International Journal of Children's Rights , vol. 20, 2012, pp. 279-299
Description
Looks at policies and consequences relating to Indigenous children in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand effected by boarding schools and transracial adoption.
Looks at Indigenous knowledge and reproduction in a New Zealand setting using purakau (narrative) methodology. Includes connections between humans, spiritual domains and environment.
Neoliberalism and Indigenous Knowledge: Maori Health Research and the Cultural Politics of New Zealand's "National Science Challenges"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric Prussing
Elizabeth Newbury
Social Science and Medicine, vol. 150, 2016, pp. 57-66
Description
Discusses an initiative to restructure national scientific research funding and the way it was critiqued by Maori researchers for its failure to include their input or perspectives. Study looked at documents produced by the government ministry responsible for the policy, media coverage and blogs, and conducted interviews with 17 Māori researchers.
Journal of Enterprising Communities, vol. 6, no. 3, Special Issue: Indigenous Communities, the Bioeconomy and Natural Resource Development, 2012, pp. 271-283
Description
Looks at value based economics in Indigenous business.
Discusses risk factors for suicide including: gender, food insecurity, family connections, life dissatisfaction, religious affiliation, and previous suicide by family or friend.
Drug and Alcohol Review, vol. 31, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 56-63
Description
Study indicated there is a scope for community pharmacists to undertake screening and brief intervention for risky drinking and that customers find this to be acceptable.
Looks at Indigenous identity politics between iwi (political identity) and Hokianga whanui (the more culturally appropriate identity within the wider family community).
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, vol. 12, no. 4, December 2012, pp. 389-414
Description
Looks at the study of five First Nations communities with young children participating in the Aboriginal Head Start on Reserve (AHSOR) program concluding that many practices used by parents and caregivers constitute literacy.