Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Endocrinology, vol. 124, no. 2, October 1999, pp. 181-186
Description
Reports the mercury levels in five subsistence fish, northern pike, burbot, whitefish, grayling and sheefish, from the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta region of Alaska.
Behavioral Health Risks for American Indian/Alaska Native Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Serafini
Dennis M. Donovan
Dennis C. Wendt
Brandon Matsumiya
Carolyn A. McCarty
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-17
Description
Study found that Indigenous youth suffered from more depressive symptoms, discrimination, and generalized anxiety, and were more likely to have initiated substance abuse than the rest of the cohort.
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, vol. 42, no. 6, December 1999, pp. 1311-1322
Description
Investigated age, gender, ethnic background and history of middle ear disease as factors affecting the degree of hearing impairment. The article also discusses how language acquisition can be affected due to hearing loss.
University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2017, pp. 1-8
Description
An analysis of four primary sources published by William Johnson, Superintendent of Northern Indian Affairs, British General Charles Lee, University of Pennsylvania Provost William Smith, and plantation owner and British soldier Peter Williamson.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-22
Description
Studies barriers to implementing the Zimbabwean language education policy in primary school grades and the perception of socio-economic benefits that come with the English language.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 137-143
Description
Explains that hikwsi, which has often been translated as soul or a person's death breath, is much more complex and is actually used to explain human structure and behaviour.
Justice as Healing, vol. 4, no. 4, Winter, 1999, p. [?]
Description
Case summary of R. v. Wells [2000] decision by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC).
Note: This is a sample article from the publication. Subscriptions are available from the Native Law Centre.
Protocol is comprised of six key principles: self-determination and inclusion in all stages of the research process; acting in good faith; understanding determinants of health; recognition of culture and vision and culturally-grounded research and solutions; respect for local peoples and their ways of knowing, Elders and ancestral understandings; and incorporating Two-Eyed Seeing into process.
Connecting Remote Populations to Public Health: The Case for a Digital Immunization Information System in Nunavut
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lindsay A. Wilson
Barry Pakes
Malia S. Q. Murphy
Katherine M. Atkinson
Cameron Bell ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1358566
Description
Looks at the the set up of an immunization information system (IIS) to record data in hopes of helping with contact management and preventing vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks.
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Special Issue, 1999, p. 63–94
Description
The author examines her own intellectual and personal colonization and the continued oppression of First Nations people and discusses how Aboriginal women need to be involved in restorative justice.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 120-131
Description
Focuses on development of doctrine of Aboriginal rights by the courts since the 1982 amendment and defining who constitutes the "Métis people" in section 35.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 1-29
Description
Literary criticism article discusses themes of survivance and transmotion in Vizenor’s (1978) and Jones’ (2000) debut novels, considers contexts of postmodernism and carceral theory, and the generational difference between the two authors.
Environmental Research, vol. 80, no. 2, February 1999, pp. S213-S222
Description
Discusses a 1996-1997 study to research the health risks of contaminant exposure and the correlation to freshwater fish consumption in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 1, Winter, 1999, pp. 45-53
Description
Author explores the different characteristics and purposes of storytelling, comparing Indigenous and Western traditions, oral vs written storytelling, and the different cultural values that are embedded in the stories.
Book review of The Contemporary Coast Salish edited by Bruce Granville Miller and Darby C. Stapp.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 158.
Journal of Management and Organization, vol. 23, no. 6, Special Issue: Perspectives on Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Enterprise, 2017, p. 886–906
Description
Review of 25 peer-reviewed and academic articles which looked at cultural, social and organizational variables and were published between January 1, 1995 and December 31, 2016 found that models fell into the three categories: urban, remote and rural. Discusses the results for each.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 147-163
Description
Looks at the historical relationship, from a small town perspective, between people on the Nez Perce reservation and the United States, be it government or local level interactions.