Discusses Australian context; crime levels; policing interventions carried out by communities; programs for violent crime; sentencing alternatives; education, drug and alcohol, support and community supervision; and initiatives in Canada, United States, and New Zealand.
Fifth Canadian Rural Health Society Conference: Rural Health: Celebrating Diversity and Strength, Sudbury, Ontario, October 21-24, 2004
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anelise Santo
Tara Lyons
Description
Identifies four contributing risk factors: sexually transmitted disease, substance abuse, social problems and cultural factors.Recommends further research and culturally sensitive community involvement to address epidemic.
Human Ecology, vol. 32, no. 4, August 2004, pp. 421-441
Description
Assesses the impacts of the 1984 change in Alaska fire policy from one of exclusion to one of management on Native land use in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife
Refuge.
Covers several themes: early childhood development, language and culture programs, teaching and curriculum, community involvement, student characteristics, and factors contributing to post-secondary success. Current as of 2001.
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kimberly Roppolo
Description
Examines Native American traditions of interaction and speech rules in literature.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, 2001, pp. 143-159
Description
Paper introduces complexity theory as a new conceptual approach to research in Native American studies and to gaming in particular. The paper argues that although gaming can have positives, it can also spawn major and irreversible changes in a community, perhaps even weaken a tribe and its sovereignty.
Journal of the West, vol. 40, no. 4, Fall, 2001, pp. 26-33
Description
Analyzes art works from the Plains ledger drawings produced at Fort Marian between 1875 and 1978, carved wooden figures by a Hopi artist, and contemporary paintings by a Navajo artist.
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 2017, pp. 290-321
Description
Argues that while school officials regarded the practice of placing male students as farm labourers during the summer months as a method of assimilation, many used their employment to serve their own purposes.
Curator of the exhibition entitled Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian discusses the exhibition about the pervasiveness of the image of the American Indian in popular culture and the controversy surrounding the validity of artist Jimmy Durham's Cherokee identity.
Duration: 58:51.
English Studies in Canada, vol. 30, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 29-38
Description
Discussion of U of S English Professor Len Findlay's exhortation to "Always Indigenize" and how universities are complacent with respect to the inequality of Indigenous peoples.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 47, no. 2, Summer, 2001, pp. 196-201
Description
Book review of: Indigenous Education Models for Contemporary Practice: In Our Mother's Voice edited by Maenette Kae'ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Beham and Joanne Elizabeth Cooper.
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.
Prairie Forum, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 1-24
Description
Explains how the authors used Métis genealogy to search for ancestors and trace them back to a French fur trader who lived in the mid-eighteenth century.