Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, March 1989, pp. 29-38
Description
Overview of guide to health education in classroom for young Aboriginal people created to educate students about how their bodies work, mentally and spiritually, and to lead an active, healthy lifestyle.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 155, no. 11, December 1, 1996, pp. 1563-1568
Description
Discusses a qualitative study, conducted in the villages of Skidegate and Old Massett which are located in the Queen Charlotte Islands, done in the interest of developing a culturally sensitive, community-based program for managing NIDDM (non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus).
Health Care Financing Administration Ups Indian Health Service Payments
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
H & HN: Hospitals & Health Networks, vol. 70, no. 13, May 7, 1996, p. 48
Description
Brief announcement of increase in funding to the Indian Health Service due to a change designed to bring reimbursements closer to the level of other health care providers.
Discusses how theatre is a new approach for residential school survivors to come to terms with their past. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section.
Duration: 5:36.
Health Care Issues in the Canadian North. Occasional Publication No. 23, Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, Edmonton, 1988
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Joseph M. Kaufert
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 1, Native Health Research in Canada, 1989, pp. 275-279
Description
Book review of: Health Care Issues in the Canadian North edited by David E. Young. From Special Issue on Indian Health, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College Journal 4(1), 1988, edited by Jean Cuthand-Goodwill and Joel Demay
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Special Issue on The Shadow Catcher: The Uses of Native American Photography, 1996, pp. 111-128
Description
Looks at the Western image of the Native American as determined by photographs.
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Native People in British Columbia: Recent Research, 1996, p. 49–64
Description
Discusses the issue of Aboriginal fishing & trading practices and how it relates to the present-day controversy on whether Native people should have commercial rights to fishing resources.
Canada. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples : People to People, Nation to Nation: Highlights from the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
E-Books
Author/Creator
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Description
Introduction to some of the main themes and conclusions in the final report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
Arctic, vol. 42, no. 2, Current Perspectives on Western Boreal Forest Life: Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Research in Late , June 1989, pp. 109-118
Description
Looks at the prehistory of the upper Tanana Valley by looking at Healy Lake Village using source records, photographs, oral history from descendants of the trader who owned a post near the village, and ethnographic information from fieldwork.
Examines the domains of science and policy in the context of Aboriginal issues and how film representations of Aboriginal people are linked to media portrayals.
Discusses the history of higher education services governed by Native American Indians.
Chapter from Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education edited by Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner.
Border Crossings, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1996, pp. 44-46
Description
Brief discussion of the Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun works mounted in the exhibition Born to Live and Die on Your Colonialist Reservations and those of Eric Robertson, Faye Heavyshield, and Shelley Niro featured in Nations in Urban Landscapes.
Research and Development Highlights (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation). Socio-economic Series ; no. 27, 1996
Research and Development Highlights. Socio-Economic Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Research and Development Highlights (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation). Socio-economic Series
Description
Combines data from the 1991 Census and Aboriginal Peoples Survey and applies the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation's core housing need model. Compares Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal households.
Research Report (Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation)
Research Report. External Research Program
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Randy Pecarski
Margaret Eberle
David Hulchanski
Description
Consists of literature review, review of federal policies and programs, demographic analysis and case study of Lytton First Nation's senior citizen complex.
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David A. Boivert
Research Report (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Description
Discusses Métis identity, numbers and locations where they live, data about social and economic conditions with particular attention to income data and analysis of distribution by household type, and review of information on major housing problems in different regions of Canada, numbers in core housing need and the importance of social housing programs.
Ethnographic Comparison Conference on Urban Ethnography University of Pennsylvania, 1996
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jane Fraser
Description
Paper presented at the Conference on Urban Ethnography, Philadelphia, PA, March 1996.
Compares Aboriginal Canadian and multicultural adult students funder several categories: family, holism and humanism; culture and voice; school, technology and employment; politics, assimilation and acculturation; and voluntary, involuntary minorities and democracy.