First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Issue: Adolescent Development, Mental Health, and Promising Research Directions , 2007, pp. 5-7
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Introduces a special issue of First Peoples Child & Family Review, that focuses on the developmental stage of adolescence, and comments on some basic facts regarding research.
American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
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Information on moving through the process in five phases: initial steps, confirmation of decision to move forward, establishment of college, becoming operational, and continued growth and sustainability.
Information about the Specific Claims Tribunal Act and the Political Agreement between the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs and the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Relation to Specific Claims Reform.
Haida Gwaii Strategic Land Use Agreement Between The Indigenous People of Haida Gwaii as Represented by the Council of the Haida Nation (the "Haida") and the Province of British Columbia (the "Province") as Represented by the Minister of Agriculture and
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Integrated Land Management Bureau
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Lays out the Land Use Agreement intended to address the recommendation outcomes of the Haida Gwaii land use planning process.
Argues that chiefs should be leaders and not administrators, further arguing that by governments turning things over for bands to deal with, chiefs become like Indian agents.
Discusses the qualities necessary for facilitating the healing process and things that may be accomplished by using a variety of western or traditional tools.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 3, Reparations for Indigenous Peoples, Fall, 2007
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Comments on the necessity of a reparations program that will address the psychosocial affects of abuse, although the atrocities will never be forgotten.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, pictures, and articles including: Aboriginal Survivors for Healing by Jackie Miller, and Telling Stories from Our Lives by David Sidwell.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 4, Health and Healing, Summer, 2007
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Discusses three ways tribal colleges and universities are involved with health education including curriculum to create more health care providers, community education and research.
BMC Health Services Research, vol. 7, no. 126, 2007
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Observes that health care costs for both First Nations and the general population with diabetes in Saskatchewan are substantially higher that individuals without the disease.
Section three looks at Aboriginal health policy covering priority areas, programs and services, First Nations and territorial transfers, mandates and health gaps.
Scroll down to page 7 for relevant materials.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 89-114
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Explores the genre of contemporary Native American songs as valid texts with viable educational elements for academic study.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 89.