Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 1, January/February 1999, pp. 24-26
Description
Aboriginal mental health worker participant from Brome, Western Australia reflects on the five day course which includes two days spent in a bush environment.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 68-77
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Focuses on three fundamental questions: What do Aboriginal economies look like now?; What are the critical factors that need to be considered for their development?; What are possible scenarios for Aboriginal economic development?
Diabetes Care, vol. 22, no. 12, December 1999, pp. 1993-1998
Description
Reports that body-mass index (BMI) rates in Australia are among the highest in the world and that diabetes incidence, in the lowest BMI category, is 2 to 3 times greater for Aboriginal than for the non-Aboriginal population.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 79, no. 4, August 1989, pp. 503-520
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Study examines the relationship between obesity and adult-onset diabetes and proposes that this occurs due to the interaction of susceptible genotypes and a low fiber diet.
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 95, no. 6, June 1995, pp. 676-683
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Investigation revealed increased carbohydrate and fat intake resulted in higher rates of non-insulin-dependent diabetes, these individuals also had higher obesity rates.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 19, no. 1 & 2, Women and Justice, Spring/Summer, 1999, pp. 209-214
Description
Looks at Colleen Whiten's feminist art installation, Seducing the Receiver (1994-1995) in relation to the Paul Bernardo and John Crawford murder cases.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall, 1995, pp. 78-90
Description
Critically addresses the efforts of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, with the intent of placing it within the larger cultural discourse on museums, in regard to representations of cultures and their objects.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 27-35
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Describes the adhesion of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation to Treaty #6, and a number of the issues surrounding land, farming implements and instruction, and livestock that followed.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 27.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 181-203
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Examines the writings of Brigham Young to reconstruct some of the epidemiological events that affected Indigenous people in what is now Utah while was being colonized.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 3, Series 2: Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Fall, 1995, pp. 51-70
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Looks at alternative critical strategies, in contemporary Navajo poetry, which enable readers and critics in consciously interactive and intersubjective engagements with the poems.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Reviews developments pertaining to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms of Indigenous populations.
Forty-seventh session. Agenda item 14. 10 August 1995.
Citizenship Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, February 1999, pp. 5-25
Description
Examines the reasons and legal aspects used by Canada to dispossess aboriginal people who have not ceded land through treaties, such as the Innu of Labrador-Quebec.
Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 2, no. 1, April 1995, p. 13
Description
The article discusses the dispute resolution process regarding comprehensive land claims in Canada and the power imbalance that exists between Aboriginal claimants and Euro-Canadian governments. (Part of an Australian Masters' thesis submitted by the author who is a Senior Case Manager for the Australian National Native Title Tribunal)
Discusses the community-based Touchwood File Hills Qu'Appelle Valley pilot project which was designed to deal with issues surrounding intergovernmental funding for self-government in Saskatchewan.