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.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 136-167
Description
Looks at Kiowa responses to allotment by comparing N. Scott Momaday’s canonical literary work to Mark Palmer's "Indigital" cartography in terms of understanding, recording and remembering the process and effects of the United States government’s policy in the Oklahoma territory.
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. 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.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2018, pp. 43-64
Description
Research project uses community-based research methodology to collect data from residents of Fort Simpson and Deline, NWT. Thematic analysis shows that individual communities require tailored interventions to improve boating safety.
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.
International Journal of Water Resources Development, vol. 34, no. 2, 2018, pp. 305-324
Description
Examines the collaborative approach of using traditional Indigenous knowledge and western science to better understand the spawning and migration patterns of fish populations.
Ethnicity and Health, vol. 13, no. 4, September 2008, pp. 335-349
Description
Concludes that diabetes prevention programs should focus on improving physical activity and dietary intake by looking at the needs of the specific risk group.
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 198, no. 8, October 15, 2008, pp. 1175-1179
Description
Study determined whether a pattern of functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was present that could predispose a Dené cohort to a suboptimal response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 1, Native Voices, Modern Media, Fall, 2008, pp. 18-19
Description
Discusses the associate degree in Media Communications, including a description of the curriculum, available from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.
Schedule of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (7PCV) and 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (23PPV) for Australian Aboriginal infants in 2001 and found that this population will produce an immunce reponse to 7PCV and 23PPV.