Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 3, Preserving and Protecting Knowledge, Spring, 2014, pp. 20-23
Description
Discusses teaching and learning about cultural knowledge as a community endeavor that can facilitate the preservation of Tohono O'odham culture and tradition.
Recommendations for improving food security through increasing hunting capacity, food processing and distribution capabilities and awareness about traditional foods.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 1, August 2014, pp. 1-15
Description
Discusses how western colonial ideals, that form the basis of the current education system, must be replaced with Indigenous philosophical systems as a foundation.
Body Image, vol. 11, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 318-327
Description
Women identified the following themes: accepting everything about your body; who you are and how you show it; connection to culture; being healthy; and being thankful to be Indigenous.
Findings from national research project to get a better understanding of how Indigenous societies use of their own legal traditions and identify legal principles.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, The Governance of Indigenous Information, 2014, pp. 1-32
Description
Looks at the efforts to improve the governance of data between governments and Indigenous organizations and communities and presents a selection of initiatives undertaken in Canada, the United States and Australia.
Comments on a gathering where community members shared stories, identified causes of disharmony in the community, and discussed ways to achieve their healing objectives.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 1, no. 2, Fall, 2014, pp. 89-104
Description
Comments on the "chain of symbolic associations between the Indigenous, in particular the Choctaw, and Lennon and The Beatles that extends across much of the novel".
Studies in Political Economy, vol. 93, Landscapes of Neoliberalism, Spring, 2014, pp. 25-52
Description
Presents criticism of IBA's by considering the privatization of federal duty to consult, the trend to have market-based solutions for social suffering, and the limiting of political and legal channels.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 287-318
Description
Looks at the current violence caused by drug and human trafficking, challenges to addressing the problem, and review of initiatives to fix the challenges.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 287-318
Description
Looks at two American Indian Nations, that are recognized as drug conduits, and discusses possible solutions to the challenges faced by these and other Nations.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 53, no. 1, 2014, pp. 23-41
Description
Study looked one predominately White institution lacking Native American organizations and found that increased social interactions had a positive impact on grades, but reduced graduation rates.
[Patterns of Health and Wellbeing: An Intercultural Symposium ; 06
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jennie Joe
Description
Webcast of a presentation from Patterns of Health and Wellbeing Symposium regarding the connection between health and the environment.
Duration: 23:47.
Presents Angela White, from the Indian Residential School Survivors' Society speaking on the history and impacts of residential schools.
Duration: 28:52
Part 1.
Part 2.
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 14, no. 2, June 2014, p. article 2545
Description
Discusses context and process from the perspective of Fort Albany First Nation community participants. Information was gathered through interviews, direct observation, and written and photo-documentation.
Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Else Grete Broderstad
Description
Discusses four aspects of rights and political participation: negative, positive, procedural, and institutional.
Excerpt from Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination: Theoretical and Practical Approaches edited by Marc Woons.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper scroll to p. 80.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 2, December 2014, pp. 1-17
Description
Author uses a Muskego Inninuwuk (Swampy Cree) methodology based on principles of relationality to study experiences of identity in herself and others of Cree and non-Indigenous ancestry.