Describes the partnership formed between the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), and the staff at Nunavut Arctic College (NAC), to recruit and retain nurses in Nunavut.
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 624, Fathering Across Diversity and Adversity: International Perspectives and Policy Interventions, July 2009, pp. 29-48
Description
Looks at history and demographics of communities where there is a lack of care by fathers. Presents a multidimensional vision for positive change.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. 50-70
Description
Discusses mourning feast customs in the novel and how the author changes several of them.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page 50.
Canadian Medical Association, vol. 181, no. 5, September 1, 2009, pp. 90-91
Description
First Nations communities, public health officials and aboriginal health experts accuse the federal government of being unprepared for the H1N1 influenza in Nunavut and other remote First Nations communities causing the rapid spread of the pandemic.
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, vol. 30, no. 3, 2002, pp. 335-341
Description
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.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 40, no. 1, 2002/2003, pp. 115-124
Description
Examines the autobiographical collection American Indian Stories by Native American women writer Gertrude Bonnin and considers various strategies of resistance to assimilation.
Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol. 44, no. 4, Summer, 2009, pp. 417-439
Description
Provides information from a survey on knowledge of superannuation and data from Australian National Survey of Financial Literacy (ANZ 2003) and Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy 2003.
Melus, vol. 27, no. 3, Native American Literature, fall, 2002, pp. 9-43
Description
Article "examines the role of writer David Cusick as one of the first Iroquois to record the oral literature of his nation in the alphabetic writing of Western civilization," particularly his allusions to the Bible.
Contends that First Nations funding falls short, and with the recession, and growing deficit there will be further cuts to programs that are already underfunded.
Canadian Dimension, vol. 36, no. 4, July-August 2002, pp. 29-32
Description
Describes the reaction to the 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision regarding Mi'kmaq fisherman Donald Marshall and how the media can shape public opinion.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 1, Celebrating Tribal College Journals 20th Anniversary, Fall, 2009, pp. 42-43
Description
Presents a short story titled, The Fishing Trip, written by a student of the Blackfeet Community College in Browning, Montana.
First Nations University of Canada Must Make Students, Academics Priority
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Star-Phoenix, June 26, 2009, p. A11
Description
Discusses the need to make students and academic excellence the first priority above political and financial issues at the First Nations University of Canada.
Fontaine Leaves Assembly of First Nations With Strong Foundation
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Star-Phoenix, July 10, 2009, p. A7
Description
Discusses the task of electing a new national chief for the Assembly of First Nations formerly filled by Phil Fontaine. Fontaine was the first high-profile First Nations leader to reveal the abuse he suffered in a residential school which eventually led to compensation payments and an official apology from the Prime Minister.
Maclean's, vol. 115, no. 51, December 23, 2002, p. 39
Description
Interview with a Métis veteran recalling wartime experiences and postwar difficulties as a non-status Indian ineligible for a Aboriginal veterans' benefits.
American Antiquity, vol. 74, no. 2, April 2009, pp. 279-298
Description
Study sums up that, even though there were wide variations in environmental conditions across late Pleistocene North America, not enough time had passed for local selective gradients to lead to significant changes in point shape.