DIAMA (Digitizing the Inuit and Aboriginal Media Archive)
Description
DIAMA preserves archives by cleaning, reformatting, digitizing and uploading materials collected since the 1970's. The website is searchable by language/culture, topic and location.
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 23, no. Supplement 1, 2010, pp. 27-34
Description
Study found inadequate intakes of several essential nutrients, as well as reliance on non-traditional food and concluded that nutrition intervention was needed prevent diet-related chronic disease.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 19, no. 1 & 2, Women and Justice, Spring/Summer, 1999, pp. 209-214
Description
Looks at Colleen Whiten's feminist art installation, Seducing the Receiver (1994-1995) in relation to the Paul Bernardo and John Crawford murder cases.
Post Script , vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 27-[?]
Description
Discusses impact two women filmmakers have had on the National Film Board of Canada's productions and their re-imagining of western cinematic traditions.
Citizenship Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, February 1999, pp. 5-25
Description
Examines the reasons and legal aspects used by Canada to dispossess aboriginal people who have not ceded land through treaties, such as the Innu of Labrador-Quebec.
Examines the structural factors behind disproportionality in the system and reviews approaches that go beyond traditional limits of social welfare systems.
Discusses the community-based Touchwood File Hills Qu'Appelle Valley pilot project which was designed to deal with issues surrounding intergovernmental funding for self-government in Saskatchewan.
Dissecting Internal Community Barriers and Subsequent Devaluation of Indigenous Graduates: A Discussion on Stereotypes, Knowledge, Power and Social Space Based on an
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 303-316
Description
Examines the belief systems about diabetes in American Indian elders with two practice models, one an Indigenous model, valuing traditional American Indian culture, the other a mainstream model, aligned with western biomedicine.
Argues that First Nation communities must look beyond timber harvesting to develop strategies encompassing new and different approaches to forest-based development.
Five papers describe the Akira Language Project implemented at White Shield School in North Dakota, Nakoda Language Program at Fort Belknap College in Montana and the development of tools for computer language documentation at the American Indian Studies Research Institute.
Excerpt from Revitalizing Indigenous Languages edited by John Reyhner, Gina Cantoni, Robert N. St. Clair, and Evangeline Parsons.