Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, January/February 1999, pp. 24-26
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Aboriginal mental health worker participant from Brome, Western Australia reflects on the five day course which includes two days spent in a bush environment.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 68-77
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Focuses on three fundamental questions: What do Aboriginal economies look like now?; What are the critical factors that need to be considered for their development?; What are possible scenarios for Aboriginal economic development?
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 162, no. 7, April 4, 2000, p. 969
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Argues that prevalence of diabetes is due to diet rather than socioeconomic or genetic factors. Response to letter by John Anderson published in vol. 162, no.1.
Diabetes Care, vol. 22, no. 12, December 1999, pp. 1993-1998
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Reports that body-mass index (BMI) rates in Australia are among the highest in the world and that diabetes incidence, in the lowest BMI category, is 2 to 3 times greater for Aboriginal than for the non-Aboriginal population.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 44, no. 2, Summer, 2000, pp. 114-134
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Paper argues that in five decades hunting and gathering has diminished but economic development policies and funding have failed to develop a viable wage economy.
First phase of an archival project providing biographies of people whose death occurred between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 19, no. 1 & 2, Women and Justice, Spring/Summer, 1999, pp. 209-214
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Looks at Colleen Whiten's feminist art installation, Seducing the Receiver (1994-1995) in relation to the Paul Bernardo and John Crawford murder cases.
Citizenship Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, February 1999, pp. 5-25
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Examines the reasons and legal aspects used by Canada to dispossess aboriginal people who have not ceded land through treaties, such as the Innu of Labrador-Quebec.
Discusses the community-based Touchwood File Hills Qu'Appelle Valley pilot project which was designed to deal with issues surrounding intergovernmental funding for self-government in Saskatchewan.
Five papers describe the Akira Language Project implemented at White Shield School in North Dakota, Nakoda Language Program at Fort Belknap College in Montana and the development of tools for computer language documentation at the American Indian Studies Research Institute.
Excerpt from Revitalizing Indigenous Languages edited by John Reyhner, Gina Cantoni, Robert N. St. Clair, and Evangeline Parsons.