Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, June 1979, pp. 19-24
Description
Reports on a government program that relocates Australian Aboriginal families from poorer outlying areas into five towns with better employment and education opportunities.
Justice as Healing, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring, 1998, p. [?]
Description
Project offering alternative approaches and services for youth in the present justice system.
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Author argues that, if science education is to contribute to Aboriginal peoples economic development, environmental responsibility and cultural survival, then Indigenous common sense used together with Aboriginal and Western knowledge and technology about nature, as ways of learning, must also be used.
Discusses views of self-government, management models, issues and changing relationships using one provincial and one federal example.
Excerpt from: Visions of the Heart: Aboriginal Issues in Canada edited by D. Long and O.P. Dickason.
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 100-115
Description
Article/review resembles poetry and is written in a oral style. Author expresses his observations on Aboriginal culture, tradition and the environment.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1, A Special Symposium Issue on Leslie Marmon Silko's , 1979, pp. 13-18
Description
Looks at the role animals play in Leslie Silko's story and its reflections on Indigenous people needing to learn what to accept and what to resist in order to survive.
IPA Backgrounder, vol. 10, no. 1, February 1998, pp. 1-24
Description
Disputes issues discussed in the 1997 national inquiry report, Bringing Them Home, such as specific cases, comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal child removal and the claim of genocide.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 230-258
Description
Author considers different perceptions of and from people of mixed Black and Cherokee ancestry in an attempt to better understand the discourses surrounding the Cherokee Freedmen, tribal affiliations, and the constructs of individual and community identities.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 23-40
Description
Explores the dual and linked themes of stories and community as expressed through the main character, who finds himself isolated from both.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, January/February 1998, pp. 2-4
Description
Paper reflects on some of the issues raised in the study of expanding the service to remote areas of Queensland, Australia. Key recommendations were to implement a mobile, culturally relevant program in order to improve participation rates.
Child Welfare, vol. 77, no. 4, July/Aug 1998, pp. 441-460
Description
Looks at information gathered from interviews conducted with clients to develop a course of action for child protection. Text from interviews included.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 1998, pp. 313-333
Description
Discusses ways Cayuga Chief Jacob E. Thomas (1922-1998) of the Six Nations Reserve taught language; examines the educational materials he produced, and some reactions to his efforts.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 37, no. 2, Winter, 1998, pp. [2-20]
Description
Describes a study involving cooperation between a reserve and border community with the goal of improving academic achievement and retention of students at a high school level.