Canada's History, vol. 97, no. 2, April/May 2017, pp. 64-66
Description
Reports on a large concentration of inuksuit at Cape Dorset and also includes an excerpt from, An Intimate Wilderness: Arctic Voices In A Land Of Vast Horizons.
Image showing old cart ruts on the old trail running northwest from Prince Albert. The ruts run left to right, with trees in background. On back of photograph: "Ron Brown on the east of Briarlea Cairn."
Image showing old cart ruts on the old trail running northwest from Prince Albert. The ruts run from foreground to background at centre, with trees and a white car parked in background; summer scene. A man [Ron Brown] walks away from camera.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 13-18
Description
Presents a story from The Jacobs Collection of Native American materials in the University of Washington Library.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 69-70
Description
Looks at interviews with over 100 people working in the mining sector in the Yukon Territory and their spouses to understand how they manage shift cycles that come with work of this type.
Briefly defines rights, explains rights of Status and Non-Status Indians and Métis people, and discusses conservation, public and safety rules, and where to get help if charged with a harvesting offence. Information specific to British Columbia.
Third edition.
Developed to assist British Columbia First Nations with agreement-in-principle (AIP) approvals and ratification votes as part of the treaty negotiation process.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Geomatics: Who Needs It?, Fall/Winter, 1994
Description
Describes the geographic information system used to predict and map possible locations of ancient habitation sites and culturally modified trees on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Looks at aesthetic philosophies, techniques and personal styles of four Aboriginal female artists; Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras, Joane Cardinal-Schubert.
Duration: 51:49.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 1994, pp. 251-263
Description
Story of the Hantavirus illness, outbreak, deaths, and media attention in the summer of 1993 among the Navajo of the Four Corners (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah).
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, December 2017, pp. 95-120
Description
Article looks at mission guest books from Indigenous reservations in Victoria, Australia in order to examine the mind set and fixations of visitors participating in mission tourism in the region.
Provides information on services such as needle and syringe programs, safer drug services, and opoid substitution therapy (e.g. methadone) and naloxone.
CMAJ, vol. 189, no. 46, November 20, 2017, pp. e1408-e1409
Description
Highlights Saskatoon Health Region's external review into allegations of Indigenous women being coerced into having tubal ligations, and the interim report on the death of Brian Sinclair, who was ignored for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital's emergency department.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2017, pp. 30-60
Description
Study conducted in collaboration with Anishnawbe Health Toronto involved six men and ten community healers. Discusses social constructions of masculinity and how they affect help-seeking behaviours and mental health outcomes.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, Monograph No.1, pp.160-210
Behavioral Health Issues Among American Indians and Alaska Natives: Explorations on the Frontiers of the Behavioral Sciences
[Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health] ; Monograph 1, 1988
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Spero M. Manson
Donald G. Callaway
Description
Looks at the changing demographics of the Native American population, the scope of future social service needs, and long-term care services for the elderly.