A conference where elders discuss the philosophy and practice of traditional medicine. Stress role of elders in passing on this tradition. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood.
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, June 9, 1980 regarding a report by the Community Liaison Committee (Report No. 3-1980) including items on Aboriginal Employment (Item # 1316), Housing (Item # 1317), Education and Native People and the Law (Item # 1318), as well as a list of Committee members.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, September 1980, pp. 4-14
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Opening address at the National Conference of the Australian National Association for Mental Health and the National Aboriginal Mental Health Association.
Study conducted with the women and children of the Miccosukee and Seminole tribes of Florida and reports that a traditional group had higher positive self-regard than the more integrated group.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 4, December 1980, pp. 48-49
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Two personal narratives from employees of Groote Eylandt Mining Company's Industrial Health Department regarding the upheaval of mining development and the importance of hygiene in disease prevention.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, June 1980, pp. 16-24
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Discusses use of natural substances for medical needs and how contact with Europeans created significant substance abuse problems with substances from alcohol to sugar.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, June 1980, p. 4
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Brief story reports on the Warramirri people from Elcho Island, Australia permitting the Clinical Oncology Society to use their carving of two snakes as the Society's symbol.
Adrian Hope has been active in Metis politics since the 1920s. He was involved in the organization of the Metis Association of Alberta, the Ewing Commission hearings, and the development of Metis colonies in Alberta.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 19, no. 3, May 1980, pp. [5-7]
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Successful techniques used in citizen workshops to provide people of the Navajo Nation with the basic information and tools needed to actively participate in land use planning.
Ed Broome was a government employee at the time the CCF government took power. He talks about the NDP programs in northern Saskatchewan, particularly government trading posts, the conversion of trading posts into cooperatives and his brief impressions of Norris and Brady.
Mr. Bishop is a long time resident of Green Lake, Saskatchewan He talks about problems in the area, his work for the Metis people and his impressions of Malcolm Norris and Howard Adams.