Looks at a community survey of the Little Red River Cree Nation, and several socio-economic barriers that impede the ability to engage in subsistence harvesting.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 97-111
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Asserts that withholding knowledge is an act of resistance and argues that to fully understand Native American people is how a dominant society gains a sense of mastery and control.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, Technologies Créatives / Creative Technologies, 2010, pp. 61-80
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Examines how the creation of Inuktitut media content could be an effective means of creative improvisation, linguistic and cultural preservation. Article also challenges prevailing critical approaches to the Inuit as linguistically and culturally vulnerable.
Identifies factors, issues, challenges and programmes that may enter into discussions about learning priorities among First Nations reserves and communities in order to provide guidance and direct potential actions.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 385-396
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Examines the concept of successful aging from an Alaska Native perspective that is designated when an individual has demonstrated wisdom because of the experiences he or she has gained throughout life.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 163-180
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Examines the need for culturally appropriate mental health services for the prevention of Aboriginal youth suicide and the importance of positive youth development to foster healthy mental, emotional, social, spiritual and physical development.
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 110, September 20, 2010, pp. [1]-33
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Looks at citizenship education and the need for traditional Aboriginal ways of learning to be incorporated into the curriculum to provide practical experiences in citizenship development.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 51, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 50-68
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Looks at what was integrated, how it was integrated and the challenges. Includes recommendations for policymakers and educators for designing approaches.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 20, no. 2, Fall, 2005, pp. 121-145
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Examines the differences and difficulties in teaching American Indian studies courses to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students at Iowa State University.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 2010, pp. 289-314
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Looks at 2 projects, a summer study based on holistic learning and a medicine wheel garden project in support of an interdisciplinary approach to the natural sciences.
Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 34, Thinking Place: The Indigenous Humanities and Education, 2005, pp. 7-19
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Explores a research project at the U of S that presents examples of how the research team has endeavoured to clarify and exemplify what the Indigenous humanities are and what they can do to help reclaim Indigenous knowledges and pedagogies for education.
History of First Nation agriculture in Saskatchewan and suggestions to improve the current situation that sees very few First Nations peoples involved in farm operations.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
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Discusses the way in which the tobacco contributes to Indigenous research methodology and examines how Indigenous research can draw upon Indigenous ways of knowing by connecting individuals with the spiritual and physical world.
Describes the key concepts of Western science and the principles and processes of Adaptive Management. The paper also looks at the similarities and differences in Indigenous and Western science perspectives.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 3, Fall, 2010, pp. 81-84
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Book reveiw of: Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 81.
Looks at the challenges affecting performance of Aboriginal students and the benefit of using principles which combine both Indigenous and western perspectives in the classroom.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 63-79
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Examines the history of Aboriginal cross-gender roles and discusses approaches to improve the quality of social work practices by including traditional Aboriginal practices and worldviews.
International Journal of the Commons, vol. 4, no. 1, February 2010, p. 36–55
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Looks at two joint ventures ability or inability to contribute the extra dimensions of development in forest management desired by Aboriginal communities.
American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 217-220
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Response to Robert McGhee's simplification and mischaracterization of Indigenous archaeology in a 2008 article, focusing on three main points of contention: insufficient sampling, caricature, and questionable treatment of colonialism and notions of "Aboriginalism".