American Indian & Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 17, no. 1, 2010, pp. 25-48
Description
Outlines the results of a study, using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, which suggests physical activity greatly improves overall health.
Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission assessment of border town relations and summary of public hearing testimonies held in Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. Concludes with recommendations .
Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program, AAEDIRP
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lori Ann Roness
Description
Five components: literature review, surveys of Aboriginal service providers and employees/non-employees and non-Aboriginal employers, data review of strategies/programs, best practices, and evaluation and recommendations.
FORUM on Corrections Research , vol. 12, no. 1, Aboriginal People in Corrections, January 2000, pp. 57-60
Description
Discussion of the Community Intervention Scale (CIS) and Community Risk/Needs Management Scale (CRNMS) which were primarily designed for use with male and Caucasian prison population.
Tribal Colleges and Universities: Advancing Native Knowledge
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anne Marie Karlberg
Description
Guide to measuring learning outcomes and demonstrating accountability using three types of information: direct and indirect indicators, and institutional.
Discusses how the radiation exposure experienced by Native American Communities near the Nevada Test Site during the 1950s and 1960s were not properly represented in dose reconstructions due to diet variables.
Discusses the early years of Russian occupation and education on Kodiak Island, and the suppression of language and culture by the American education system.
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 108, no. 3, 2000, pp. 279-303
Description
Looks at the history of the Hampton institute and examines opinions towards interracial marriages and the practice of using boarding schools to assimilate Native Americans.
BC Studies, no. 89, In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia, Spring, 1991, pp. 65-79
Description
Provides an overview of the development of the Indian Act and the effects of Bill C-31. The article argues that the amendment, which was intended to rectify previous injustices, has failed to provide a solution.
Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.
Indian Claims Commission (ICC) considered whether Canada wrongly denied Treaty rights north of the 60th parallel, beyond Treaty 8 and Treaty 10 boundaries. ICC concluded Treaty boundaries did not extend into the traditional lands north of 60; however harvesting rights do extend beyond Treaty boundaries. Recommended the parties negotiate resolution. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program, AAEDIRP
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Bruce
Amanda Marlin
Mary Beth Doucette
Description
Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat (APCFNC) is a policy research organization that analyzes and develops culturally relevant alternatives to federal policies that impact on the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Innu Aboriginal communities and peoples.
Compares the number of those who speak an Aboriginal language at home to the number of those who learned the language as their mother tongue.
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Compares the number of people who report being able to speak the language with the number who have that Aboriginal language as their mother tongue.
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Shows the distribution of the Aboriginal population (including Indians, Metis and Inuit) in comparison to the location of forests. Data from Atlas of Canada, 6th edition.
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Native Social Work Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, HIV/AIDS: Issues within Aboriginal Populations, September 2000, pp. 183-192
Description
Examines the collected data from educational workshop participants used to examine characteristics associated with positive & negative attitudes and beliefs about those who are living with HIV, based on categories such as age, gender and location.
Contends that Aborigines use less body language than they did before the white settlement.
Towards English Language and Literature Diploma Thesis from Masaryk University, 2010.