Overview provides data on the ethnographic history of the Rocky Mountain National Park region, identifies specific physical, cultural, and spiritual resources within the Park region, and discusses legal, management, and consultative processes.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 30, no. 2, 2007, pp. 305-321
Description
Explores the present state of K-12 and postsecondary Native Language (NL) education in Canada and the feasibility of incorporating outdoor education with NL programs.
Society and Natural Resources, vol. 20, no. 9, 2007, pp. 767-783
Description
Looks at "the collective interpretations of disaster recovery following the Exxon Valdez oil spill as developed in the alternative Alaska Native newspaper, the Tundra Times."
International Journal of Behavior Nutrition and Physical Activities, vol. 4, no. 63, December 4, 2007, p. [?]
Description
Looks at relationship between walking patterns and perceptions of physical activity in Moose Factory to effectively plan and implement the Kahnawake School's Diabetes Prevention Project.
Paper explores the responses of Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals to the debate regarding the project to build a passenger cable car through a National Park.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 2, February 2007, p. 15
Description
Highlights a few reasons, including disturbed nesting sites from human and animal activity, for the endangered status being placed on the Piping Plover.
Article located by scrolling to page 15.
The Plains Paradox: Secular Trends in Stature in 19th Century Nomadic Plains Equestrian Indians. The Arapaho, Assiniboine, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux from 1800 to 1870
Theses
Author/Creator
Joseph M. Prince
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998.
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, vol. 93, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 1-25
Description
Summarizes the trends and areas of fallout in Canada, Alaska and Greenland. Tracks concentrations in the Caniapiscau herd of central Québec and discusses the potential impact on health.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 388-391
Description
Review of Peuples du Grand Nord, vol. 1: Des Mythes à la Préhistoire and vol. 2: Vers Esquimau: Du Mammouth à la Baleine by Patrick Plumet.
Review in French.
Outlines the successes of many initiatives and programs that were put in place by The Aboriginal and Northern Climate Change Program (ANCCP), which came to a close on March 31, 2007.
Society and Natural Resources, vol. 20, no. 3, March 2007, pp. 271-279
Description
Presents some of the institutional and ideological factors that continue to influence the way in which lands and resources are managed by First Nations in the Yukon.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 91-127
Description
Book reviews of:
Indian Water Policy In a Changing Environment: A Symposium on Indian Water Policy edited by Patricia Zell.
Languages and Their Roles in Educating Native Children by Barbara Burnaby.
Changing Economic Roles for Micmac Men and Women by Ellice B. Gonzalez.
Native American Art at Philbrook by N. P. Paper.
The Upward Moving and Emergence Way by Father Berard Haile.
People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879; with an epilogue, 1964-1974 by Father Peter John Powell.
Food Additives and Contaminants, vol. 15, no. 3, Part A, April 1998, pp. 307-317
Description
Suggests that the health risk associated with cadmium exposure via food and cigarette smoking in Fort Resolution is within the Provisional Tolerable Weekly Intake (PTWI) set out by the World Health Organization.
Land Economics, vol. 74, no. 2, May 1998, pp. 162-171
Description
Study conducted on the Chimane Amerindians in Bolivia's rain forest had two tentative conclusions: conservation is enhanced when land rights of Indigenous peoples are protected and high private discount rates do not necessarily increase deforestation.
An interview with Rufus Goodstriker, born in 1924 on the Blood Indian Reserve and attended a residential school. He tells of the origins and significance of the transfer of Indian names, especially within his own family. He also talks about Indian medicine and the power of faith; the Indian spiritual way vs. the Western technological way;of herbs, animal spirits, sweat bath in healing etc.