NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 213-214
Description
Review of the website: American Indian Histories and Cultures.
Describes the scope of the content, system design and functionality, and key features. Majority of the material is sourced from the Edward E. Ayer collection at the Newberry Library.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 30-45
Description
Exploratory article which examines the ways lessons and information on the history and contemporary state of Indian Education are integrated into American Indian/Native American Studies programs and journals.
Radio report discusses Sherman Indian High School in Riverside California and the controversy over whether the Federally-funded schools should closed. Accompanied by article.
Duration: 7:46.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 106-114
Description
Ortiz’s address to the AISA calls on Indigenous people to recognize the damage done to them by colonization and to find in that recognition the strength and will to participate in contemporary resistance to neocolonial projects rooted in consumer capitalist and extractive resource regimes.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 91-105
Description
This presentation text examines different sites and incidents of neocolonial violence and Aboriginal activism as defiance in response; asserts the basis of Native Studies is “indigenousness and sovereignty” and examines the implications of these concepts for activism and resistance movements.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 22, no. 2, 2015, pp. 41-68
Description
Study results indicate that substance abuse programs vary widely and that more research is needed to in order to incorporate appropriate cultural elements.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 15, no. 1, 2008, pp. 18-32
Description
Results from a study that recruited 12 United States Aboriginals and 12 non-Aboriginal participants to play simulated slot machines in order to measure how sensation seeking and payback percentages affect gambling behaviours.
Outlines characteristics of current programs for training adulteducation instructors and makes recommendations to increase the number Aboriginal faculty in mainstream colleges and vocational institutes.
Review of Reports and Recommendations on Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pippa Feinstein
Megan Pearce
Description
Compilation of recommendations from reports dealing with missing and murdered Aboriginal women and assessment of actions taken in response to them.
Related documents:
Master List of Recommendations.
Executive Summary.
Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women (LSC)
Description
Argues that methods of keeping and gathering statistics on crime may cause the nature of violence against Aboriginal women to be misunderstood and that the numbers continue to underestimated.
Manual designed to help Indigenous women and service providers address key aspects of violence, as well as understand Indigenous women’s legal rights on matters related to leaving a violent relationship.
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act: Capabilities Failure?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne Edwards
Tara Natarajan
Native Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 2008, pp. 69-97
Description
Argues that laws that had the potential to improve the well-being of people in Alaska were never fully realized due to the legislation's design and implementation.
Discusses the survival of traditional Andean textile traditions and how they are linked to the people’s environment and their ancestors.
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Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-20
Description
Asserts that spirituality is central to Aboriginal approaches to social work and discusses four aspects of the relevance of other-than-human animals in spirituality: as part of kinship systems, sources of wisdom and protection, ceremonial significance and historical importance. Considers the Judeo-Christian focus of most scholarship on spirituality in social work and calls for a more decolonial, anti-oppressive practice.
Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Research Program: A Joint Initiative of Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre and Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority: Research Compilation, vol. 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre
Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority
Description
Material is full text of peer-reviewed literature.
Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Research Program: A Joint Initiative of Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre and Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority: Research Compilation, vol. 3
Community-Based Emergency Care: An Open Report for Nishnawbe Aski Nation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre
Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority
Description
Material is full text of peer-reviewed literature.