Ilha Do Desterro, no. 56, Jan./June 2009, pp. 151-164
Description
Looks at Dionne Brand's poetry and documentaries, Sister in the Struggle and Long Time Comin' and Alanis Obomsawin documentaries, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance and Rocks at Whiskey Trench.
Post Script , vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 27-[?]
Description
Discusses impact two women filmmakers have had on the National Film Board of Canada's productions and their re-imagining of western cinematic traditions.
Examines the structural factors behind disproportionality in the system and reviews approaches that go beyond traditional limits of social welfare systems.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 303-316
Description
Examines the belief systems about diabetes in American Indian elders with two practice models, one an Indigenous model, valuing traditional American Indian culture, the other a mainstream model, aligned with western biomedicine.
Argues that First Nation communities must look beyond timber harvesting to develop strategies encompassing new and different approaches to forest-based development.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 68, no. 5, March 2009, pp. 980-989
Description
Analyzes the community health of the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve in Ontario, and discusses the implications of intra-community variation in health status in relation to influential health policy theories.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, 2010, pp. 39-45
Description
Presents a study to determine if there is a difference in birth outcomes among First Nations women living
on-reserve versus off-reserve in Manitoba.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 18-37
Description
Explains that although the author was planning on writing a novel with no political subject matter, she found that gardening was actually very political.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 18.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 69-92
Description
Looks at how Two-Spirit critiques, critiques that centralize Native peoples, nations, identities, land bases, and survival tactics, challenge and strengthen work in queer studies.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Guy Bordin
Description
Examines relationship between dreams and collective oral discourse and the attempts to re-invigorate the practice.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Looks to identify tourism development opportunities in the park to enhance the role of the park as a core attraction and to optimize the economic benefits to the surrounding area.
Prairie Forum, vol. 34, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 1-29
Description
Discusses how two key subsistence strategies, used by First Nations peoples to combat drought, were threatened when the ways of the modern world spread to the Great Plains.
Author speaks about the six determinants of form, Native societies and traditional dwellings. Uses examples from book produced in collaboration with architect Robert Easton.
Duration: 52:14.
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous children: An Evidence Based Approach for the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1501-1517