Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 343-354
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Looks at a study identifing the most prevalent chronic conditions, indicating that older American Indians experience higher rates of hypertension, diabetes, back pain, and vision loss compared to national statistics of older adults.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 355-359
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Book reviews of: Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada by J.R. Miller and The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest edited by Alexandra Harmon.
Purpose of brief compilation is to provide historical and current context for Aboriginal health status. Lists significant legislation and events chronologically, as well as discusses benefits, social determinants of health, gaps in services, etc.
Review of the significant growth in Indigenous post-secondary education enrolment as a result of establishing interest-free loans and the lifting of enrolment caps.
Abstracts of works in the Research Series.
Aboriginal Sexual Offending in Canada by John H. Hylton.
Mental Health Profiles for a Sample of British Columbia's Aboriginal Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System by Raymond R. Corrado, Irwin M.
Results of qualitative survey conducted in response to amendments to the Youth Protection Act which gives courts the power to issue permanent placement orders outside of the immediate family.
International Dental Journal, vol. 60, no. 3 suppl.2, June 2010, pp. 245-249
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Comments on an intervention that did not produce any significant change in oral health behaviours, clinical measures of oral hygiene, or community programs promoting oral health.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 37, no. 2, Winter, 1998, pp. [21-33]
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Discusses the process used by the American Indian Higher Education Initiative to develop methods to enable institutions to meet better meet student needs.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 125-133
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Article introduces the second section of this is issue of AIQ and the articles contained therein. Focuses on issues of identity, cultural hybridity and marginality.
Summarizes findings from meetings with elected leaders, elders, community members, and representatives of agencies, government and industry. Makes recommendations in the areas of collaboration, coordination, community, capacity, communication and commitment.
Follow-up Report.
Literature review identifies secondary information in these areas: barriers to employment, career aspirations, rates of success and factors associated with them, and comparison to non-Aboriginal youth.
Presents updates from Early Childhood Development Working Group by region and looks at items from the National Inuit Early Childhood Education Gathering.
"The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a range of options for constitutional reform in order to promote discussion and exploration of specific possibilities for Australia".
Ecological Applications, vol. 20, no. 3, 2010, pp. 880-894
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Discusses problems associated with social research contributions to documenting, representing and interpreting indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK), local ecological knowledge (LEK), and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, 1998, pp. 131-150
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Examines the exclusion and then limited inclusion into the dominant society, and also the dominant society's construction of the alternative group's identity.
Looks at projects by architects John Paul Jones, Douglas Cardinal, Dennis Sun Rhodes, David Sloan, Robert Altman and others. Explains how values and identity are expressed within the designs and defined by existence to the landscape.
Duration: 55:18.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 6, no. 1, Traditional Medicine, January 2010, pp. 6-17
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Examines the findings of a qualitative research study completed in Thunderchild First Nation, Saskatchewan and discusses an appropriate framework to implement changes to decrease the health disparities between Indigenous Peoples and the rest of Canada.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter, 1998, pp. 9-31
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Discussion of the struggle for identity and the complications not only of ethnicity and mixed heritage, but of gender and sexuality.
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