Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 37, no. 3, Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, September 2005, pp. 273-280
Description
Outlines the overlap between sexual, physical and substance abuse and increased HIV risk behaviours amid urban Native women in the San Francisco Bay area.
Material Culture Review, vol. 61, Spring, 2005, pp. 52-61
Description
Looks at styles, patterns, and designs of headgrear collected by James Teit for Franz Boas and the American Museum of Natural History. Includes photographs.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 25, no. 3, Supplement 1 Physical Activity in Women from Diverse Racial/Ethnic Groups, October 2003, pp. 53-60
Description
Detailed quantitative survey personal, social environmental, and physical environmental factors that influence physical activity levels.
Contains statistics for rates of testing in voluntary ("opt-in") and mandatory ("opt-out") programs, lists best practices benchmarks from a variety of sources, and answers questions frequently asked by health practitioners.
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, vol. 27, no. 3, March 2005, pp. 237-246
Description
Study concluded that women who did not receive adequate care were more likely to live in poverty, have highly stressed lives, low levels of self-esteem and Aboriginal, and that racial disparities needed to be addressed.
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 4, no. 3, Winter, 2003
Description
Examines the public and the private in the lives of Ethel Brant Monture (1892-1977) and Bernice Loft Winslow (1902-1997?), two Mohawk performers who occupied places in both Aboriginal and non-Native communities.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 32-62
Description
Examines the memoirs of Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917) which challenged the United States colonial construction of the Hawaiian nation, and became the historical foundation of the 1993 congressional apology to the Hawaiian people.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. 549-552
Description
Review of: Saqiyuq, Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women by Nancy Wachowich, in collaboration with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak Katsak.
Thoughts on Promoting Capacity in Support of Child Well-Being
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alan R. Pence
Child & Youth Care Forum, vol. 32, no. 6, December 2003, pp. 313-318
Description
Describes the First Nations Partnership Program (FNPP) conceived after a request was made by the Meadow Lake Tribal Council (Saskatchewan) to develop an early childhood care and development program.