Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, July/August 1997, p. 6
Description
Describes a collaborative project involving three Queensland, Australia institutions striving to better support breastfeeding and improving infant nutrition practices.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 15, no. 6, November/ December 1991, pp. 12-14
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Discusses withdrawal symptoms including anxiety, insomnia, difficulty concentrating and remembering, tremor and general shakiness, nausea, and loss of appetite.
Aboriginal and Islander health Worker Journal, vol. 15, no. 5, September/October 1991, pp. 12-13
Description
Overview of two year program which provides training to develop counseling, communication, and mental health skills. Also provides an overview of nature of alcoholism.
Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 105, no. 4, April 1997, pp. 424-429
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Study monitoring residents living next to an inactive mercury mine in Clear Lake, California found results consistent with other studies; also considers protective public health measures.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 7, no. 2, Autumn, 1991, pp. 58-77
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Delves into the protest by Elijah Harper to block the progress of the Meech Lake accord in the Manitoba legislature and the protest by the Mohawk Warrior Society at Oka, Quebec to stop development of a golf course.
Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 1991, pp. 157-159
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Book review of:Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada: An Anthology edited by Jeanne Perreault and Sylvia Vance with preface by Emma LaRocque.
Journal of Reading, vol. 35, no. 1, September 1991, pp. 66-69
Description
Book reviews of:
The American Indians in America (volume 2) by Jayne Clark Jones.
America's Fascinating Indian Heritage.
Canyons by Gary Paulsen.
Girl in Buckskin by Dorothy Gilman.
The Night the White Deer Died by Gary Paulsen.
The Owl's Song by Janet Campbell Hale.
The Shadow Brothers by A.E. Cannon.
Review of the filmstrip: A Look at Native Americans
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 1997, pp. 265-298
Description
Literary criticism article which explores the way that Indigenous bodies appear and are used to articulate the struggles between Indigenous and Euro-American cultures in the novels Winter in the Blood and Bearhear.
Journal of Employment Counselling, vol. 34, no. 4, 1997, pp. 171-179
Description
Discusses five components of Aboriginal culture which should be Incorporated into counselling: connectedness, balance, roles and responsibilities, aptitudes, and values.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 15, no. 5, September/October 1991, pp. 17-18
Description
Looks at opportunities in the areas of physiotherapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation counseling, health information management, and nursing.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 3, American Indian Family History, Summer, 1991, pp. 339-358
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Author challenges the assumption that population growth among Indigenous people during the early reservation period was an indicator of the success of the reservation health care system. Argues that maternal/infant health is a better indicator and considers the Northern Cheyenne people as an ethnohistorical example.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 21, no. 6, November/December 1997, pp. 23-24
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New series reports on various children's health issues. This installment reports on bed wetting solutions, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and childhood immunization.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 65-89
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Article attempts to examine some of the reasons the Chumash people elected to be baptized, the consequences for that choice, and the resistance (both overt and subversive) that they offered to Christian missionaries.
Documentary on innovative program that brings the traditional form of Aboriginal justice-circle sentencing to the Canadian justice system as opposed to prison terms.
Duration: 57:48.