Health Promotion International, vol. 25, no. 2, 2010, pp. 166-173
Description
Looks at a case study of a health promotion project which, using the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, aims to provide culturally appropriate health promotion.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 6-25
Description
Examines how cultural and traditional Aboriginal knowledge can improve social work and human service field education for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Development and Customary Law, 2010, pp. 44-51
Description
Examines the conflicting viewpoints in communities in Jharkhand between the British colonial system and Indigenous people regarding the definition of custom and tradition .
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American Anthropologist, vol. 113, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 162-191
Description
Book review of: Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer.
All book reviews on one pdf. To access review, scroll down to appropriate page [181].
Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine, vol. 16, no. 4, Fall, 2011, pp. 126-130
Description
Study included systematic review of literature about prenatal education and care, and maternal health literacy, as well as interviews with 13 women who had been relocated from remote communities to Sioux Lookout, Ontario to give birth.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 42, no. 1, 2010, pp. 56-73
Description
Using feedback from registered nurses working in the Canadian north to Discuss key concepts in dementia care and how this knowledge can be used to improve the care provided.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 43, no. 4, Growing Roots: Native American Evidence-Based Practices, October-December 2011, pp. 325-330
Description
Looks at initiative involving activities, individual and family treatment programs, public education and community mobilization, and law enforcement strategies using logic models.
[The Force of Fashion in Politics and Society: Global Perspectives from Early Modern to Contemporary Times]
[The History of Retailing and Consumption]
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Author/Creator
Cory Willmott
Description
Argues that incorporating traditional elements into modern designs has produced an expression of "intertribal nationhood".
Chapter eight from The Force of Fashion in Politics and Society: Global Perspectives from Early Modern to Contemporary Times edited by Beverly Lemire.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall , 2011, pp. 90-101
Description
Survey includes questions about attitudes towards community engagement and culture and engaging in community development activities as part of a group or organization.
Document intended to provide police with a "guide to using the problem-oriented policing approach" in communities as a method of establishing cooperative working relationships to identify and address problems.
Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work, vol. 1, no. 2, December 2010, pp. 1-20
Description
Discusses a program that includes the use of cultural beliefs, practices and customs for the health care needs of cancer patients in Indigenous communities.
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 35, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 1, Summer, 2011, pp. 168-176
Description
Describes the process used in the development of the Inuktitut and English Language Screening Tool intended for use in the Qikiqtani region of Nunavut.
Examines the structural factors behind disproportionality in the system and reviews approaches that go beyond traditional limits of social welfare systems.
Dissecting Internal Community Barriers and Subsequent Devaluation of Indigenous Graduates: A Discussion on Stereotypes, Knowledge, Power and Social Space Based on an
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 39-45
Description
Presents a study to determine if there is a difference in birth outcomes among First Nations women living
on-reserve versus off-reserve in Manitoba.
International Journal of Canadian Studies , no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis / Les représentations des Premiéres nations et des Métis, 2010, pp. 69-98
Description
Discusses a unique sustainable development program with Aboriginal community partners to address traditional knowledge and capacity building.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, March/April 1991, pp. 4-5
Description
Looks at issues surrounding research conducted in an Aboriginal community: lack of communication in decision making about problems, what problems should be studied and how, lack of community permission, and lack of feedback to the community or person being studied.