: Evidence from the 2001 Census John Taylor
16. Indigenous People of Norther Siberia: Human Capital, Labour Market Participation, and Living Standards Zemfira Kalugina, Svetlana Soboleva, and Vera Tapilina

Volume IV: Table of Contents

Introduction Jerry White, Dan Beavon, and Susan Wingert

Part One: Health

1. Exploring Indigenous Concepts of Health: The Dimensions of Métis and Inuit Health Chantelle A.M. Richmond, Nancy A. Ross, and Julie Bernier
2. Aboriginal Participation in Health Planning: Representation, Reconciliation, and Relationship-Building with an Aboriginal Advisory Committee Geeta Cheema
3. The Transition from the Historical Inuit Suicide Pattern to the Present Inuit Suicide Pattern Jack Hicks, Peter Bjerregaard, and Matt Berman
4. A Regional Model for Ethical Engagement: The First Nations Research Ethics Committeee on Manitoulin Island Marion A. Maar, Mariette Sutherland, and Lorrilee McGregor
5. Healing Historic Trauma: A Report from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation Marlene Brant Castellano and Linda Archibald
6. A Cultural Approach to Aboriginal Youth Sport and Recreation: Observations from Year One Janice Forsyth, Michael Heine, and Joannie Halas

Part Two: Governance

7. The Reconstruction of Inuit Collective Identity: From Cultural to Civic: The Case of Nunavut André Légaré
8. Perceptions of Implementation: Treaty Signatory Views of Treaty Implementation Jean-Pierre Morin
9. Inuit Women Reach a Deadlock in the Canadian Political Arena: A Phenomenon Grounded in the Iglu Carole Cancel
10. Organizing Indigenous Governance in Canada, Australia, and the United States Stephen Cornell
11. Successful First Nations Policy Development: Delivering Sustainability, Accountability, and Innovation Jennifer Brennan

Part Three: Housing and Homelessness

12. Urban Hidden Homelessness and Reserve Housing Evelyn Peters and Vince Robillard
13. Aboriginal Mobility and Migration: Trends, Recent Patterns, and Implications: 1971–2001 Stewart Clatworthy and Mary Jane Norris
14. A New Beginning: National Non-reserve Aboriginal Housing Strategy Charles Hill
15. A New Open Model Approach to Projecting Aboriginal Populations Stewart Clatworthy, Mary Jane Norris, and Éric Guimond
16. Spatial Residential Patterns of Aboriginals and their Socio-economic Integration in Selected Canadian Cities T.R. Balakrishnan and Rozzett Jurdi

Volume V: Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1   The Historical Dimension

Edna Francis

Chapter 1 “The Search for Consensus: A Legislative History of Bill C-31, 1969-1985" [Gerard Hartley]

Chapter 2  “Revisiting Histories of Legal Assimilation, Racialized Injustice, and the Future of Indian Status in Canada”
[Martin Cannon]

Part 2   Community Impacts

Shirley Clarke

Chapter 3 “Bill C-31: A Study of Cultural Trauma”
[Jo-Anne Fiske and Evelyn George]

Chapter 4 “Impacts of the 1985 Indian Act Amendments: A Case Study of Brokenhead Ojibway Nation
[Stewart Clatworthy]

Part 3    Demographic Impacts

Ethelyne Peck

Chapter 5 “Indian Registration, Membership, and Population Change in First Nations Communities” 
[Stewart Clatworthy]

Part 4    Legal Issues and Future Directions

Barbara Dorey

Chapter 7 “Indian Registration: Unrecognized and Unstated Paternity” [Michelle Mann]
Chapter 8 “Indian Status, Band Membership, First Nation Citizenship, Kinship, Gender, and Race: Reconsidering the Role of Federal Law”
[Wendy Cornet]