As a group, write a literature review on the topic of homeless, Indigenous youth.

Find sources that use both Western and Indigenous ways of knowing

Write the document from a Two Eyed Seeing perspective. 

Length:  approximately 35-50 pages 

What is a literature review?

It describes and evaluates the research that has been done in a particular area. 

• In general, a literature review should be a concise and comprehensive discussion of a narrow, well-defined research question.
• The goal is usually to identify relationships, contradictions, controversies, gaps and potential next steps in the research.

Why do it?

• Reviewing the literature on your topic gives your ideas for your research question
• It helps you understand the big picture and background to your topic so that you can identify where your proposed research fits in the existing body of knowledge.

What is it for?

• Providing a literature review as part of your research paper lets the reader know what literature you examined, what research is being drawn upon and demonstrates your knowledge of the topic.
• A literature review demonstrates how and why your research question is important and worth pursuing.

Literature reviews should synthesize and compare studies that discuss different aspects of your topic, depending on your purpose (for example, you might compare experimental method, population studied, theoretical framework, etc.).

Phrase your topic in the form of a research question:

Example: 

What are the key causes of Indigenous youth homelessness?

Consider key terms in your question to develop a database search:

"Indigenous youth"   homeless*

Add your research question to the Jamboard

Use the MRU LibrarySearch tool - the search box on the library homepage - to find information in all formats (books, journal articles, videos, magazines) simultaneously.

LibrarySearch Tips:​

• Sign in! This allows you to save the items you "pin" to a favourites list (look for the push pin icon), and also allows you to save search queries. 
• Use the sidebar options (e.g. limit results to only relevant subjects, or to preferred resource type, e.g., books)
• using the advanced search to search for important terms in the subject or title fields on the drop-down menus.
• refining results to only peer-reviewed sources (searches only within scholarly journals)

i-Portal: Indigenous Studies Portal

• The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal), is a database of full-text electronic resources including articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, and digitized archival documents and photographs. The iPortal content has a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.

National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health

• Supports First Nations, Inuit, and Métis public health renewal and health equity through knowledge translation and exchange.

Endaamnaan: Homes for All Nations: A First Nations Homelessness Literature Review (2022)

• Literature review by Jessica Rumboldt (Canadian Observatory on Homelessness) on behalf of the Assembly of First Nations.