Study examines local capacity for local business creation by conducting a needs assessment of knowledge, skills and required training and creation of a supportive social-political environment.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 2, Sustainability, Winter, 2005
Description
Describes the installation of geothermal heat pumps at Turtle Mountain Community College in an effort to reduce energy costs and find a source of renewable energy.
Looks at the three main objectives of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner: recognize the past, resolve outstanding treaty issues and revive the treaty relationship through education.
Duration: 11:59.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 784-789
Description
Describes a collaborative approach to reducing health disparities affecting Montana and Wyoming tribal nations while promoting health-protective practices and interventions.
Guide prepared by federal, provincial, First Nation and other agencies, intended for use as an information resource for negotiation of service arrangements between the Boards of Education and First Nations.
Discusses program that developed skills through the use of environmentally sustainable building methods. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 4, no. 2, Special Edition: The State of the Aboriginal Economy: 10 Years After RCAP, Fall, 2005, pp. 71-83
Description
Looks at the business and community economic initiatives of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.
Describes a program in Saskatchewan at the Montreal Lake First Nation that teaches at risk youth a meaningful trade and how to attain self-sufficiency.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, September 1988, pp. 18-20
Description
Promotes idea that aboriginal health workers can use their knowledge and cultural and social background to help city nurses understand the needs of their patients.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 15, no. 3, May 1976, pp. [28-29]
Description
Highlights of speeches by Morris Thompson (Bureau of Indian Affairs), Chief Dan George (poet, actor), and Deana Jo Harragarra (Miss Indian America XXII) at Brigham Young University.
Study finds C-reactive protein (CRP) is a predictor of cardiovascular disease in 45 to 74 year old American Indians, but the predictive ability of CRP changes among subgroups with different risk factors.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 79, no. 3, September 1998, pp. 609-611
Description
Book review of: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. 1: North America (Parts 1 and 2) edited by. Bruce G. Trigger and Wilcomb E. Washburn.
Entire book review section of one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 607.
Displays Indigenous population of Canada and the northern United States. Shows groups by size, name, linguistic family and extent of areas known by Europeans directly, through Aboriginal accounts, and unknown. Also shows locations of French and English agricultural settlements.