Études Inuit Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, Espaces-Lieux-Noms / Spaces-Places-Names, 2004, pp. 231-233
Description
Book review of: Akuzilleput Igaqullghet Our Words Put to Paper compiled and edited by Igo Krupnik, Willis Walunga (Kepelgu) and Vera Metcalf (Qaakaghlleq).
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, 1995, pp. 125-133
Description
Argues that the Exxon Valdex oil spill would become the scapegoat for the many changes in the Alutiiq environment that have occurred in the twentieth century, including glacier ice melt, earthquakes, tidal waves, avalanches, volcanic eruptions and massive storms.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, Espaces-Lieux-Noms / Spaces-Places-Names, 2004, pp. 226-230
Description
Book review of 2 books by Waldemar Jochelson: Archaeological Investigations in the Aleutian Islands and History, Ethnology and Anthropology of the Aleut.
Text in French.
Proceedings of the Northern Research Forum ; 3rd, 2004
The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sven Haakanson
Description
Looks at how world economies and the tourist industry impact Indigenous regions of the United States.
Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Humans Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, Art et Représentation / Art and Representation, 2004, pp. 109-132
Description
Argues that the driftwood found in Arctic archaeological sites has not been adequately analyzed and that a database should be developed to improve interpretation of wood remains.
Components of Successful HIV / AIDS Case Management in Alaska Native Villages
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David D. Barney
Caitlin C. Rosenthal
Tracy Speier
AIDS Education and Prevention, vol. 16, no. 3, June 2004, pp. 202-217
Description
Describes how qualitative data from 18 key informants, used to identify elements of successful case management, were employed to improve client level outcomes.
Working Paper Series (Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics) ; no. 20
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jerry Lipka
Barbara Adams
Description
Study uses the math curriculum "Building a Fish Rack: Investigations into Proof, Properties, Perimeter, and Area" to show culturally-based instruction has been successful with Yup'ik students.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, 1995, pp. 1-124
Description
When law suits arose claiming that there had been damage done to Native culture by the March 1989 oil spill, the Exxon Corporation responded that Aboriginal culture had already been "smashed" and that the small differences between Natives and non-Natives in the spill area were "ethnic" and not cultural in nature.
Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum ; 2004
The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amy Wiita
Description
Provides introduction to the research topic, methodology, and research questions.
Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.
Goal was to measure intake of subsistence foods so that contaminant content and potential health effects could be identified. Sample consisted of 665 individuals between the 13 and 88 from 13 villages.
Journal of Holistic Nursing, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 200-208
Description
Examines the health care disparities in the American Indian/Alaska Native communities and looks at a proposed holistic approach to diminishing these disparities.
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.
Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Barbara Bodenhorn
Description
Looks at the differences between cultural property, culture as property, and the property of culture.
Chapter in book: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 58, no. 12, June 2004, pp. 2625-2636
Description
Addresses the impacts on colonial relations on suicide rates and advocates for narrative research, intergenerational communication, and community action for solutions.
Discusses Leslie Marmon Silko's attempts to merge the oral tradition of storytelling with the literary form to communicate Native American concepts concerning time, nature, and spirituality and their relevance in the contemporary world.