International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship
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Lars Rønning
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Looks at the ways those involved with reindeer husbandry combine modern business methods with traditional culture to improve economic outcome.
Chapter 19 from International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship edited by Léo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson.
Entire e-book on one pdf. To access chapter, scroll to page 232 or select chapter 19 on side bar.
Reports results of interviews with service providers, Elders, community members, and people experiencing homelessness in 11 Saskatchewan communities and one in Manitoba.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 66, no. 1, 2007, pp. 77-79
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Concludes that seal meat may contain Trichinella, and indicates that risk factors found to be associated with seropositivity include: people over 40, a high intake of traditional food, living in hunting areas, and having an occupation as a fisherman or hunter.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 6, June 2007, p. 8
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Introduces Dr. Jo-Ann Episkenew, a new member of the Lung Association of Saskatchewan, and her intention to work towards improving the health of First Nations and Métis people.
Article located by scrolling to page 8.
Topics include quantity and quality of employment, closed and open gateways to employment, and governments as gatekeepers to public service employment.
Objectives were to: identify number of Aboriginal full-time equivalent positions; identify which positions were exempted from Equal Opportunity legislation and which were Aboriginal-specific; examine the nature of positions; and undertake a comparative analysis of the number of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal trainees.
Discussion of the nature of Aboriginal employment and barriers to achieving the desired number and level of appointments and retaining those hired to fill positions.
Focuses on the forced relocation of the Kitsilano Reserve, originally located near the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver. (For illustrations, see EBSCOhost version)
Retelling of concluding treaties in trickster style about how the First peoples of British Columbia lost their land, languages, fishing and hunting rights.
Print version published by Talonbooks, 2005.
Compares the role of Indigenous hunters as portrayed in the novels Pursuing the Whale by John A. Cook, and Chasing the Bowhead by Hartson H. Bodfish to Brower's Fifty Years Below Zero
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007, pp. 193-203
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Advocates a new partnership model of ethical space, a cooperative spirit between Indigenous peoples and Western institutions, in order to overcome archaic ways of interaction.
Diabetes Care, vol. 30, no. 2, February 2007, pp. 286-291
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Study that compared Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women concluded that Aboriginals are more insulin resistant than non-Aboriginals, and that this holds true even if diabetics are excluded from the sample.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Migration, 2007, pp. 18-25
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Looks at different migrations and changes to the Mayan identity as a result of violence in the 1980s and their return to Guatemala to rebuild their society.
To access this article, scroll down to page 18.
International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship
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Teresa E. Dana
Liisa Remes
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Interviews reveal the various ways Sámi people in Finland are supplementing their reindeer herding income.
Chapter 22 from International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship edited by Léo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson.
Entire e-book on one pdf. To access chapter, scroll to page 287 or select chapter 22 on side bar.
BC Studies, no. 187, These Outer Shores, Autumn, 2015, pp. 21-50
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Looks at area where people and land otters lived over the past fifty-five hundred years and explains why Tlingit have a cultural tie to the land otter.
The Public Historian, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer, 2007, pp. 53-67
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Discusses how Southern legislators and administrators refused to acknowledge American Indians as a distinct society and lumped them with blacks as a method of cultural erasure.