The Aboriginal Alcohol Problem in TownsvillebrockbankWed, 09/30/2015 - 00:00
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Eva Kennedy
John Whop
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.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 22, no. 4, April 1993, p. 8
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Ovide Mercredi, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, comments on lack of both Constitutional recognition and legal protection of Indigenous languages.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 4, July/August 1993, pp. 23-32
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Looks at the skills needed to have effective communication between health workers and patients: attitude, behaviour, verbal communication, information delivery, and concluding the conversation.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 5, September/October 1993, pp. 13-19
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Looks at important symptoms for common mental health problems at different ages. The first groups deals with behaviours or problems with normal behaviour and the second group deals with behaviours that are abnormal.
The Supreme Court Law Review, vol. 71, no. 1, 2015, pp. [67]-89
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Looks at changes to inherent limit and extension resulting from the Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia case. Focuses on changes to provincial jurisdiction over Aboriginal titled lands and land use.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 4, December 1977, pp. 40-48
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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. 1, no. 3, September 1977, pp. 25-28
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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
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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.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 2, Summer, 2015, pp. 36-40
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Comments on the need for a strong broadband network enabling artists to connect to the global economy.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 36.
Looks at Native American art in museums in three areas: Native American art in American art museums in the early twentieth century, multiculturalism: museum initiatives between 1970 and 2000, and twenty-first century approaches: 'dialogical imperatives'.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 3, Fall, 1993, pp. 34-37
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Review on an exhibition at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art until September 19, 1993 in which art from Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia and Lapland was displayed.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 34.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 7, no. 4, April 1977, p. 11
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Director of the Saskatchewan Medical Services Branch of the Department of Health and Welfare claims radon level in Red Earth Reserve water is not a hazard.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, May/June 1993, pp. 22-24
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Looks at the Streetwize Comic series, Gotta Know which deals with the issue of addiction and drug use, HIV/AIDS prevention, education, treatment, and care.
Transmotion, vol. 1, no. 2, November 20, 2015, pp. 1-25
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Author uses the frameworks created in Vizenor’s two 2006 poetry collections to discuss Anishinaabe concepts of belonging and citizenship separate from colonial discourses and dichotomies.