Explores reasons why the epidemic figures prominently in First Nations' histories; includes oral remembrances of the devastation the disease brought to First Nations communities.
Anthropology & Medicine, vol. 6, no. 3, 1999, pp. 405-421
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Interviews patients, family, primary care providers and language interpreters to look at cultural interpretations of mortality, disease prognosis, and perspectives for end of life decisions.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors. Contains letters, pictures, and articles including Healing Within the Circle by Gloria Durnmitt.
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Aboriginal Women and Decolonization, 1999, p. 127–142
Description
Examines Native women's experiences and perspectives on oppression and their role in life based on transcriptions of interviews of urban Aboriginal women's groups.
Canadian Literature, no. 167, First Nations Writing, Winter, 2000, pp. 121-123
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Book reviews of: Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter by Janet Campbell Hale and Feminist Readings of Native American Literature: Coming to Voice by Kathleen M. Donovan.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access reviews scroll to p. 121.
Information for Aboriginal people with AIDS who are in need of palliative care and their caregivers. Covers physical, spiritual/traditional, emotional, and mental aspects.