Aboriginal History, vol. 41, December 2017, pp. 95-120
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Article looks at mission guest books from Indigenous reservations in Victoria, Australia in order to examine the mind set and fixations of visitors participating in mission tourism in the region.
CMAJ, vol. 189, no. 46, November 20, 2017, pp. e1408-e1409
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Highlights Saskatoon Health Region's external review into allegations of Indigenous women being coerced into having tubal ligations, and the interim report on the death of Brian Sinclair, who was ignored for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency department.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, December 1986, pp. 45-49
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Author, who works with the Dietary-Nutrition Unit in the Aboriginal Health Programme in Cairns, Queensland, Australia describes how the goal is to provide useful information to reduce sickness.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, September 1986, pp. 5-8
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Describes the role of the Special Programmes Section of the Division of Health Promotion and how it assists Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander citizens to have more positive health outcomes.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, September 1986, pp. 30-31
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Discusses steps taken to ensure positive outcomes for conducting heart screening and other related testing in the remote community in Queensland, Australia.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, March/April 1994, pp. 18-19
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Looks at the reasons for removal, the loss of culture and identification, and continuing effects on adult children. Also discusses the organization Link-Up that assists Aboriginal people in finding their family.
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, December 2017, pp. 151-176
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Examines the construction of a homestead in Cambridge Downs (and its replica) alongside narratives which assert that the stout stone construction was designed as a defense against Aboriginal attacks, and considers other reasons that the design and materials may have been used.
Focuses on literature published about eight key areas of concern associated with transient health care workforce: patient exhaustion, wasted staff time, orientation, challenges in creating a primary care team, patient outcomes, continuity of care and communication, and building relationships with the community.
Based on a comparison of correspondence between local and imperial administrators in British North America and Australia, argues that development of system reveals entrenched conflict which lasted throughout the nineteenth century.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, March/April 1994, p. 26
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee to look at report and travel around Australia talking to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about state and territory implementation of recommendations.
Statistical Journal of the IAOS, vol. 35, no. 1, Special Issue, 2019, pp. 15-21
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Discusses the group's formation, composition, accomplishments and activities, challenges for health measurement, related efforts, and future directions.
Contains links to Australian music, artist profiles, awards, encyclopedia, recordings of powwow music, listing of Native American artists, record companies, etc.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 104-131
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Author considers different cases of Indigenous resistance; offers a critique of the process of settler-colonial nationhood citing Audra Simpson’s assertion in Mohawk Interruptus that “continued Indigenous defense undermines and corrupts the absolutism of settler-colonial nationhood”
Article explores the prevalence of content of the Indigenous-Australian people’s beliefs about little people. Findings show that many people believe in and encounter little people in contemporary contexts and that perceptions of their presence range from potentially frightening to seeing them as protectors of the land.
Discusses issues relating to ownership, representation, and control of open data, the individual and collective right to access and privacy, and current approaches to ownership, licensing and use.Chapterr 21 in The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons edited by Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker,
Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini.
Literature review conducted to explore three topics: primary methodological approaches used by researchers, extent of participation by Indigenous peoples and organizations, and institutional, organizational, and human capital competencies and gaps in Canada, and how they compare to those in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
Article outlines possibilities for the inclusion of Indigenous Games and Sports (IGaS) across Australian schools; authors provide details on IGaS and suggest appropriate pedagogy for teaching purposes. Authors argue that inclusion of IGaS can promote inclusive classrooms and social justice within the school setting.
Looks at the high rates of incarceration of Indigenous Australians and the economic and social costs of imprisonment, advocates for a holistic approach to reduce over-representation in the criminal justice system, and discusses possible initiatives and their cost.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 184-206
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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.