Evaluates the applicability of strategies and discusses essential components for successful programs given the mobile and marginalized Aboriginal population.
Ecology Law Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2, 2002, pp. 283-314
Description
Discusses the Hawaii Supreme Court decision to subject all the state's fresh water regulation to a wide range of public interest concerns regarding in water.
Image of Captain John French, killed at Batoche. On back of photo: "An old French halfbreed, named Ross, was standing at the corner of a house nearly opposite Batoche's house, and fired the fatal shot, then made a run for cover, but paid the penalty for shooting French just before reading it."
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 26, no. 5, September/October 2002, p. 14, 18
Description
Describes aim of Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) which is to increase New South Wales Indigenous education retention rates.
Presents brief articles concerning residential school misconceptions and history, current efforts to address impacts, work of the foundation, and challenges that lay ahead.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, poems, and various articles including an article entitled, Medicine Wheel: A Healing Beginning by Verna M. Wittigo.
Publication of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation aimed at residential school survivors contains letters, photographs, poems, and various articles including, The Story of my Childhood in the White Wilderness by Dan Ennis and Out from the Shadows by Liza Goulet.
Report on the Health of British Columbians: Provincial Health Officer’s Annual Report 2001
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Office of the Provincial Health Officer [British Columbia]
Description
Looks at health status, community environments, healthy growth and development, physical environment, health services, and disease and injury prevention. Identifies areas where significant health benefits can be made.
Related material: Pathways to Health and Healing (Second Report).
The Western Journal of Medicine, vol. 176, no. 1, January 2002, pp. 65-68
Description
Overview of health conditions and the quality of life before contact and colonization suggest that iron deficiency and infectious diseases from common micro-organisms were the largest contributors to morbidity and mortality.
Health Reports, vol. 13, Supplement, 2002, pp. 1-[17]
Description
Compares Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal population in Canada in terms health status and behaviours, and health care utilization.
Statistics from 2000/2001 Canadian Community Health Survey.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, January/February 2002, p. 28
Description
Briefly describes Café that was offered at the 33rd Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) Conference aimed at introducing conference participants to online health technology and services.
Canadian Geographic, vol. 122, no. 4, July-August 2002, pp. 68-[?]
Description
Discovery of items which date from 90 to 7,500 years old, among the oldest organic artifacts in North America, generates excitement among First Nations youth.
"Comprising a full and impartial account of the origin and progress of the war ... scenes in the field, the camp, and the cabin; including a history of the Indian tribes of North-Western Canada," including chapters about Poundmaker.
Community-Linked Evaluation AIDS Resource; Working Papers Series; C01-4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Basanti Majumdar
Dale Guenter
Gina Browne
Greg Robinson
Lori Flynn
Carl Orr
Stephanie Peltier
Description
Survey conducted in 43 communities. Goal was to gather information on current practices, identify strengths and areas for improvement, and make suggestions for future actions.