Holistic Nursing Practice, vol. 15, no. 1, October 2000, pp. 42-56
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Looks at a comparative analysis between the explanatory model of HIV illness, and a conventional biomedical paradigm of HIV disease, to provide insights relevant to the planning, prevention, and treatment of the Aboriginal population.
Health and Place, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2009, pp. 403-411
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Argues that environmental dispossession disproportionately affects the health of Aboriginal peoples, but what is not known is how its effects are sustained over time.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 44, no. 2, Summer, 2000, pp. 114-134
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Paper argues that in five decades hunting and gathering has diminished but economic development policies and funding have failed to develop a viable wage economy.
Rural Social Work & Community Practice, vol. 14, no. 2, December 2009, pp. 6-11
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Author equates the loss of language through assimilation with loss of a "moral compass" because it disrupts the ability to transmit teachings to children.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 68, no. 5, March 2009, pp. 980-989
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Analyzes the community health of the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve in Ontario, and discusses the implications of intra-community variation in health status in relation to influential health policy theories.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 18-37
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Explains that although the author was planning on writing a novel with no political subject matter, she found that gardening was actually very political.
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Describes the "naming" system created by federal government that assigned a number to each Inuit person, for purposes of census and birth registration of each Inuit person.
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. 1501-1517
Review of Social Economy, vol. 58, no. 3, September 1, 2000, pp. 295-317
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Overview of studies comparing earning differentials by ethnicity and gender; very significant difference in the raw earnings gap for First Nations females, which is 51% less than the national average; for males, earnings are 85% less than the national average.
Futures, vol. 41, no. 1, Futures of Indigenous Knowledges , February 2009, pp. 6-12
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Looks at how indigenous knowledge is able to deal with ecosystems as complex adaptive systems by using simple prescriptions, consistent with fuzzy logic thinking.
Acta Borealia , vol. 26, no. 1, June 2009, pp. 96-114
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Article examines Norwegian policies to establish equality welfare measures while reconciling the conflict between a universal welfare policy and Sámi focused measures.