Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 1, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 1-17
Description
Examines a conceptual framework used with food security movement that helps young people understand their social context and values and engages them in social justice work.
Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program, AAEDIRP
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tom Cooper
Terry Hickey
Leon Sock
Gerald Hare
Description
Purpose of study is to help guide First Nations communities in developing policies, procedures and controls that will ensure effective fisheries management.
Assesses levels of concurrence in understanding regarding the salmon fishery among the Ahtna, an Alaska Native people, commercial fishers, and fishery biologists.
Goal of document is to help clarify what protocols are, their uses, and how they can be developed by communities and local organizations to address issues of access, control and ownership of Indigenous knowledge.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, The Interconnectedness of Languages, Rivers, and Forests, December 2011
Description
Discusses how the Guatemalan community radio station plays an important role in providing information and preserving values pertaining to the various Indigenous cultures.
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.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 35, no. 1, Indigenous Pedagogies Resurgence and Restoration, 2012, pp. 7-22, 222
Description
Discusses the discourses of history for Indigenous education and how reconceptualizing Métis history is important to transforming educational institutions.
Discusses the current status of Indigenous knowledge in South Africa. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.
This book was written to give what the author viewed as an accurate description of the two colonies (which would later join to become British Columbia) in opposition to what was being written about the place in the British press of the day. The author gives his opinion that British Columbia is primarily of value due to its gold deposits and holds little promise for agriculture. Chapter V deals with the Aboriginal population of British Columbia and expresses sentiments such as "The Indians must disappear before the March of Civilization." Note: an oversize endnote map has not been scanned.
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.
Dialogue As A Method For Evolving Mātauranga Māori
Dialogue As A Method For Evolving Mātauranga Maori
Dialogue As A Method For Evolving Mātauranga Maori: Perspectives On The Use Of Embryos In Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maui Hudson
Mere Roberts
Linda Tuhwai Smith
Murray Hemi
Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 1, 2010, pp. 54-65
Description
Discusses the epistemological distinctions between scientific practice and different Indigenous knowledge systems relating to embryo research and how the two can be mutually beneficial in a changing society.
Report offers 26 recommendations for library staff and researchers seeking to decolonize their services in regards to collaborative research with Indigenous communities, the products of that research, and previously acquired archival materials. Multiple case studies included; majority are Canadian, but also includes cases from Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and the United States.
Dine Clans and Climate Change: A Historical Lesson for Land Use Today
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Klara Kelley
Harris Francis
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 55-82
Description
Authors describes the Diné system of clans and kinship, and suggest that rooted as it is in an ethic of universal relatedness, it might hold solutions for dealing with environmental and political instability.
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Inna Rivkin
Joseph Trimble
Ellen D.S. Lopez
Samuel Johnson
Eliza Orr
James Allen
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, Supplement 1, 2013, p. article no. 20958
Description
Study aimed to improve cultural sensitivity in order to decrease the psychological stress resulting from rapid changes in culture and lifestyle patterns.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 303-316
Description
Examines the belief systems about diabetes in American Indian elders with two practice models, one an Indigenous model, valuing traditional American Indian culture, the other a mainstream model, aligned with western biomedicine.
Article concludes that it is important to publish failures as well as successes based on a case of conflict between environmental institutions and reindeer owners of the development of a national park.
Borderlands E-Journal: New Spaces in the Humanities, vol. 1, no. 2, 2002, p. [?]
Description
Examines significant court decisions from an Aboriginal perspective to illustrate the problems facing First Nations when dealing with the Canadian judicial system's inherent legal colonialism.