Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, March 1977, pp. 57-64
Description
Describes the creation of a training program for behavioural health technicians at the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Centre in Queensland, Australia.
Our Native Land radio program interviews Aboriginal veterans Adam Cuthand and Rufus Prince about their experiences in World War Two. Broadcast date: November 9, 1974.
Duration: 10:28
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, September 1980, pp. 4-14
Description
Opening address at the National Conference of the Australian National Association for Mental Health and the National Aboriginal Mental Health Association.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 4, December 1977, pp. 40-48
Description
Presents personal recollections including poems on life as a health care worker. One author feels that there is more depression than has been recognized and that there is a relationship to alcohol abuse.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 4, December 1980, pp. 48-49
Description
Two personal narratives from employees of Groote Eylandt Mining Company's Industrial Health Department regarding the upheaval of mining development and the importance of hygiene in disease prevention.
23 Elizabeth II. Chapter 15. An Act Respecting Oil and Gas in Indian Lands
Indian Oil and Gas Act
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Cited as Indian Oil and Gas Act. Section 7 provided for consultation, on a continuing basis, with Indian bands most directly affected by oil and gas activities.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, June 1980, pp. 16-24
Description
Discusses use of natural substances for medical needs and how contact with Europeans created significant substance abuse problems with substances from alcohol to sugar.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, June 1980, p. 4
Description
Brief story reports on the Warramirri people from Elcho Island, Australia permitting the Clinical Oncology Society to use their carving of two snakes as the Society's symbol.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 19, no. 3, May 1980, pp. [5-7]
Description
Successful techniques used in citizen workshops to provide people of the Navajo Nation with the basic information and tools needed to actively participate in land use planning.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, September 1977, pp. 25-28
Description
Discusses prevention strategies that should be employed as part of a more proactive approach to combating the wide range of social problems that accompany this disease.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 7, no. 9, September 1977, p. 5
Description
Indian Affairs Minister informs the Medicine Wheel Ranch Company band members that they must wait for the settlement of their land claim of the Harold Lees ranch until the legitimacy of the surrender of that land by the Ocean Man and Pheasant Rump reserves in 1902 is decided in court.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 55, no. 3, September 1974, pp. 261-291
Description
Uses contemporary French accounts which report views that they were unattractive, physically, mentally and morally inferior, did not practice personal hygiene, consumed unhealthy food, etc.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter, 1977-1978, pp. 335-356
Description
Author argues that violence in Cherokee communities can be attributed to the combination social-structural problems found on reservations and the erosion of traditional cultural norms.
Explores the historical relationship between a variety of dances and games and fertility rites belonging to the Iroquoian and Muskogean linguistic families.