American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 973-880
Description
Concludes that tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a significant health problem and requires vigilance and collaboration among states, the federal government and TB control programs.
Statistics revealed the highest rate in Canada was in Nunavut and the lowest was in Nova Scotia; includes tabulations demographic and clinical factors.
Analysis on tuberculosis (TB) assessments in the Correctional Service of Canada from 1999 to 2001. The highest rates were observed among foreign-born and Aboriginal inmates.
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 3, Fostering Cultural Safety Across Contexts, September 2017, pp. 142-151
Description
Looks at links between historic and contemporary rationales for interfering with Indigenous families and discusses how literary arts can foster cross-cultural and cross-generational understanding.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, vol. 37, no. 4, December 2005, pp. 38-60
Description
Describes the perspectives of community-based stakeholders on their experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating care for pregnant and parenting Aboriginal women and families.
Outlines two projects that focused on establishing mechanisms to apply Aboriginal knowledge to industrial forest management by providing community training and involvement.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, 1988, pp. 33-48
Description
Reviews the history of the Turtle Mountain reserve and how the author portrays it's unique Native American development in fictional pieces based on the facts of the Chippewa Indians.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, 2005, pp. 207-214
Description
Discusses the shortcomings of the current natural resources management policy, which has resisted change; cites illegal logging as one reason for change.
Looks at four periods: 1900 to 1945, 1945 to 1969, 1969 to 1989, and 1989 to 2006. Sources include records of Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada, National Archives of Canada, secondary literature, and personal recollections.
Comments on a group of Indigenous teenagers who use square dancing to help heal from the trauma of a suicide epidemic and bullying in their remote community.
Duration: 16:31.
Aboriginal History, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 103-112
Description
Review article of seven books:
Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions: Ethnographic and Historical Studies edited by Tony Swain and Deborah Bird Rose.
Christianity and Aboriginal Australia by John Harris.
I'd Rather Dig Potatoes: Clamor Schurmann and the Aborigines of South Australia, 1838-1853by Edwin A. Schurmann.
Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines by Vivienne Rae-Ellis.
Thomas Dove and the Tasmanian Aborigines by R. S. Miller.
Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land or Blacks and Whites in North-West Australia by J. B.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 168-175
Description
Literary Criticism article examines Love Beyond Body Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-fi Anthology edited by Hope Nicholson and Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill and how the speculative nature of the texts helps to reclaim IndigiQueer and LGBTQ identities.
Aboriginal History, vol. 41, December 2017, pp. 121-149
Description
Article draws on the journals of Guardian of Aborigines William Thomas in New South Wales to describe and examine corroborees (Indigenous spiritual ceremonies) taking place in the early 1850s. Author considers the role of syncretism in Indigenous peoples’ process of understanding European systems of belief.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, March/April 2000, pp. 12-15
Description
Describes an early detection renal disease program in a remote community of South Australia. Aboriginal Australians are six times more likely to suffer from advanced kidney disease than non-Aboriginal Australians.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 61-86
Description
Authors examines the (neo)colonial narratives present the English print media coverage of the Glenbow Museum’s 1988 exhibit The Spirit Sings. The exhibit, a headliner of the 1988 Winter Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, is often considered to be the “catalyst for Canada's Task Force on Museums and First Peoples (1992).”