Comments on the creation of the Saskatchewan First Nation Family and Community Institute and hopes that the institute can stem the flow of children placed into foster care.
World Literature Today, vol. 64, no. 1, Winter, 1990, p. 30
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Article argues that to establish a meaningful connection with the past and achieve a healing sense of self, writers must engage in a constant dialogue with past history.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2007, pp. 310-332
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Examines the controversy surrounding the remarks made by Ward Churchill after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.
Social Work Research, vol. 31, no. 2, June 2007, pp. 95-107
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Examines the Navajo Nation, San Carlos, and Salt River reservations in Arizona and how these areas, unlike the rest of the nation, have not had a decline in welfare caseloads.
Examines a number of Canadian works about remembrances of lost mothers including novels:Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, At the Full and Change of the Moon by Dionne Brand and Away by Jane Urquhart.
Museum Management and Curatorship, vol. 22, no. 3, September 2007, pp. 265-285
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Results of survey questioning the sustainability of long-term relationships between museums and Indigenous communities and best practices and structures for success.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 30, no. 1, Indigenous Approaches to Early Childhood Care and Education, 2007, pp. 126-144
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In-depth look at two projects: the Kaupapa Mäori Learning and Assessment Exemplar Project (KMLAE) and the author's doctoral work, using the philosophical framework of the Kaupapa Mäori theory.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 4, Health and Healing, Summer, 2007, p. 7
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Letter to the editor in response to "Pathways to Success in Pre-College Mathematics" published in Vol. 18, Issue 2 of Tribal College Journal (2006 Winter) p. 28-30.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 30, no. 2, 2007, pp. 217-230
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Comments on unique aspects of the research study, Building Healthy Mi'kmaq Communities in Prince Edward Island, which focused on the determinants of health, with education considered a strong social determinant.
Critique of a series of six papers about the health of the world's Indigenous peoples, that appeared inThe Lancet, and were authored by its Editor in Chief Richard Horton.
Cuthand reports on three events: the aftermath of Hurricane Felix; Judge Steven Point becomes the first Aboriginal Lt.-Gov. in B.C.; Canadian government fails to show support to the Kelowna Accord.
Discusses an international indigenous women's conference, hosted by the Native Women's Association of Canada, that spoke of the alarming rates of physical and sexual abuse in aboriginal communities.
Journal of Archaeological Science , vol. 34, no. 4, April 2007, pp. 642-648
Description
Presents evidence of mitrochrondrial DNA of the haplogroup M, a group that is common in East Asia, but had never before been reported for Indigenous populations in North American. Estimates put the time frame at about five thousand years before present.