The Forestry Chronicle, vol. 84, no. 3, May/June 2008, pp. 378-391
Description
Aims to develop a better understanding of Aboriginal peoples’ expectations of the forest environment, and their
perceptions of forest planning and management operations on Crown forestlands.
The Forestry Chronicle, vol. 85, no. 5, September/October 2009, pp. 783-788
Description
Presents a case study that draws a portrait of forestry entrepreneurs, within the Ilnu community of Mashteuiatsh, and reveals the role played by the band council in developing forestry entrepreneurship in the community.
Compares concentration of place names on King Island to those reported for other communities and poses factors that may have contributed to this difference.
Maternal and Child Health Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, Supplement, July 2008, pp. S46-S54
Description
Study conducted 1998-2001 interviewed women prenatally and 6-months port-partum concluded that health care workers should encourage social support, recognition of perceived health, emphasis on benefits and traditional health practices.
Cardiovascular Diabetology, vol. 7, no. 5, March 2008, p. 5
Description
Study results of Canadians of South Asian and Chinese descent, Oji-Cree and Inuit (Greenland) indicated that the association between FTO gene associated with obesity extends to non-Caucasian subjects.
Human Ecology, vol. 36, no. 4, 2008, pp. [553]-568
Description
Study examined the characteristics of several berry patches where the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en of Northwestern British Columbia had used landscape burning as a tool for plant management.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 3, 2009, pp. 111-165
Description
Book reviews of 20 books:
The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard by Charles E. Trimble, Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan.
Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology edited by Stephen W. Silliman.
Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit by John H.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, 2009, pp. 113-163
Description
Book reviews of 22 books:
African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizen by Celia E. Naylor.
American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle and the Law by Matthew L. M. Fletcher.
Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya by Charles S. King.
Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660 by Cynthia J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, 2008, pp. 145-200
Description
Book reviews of 20 books:
Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton.
The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right by Jeffery R. Dudas.
Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival by Carolyn Smith-Morris.
Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music by Lynn Whidden.
First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland.
Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital and Social Power by Cameron B.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, January/February 2009, p. 6
Description
Brief description of the statistical component for the innovative web resource designed to, 'close the gap' in health between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Uses data from 2004-2005 Canadian Community Health Surveys and 2001 Aboriginal People's Survey for identifying demographic, socio-economic and geographic factors.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 230-252
Description
Cultural conflicts between Southeast Alaska's Tlingit Indians and Europeans from the viewpoint of three cultural systems: cosmology, jurisprudence and religion.
Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics & Technology Education, vol. 9, no. 3, [Special Issue: Indigenous Science Education From Place: Best Practices on Turtle Island], July 2009, pp. 191-202
Description
Outlines the process of decolonizing the thinking and teaching practice in order to make science education relevant, meaningful, and respectful for First Nations students
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 137, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 412-424
Description
Study results suggest the Y chromosome population structure of Native North America was significantly altered by European admixture which has resulted in a decreasing gradient of haplogroup R from the northeast to the southwest of North America.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 18-37
Description
Explains that although the author was planning on writing a novel with no political subject matter, she found that gardening was actually very political.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
Futures, vol. 41, no. 1, Futures of Indigenous Knowledges , February 2009, pp. 6-12
Description
Looks at how indigenous knowledge is able to deal with ecosystems as complex adaptive systems by using simple prescriptions, consistent with fuzzy logic thinking.