Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia
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Author/Creator
Erich Kasten
Description
Speaks about cultural tradition, interpretation and concepts of ownership.
Introduction from: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.
Includes brief history of the education authority, overview of its activities, discussion of programming in areas of language and culture at the elementary level, and analysis of success indicators for secondary and post-secondary students.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 127-150
Description
Looks into the lives of the Berdache or gender-mixed Indigenous leaders We'wha and Klah and how their gender status provided them with a variety of unique skills, insights, and interaction with the rest of American society.
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
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Author/Creator
Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine
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Examines the link between environmental injustice, racism and cultural genocide; and discusses the importance of creating a nature based culture that is both environmentally sustainable and socially just.
Canadian Social Trends, no. 75, Winter, 2004, pp. 22-27
Description
Describes the physical, mental, intellectual, spiritual and emotional well-being of children age 14 and under.
Adapted from A Portrait of Aboriginal Children Living in Non-Reserve Areas: Results from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey.
What is an Educated Person? Definitions of and Motivations For Educational Achievement Among Members of the Peigan Nation
What is an Educated Person? Definitions of and Motivations For Educational Achievement Among Members of the Pii'kani Nation
What is an Educated Person? Definitions of and Motivations For Educational Achievement Among Members of the Pikani Nation
What is an Educated Person? Definitions of and Motivations For Educational Achievement Among Members of the Pikuni Nation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Ramp
Kirby Smith
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2004, pp. 65-89
Description
Examines the framing and definition of "education" by members of the Pii'kani Nation interviewed for a study about their reasons for pursuing educational opportunities.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, December 1988, pp. 49-50
Description
New kits, videos and books available for health workers from the New South Wales Health promotion team on diabetes, nutrition, systems of the human body, and having babies.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1, Winter, 1988, pp. 3-9
Description
Discusses issues involved in the jurying process conducted by the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council and the May Report on the financial viability of Inuit printmaking.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 252-257
Description
Author offers some perspective on the process of colonization in the period between 1849 and 1890 and on everything that was lost in in that time to the Sioux peoples; also discusses the current moves towards healing, resurgence and cultural reclamation.
Social Science and Medicine, vol. 59, no. 2, July 2004, pp. 335-349
Description
Argues that health program devolution was part of a longer tradition of incorporating aspects of non-Native medicine in a way that supported Nisga’a social structure.
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 39, no. 3, 2004, pp. 342-353
Description
Looks at the development of the Certificate in Aboriginal Literacy Education program and follow-up workshops for creating children's books in-order to preserve the Mi'kmaq language in the community of Wagmatcook, Cape Breton.