Pacific Health Dialog, vol. 8, no. 2, Health of the Hawaiians, 2001, pp. 364-367
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Paper looks at the foreseeable harms associated with genetic research and traditional research ethics to provide adequate protection for human subjects and suggests that new principles and laws need to be developed.
Arctic, vol. 54, no. 4, December 2001, pp. 377-[?]
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Use of local Tlingit and Athapaskan oral history in non-Indigenous approaches to scientific and historical understanding of global environmental issues.
Study conducted in South Africa to better understand the traditional healing and culture and their use in health care. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.
Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 109, no. 5, May 2001, pp. A216-A219
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Discusses blood samples ostensibly taken from the Nuu-chah nulth tribe for arthritis research, later used for other purposes without subjects' consent.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Sustainable Development, 2001, pp. 26-33
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Discusses the challenges and changes associated with climate change will have in Arctic regions on it's inhabitants.
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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, March/April 2001, pp. 7-12
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Provides summaries of the conference speaker's presentations held in Sydney, Australia. One speaker stated that between 99.8% and 99.9% of the human genome is identical, therefore we are much more alike than different.
Focuses on outcomes observed with four students. Data collected through self-assessment, teachers' records of fluency and use of strategies in oral readings, evidence of semantic and syntactic development in stories, and standardized tests.
Study took place at Westmount Community School in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
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Explores how Aboriginal people value the lands around them and how that knowledge and information can be incorporated into provincial land-use and resource management.
Photograph of children playing, with tents in background; taken at Eskimo Point, N.W.T. [NU]. (community's name changed to Arviat in 1989). Title on file: Eskimo Children at Play.
Children exiting tent located beside drying hides; photograph taken in Eskimo Point, N.W.T. [NU]. (community's name changed to Arviat in 1989). Title on file: Eskimo Children, Drying Caribou Hide.
Consists of an interview where Joe Clemine reminiscences about his early life. He mentions a smallpox epidemic which occurred in his grandfather's time and tells of a battle between the Chilcotin and Cree Indians.
Environmental Research, vol. 86, no. 2, June 2001, pp. 140-148
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Argues that examination of traditional diets which result in exposure, poor food diets which increase absorption and possible exposure to lead paint is needed to assess potential correlations with blood lead levels.