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.
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.
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.
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.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 77-82
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Recounts the forced relocation of Navajo tribes in the 1860s and the atrocities and injustices that were committed against them by the U.S. government.
The Canadian Geographer, vol. 51, no. 2, Summer, 2007, pp. 186-201
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Author analyzes of two different legal cases involving Métis women: Foss v. Pelly and The Queen v. Corbett, examines the role that gender and race played in the culture of the Red River Colony, and in the fur trade.
Early American Literature, vol. 42, no. 3, 2007, pp. 611-620
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Book reviews of:
The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance by Ezra Tawil
Romantic Indians: Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture, 1756-18 by Tim Fulford.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 66-90
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Discussses teaching Indigenous literature in mainstream institutions can be improved by using an interactive process, through reading for multiple meanings, can foster a collaborative learning environment.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 66.
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, vol. 39, no. 1, March 2007, pp. 13-20
Description
Findings indicate a lack of knowledge combined with conservative cultural or social customs created significant barriers to widespread adoption of the practice.