Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 2, Sustainability, Winter, 2005
Description
Describes the installation of geothermal heat pumps at Turtle Mountain Community College in an effort to reduce energy costs and find a source of renewable energy.
Looks at the three main objectives of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner: recognize the past, resolve outstanding treaty issues and revive the treaty relationship through education.
Duration: 11:59.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 784-789
Description
Describes a collaborative approach to reducing health disparities affecting Montana and Wyoming tribal nations while promoting health-protective practices and interventions.
Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons With Disabilities
Description
Study focused the status of children, paying particular attention to federal programs and services available to them.
Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.
Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada: [Final Report]
Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Final Report of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Romanow Report
E-Books
Author/Creator
Roy J. Romanow
Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Description
Commission provides analysis of medicare issues, recommendations to improve quality, and sustainability of the system. Often referred to as the The Romanow Report.
Guide prepared by federal, provincial, First Nation and other agencies, intended for use as an information resource for negotiation of service arrangements between the Boards of Education and First Nations.
Discusses program that developed skills through the use of environmentally sustainable building methods. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Description
Looks at the effectiveness of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Service to Science initiative which provided training and customized evaluation technical assistance to locally-developed substance abuse prevention programs.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 4, no. 2, Special Edition: The State of the Aboriginal Economy: 10 Years After RCAP, Fall, 2005, pp. 71-83
Description
Looks at the business and community economic initiatives of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.
Describes a program in Saskatchewan at the Montreal Lake First Nation that teaches at risk youth a meaningful trade and how to attain self-sufficiency.
Indigenous lawyers and law students from British Columbia recount their experiences with stereotyping, race-based assumptions, and discrimination within the legal profession and while practicing in the justice system.
Duration: 25:43.
Related material: Part 2.
Study finds C-reactive protein (CRP) is a predictor of cardiovascular disease in 45 to 74 year old American Indians, but the predictive ability of CRP changes among subgroups with different risk factors.
Anglican Journal, vol. 128, no. 9, December 2002, pp. 1-2
Description
Church's liability for residential school abuse lawsuits will be $25 million over five years, but agreement does not address cultural and language claims.