Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 105, no. 4, April 1997, pp. 424-429
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Study monitoring residents living next to an inactive mercury mine in Clear Lake, California found results consistent with other studies; also considers protective public health measures.
Reviewed 18 articles. Looked at the components of models, which were most effective and what were the barriers and facilitators of successful implementation and sustainability.
Looks at media coverage of the incident and use of the term, 'Black Velvet'.
Note from author: "Terms historicised in this article remain offensive and have continuing power to offend. This article attempts to dispel and challenge the meanings conveyed by the term ‘Black Velvet’ by tracing its use in print media and thereby intervening in the attitudes it disseminated"
2 p. list of biographies for five Blood chiefs written on January 11, 1977. Tape number IH-AG.08, transcript disc 25A.Brief biography of five Blood Chiefs.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 9, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Gerald Vizenor, Spring, 1997, pp. [33]-46
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Discusses the parallels between Chinese and Native American culture as revealed in Griever: An American Monkey King in China.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Native American Classics: Graphic Classics ; vol. 24
E-Books » Chapters
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Joseph Bruchac
John Smelcer
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Excerpt from Native American Classics: Graphic Classics, volume 24 edited by Joseph Bruchac, John Smelcer and Tom Pomplun.
American Indian writers often reference boarding school experiences in their poems, short stories, essays, novels and plays. Provides a list of suggested readings on American Indian boarding schools in Canada and the United States.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, 2013, p. article no. 21032
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Book reviews of: Alaska Native Medical Centre: A History 1953-1983 by Robert Fortuine.
Circumpolar Health Atlas edited by T. Kue Young, Rajiv Rawat, Winfried Dallmann, Susan Chatwood, Peter Bjerregaard.
Healing Histories: Stories From Canada's Indian Hospitals by Laurie Meijer Drees.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 198-199
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Book review of: Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples by Nancy J. Turner. An updated second edition of Turner's 1975 British Columbia Provincial Museum Handbook. A companion volume Food Plants of Interior First Peoples has also be revised by Turner.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 370-372
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Book review on: The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller by Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde Jr..