Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 26, no. 5, November-December 2002, p. 2
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Introduction to issue reports on the composition of the Fourth National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers Conference Advisory Committee.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 26, no. 1, Exemplary Indigenous Education, 2002, pp. 1-3
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Introduction to the themed issue Exemplary Indigenous Education, which discusses "Indigenous principles, approaches, or components that contribute to educational success in Indigenous contexts."
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 26, no. 2, 2002, pp. 67-68
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Discusses difficulties in grafting Indigenous content onto current curricula and suggests a redefinition and restructuring of education may be needed to successfully integrate the two.
Discussions held during workshop which was part of the Inuit Health Information Initiative conference describe traditional Inuit health knowledge and compare it to 'southern' treatments.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 26, no. 5, September/October 2002, p. 21
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Briefly discusses how public health and sanitation improvements resulted in better health outcomes for the residents of this isolated community in Northern Territory, Australia.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4, Fall, 2002, pp. 623-640
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Critical analysis of the author's second novel, "attempts to overcome the limitations of the American Indian Movement (AIM) by presenting readers with" characters with international alliances.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 26, no. 2, 2002, pp. 124-133
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Description of information gathered in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan and discussion of why northern educators are reluctant to exchange local initiatives.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 21, no. 3, September 2002, pp. 301-328
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Argues there is storage evidence in archaeological cache pits and that there was practical food storage among the Beothuk of Newfoundland and the early historic Innu and Inuit of the Labrador–Quebec peninsula.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 26, no. 1, Exemplary Indigenous Education, 2002, pp. 62-64
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Summary of the achievements of a teacher who taught at the Native Indian Teacher Education Program (NITEP) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for 20 years.
Social Science & Medicine , vol. 55, 2002, pp. 2017-2031
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Explores cultural system of beliefs as a factor in shaping the health of First Nations peoples. Data collected from the 1991 Aboriginal Peoples Survey.
American Journal of Human Biology, vol. 14, no. 5, September 2002, pp. 649-658
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Of the three groups studied (Aboriginals, Inuit, non-Aboriginals) for obesity, blood pressure and lipid/glucose factors, Aboriginals had the highest scores with Inuit scores not much higher than non-Aboriginals.
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, vol. 30, no. 3, 2002, pp. 335-341
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Contends that 50% of the HIV-positive youth were Aboriginal and comments on the urgent need to develop gender and culturally appropriate youth specific programs.