Program is designed to help health care providers become comfortable in treating this group. Aimed at physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, Indigenous healers, etc.
Nebraska State Historical Society Brown Bag Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tom Myers
Description
Discusses Native American art and compares essential elements and designs of beaded bags in northern and southern styles. Uses bandolier bag in Benjamin Rush's painting, Death of General Wolfe as one example.
Duration: 45:11.
Explores how differing genres of Native storytelling process the contemporary literatures of removal within the Trail of Tears, a forced relocation, following passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Paediatrics & Child Health, vol. 10, no. 9, Our Children and Youth are Sacred, November 2005, pp. 533-535
Description
Looks at two crises faced by the Kanesatake (Oka) community and the resulting implementation of programs and services to assist the community deal with lasting trauma.
Speaker discusses stereotypes of both Indigenous men and women, Canada 150 celebrations, and reactions to the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald erected on the Wilfred Laurier University Waterloo campus, including the video she made, Canadian Conversation.
Duration: 34:22.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 10, no. 1, Sharing Knowledge Across Nations, 2014, pp. 16-34
Description
Findings show that arts-based approaches to the development of HIV-prevention knowledge and Indigenous youth leadership are helping to involve youth in a critical dialogue about health.
Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2006, pp. 293-309
Description
Compares the original film from 1914 to the restored 1973 version arguing that the reconstruction still attempts to make a manipulate melodrama into an ethnographic piece.
Documentary follows three First Nations students as they compete in Saskatchewan's first-ever First Nations Provincial Spelling Bee and their subsequent trip to the National Championships in Toronto.
Duration: 44:08.
Participant's description of the Canadian Armed Forces' Junior Canadian Rangers (JCR) program, which gives 12-18 old youth discipline and increased traditional knowledge.
Explores the relationship between with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police(RCMP) and First Nations people in Alberta and ways it can be improved.
Duration: 24:35.
Government and Opposition, vol. 40, no. 4, Autumn, 2005, pp. 597-614
Description
Looks at ways Indigenous communities can renew themselves and withstand further assaults on their identity from corporations, settler societies and states.
Journal of Cultural Diversity, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer, 2005, pp. 37-49
Description
Reports on research findings related to how the Cherokee male achieves self-reliance and how health care professionals can incorporate the Cherokee concept of self-reliance into health care.
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 38, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 2, Summer, 2014, pp. 218-223
Description
Comments on the high prevalence of hearing loss due to otitis media and noise exposure.
Journal of Counseling & Development, vol. 83, no. 3, Summer, 2005, pp. 284-291
Description
Looks at a different perspective for the counseling profession to use based on American Indian perspectives on leadership and relational-cultural theory.