Social Science & Medicine, vol. 65, no. 10, November 2007, p. 2093–2104
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Examines the bioethical issues involving genetic ownership related to beliefs and practices of a culture and the effects on both health care and research.
Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology, vol. 44, no. 2, May 2007, pp. 237-261
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Argues that attributing weight gain and diabetes to the thrifty gene has failed to incorporate aboriginal health perspectives and should be "decolonized".
Reveals a presidential administration that was determined to implement its own plan regardless of opposition voicing to humanitarian concerns or logical arguments.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 219-229
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Book reviews of: Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller.
Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land by Hans M.
Discusses the inequity of federal funding to First Nations Child and Family Services Program in comparison to provincial agencies and off reserve child welfare programs.
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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2010, pp. 365-389
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Comments on the success of the Native American gaming industry including generating revenue to fund tribal government operations and making charitable donations.
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.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 71, no. 4, August 2010, pp. 717-724
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Studies the connection between communities with better access to primary health care and rates of hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) in Manitoba.
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 2, Ngaahi Lea a e Kakai Pasifika: Endangered Pacific Languages and Cultures, 2010, pp. 143-154
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Discusses how cultural expectations influence male and female educational achievement and looks at ways to address better educational participation and accomplishment.
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.