Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn, 1999, pp. 32-45
Description
Argues that Native American literature, whether oral or written, serves all the functions any literature can or does serve, including spiritual inspiration and political insight.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, March 1981, pp. 20-21
Description
Describes a course offered at Royal Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales, Australia that teaches the basic skills in caring for the disabled, particularly the older patients.
History of the Family, vol. 4, no. 4, December 1999, pp. 529-555
Description
Overview of three centuries of relations with Europeans and role played by familial ties; traces continuity and persistence as well as loss and change in Ojibwa kinship relations.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 6, November/December 1999, pp. 8-16
Description
Reports on the conference, held in Cairns which attracted over 600 delegates from across Australia. Programming was divided into three streams; Future Directions, Pathway Options and Information Sharing.
Study focused on four novels: Fools Crow by James Welch, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, The Ancient Child by N. Scott Momaday and The Women Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1999.
Ethnohistory, vol. 46, no. 3, Summer, 1999, pp. 429-450
Description
Describes how imposition of Council Government in 1889 on the Mohawks of Kahnawake, Quebec created two factions and how this still has ramifications for factionalism in the community today.
Health and Social Work, vol. 24, no. 1, February 1999, pp. 27-34
Description
Provides current information on the prevalence of AIDS, discussion of techniques for preventing/responding to the epidemic in a culturally appropriate way and brief anecdotes of those affected.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
Description
Discusses the way in which the tobacco contributes to Indigenous research methodology and examines how Indigenous research can draw upon Indigenous ways of knowing by connecting individuals with the spiritual and physical world.
Journal of Community Health, vol. 35, no. 6, December 2010, pp. [667]-675
Description
Study demonstrates that interventions to prevent excess adiposity in infants and toddlers are both feasible and acceptable to American Indian/Alaskan native peoples.
Examines the factors behind the diminishing usage of certain Nandi anthroponyms, which act as catalogues of past and present histories, and the endangerment extinction.