Australian Academic & Research Libraries, vol. 38, no. 2, June 2007, pp. 99-110
Description
Discusses some of the key issues in the areas where the library and information services sector intersect with Indigenous knowledge. The article also highlights the efforts of the Northern Territory Library (Australia).
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, June 2007, pp. 82-90
Description
Looks at the political history and relations between the middle and upper class people of Bolivia and the governments' struggles to break with the past.
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Bill was designed to remove sex-based discrimination in the provisions of the Indian Act. Discusses implementation of the Bill and unresolved, ongoing issues such as second-generation cut-off and the implications for registered population, age and marital status-based distinctions, implementation in urban areas, and unknown and unstated parentage policy.
Research in Brief (Correctional Service Canada) ; RIB-21-15
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shanna Farrell MacDonald
Angela Smeth
Sarah Cram
Sophia Garrel
Dena Derkzen
Research in Brief (Correctional Service Canada)
Description
Sample of 46 offenders during incarceration between Dec. 27, 2017 and March 13, 2020. Data included demographic, sentence, and offence information, institutional behaviour, and post-release outcomes, as well as operational accommodation preferences and abuse and trauma histories
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007, pp. 3-12
Description
Keynote address from an Indigenous law conference. The author is a Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the the University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law.
Suggests several strategies that aboriginal peoples might consider for research relating to their land, environment, resources and non-human life forms.
Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, vol. 19, 2005, pp. 167-223
Description
Topics include civil law legal traditions, common law legal traditions, Indigenous legal traditions, governments and courts, and dispute resolution bodies.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 3, 2007, pp. 8-11
Description
Looks at an address on the issue of reconciliation in child welfare by Mr. Justice René Dussault, Quebec former Co-Chair of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and Education, 2005, pp. 35-41
Description
Reports pastoralists view education as a social disruption, interfering with livelihood, culture, land and natural resources.
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Discusses the socioeconomic outcomes from Indigenous commercial fishing in Canada & New Zealand; and identifies the need for Australia to rethink its policies to ensure that the same rights and benefits accrue to Indigenous Australians.
Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Bradford W. Morse
Description
Comments on the value of treaty making for both parties.
Chapter 2 from Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People edited by Kathryn Shain, Marcia Langton, Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer.
Summarizes presentations and discussions held at the National Indigenous Identity Forum about issues involved when post-secondary institutions are attempting to verify claims of identity. Attendance was by invitation only and limited to First Nations, Métis, Inuit students, staff, faculty, kêhtê-ayak (Elders), and leaders.
BMC International Health and Human Rights , vol. 7, no. 9, 2007, p. article 9
Description
Looks at life expectancy, educational attainment and income between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations to determine if the gap between socioeconomic and health status has improved or decreased between 1990 and 2000.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and Education, 2005, pp. 21-25
Description
Looks at Bilingual Intercultural Education (BIE) in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador and proposals for teacher training curricula.
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Annual Inter-Jurisdictional Conference on Aboriginal Involvement in Natural Resource Management: Report on Proceedings ; 3rd
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Blue Sky Planners & Consultants]
Description
Overview and summary of presentations at the 3rd Inter-Jurisdiction Conference on Aboriginal Involvement in Natural Resource Management held June 21-24, 2005.
Brief history and evolution includes discussion of the ecological, social, and cultural factors surrounding the international governance of biodiversity, traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights.
Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, 2007, pp. 121-131
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Highlights potential problems and pitfalls which foreign policy analysts and practitioners should be aware of when seeking to learn from and about Indigenous diplomacies.
Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 15, no. 1, Supplement, February 2007, pp. S10-S17
Description
Suggests three efforts towards improved mental health care: enhancing understanding and trust, promoting mental health in the context of holistic health, and linking mental health to its human rights determinants.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, June 2007, pp. 76-79
Description
Interview with the former parliamentary representative and Constituenty Assembly member from the Chiquitano people.
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Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, June 2007, pp. 72-75
Description
Interview with the new vice-president of CIDOB (the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of the Bolivian Oriente/Confereración de Pueblos Indígenas del Oriente Boliviano).
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