Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 16, no. 6, November/December 1992, pp. 12-13
Description
Looks at studies conducted in the Northern Territory, Katherine/Centre regions, Wilcannia, Western New South and patients attending the Adelaide Aboriginal Medical Service. Reports a high percentage of Aboriginal people smoke.
UBC Undergraduate Journal of Art History, no. 1, November 1, 2010, pp. [1]-11
Description
Discusses the exhibition which consists of twelve signs situated on unceded land on the grounds of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Point Grey campus of the University of British Columbia.
Presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the National Indian Education Association at the Albuquerque Convention Center, New Mexico, November 15-19, 1992.
MELUS, vol. 25, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2000, pp. 87-116
Description
Discusses the connection between oppressor and oppressed and suggests reading to understand both perspectives leads to evaluating one's own response and eithics.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Our Story, Our Way, Winter, 2007, p. 23
Description
Brief profile of the businessman who created Historyland, an amusement park in Hayward, Wisconsin, which honours both his Scandinavian heritage and that of the Ojibwe tribe.
American Antiquity, vol. 72, no. 4, October 2007, pp. 691-717
Description
Discussion of an archaeology site in Alaska which contains 267 mostly whole tools which exhibit a wide range of tool forms and production technologies.
Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 42, no. 4, 2007, pp. 541-562
Description
Looks at how an Aboriginal community confronted Century Zinc Mine in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria when they didn't live up to a previously signed agreement.
Concludes the powerful story of the Haisla and their efforts to repatriate a totem pole after 77 years of being in the Swedish Museum. Accompanying Study Guide.
Duration: 24:04.
Journal of Community Health, vol. 35, no. 6, December 2010, pp. [667]-675
Description
Study demonstrates that interventions to prevent excess adiposity in infants and toddlers are both feasible and acceptable to American Indian/Alaskan native peoples.
Discusses important themes found in the quantitative and qualitative research by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation on community initiatives that address the legacy of residential schools over a 7 year period.
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Occasional Paper Series
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper ; 2010-01
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erin Oliver
Peter Vicaire
Indigenous Law & Policy Center Working Paper
Description
Looks at the three points of law concerning the Supreme Court's Carcieri decision which concerned taking lands into trust for Indian tribes federally recognized in 1934 when the IRA (Indian Reorganizaiton Act) was passed.
Section on Aboriginal women deals with right to property and culture, registration under the Indian Act, and unequal access to power and decision-making.
Towards a Broad-Based Precautionary Principle in Law & Policy: A Functional Role for Indigenous Knowledge Systems (TEK) Within Decision-Making Structures
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 455-486
Description
Explores First Nations' participation in current planning and management of parks which are located in traditional territories and how their concerns and interests might be better addressed.
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, vol. 25, no. 1, March 2007, pp. 27-41
Description
Assesses the strengths of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board and the Environmental Assessment process to determine the weaknesses of the Environmental Assessment process, especially in the context of resource developments affecting Aboriginal peoples.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Resistance and Resiliency: Addressing Historical Trauma of Aboriginal Peoples, March 2007, pp. 97-120
Description
Looks at a community development model that focuses on traditional knowledge and cultural practice to assist Aboriginal communities to heal from historical and ongoing trauma, and for the restoration of health and well being.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 411-436
Description
Using the Sami people as an example, argues that political decolonization is important for realizing self-determination, reconnecting with culture, and becoming intellectually self-governing.
First National Trudeau Fellow discusses the Canadian art establishment's failure to recognize continuum of Aboriginal art or its aesthetic.
Duration: 1:08:05.
Examines the factors behind the diminishing usage of certain Nandi anthroponyms, which act as catalogues of past and present histories, and the endangerment extinction.