World Archaeology, vol. 45, no. 1, Archaeology of Religious Change, March 2013, pp. 64-82
Description
Investigates the evolution of Sámi ethnic religious practices in northern Fennoscandia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia) through the amalgamation of different religious traditions into a new one.
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 18, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 93-116
Description
Looks at artwork made for a specific location and then dismantled and relocated to other areas. Focuses on Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's site specific artwork in Pedal to the Meddle commissioned for the exhibition, Meddling in the Museum: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. His art uses Haida formlines, ideas and oral history mixed with manga, the Japanese genre of cartoon and comic illustration.
Journal of Small Business Management , vol. 51, no. 2, April 2013, pp. 276-296
Description
Looks at meaning of social capital of mixed minority/dominant cultural relationships and compares Australian Aboriginal, Native Hawaiians, and Maori entrepreneurs.
Looks at the use of story-telling as a health-promoting tool and comments on the analysis of interviews and dialogues with mothers, fathers and Culture Bearers.
American Literary History, vol. 25, no. 3, Fall, 2013, pp. 625-637
Description
Book reviews of 3 books:
On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory by Andrew Newman.
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England by Jean O'Brien.
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 by Hilary E. Wyss.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, Special Issue: To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality, Summer - Autumn, 1996, pp. 415-431
Description
Demonstrates how the appropriation of a spiritual system has had political and interpretation failures and, while these issues have become exaggerated almost like a cartoon form by New Age enthusiasts, they have also become embedded subtly into academic research.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, March/April 1996, pp. 53-55
Description
Overview of funding of health and substance misuse services and hearing and mental health and agreements being negotiated between the Commonwealth and each State and Territory.
American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 89-103
Description
Identifies three dimensions of Indigenous political economies (polity size, polity structure, landscape management practices) as important elements in colonial research.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 50, no. 2, 2013, pp. 4-24
Description
Analysis of site on the southern coast of Amundsen Gulf, Northwest Territories showed that occupants relied almost exclusively on ringed seals. Includes information on bone modification, skeletal-element representation and age distribution of the animals.
Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 35, no. 12, December 2013, pp. 2080-2090
Description
Uses data from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect in 2008 to examine links between confirmation differences in worker assessments, and child, household and caregiver attributes.
Data collected from 172 Koori youth living in Melbourne, Australia showed an unfavourable profile for the emotional, social, cultural and behavioural factors.
History of Education, vol. 25, no. 1, 1996, pp. 1-18
Description
Argues that neither actor completely controlled the relationship. Schools depended on student attendance, manual labour and acceptance of white culture to sustain themselves, while Native Americans eventually recognized that education could be used to their advantage.
Obesity Reviews, vol. 14, no. 7, July 2013, pp. 593-603
Description
Review investigates if Native American populations achieve the recommended physical activity levels and concludes there is a need to increase physical activity.