Looks at a global strategy recommended to control TB and discusses weakness of current eradication initiatives and strategy limitations in controlling TB in First Nations populations in Canada.
Canadian Speeches, vol. 15, no. 3, July/August 2001, p. 37
Description
Speech by Matthew Coon-Come, The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, criticizes the United Nations' Draft Declaration of the Indigenous Rights of Aboriginal Peoples and argues that Aboriginal people continue to be marginalized in Canada.
Rural and Remote Nursing Practice: An Analysis of Policy Documents
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Judith C. Kulig
Elizabeth Thomlinson
Fran Curran
Deana Nahachewsky
Description
Defines "remote", discusses transfer of health services control, impact on nursing, band-employed nurses, and educational preparation.
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Teacher's guide with detailed unit plans, based on a thematic approach to the novel. The guide is primarily aimed at adult learners, but could be used for high school classes.
Maclean's, vol. 116, no. 3, January 20, 2003, p. 46
Description
Trapper who threatened an Inuit community was shot, which resulted in the first criminal trial in the eastern Arctic and ultimately, a tuberculosis epidemic.
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, vol. 206, no. 4-5, 2003, pp. 351-362
Description
States that scientific findings from research have influenced government policy, including those issues that involve Arctic Indigenous health and the disparities that exist in this region.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 2001, p. 39
Description
Curatorial notes from exhibition mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, December 9, 2000 to July 9, 2001.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 39.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, 2003, pp. 113-133
Description
Argues that gender specific strategies must be used, looks at the frequency of local health care visits and finds three major problems in the health care system including lack of confidentiality.
Center will focus on research, community outreach and information dissemination and training and program will involve collaboration between community representatives and health professionals.
[Microbehavior and Macroresults:Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute ofFisheries Economics and Trace
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David C. Natcher
Description
Discusses a self-improving management system which is facilitating an assessment of forest management as it relates directly to Little Red River/Tall Cree culture and their continued land use needs.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, Fall, 2001, pp. 24-28
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, October 2000 through September 2001.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 24.
Health Care For Women International, vol. 24, no. 4, April 2003, pp. 340-354
Description
Presents unstructured interviews of the lives, backgrounds, and traditional healing practices of six Ojibwa and Cree women healers from Canada and the United States.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall, 2003, pp. 40-42
Description
Curator discusses how both Inuit and non-Inuit works were incorporated into the exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, 2003.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 40.
Reveals an action plan in response to the serious threat that HIV/AIDS poses for First Nations people and their communities.
Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.
Reports on military and political developments in the Philippines regarding Indigenous and separatist groups.
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Includes: interview list, explanation and results of provider and entrepreneurs surveys, focus group responses, list of programs and information tools,, evaluation of Aboriginal Business Services Network, regional analysis and information on Aboriginal learning styles.
Discusses a study conducted by the Community Economic Development Centre at Simon Fraser University to determine the business information needs of Aboriginal entrepreneurs and service providers in British Columbia.
BC Institute for Co-operative Studies Occasional Papers, 2001
Description
Case study illustrates how combining ethnobotanical knowledge and the co-operative model can provide a viable method of sustainable community economic development.
Looks at a holistic model of assessment to evaluate language revitalization program developed by the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.
Chapter from Nurturing Native Languages edited by Joh Reyhner, Octaviana V. Trujillo, Roberto Luis Carrasco and Louise Lockard.