Covers issues associated with provision of services to the visual and hearing impaired, and those with limited mobility and hidden disabilities. Content includes independent living, employment, assertive technology, housing, advocacy, and applicable federal laws.
Results of survey conducted by Aboriginal Nurses Association with their members over the course of one month to ascertain tobacco misuse, program capacity, trends in health promotion, and future directions for tobacco control.
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 7, no. 1, New Series, 1996, pp. 55-80
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Discusses strategies employed by the Chief in an effort to influence Canadian Indian Policy and ensure his peoples' livelihood during a time of rapid social and political change
Anglican Journal, vol. 122, no. 3, March 1996, p. 6
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Briefly discusses the lawsuit launched by former students of Alberni Indian Residential School in January 1996, now jointly and severally naming United Church of Canada and the Federal Government.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 197-208
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Article describes the phenomenon of site-looting, or artefact collecting by amateur or hobbyist archeologists; discusses the motivations of the collectors and the effects for the scholarly archeological community.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3/4, To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality (Parts 1 & 2), Summer-Autumn, 1996, pp. 527-562
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Author examines the different ways that Mexican national culture and Indigenous Nahua culture interact, adopt each other’s practices, and blend together at intersections of meaning and practice.
Sketch subtitle: White inhabitants of the Saskatchewan region leaving a settlement after an Indian raid. Two males and one female, all wearing snowshoes and heavy coats, walking through the snow. The woman is carrying a small child.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1996, pp. 173-185
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Describes how the Navajo fabric of life was disturbed by uranium mining in the 1940s and 1950s and how the United States Government knew the health risks, but neglected to inform Navajo workers.
Identifies resources, practices and instructional methods that would support Aboriginal students in the Intermediate-Advanced English as a Second Language Program (ESL) at Mount Royal Collegiate in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer/Fall, 2003, pp. 505-522
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Focuses on women who are strong, but low key activists, who extend many services to other urban community members and play many different roles to the people around them.
Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 40, no. 4, 2003, pp. 373-390
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"Paper examines the relationship between Canadian state formation and the construction of Aboriginal identities via the legitimating function of public inquiry".
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 42, no. 2, 2003, pp. 50-60
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Comparison of the verbal-performance discrepancy on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-III) and the WISC-R for Navajo children and suggestions for further research.
Comments on several current topics including Aboriginal veterans at the ceremonial march on Remembrance Day, artist Allen Sapp winning the Governor General's Award for illustrations in the children's book The Song Within Our Heart, the Frank Calder Treaty case and elections at Big River First Nation.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1996, pp. [13]-24
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Discusses treatment of these subjects in the work of Ella Doloria, LeAnne Howe, Mary Crow Dog, Louise Erdrich, and Janet Campbell Hale.
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