Book Review: Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics and Politics edited by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart with articles by Lisa Brooten, Mario Murillo and Faye Ginsburg.
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. 1363-1382
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Looks at aspects of kidney diseases in Indigenous populations in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia.
Maclean's, vol. 122, no. 47, December 7, 2009, pp. 40-41
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Brief discussion the plans to increase building and industry on native lands in British Columbia which have created opposition on the part of ecological groups.
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2009, pp. 69-104
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Looks at stories and histories shared by Dorothy Chartrand, as well as archival and literary research to examine the importance of storytelling and sharing of histories by Indigenous Elders and Métis women.
Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 2, April/May 2017, pp. 64-66
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Reports on a large concentration of inuksuit at Cape Dorset and also includes an excerpt from, An Intimate Wilderness: Arctic Voices In A Land Of Vast Horizons.
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2009, pp. 51-67
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Looks at the Halq'eméylem language renewal, community challenges and strengths of the Stó:lō and the programs available to the preservation of the language.
Argues that chiefs should be leaders and not administrators, further arguing that by governments turning things over for bands to deal with, chiefs become like Indian agents.
CMAJ, vol. 189, no. 46, November 20, 2017, pp. e1408-e1409
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Highlights Saskatoon Health Region's external review into allegations of Indigenous women being coerced into having tubal ligations, and the interim report on the death of Brian Sinclair, who was ignored for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency department.
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2009, pp. 105-120
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Looks at British Columbia’s mountain pine beetle infestation that threatens First Nation communities and the impact it will have on cultural values and livelihoods.
BMC Health Services Research, vol. 7, no. 126, 2007
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Observes that health care costs for both First Nations and the general population with diabetes in Saskatchewan are substantially higher that individuals without the disease.
American Antiquity, vol. 74, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 77-106
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Highlights that communalism is found in households with highly developed social hierarchies, as opposed to households where social hierarchies were less developed.
American Anthropologist, vol. 119, no. 3, September 2017, p. 448–463
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Describes methods and initial results for documenting history of cultural landscapes at three sites in British Columbia: Hauyat, Laxgalts’ap (Old Town) and Dałk Gyilakyaw (Robin Town).
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 641-674
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Focuses on three aspects of the Commission's research: the fact that the Commission had its origins in litigation, the methodological issues concerning collection of archival documents and survivors' statements, and that the narrative does not pay a great deal of attention to differences within the system.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 1, Tribal College Students Today, Fall, 2007, p. 9
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Presents a letter to the editor responding to the article, "Historical Trauma: Holocaust Victims, American Indians Recovering from Abuses of the Past" in Vol. 17, Spring 2006, Issue no. 3.
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. 1539-1559
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Historical overview of treaty obligations and the link to health care.
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. 1561-1576
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Overview of historical, political, legislation and policy affecting Aboriginal child health.