Urutahi Koataata Maori: Working with Maori in Film & Television
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bradford Haami
Description
Intended to provide information to guide local film and television production community, visiting internationals, broadcasters, funders, and educational institutes in their engagements with Māori content and communities.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 179, no. 4, August 12, 2008, pp. 319-326
Description
Study used information for Manitoba extracted from the Population Health Research Data Repository and categorized patients by sex, degree of comorbidity and ethnic background (Aboriginal v. non-Aboriginal).
Examines a cultural sensitive and responsive framework, developed as a resource for health workers to promote Aboriginal health, which considers factors and approaches, builds on Aboriginal strengths, and reflects on values, assumptions and feedback.
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, vol. 27, no. 4, 2011, pp. [727]-750
Description
Evaluation of web-based reading support tool, ABRACADABRA, took place over one semester in primary schools in 2009. Found that students who had used tool scored significantly higher in phonological awareness than those in the control group.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 40, no. 3, Chronic Illness Management, 2008, pp. 16-36
Description
Focus of the article is the expansion of understanding diabetes within a specific cultural context by connecting philosophical, epistemological, and methodological orientations to research.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 40, no. 1, In-home and Community Care for Seniors / Le soin des ainés à la maison et dans la communauté, 2008, pp. 112-125
Description
Based on interviews with 103 women, study supports need for primary health professionals to offer postnatal screening for women who may be at risk for postpartum depression .
A Vanishing People: The Systematic Destruction of American Indian Identity for the Sake of American Manifest Destiny
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Francine M. Miranda
Description
Argues that governmental recognition of American Indian tribes as well as criteria for tribe membership needs to be altered.
Capstone Experience Manuscript--Commonwealth Honors College, 2011.
Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 49, 1987-1988, p. 235
Description
"Discusses the significance of photographs as a record of American ideas about the education of Native Americans during the last years of the 19th Century."
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, Autumn, 2008, pp. 412-442
Description
The author explores different expressions of conversion to Catholicism in the daily practices of the different Indigenous peoples in the San Francisco Bay area; considers where people chose to give birth or die and the practice of various traditional protocols.
ViBES: Viable Business Enterprises for Rural Alaska
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Virginia Fay
Cami Woolam
Sharman Haley
Jane Angvik
Linda Leask ... [et al.]
Description
Purpose of research was to examine needs of existing businesses, challenges faced by prospective owners and make recommendations to facilitate increase in number and diversity of enterprises.
Access to Volume II.
Access to Volume III.
ViBES: Viable Business Enterprises for Rural Alaska
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jane Angvik and Associates
Description
Provides information about business history and management, economic and community impact, and challenges and lessons learned for 23 businesses.
Access to Volume I.
Access to Volume III.
Guide to assist tribal governments with laws regarding the safety of Aboriginal women and children. Written so that revised tribal laws reflect tribal values. Provides examples from different tribal codes.
Native Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1-23
Description
Examines how, in spite of increasingly hostile Colonial, then Canadian government relations toward First Nations people, they still maintained a strong attachment to the monarchy.