Advocates that the promises of the throne speech need to be acted upon especially the agenda called the "Aboriginal platform" in the Liberal Red Book of 1993.
Article considers three Māori communities and the endurance and resilience they have demonstrated in maintaining their unique peace traditions in the face of opposition from both Western and Māori cultures of violence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Traumatic Brain Injury Among American Indians / Alaska Natives -- United States, 1992-1996
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
N. Adekoya
JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 288, no. 1, July 3, 2002, pp. 37-39
Description
Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports male injury rates were 2.5 times the female rate and fatally injured Native Americans and Alaska Natives were amongst lowest seat belt users of any United States ethnic group.
International Journal of Mental Health Addiction, vol. 8, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 320-335
Description
Reviews existing research of alcohol and illicit drug treatments and looks at two integrated treatment programs for Aboriginal women, New Choices and Sheway.
Argues tripartite boards that make decisions about land claims, land-use planning, wildlife management and environmental regulation are unique institutions with considerable independence. The influence of Aboriginal perspectives on the decisions is uncertain.