The Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 185, no. 1, July 2006, pp. 40-45
Description
Identifies barriers for supplying primary healthcare to diabetes and other chronically ill patients. Recommends developing the role of Aboriginal healthcare workers to include counselling and health promotion.
Paper based on extensive fieldwork carried out over a 15-month period and interviews with 105 persons in law enforcement, government officials, First Nation political leaders and community activists; includes a historical overview and nine case studies.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 87, no. 1, March 2006, pp. 29-52
Description
Studies history of legislation by which individuals could renounce Indian "status" and gain Canadian citizenship through the Department of Indian Affairs.
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Description
Presents climate change and adaptation guidebooks to help First Nations plan to avoid, minimize or adapt to impacts caused by climate change. Guidebook 1 discusses how to set up working groups within the community.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1998.
Provides a glimpse into the thoughts, ideas and struggles of the Peguis people of Manitoba as they build a healthier community.
Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2006: Proceedings of the Annual Regional Entrepreneurship Research Exchange
[AGSE International Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Exchange ; 3rd, 2006]
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Author/Creator
Bob Kayseas
Kevin Hindle
Robert B. Anderson
Description
Focuses on the Band's approach to governance, land use and cultural development.
Paper from Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2006: Proceedings of the Annual Regional Entrepreneurship Research Exchange.
Until Our Hearts Are on the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance, and Rebirth
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Author/Creator
Margo Greenwood
Sarah De Leeuw
Description
Suggests that educating Aboriginal families in Indigenous ways of knowing and being would reduce child welfare interventions by territorial, provincial and federal governments.
Chapter from Until Our Hearts Are on the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance, and Rebirth edited by Jeanette Corbiere Lavell and Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard.
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Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 2, Traditional Wisdom Our Strength, Winter, 2006
Description
Profiles Rafael Garcia, a language teacher, who confirms that the O'odham in Mexico and in the United States are the same people who share the same history and language.
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 50, no. 4, Indigenous Peoples: Canadian and U.S. Perspectives, December 2006, pp. 526-549
Description
Examines how important historical events are seen to impact contemporary lives of Aboriginal people from the Northern Plains and the Southwest cultures.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 2006, pp. 59-74
Description
Explores the well-being and health of First Nation's communities and suggests an holistic healing approach to counter pressures brought on by colonization.
Explores question of what it means to be an Indigenous person in the 21st century by talking to people from Dene, Cree, Blackfoot and Métis communities in Alberta.
Duration: 26:05.