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Aboriginal Knowledge and Science Education Research Project
Gloria Snively, Lorna Williams Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2006, pp. 229-244. Examines project initiated to determine why Aboriginals are underrepresented in high school science classes, how to improve participation rates and promote the choice of science-related occupations. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 5, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Aboriginal Science Symposium: Enabling Aboriginal Student Success in Post-secondary Institutions
J. C. Kulig, M. Duke, J. Solowoniuk, R. Weaselfat, C. Shade, M. Lamb, B. Wojtowicz Rural and Remote Health, Vol. 10, No. 1, January-March 2010, pp. 1-7. Looks at Indigenous & Western scientific world views and discusses practices & recommendations in support of bridging the two knowledge systems to improve positive learning outcomes for Aboriginal students. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
American Indian Science Education: The Second Step
Eva Marie Garroutte American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1999, pp. 91-114. To move forward requires incorporation of Indigenous knowledge into curricula, which will be challenging as each community considers its own traditions and understandings. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 6, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
American Indian Spirituality, Traditional Knowledge, and the “Demon-Haunted” World of Western Science
Steve Pavlik American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1997, pp. 281-293. Comments on the book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 5, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
AMS Radiocarbon and Cation-Ratio Dating of Rock Art in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and Montana
Julie E. Francis, Lawrence L. Loendorf, Ronald I. Dorn American Antiquity, Vol. 58, No. 4, October 1993, pp. 711-738. Study evaluates usefulness of methods used for dating rock art. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
An Analysis of Western, Feminist and Aboriginal Science Using the Medicine Wheel of the Plains Indians
Lillian E. Dyck Native Studies Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1996, pp. 89-102. Explores how being female and/or holding Aboriginal beliefs can influence/change Western scientific medodologies and thought. Paper presented at the Women and Other Faces in Science Conference in Saskatoon, 1996 [Find offline items for Dyck, Lillian] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Anik I and Isolation: Television in the Lives of Canadian Eskimos
Gary 0. Coldevin Journal of Communications, Vol. 27, No. 4, December 1977, pp. 145-153. Discussion of a case study done in Frobisher Bay, NWT (now Iqaluit, Nunavut) that centers on the variables of: availability, exposure patterns, preferences in programming and language, knowledge of Canadian facts, perceptions and attitudes towards dominant information sources, leisure activities, and socioeconomic aspirations. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Animating Indigenous Knowledges in Science Education
Janine Metallic, Gale Seiler Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2009, pp. 115-130. Looks at how Indigenous knowledges can be used in the science classrooms. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Antibiotic Vitamin: Deficiency in Vitamin D May Predispose People to Infection
Janet Raloff Science News: The Weekly Newsmagazine of Science, Vol. 170, No. 20, November 11, 2006, pp. 312-313. Discusses how vitamin D helps fend off germs and helps fights the tuberculosis (TB) germ Mycobacterium tuberculosis. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Appropriate Technologies in the Traditional Native American Smokehouse: Public Health Considerations in Tribal Community Development
Mary Ellen Flanagan, Nicholas C. Zaferatos American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2000, pp. 69-93. Examines how the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community was able to build a ceremonial smokehouse and reduce the associated health risks, by applying appropriae technologies. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Archaeological Human Remains: Scientific, Cultural, and Ethical Considerations
D. Gareth Jones, Robyn J. Harris Current Anthropology, Vol. 39, No. 2, April 1998, pp. 253-265. Discusses the opposing scientific and ethical views regarding skeletal remains. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Arctic Health Policy: Contribution of Scientific Data
James E. Berner, Andrew Gilman International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Vol. 206, No. 4-5, 2003, pp. 351-362. States that scientific findings from research have influenced government policy, including those issues that involve Arctic Indigenous health and the disparities that exist in this region. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Aspartic Acid Racemization Ages of California Paleoindian Skeletons
Jeffrey L. Bada American Antiquity, Vol. 50, No. 3, July 1985, pp. 645-647. Redating of the Laguna and Los Angeles skeletal remains by accelerator mass spectrometry. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The ATS-6 Experiments in Health and Education: An Overview
Robert T. Filep Journal of Communication, Vol. 27, No. 4, December 1977, pp. 159-165. Assessment of the success of a program delivered by satellite which involved physicians, teachers, nurses, engineers, government officials, rural and urban residents and school children. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Biological Relationships among the Iroquois
Stephen P. Langdon Human Biology, Vol. 67, No. 3, June 1995, pp. 355-374. Examines the differences found in Iroquois and Algonquians to determine the genetic drift between them. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Bridging Canada's Digital Divide: First Nations' Access to New Information Technologies
Marian Bredin Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2001, pp. 191-215. Examines information disparities due to remote locations and lack of infrastructure, assesses policies which effect electronic access to information, and discusses the development of First Nations-controlled networks. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Bureaucracy, Democracy and Exclusion: Why Indigenous Knowledge Holders Have a Hard Time Being Taken Seriously
Chantelle Marlor Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 33, No. 4, December 2010, pp. 513-531. Compares two sets of biologists’ and two sets of First Nations’ ways of knowing about clams to explore differences between the two groups’ knowledge practices. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Cancer Control Research Training for Native Researchers: A Model for Development of Additional Native Researcher Training Programs
Thomas M. Becker, Esther Dunn, Lillian Tom-Orme, Jennie Joe American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, Special Issue on Research Case Studies, 2005, pp. 75-83. Addresses challenges to implement successful cancer control programs in Aboriginal communities. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Changing the Subject: Individual versus Collective Interests in Indian Country Research
Duane Champagne, Carole Goldberg Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 49-69. Discusses concerns by Native American communities of the impacts of science, research and information on nation building and the protection of their rights and culture. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 7, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Chemical Analysis of Archaeological Copper and Brass from Northeastern Ontario
R. G. V. Hancock, W. A. Fox, T. Conway, L. A. Pavlish Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Vol. 168, No. 2, February 1993, pp. 307-315. Metal samples studied to distinguish between those with European and North American origins so cultural impact of earliest aboriginal -European contact could be assessed. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Chronometric and Relative Age Determination of Petroglyphs in the Western United States
Ronald I. Dorn, David S. Whitley Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 74, No. 2, June 1984, pp. 308-322. New rock varnish technique of cation-ratio dating determines that petroglyphs in California are older than previously thought. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 7, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Clocking the First Americans
David J. Meltzer Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 24, October 1995, pp. 21-45. Issues raised in the debate over the possibility of Pre-Clovis peoples as the first North Americans. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Close Encounters: UFO Beliefs in a Remote Australian Aboriginal Community
Eirik Saethre Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , Vol. 13, No. 4, New Series, 2007, pp. 901-915. Discussion of Warlpiri residents who regularly sight and discuss unidentified flying objects (UFOs). More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Computer Experience of Menominee Indian Students: Gender Differences in Coursework and Use of Software
Jerilyn R. Grignon Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 32, No. 3, May 1993, pp. 1-15. Survey reveals females spend less time on games, programming, and software graphics use and are less likely to enrol in computer science courses in grade 12 or technical institutions. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Computers and Writing
Robert Hymer Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 27, No. 3, May 1988, pp. 35-41. Describes a project to improve writing abilities of Native American students by using a unified approach to instruction. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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