Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, July/August 2007, pp. 28-31
Description
Comments on enormous burden change has placed on Aboriginal and Torres Strait people resulting in displacement of traditional male role as main family provider.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 2002, pp. 23-63
Description
Methodists and Ojibwa cooperatively developed a system, which included bilingual instruction, some Ojibwa teachers and the Pestalozzi teaching method that seemed more suitable for the learning styles.
Analytical method takes into account historical, social, political and economic inequities which influence health and health care, using cervical cancer to illustrate the points raised.
Examines the history of Aboriginal-Governmental relations, with a close look at the factors that may influence future relatiions in regards to aboriginal justice.
Topics include: building relationships, balance in content and perspectives; accessibility and use; culturally sensitive materials; providing context; intellectual property issues; copying and repatriation of records; research protocols; and reciprocal education and training.
Providing Psychiatric-Mental Health Care for Native Americans: Lessons Learned by a Non-Native American PMHNP (Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy G. Barnard
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing And Mental Health Services, vol. 45, no. 5, May 2007, pp. 30-35
Description
Author describes lessons learned while practicing on the reservation and suggests ways other non-Native American practitioners can best serve the population.
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 95-112
Description
Argues that the model of healthy living was based on Anglo-Celtic, middle class, values and this model created problems for children and families unable to conform to this social ideal.
Outlines women's traditional roles and discusses how churches and various Canadian government policies and legislation have created their current disadvantaged position.
Alaska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Description
Reports on education, economic opportunity and employment, and administration of justice regarding Alaskan Natives. Provides recommendations for change.
Discusses the film directed by Ali Kazimi and the work of photographer Edward Curtis in terms of pictorial representation of Aboriginals and the ideas behind it.
New Brunswick and Atlantic Studies Research and Development Centre Conference, Town and Country: Exploring Urban and Rural Issues in New Brunswick, June 22nd -23rd, 2007
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jo-Anne Elder
Description
Looks at working intercultural models by examining cultural practices, arts policies and literary and popular writing.
Gender & History, vol. 8, no. 1, April 1996, pp. 4-21
Description
Looks at how British culture affected the portrayal of Aboriginal hunters, specifically the buffalo hunters as brave and manly compared to the fishing tribes as being indolent and improvident.