A conference where several speakers discuss the role of elders in educating young people and the loss of respect for the elders in modern Indian society. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood.
A conference where several speakers discuss the role of the elders in guiding the younger generation and in preserving the past. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, March 1977, pp. 57-64
Description
Describes the creation of a training program for behavioural health technicians at the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Centre in Queensland, Australia.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, December 1978, pp. 32-34
Description
Describes the, 'bush' foods and medicinal choices available to Aboriginal people before widespread European influence appeared in the Australian outback.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 4, December 1977, pp. 40-48
Description
Presents personal recollections including poems on life as a health care worker. One author feels that there is more depression than has been recognized and that there is a relationship to alcohol abuse.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, September 1977, pp. 25-28
Description
Discusses prevention strategies that should be employed as part of a more proactive approach to combating the wide range of social problems that accompany this disease.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, A Special Symposium Issue on James Welch's , 1978, pp. 123-130
Description
A discussion on ritual in James Welch's Winter in the Blood and its a representation of Indigenous Americans fighting their own cultural alienation in society.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, A Special Symposium Issue on James Welch's , 1978, pp. 107-122
Description
Takes a feminist approach to analyzing James Welch's story structure and characters in the novel. The female characters are the cause of and the resolution to the story's conflict.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 7, no. 9, September 1977, p. 5
Description
Indian Affairs Minister informs the Medicine Wheel Ranch Company band members that they must wait for the settlement of their land claim of the Harold Lees ranch until the legitimacy of the surrender of that land by the Ocean Man and Pheasant Rump reserves in 1902 is decided in court.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, 1978, pp. 26-31
Description
Brief survey of the ways in which fire was used to manage vegetation and discussion of how prescribed burning is gaining acceptance as an environmentally sound practice.
American Economic Review, vol. 68, no. 4, September 1978, pp. 503-516
Description
Suggests that land tenure or other institutional problems, not managerial deficiencies underlie Native American challenges in equalling non-Native operating efficiencies.
Symposium on American Indian Studies, January 1977
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russell Thornton
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 2, no. 3-4, January 1, 1978, pp. 10-19
Description
Discusses development of American Indian Studies as a distinct entity within academic institutions by examining criticisms leveled against it and possible directions it might follow.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter, 1977-1978, pp. 335-356
Description
Author argues that violence in Cherokee communities can be attributed to the combination social-structural problems found on reservations and the erosion of traditional cultural norms.