Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 42–55
Description
Discusses the research undertaken over several years, to track movement of Inuit hunters and to monitor the environment with the use and development of a GPS based tracking and weather recording system.
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, vol. 4, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 12-25
Description
Examines the effect of the Oklahoma Promise grant using data for the 2002-2006 time span. Findings indicate that females with an income over $40,000 were very successful in postsecondary education.
Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 139, no. 11, November 2011, pp. 1774-1783
Description
Study shows that systematic and standardized evaluation of health registry systems can address challenges in obtaining quality health date in remote Aboriginal communities.
Current Anthropology, vol. 34, no. 1, February 1993, pp. 93-100
Description
Review of exhibitions Indigena: Perspectives of Indigenous Peoples on Five Hundred Year and Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 56-74
Description
Discusses how "Blood Run" exposes the limitations of repatriation legislation, most significantly, how NAGPRA's current definition of American Indian identity falls short of sovereign tribal conceptions of identity and tribal responsibility for the repatriation of ancestral remains.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 79, no. 4, December 2011, pp. 850-878
Description
Examines Indigenous ceremonial practices, government and missionary attempts to suppress Indian dances, and cultural notions about what constitutes "religion".
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer, 1993, pp. 343-349
Description
Author considers different historical perspectives on the civilized vs. savage narratives that are pervasive in the frontier mythology of the United States complicating both the portrayal of Indigenous peoples and the colonial state’s relationship with them.
South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 110, no. 2, Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law, Spring, 2011, pp. 309-327
Description
Looks at the use of British sovereignty over Indigenous criminal jurisdiction in Australia as opposed to Canada, United States and New Zealand, where localized methods are used.
Book review of: Indigenous Children's Education as Linguistic Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity?: A Global View by T. Skutnabb-Kangas and R. Dunbar.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 43, no. 4, Growing Roots: Native American Evidence-Based Practices, October-December 2011, pp. 269-275
Description
Discusses the trials and tribulations of evidence based practice and the need to develop culturally specific strategies to improve the health of Indigenous communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 215-240
Description
Discusses definitions and contemporary significance of subsistence and indigenous economies; explores the relationship between subsistence and wage labor, particularly from the perspective of women; looks at the roles of indigenous women in subsistence activities; and examines the indigenous economic systems and the concept of the social economy as a foundation for contemporary indigenous governance.
Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, vol. 58, no. 1, Indigenous Health, Well-Being, Social and Economic Inclusion-Closing the Gaps, February 2011, pp. 1-2
Description
Comments on the health of Indigenous Australians, life expectancy rate, and the previous attempts by the government to redress the poor state of Indigenous health.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2011, pp. 195-196
Description
Book review of: Indigenous Identity and Resistance edited by Brendan Hokowhitu, Nathalie Kermoal, Chris Andersen, Anna Petersen, Michael Reilly, Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, Poia Rewi.
American Anthropologist, vol. 95, no. 3, New Series, September 1993, pp. 653-671
Description
Anthropology has been key to the definition and description of Indigenous knowledge and in the debate over the application of intellectual property rights to culturally specific information.