New Zealand

Coverage includes historical and contemporary leaders, governance, and political activism in Canada, the United States, Circumpolar region, Australia and New Zealand.

Examines the link between Indigenous librarianship and Indigenous approaches to knowledge systems in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Entry in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd Edition, edited by Marcia J. Bates, Mary Niles Maack.

Article describes a grass-roots initiative to integrate Indigenous language and cultural learning for Indigenous students into the mainstream education system in order to improve outcomes for students.

Looks at the beginning of video experiments in the 1980s up unto the start of Indigenous filmmaking in Australia and Indigenous television stations in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan.

Introduces themed issue with contributions from Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars working together to understand relationships between media and indigeneity in global and local contexts.

Evaluates whether Indigenous mortality patterns in Australia are different from those exhibited by other Indigenous groups in Canada, New Zealand, United States, and Alaska.

Shows Australian Aborigines, Canadian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maoris have comparable adult mortality rates with different causes of death.

Discusses a conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where Indigenous Nations talked to the World Council of Churches to ask for help stemming the tide of eroding cultures.

Discusses how members of the United League of Indigenous Nations, including Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, are looking at the issue of climate change.

Article works to highlight the diversity of the work being done by Indigenous artists from different communities within the new media arts, but also to explore the partnerships, networks, and practices of solidarity developing within and between these communities.

Paper attempts to understand instances of conflict that have arisen between indigenous communities and the Extractive Industries (EI) by providing an overview of issues.

Presented to the Indian Taxation Advisory Board and the Research and Analysis Directorate, Policy and Strategic Direction Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs.

Book review of: Indigenous Peoples and the Law edited by Benjamin J. Richardson, Shin Imai and Kent McNeil.

Contends that the children in family-based bicultural classes had fewer late, absent and dropout behaviours when compared to students in mainstream classes.

Study compares major areas of social and economic well-being, including life expectancy, educational attainment and median income in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Book review of: Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War by Timothy C. Winegard.

Illustrates how legislation has historically, and currently, grappled with the rights of Maori, in terms of the right to participate in the ownership and management of mountains.

Looks at the rationale presented in support of the state-driven standardisation process for restorative justice and strategies to be considered for responding to the state’s standardisation programme.

Discusses the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system. Chapter 8 from Introduction to Criminological Thought by R. Walters and T. Bradley.

Case studies of Marine Plan Partnership for the Pacific North Coast and the Great Bear Initiative and discussion of how principles involved might apply in the New Zealand context.

Discusses the different concepts influencing research: ontology; epistemology; methodology and axiology.

Discusses the socioeconomic outcomes from Indigenous commercial fishing in Canada & New Zealand; and identifies the need for Australia to rethink its policies to ensure that the same rights and benefits accrue to Indigenous Australians.

Studies works by Louise Erdrich, Louise Bell, Dawn Karima Pettigrew and Alan Duff. American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 2015.

Describes why indigenous self-determination, now accepted at both the national and international level, are hard rights to exercise due to the fact that they are not expressed in any specific institutional arrangement. *Research paper from Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy.

Discusses the nature of an Indigenous scholar’s journey of self-­discovery and reconciliation of colonial injustices.

Comments on the value of treaty making for both parties. Chapter 2 from Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People edited by Kathryn Shain, Marcia Langton, Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer.

Discusses programs operating at the University of Melbourne, University of Hawai'i and the University of Otago in terms of rationale, positioning within the curriculum, recruitment practices, and evaluation.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 2011.

Discusses statistics, storytellers, and the audience. States statistics are not neutral facts and the need for Indigenous data sovereignty. Duration: 50:39.

Looks at the link between literary and cinematic traditions in Māori culture and Native American cultures.

Looks at disengagement from a cultural viewpoint of Maori students in New Zealand and Seediq/Atayal students in Taiwan.

Risk factors include loss of culture, acculturative stress and unstable family situations or drug use.

Literature review of self-harm research with an emphasis on Australia. Outlines considerations in the primary care management of Indigenous self-harm.

Looks at patterns of suicide and attempted suicide among the Māori population.

Findings indicate a relationship between higher suicide rates, cultural assimilation and colonization challenges being faced by various groups.

Conclusion to Part 1 that appeared in Volume 28, Number 4, July/August 2004 of Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal. Author recommends more research to identify effective points of intervention.

Looks at the Declaration which encourages Indigenous people to work together to provide an integrated response and collective, networked leadership.

Examines the evolution of the relationship between tourism and Indigenous peoples; and discusses the proposed six-stage model and sustainability implications of the model.

Reviews the background to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and examines the role of the Permanent Forum.