American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring, 2009, pp. 253-279
Description
Legal history of gambling, the passing of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and why the United States has a problem with the management of Native American gaming.
Presents a short story titled, The Indian in the Child, written by the seventeen-year-old winner of the Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge, Stephanie Wood.
Current Anthropology, vol. 50, no. 3, June 2009, pp. 303-333
Description
Explains that the word indigenous is used not only to distinguish between "natives" and "others" but also has evolved into a term for a geocultural category.
American Antiquity, vol. 74, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 202-207
Description
Book review of: Indigenous Archaeologies by Claire Smith and H. Martin Wobst, Cross-Cultural Collaboration by Jordan E. Kerber, and History is in the Land by T. J. Ferguson and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh.
World Literature Today, vol. 83, no. 3, May/June 2009, pp. 47-49
Description
Discusses how American Indians employ visual methods of storytelling to comment on their world. Content based on exhibit from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture entitled, Comic Art Indigène:Where Comics and the Indigenous Meet
Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 31, no. 4, July 2010, pp. 445-450
Description
Examines the reasons why Indigenous community engagement is important due to climate change and discusses barriers to western-based health impact assessment and Indigenous traditional knowledge integration.
Journal of Ecotourism, vol. 8, no. 2, June 2009, p. 144–160
Description
Looks at the critical perspective on the capacity of Indigenous ecotourism to foster more sustainable lifeways in the hope of transforming the destructive nature of the Western environmental paradigm.
Lancet, vol. 374, no. 9683, July 4, 2009, pp. 65-75
Description
Looks at the burden of disease, disability, and death being consistently greater in Indigenous than non-Indigenous populations and issues that need to be addressed.
Lancet, vol. 374, no. 9683, July 04, 2009, pp. 76-85
Description
Looks at Indigenous notions of health and identity, mental health and addictions, urbanization and environmental stresses, whole health and healing, and reconciliation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 3, Summer, 2009, pp. 405-407
Description
Book review of: Indigenous Knowledge and Education: Sites of Struggle, Strength, and Survivance edited by Malia Villegas, Sabina Rak Neugebauer, and Kerry R. Venegas
Health Promotion Practice, vol. 10, no. 3, July 2009, pp. 436-446
Description
Presents a research study that looks at the pathways of health information dissemination and use by community members in an urban Inuit community, urban Métis community, and semi-rural First Nations community in Ontario.
Discusses the possibilities for pre-service teaching programs to include diverse knowledge systems in order to honor the inherent value of Indigenous perspectives.
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach For the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1243-1261
Description
Looks at the impact of socio-economic conditions on health outcomes and infant mortality.
Paedagogica Historica, vol. 45, no. 6, December 2009, pp. 757-772
Description
Discusses some contrasting educational policies and contexts across the Canada–USA border and shows some strategies Coast Salish people have used for resisting assimilation and returning to their own understandings of place and identity.
Global Environmental Politics, vol. 10, no. 4, November 2010, pp. 12-35
Description
Looks at the environmental justice struggles of Indigenous peoples and their demands for equity, recognition, participation, and other capabilities, looking at all of these in terms of a concern for the basic functioning of nature, culture, and communities.
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 18, no. 1, January 2010, pp. 43-60
Description
Examines the evolution of the relationship between tourism and Indigenous peoples; and discusses the proposed six-stage model and sustainability implications of the model.