First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 1, no. 1, September 2004, pp. 19-32
Description
Presents overview of the development of Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology and the possible positive and negative effects associated with its use.
Reports on health care disparities, progress made during the previous five years, demographics, management of care, and new initiatives. Includes 10 conclusions and recommendations.
Comments on promising practices in reducing the impact of stress on Indigenous peoples based on 16 intervention studies including randomized control trials, retrospective cohort study and demonstration studies.
Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Socio-economic Series ; 04-033
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Policy and Research Division]
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Summary of project focused on identifying approaches which were innovative, could supplement more conventional teaching methods and be successfully applied in the future.
Highlights from research report of same name.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, no. 4, Special Issue: eHealth, 2004, pp. 349-355
Description
Looks at projects running since 1996 including teleradiology, teleobstertrics, telepsychiatry, maritime telemedicine, telemedicine in surgery, telepathology and telemedicine in surgery.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 4, 2005, pp. 121-172
Description
Book reviews of:
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.
American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature by Paulette F. Molin.
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family by Claudio Saunt.
Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society by Brian Fagan.
Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer by Robert J. Conley.
The Cherokee Nation: A History by Robert J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 125-178
Description
Book review of:
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson.
Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations and Traditions by Alexander Posey.
Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast by Michelene E. Pesantubbee.
A Colonial Complex: South Carolina’s Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War 1680–1730 by Steven J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, 2005, pp. 119-172
Description
Book reviews of:
The American Indian Integration of Baseball by Jeffrey Powers-Beck.
The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe by Helge Ingstad.
Assimilation’s Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System by Edwin L. Chalcraft.
Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan.
Every Day Is a Good Day by Wilma Mankiller.
Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania edited by William A.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, 2005, pp. 97-147
Description
Book reviews of:
Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education: One University, Two Universes by Michael L. Jennings.
Alaska’s Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson.
Choctaw Tales collected and annotated by Tom Mould.
De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois edited and translated by John L. Steckley.
Evil Corn by Adrian C. Louis.
Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately? by Harvey Arden.
Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, 2004, pp. 131-181
Description
Book reviews of :
American Indian Education, a History by Jon Allan Reyhner and Jeanne Eder.
The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West by Barre Toelken.
Battle for the BIA: G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier by David W.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 121-178
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indians in U.S. History by Roger L. Nichols.
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat.
Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney.
“The Cherokee Night” and Other Plays by Lynn Riggs.
Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World by Robbie Ethridge.
Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies edited by Bruce E. Johansen.
Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption by Enrique R.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 137-188
Description
Book reviews of:
America’s Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860–1900 by Ruth Spack.
Anthropologists and Indians in the New South edited by Rachel A. Bonney and J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 91-127
Description
Book reviews of:
Indian Water Policy In a Changing Environment: A Symposium on Indian Water Policy edited by Patricia Zell.
Languages and Their Roles in Educating Native Children by Barbara Burnaby.
Changing Economic Roles for Micmac Men and Women by Ellice B. Gonzalez.
Native American Art at Philbrook by N. P. Paper.
The Upward Moving and Emergence Way by Father Berard Haile.
People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879; with an epilogue, 1964-1974 by Father Peter John Powell.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 1983, pp. 79-99
Description
Book reviews of:
Mat Hekid O Ju/When It Rains edited by Ofelia Zepeda.
The Navajo Nation by Peter Iverson.
Historic Hope Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harvard University by Edwin L. Wade and Lea S. McChesney.
The George Rogers Clark Adventure in the Illinois, and Selected Documents of the American Revolution at the Frontier Posts by Katherine Wagner Seineke.
Life Is With People: Household Organization of the Contemporary Southern Paiute Indians by Martha C.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, 1983, pp. 77-102
Description
Book reviews of:
The Original Vermonters: Native Inhabitants, Past and Present by William A. Haviland and Marjory W. Power.
John Eliot's Indian Dialogues: A Study in Cultural Interaction edited by Henry W. Bowden and James P. Ronda.
The Political Outsiders: Blacks and Indians in Rural Oklahoma County by Brian F. Rader.
"In Vain I Tried to Tell You:" Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics by Dell Hymes.
Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual by William K. Powers.
User's Handbook for the Siouan Languages Archive by David S.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 85, no. 1, March 2004, pp. 169-171
Description
Book review of: Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57 edited by Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 4, Special Issue: In Honor of Simon J. Ortiz, Winter, 2004, pp. 96-98
Description
Comments on how the work of the writer conveys both the tragedy of colonization and the courage and optimism of recovery.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 96.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 4, Winter, 2005, pp. 144-152
Description
Argues that while Elvira Pulitano's Toward a Native American Critical Theory presents a thoughtful analysis of Native American literature, her presentation is regressive and actively marginalizes and displaces tribal voices.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 144.
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, vol. 34, no. 4, February 2005, pp. 662-667
Description
Contends that understanding patterns and burden of disease in AI/AN populations may contribute to the development of preventative strategies and understanding the etiology.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, Fall, 2004, pp. 204-218
Description
Discusses findings and implications arising from Supreme Court of Canada decision regarding fishing for and selling eels by Donald Marshall, who Treaty argued it was a Treaty right.
Arizonia Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 22, no. 53, 2005, pp. 53-64
Description
Discussion on the protection and respect of the rights of Indigenous peoples for the Inter-Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, The UN Decade: Expectations and Realities, 2004, pp. 40-46
Description
Looks at the past decade in the United Nations and how getting Indigenous leaders to the UN and other forums has changed lives in Africa.
To access this article, scroll down to page 40.