Guide enhances clinical education and practical best practices for inclusion of Aboriginal health and culture into the health sciences curriculum. Includes background information and generic training and support materials to use in northern and rural areas.
Aboriginal History, vol. 2, no. 2, 1978, pp. 175-176
Description
Book review of: World Catalogue of Theses and Dissertations about the Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders by W. G. Coppell.
To access review, scroll down to page 175.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1, Kenojuak Ashevak, 1927-2013, Winter, 2014, pp. 8-15
Description
Comments on an artist who was awarded the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada by Governor General Roland Michener at the inaugural investiture.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 8.
[English] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2017.
Refers to the works of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Simon Pokagan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Alex Posey.
Humanities Research , vol. 15, no. 2, Compelling Cultures: Representing Cultural Diversity and Cohesion in Multicultural Australia, 2009, pp. 133-151
Description
Discusses problematic methodological approaches to Aboriginal art that have become a standard for use by historians and anthropologists and suggests how to write about art in the future.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-21
Description
Argues that this group is not homogeneous, but has several sources of social conflict: generational, gender, siyt, worldviews, and contrasting attitudes about the settlement of Lovozero and the rest of the population.
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing: Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 3, December 2017, pp. 105-113
Description
Discusses educational seminar titled "When Indigenous People Lead" held to examine the decolonization strategies used by the Morales government in Bolivia and what their implications might be for other Indigenous peoples.
Reports results of two main research activities: national scan of engagement at universities and consultations with 14 Mi’kmaw and allied educators, as well as youth focus group. Topics include potential engagement, supportive strategies, Indigenous knowledge systems, promising practices, creating systemic change, and recommendations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 31-70
Description
Discusses how farmers and gardeners define food sovereignty and how the concept has been put into practice to attain the goals of promoting health and traditional culture.
Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763
National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Humanities Center
Description
Uses excerpts from primary documents to look at how Native Americans were perceived by colonists and Europeans and Native American perspectives on Europeans and their culture.
"You've Gotta Set a Precedent": Maori and Pacific Voices on Student Success in Higher Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Tokiharu Mayeda
Moeata Keil
Hilary Dansey Dutton
'I.-Futa-Helu 'Ofamo'oni
AlterNative, vol. 10, no. 2, 2014, pp. 165-179
Description
Identifies family and university role modelling and support; indigenous teaching and learning practices, and coping mechanisms for racism as factors facilitating student success.
Explores the issue of teen pregnancy among Aboriginal women by speaking with them about their experiences and perceptions on sex, protection and pregnancy and their expectations and the realities of becoming a young mother.
Published by the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence.
Includes results of brief literature review and findings from study with a sample of 84 individuals, 28 of whom were pregnant women or birth mothers 16-21 years, with the remainder being senior women and service providers. Themes which emerged were vulnerability, family support, accessing care, education, trusted provider and relocation.
Includes general material on taxation, employment, social assistance, education, status, band membership, housing, wills and estates, family law, children, violence, and governance.