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.
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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter, 2020, pp. [86]-114
Description
An examination of the author's writings about the loss of land and access to food due to the encroachments of cattle ranchers and the impact it had on the Paiute people.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 4, Fall, 2020, pp. [415]-433
Description
An examination of the creation of the augmented reality (AR) mobile place-based learning game Vision Quest developed at the University of Wyoming that teaches Arapaho language and culture developed. The author further discusses the adaptability of Indigenous people to combat colonization through the app.
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.
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.