Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, January/February 2002, pp. 21-26
Description
Looks at contributory factor to higher respiratory and cardiovascular death rates for Aboriginals with a smoking rate of 54% compared to 29% for the general Australian population.
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.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 3, 2005, pp. 513-544
Description
"Explores this curious cultural phenomenon and concludes that the camp's Indian programming had little to do with honouring or even understanding Aboriginal peoples and more to do with seeking a balm for the non-Native experience of modernity."
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.
Clinical Insight: Toward an Understanding of Suicide in First-Nation Canadians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. Cutcliffe
Crisis, vol. 26, no. 3, 2005, pp. 141-145
Description
Argues that to understand suicide in First Nations there must be more of a shift away from the current quantitative methods to that of qualitative, including listening to the voices of the people themselves.
Examines the factors behind the diminishing usage of certain Nandi anthroponyms, which act as catalogues of past and present histories, and the endangerment extinction.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 14, no. 2, American Indian Higher Education Consortium 30th Anniversary, Winter, 2002, p. 19
Description
Focuses on measures of success for organizations including maintaining original vision or evolving and changing vision with time.
University of British Columbia Law Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2005, pp. 285-314
Description
Discusses the late Justice Ken Lysyk's scholarship in Aboriginal law and the development of governance in the context of jurisprudence related to Aboriginal rights.
Society and Natural Resources, vol. 15, no. 4, April 2002, pp. 345-358
Description
Authors address the myths surrounding aboriginal peoples' relationships with the environment through use of a case study of the Vuntut Gwitchin which illustrates ideology, resource use and management practice.
Diabetes Spectrum, vol. 23, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 272-277
Description
Looks at the factors contributing to high prevalence of diabetes in Native Americans and comments on the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI) Diabetes Prevention Program.
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 83-[?]
Description
Results of seminar held with Maya videomakers in the Yucatan Peninsula reflecting on the meaning of identity and use of Indigenous video in today's Maya Society.
Ethnohistory, vol. 57, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 597-624
Description
Looks at how trading, cohabitation, and war-making created culturally constructed inter-community identities between Chipewyan natives and their Inuit neighbors in the eighteenth century.