Looks at a community survey of the Little Red River Cree Nation, and several socio-economic barriers that impede the ability to engage in subsistence harvesting.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, no. Supplement 1, Aboriginal Health Research and Policy: First Nations-University Collaboration in Manitoba, January-February 2005, pp. S51-S54
Description
Examines contributing factors such as income, gender, education, community crime, pollution and the ways that people interact.
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 2, no. 1, Population Health: Risk and Resistance, March 2005, pp. 26-33
Description
Study's goals were to define social capital, create culturally-appropriate ways of quantifying it, and determine its relationshp with health in the community.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 2005, pp. 395-416
Description
Finds addressing the problem based on need perpetuates an old model of charity, failing to recognize there the larger issue of socio-economic disparity and need to incorporate self-determination and self-government into programming.
Social Epidemiology of Trauma Among Two American Indian Reservation Populations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Spero M. Manson
Janette Beals
Suzell A. Klein
Calvin D. Croy
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 851-856
Description
Concludes that Aboriginal people in the United States live in an adverse and violent environment that places them at higher risk for exposure to traumatic experiences.
Ethnicity and Health, vol. 10, no. 4, November 2005, pp. 341-354
Description
Study based on information gathered from Oglala Lakota Souix participants from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota found two personal themes and three environmental emerged with regard to tissue donation.
Abstract and full text of speech given by Lee Maracle at the interdisciplinary conference TransCanada One: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship held in June 2005 at Simon Fraser University.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, Special Issue on Research Case Studies , 2005, pp. 1-14
Description
Article outlines steps the Coquille took to strengthen claims of tribal sovereignty by investment in education, active participation in academic research, and the re-establishment of relationships through potlatches (gift giving) ceremonies.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, 2005, pp. 117-157
Description
Author compares the Australian High Court's unwillingness to accommodate claims of sovereignty or self-government with those of other common law countries, namely United States and Canada.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2, Indigenous Peoples Bridging the Digital Divide, Summer, 2005
Description
Discusses the mostly successful integration of wireless technology into the Navajo Nation and the sharing of this success with other indigenous peoples around the world.
Native Studies Review, vol. 3, no. 1, 1987, pp. 59-80
Description
Article concludes that the relative lack of opposition between Native Siberian and non-Native Siberians, stems from a greater knowledge of Siberian native people and the desire to expand traditional native occupations.
Showcases the results of developing "interactive Web maps of Iqaluit based on aerial photographs from" 1948, 1958, 1969, 1995, and 2000. The maps and orthomosaics of Iqaluit are accompanied by photographs and text about the area and its history.
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 25, no. 3, 2000, pp. [347-?]
Description
Suggests that a combination of social and political events, along with Federal Government policy, allowed access to print media and built the framework for future developments.
Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives=Lieu et Mémoire au Canada: Perspectives Globales
[Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies ; 3rd]
[International Conference of Central European Canadianists ; 3rd]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Katerina Prajznerová
Description
Conference paper from: Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives: 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, April 30-May 3, 2004, Cracow, Poland edited by Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, Anna Reczyńska, and Anna Śpiewak.
Discusses Raven's Cry by Christine Harris, Klee Wyck by Emily Carr and Sounding the Blood by Amanda Hale.