Objectives of study were to explore practices within healthcare that were perceived to be stigmatizing, develop design to eliminate these practices, and describe process to re-align services to reflect this design.
Aboriginal History , vol. 25, Special Section: Genocide?: Australian Aboriginal History in International Perspective, 2001, pp. [116]-131
Description
Comments on testimonies from the Stolen Generation including one testimony which asks White Australians to look at their own actions that might support racism.
Archaeological survey of trail marked by standing stones at regular intervals in the mountains between Norway and Sweden. Concludes road was built by Norse chieftan.
Effective Language Education Practices and Native Language Survival
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Author/Creator
John W. Friesen
Clarice Kootenay
Duane Mark
Description
Brief description of Stoney Langauge Education Program and its outputs.
Chapter 4 of Effective Language Education Practices and Native Language Survival edited by Jon Reyhner.
Education Canada, vol. 47, no. 1, Making Space For Critical Reflection: Dreams & Solutions For Aboriginal Children, Winter, 2007, pp. 48-51
Description
Through the author's experiences, looks at how power and privilege spills over into the classroom setting through oppression that is related to gender, race, class and sexual orientation.
Includes a theoretical story about victim and suggestions for communities and outsiders providing help, explanation of abuse and why there is reluctance to report it, strategies to prevent abuse before and after settlement monies are received, and examples from communities themselves.
Book reviews of five books:
Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis by Joseph E. Taylor III.
To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing by Daniel L. Boxberger.
Messages from Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way by Charles Wilkinson.
Fishing Places, Fishing People: Traditions and Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries edited by Dianne Newell and Rosemary E. Ommer.
The Review of Higher Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Fall, 2007, pp. 81-107
Description
Study conducted in 2005 at a Midwestern university with an American Indian enrolment of 6.3%. Surveyed sample of seven college juniors and seniors. Found programs played a significant role in reducing attrition rates.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2, Militarization, 2001, pp. 8-13
Description
Describes the enduring conflict between the Indian state government and the Naga people in Nagalim, located in the northeast part of India.
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 71-91
Description
Looks at how works by writers such as Jim Northrup, Heid Erdrich, Linda LeGarde Grover, and Gerald Vizenor illustrate the connection between story, culture, and knowledge.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 2, February 2007, p. 14
Description
Introduces the storytellers who presented at the 2007 Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling week through song, photographs and a storytelling circle.
Article located by scrolling to page 14.
In Education, vol. 23, no. 2, Autumn, 2017, pp. 25-42
Description
Explores importance of individual and community stories as a method of enhancing non-Indigenous classroom teachers' understanding and success when interacting with Indigenous children and their families.
Paper prepared for the Eighth Annual Conference of the Indigenous Women’s Conference “Celebrating Our Diversity” Trent University, Peterborough, ON, March 15-17, 2007.
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 Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 109-119
Description
Explores the controversy surrounding overemphasis on Native American fictional literature in American Indian Studies and the dire need for understanding and solutions for social issues and challenges currently faced by Native Americans.
Deviant Behavior, vol. 28, no. 3, 2007, pp. 219-246
Description
Tests Robert Agnew's general strain theory to explain suicide in minority groups. Results shows how coercive parenting, caretaker rejection, and negative school attitudes contribute to youth suicide.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 66, no. 1, 2007, pp. [50]-60
Description
Results of a health and wellness survey reported participants who identified with a more traditional Yup'ik way of life reported greater happiness and less frequent use of drugs and alcohol than those participants who reported living a more Kass'aq way of life.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 2, 2017, pp. 76-98
Description
Analysis of responses from 298 individuals found that 29.7% experienced symptoms in the second year. Authors concluded that there should be intensive screening performed at that time.