Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, July/August 1998, pp. 4-6
Description
Study of 200 Indigenous women aged 18 and over in Western Australia revealed a smoking rate of 49% compared with 28% of the total Australian population.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 415-431
Description
Study defines the cultural values and symbols of the Snoqualmie people and then uses the maintenance of these cultural pieces to evaluate the resistance of the Snoqualmie to assimilation.
Doctor of Juridical Science Thesis (S.J.D.)--University of Toronto, 1998.
Develops a framework "for resolution of aboriginal and treaty rights issues in Canadian aboriginal rights jurisprudence." Argues judicial analyses are premised on incorrect assumptions about the Treaty relationship.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 1998, pp. 20-21
Description
Reports on the, Agreement on Aboriginal Health which was signed by the Federal and State Ministers of Health and the Chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, Farming and Ranching in Reservation Economies, 1998, pp. 187-214
Description
Looks at the opportunity, afforded Native Americans, to rethink, restructure, and reorganize the political landscape. The authors see these opportunities as a way to reshape the future and nation build.
Journal of Nutrition, vol. 128, no. 3, March 1998, pp. 541-547
Description
Study examined the relationship between patterns of food intake and fattiness of food preparation and occurrence of the two conditions in northwestern Ontario.
Curator's essay from catalogue for the exhibition Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth Through the Twentieth Century by Steven C. Brown.
Equity & Excellence in Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Special Issue, 1998, pp. 55-68
Description
Looks at a school reform project that studies effective instructional practices for Native American students in the Zuni Public School District, New Mexico.
Journal of the Canadian Association for Conservation, vol. 23, 1998, pp. 31-35
Description
Case study of co-operation between the Aboriginal community and an institution which holds an ethnographic artifact with sacred or ceremonial associations. Belts were transported by a conservator, used in ceremonies and returned to the museum.
Consists of an interview that tells of an Inuit death story; a Lillooet (West coast Indian) creation myth; and an account of a man's search for his lost brother. Note: Heather Bouchard, transcriber.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 181-202
Description
Article examines the different structures and ways of being expressed by bi-racial or multi-racial communities in 19th century North America, considers some of the mainstream/anglo responses to these peoples and communities.
Human Biology, vol. 70, no. 1, February 1998, pp. 91-115
Description
Looks at the basis of a mobility model for epidemic processes and applies it to the spread of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic among the Cree and Métis people within certain Hudson's Bay Company posts.