Discusses the need for comprehensive educational support to facilitate culturally and linguistically diverse students whose lack of English skills are a barrier to their academic success.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 70, no. 11, November 2016, pp. 1096-1105
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Uses information from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey to link contemporary health and mental health conditions to residential school familial attendance.
Looks at historical and ethnographic records to see if the diatomaceous earth found in museums with Coast Salish collections is the same earth used to coat the wool used in Salish spinning.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 259-280
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Uses material culture and paleobotanical evidence to assess the chronological development of the Wichita society living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas from 1450 to the 1800s.
Current Anthropology, vol. 38, no. 2, April 1997, pp. 317-318
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Book review of: Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension From the Ethnoscience Tradition by David B. Kronenfeld and a book review of: Sounds Like Life: Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua by Janis B. Nickolls.
Family Relations, vol. 46, no. 2, April 1997, pp. 113-121
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Studies found significant determinants were: psycho-social adjustment (self-esteem, school functioning); relationship with partner; total social support; and pregnancy and child characteristics (pregnancy risk, child mood and health risk).
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, October 2016, pp. 317-338
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Examines how Canada investigated and distorted Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence's band finances as a way to discredit her demands that governments respect her community's treaty rights.
Anglican Journal, vol. 123, no. 6, June 1997, p. 7
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Concerns voiced that nickel mine project could prove disastrous for the region's environment and people. Activists want land claims settled before development moves forward.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 53, no. 1, January 2016, pp. 37-57
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Looks at the contradictory accounts regarding the importance of halibut as a subsistence resource to the Haida of Haida Gwaii and the Makah of Washington State.