Social Indicators Research, vol. 103, no. 3, September 2011, pp. 299-314
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Analyzes Early Development Instrument to measure kindergarten children in the following categories: physical health and well-being, social competence, emotional maturity, language and cognitive development, communication skills, and general knowledge.
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, vol. 12, no. 2, 2007, pp. 199-216
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Compares economic development of similar countries to Torres Strait Islands using the Gross Domestic Product per capita and the impact of culture has on Torres Strait entrepreneurs.
Article concludes that it is important to publish failures as well as successes based on a case of conflict between environmental institutions and reindeer owners of the development of a national park.
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 28, no. 1 & 2, 2007, pp. 124-164
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Examines the significance of the feminist campaign to ensure proper treatment of domestics through the appointment of "Women Protectors of Aborigines" in central Australia.
Describes which students do not qualify for the residential school settlement due to funding and/or school classification. Article ends with comments on June Draude's appointment as Minister of Indian and Métis Relations and Northern Affairs.
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage, vol. 8, no. 2, September 21, 2007, pp. 167-180
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Describes a project named “Gi bugadin-a-maa goom (‘To Sanction, To Give Authority, To Bring to Life’)" undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,and discusses questions which arise when digitization takes place.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 30-31
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Discusses the Australian government's initiative, InfoNet to recognize the importance of sharing health information.
NOTE: pdf displays incorrect information (vol. 30 no.6 November/December 2006)
Early American Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, 2011, pp. 165-184
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Review essay of: Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900 edited by Sandra M. Gustafson and Caroline F. Sloat; Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 97, no. 2, February 2007, pp. 317-322
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Study found that risk factors for early otitis media in Native American infants included history of upper respiratory infection and maternal otitis media history.
American Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 1, March 2007, pp. 199-209
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Book reviews of: Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863 by Maureen Konkle and Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform by Lucy Maddox.
Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 36, September 2007, pp. 177-190
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Discusses two aspects of a debate surrounding the concept that indigenous attitude toward the environment and conservation is the most appropriate model.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 23-43
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Article examines the socio-economic structures that make up the digital divide and the effects it has on Indigenous peoples in the United States; suggests strategies for improvement.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research, vol. 41, no. 11, 2011, pp. 2247-2258
Description
Compares forest planning strategies, one with collaboration with the Innu Nation, to look at the at the benefits of Indigenous participation in the planning of forestry management
Plot involves a young Shuswap woman who leaves her reserve for the city and is ultimately raped and murdered.
Originally published by Talonbooks, 1970.
Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 15, no. 1, Supplement, February 2007, pp. S1-S4
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Introduction to the papers in this supplement, some of which were presented at Creating Futures: Influencing the Social Determinants of Mental Health and Wellbeing in Rural, Indigenous and Island Peoples held in Cairns, September 2006.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 50, no. 1, 2011, pp. 7-31
Description
"This article traces the Native American policy career of William Demmert, Jr. from the development and implementation of the Indian Education Act of 1972 through the implementation of the Executive Order on American Indian and Alaska Native Education signed by President Clinton to the initiation of a unique research partnership to document the impact of culturally based education on the academic achievement of Native American students".
Diabetes Care, vol. 30, no. 2, February 2007, pp. 306-311
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Looks at chronic periodontitis in diabetics and the relationship between overt nephropathy and end-stage renal disease in an American-Indian population.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 44-65
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Study presents traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) gathered from 40 subsistence hunters and fishers in an Inupiat village on the Alaska North Slope; includes observations of the physical environment and the condition/wellbeing of the animals harvested.
Anglican Journal, vol. 133, no. 2, February 2007, p. 1,10
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Comments on the proposed agreement for Aboriginal peoples who can prove they attended residential schools, and discusses the compensation they will receive.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2011, pp. 11-16, 188
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The author shares her experiences and insights from her own culture and people, as well as other Indigenous and non-Indigenous philosophers and scholars.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 32–35
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Overview of an interview conducted by Paul Irngaut with an experienced hunter about Inuit knowledge of sea ice and the difficulties documenting and recording this knowledge.
Journal of Northern Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2011, pp. 9-28
Description
Reveals a higher degree of closeness between non-Sami and Sami than previously assumed as reflected in the attitudes and relationships between the two groups.