Guide enhances clinical education and practical best practices for inclusion of Aboriginal health and culture into the health sciences curriculum. Includes background information and generic training and support materials to use in northern and rural areas.
Humanities Research , vol. 15, no. 2, Compelling Cultures: Representing Cultural Diversity and Cohesion in Multicultural Australia, 2009, pp. 133-151
Description
Discusses problematic methodological approaches to Aboriginal art that have become a standard for use by historians and anthropologists and suggests how to write about art in the future.
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 144, Theatre in an Age of Eco-Crisis, Fall, 2010, pp. 42-47
Description
Interview in which the artist discusses the development of her kinetic performance sculpture which won the “Best Western Entry” in the Calgary Stampede parade.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 37-50
Description
Comments on the usefulness of applying yarning as a research method for the gathering of data in Indigenous research using results from an Indigenous group in Australia and and in Botswana.
Video includes a compilation of conversations on the strength and resilience of Métis peoples in the context of the residential school experience and its after-effects.
Duration: 9:54.
Theatre Research in Canada, vol. 31, no. 2, 2010, pp. 182-192
Description
Discusses the adaptation of the Clements' play regarding the hybrid character representing First Nations women and fulfills the role of mythological prophet.
Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763
National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Humanities Center
Description
Uses excerpts from primary documents to look at how Native Americans were perceived by colonists and Europeans and Native American perspectives on Europeans and their culture.
Summary of a survey on cultural planning, adoption and Aboriginal children, that looks at ways to keep children connected with their Indigenous identities.
"You've Gotta Set a Precedent": Maori and Pacific Voices on Student Success in Higher Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Tokiharu Mayeda
Moeata Keil
Hilary Dansey Dutton
'I.-Futa-Helu 'Ofamo'oni
AlterNative, vol. 10, no. 2, 2014, pp. 165-179
Description
Identifies family and university role modelling and support; indigenous teaching and learning practices, and coping mechanisms for racism as factors facilitating student success.
Explores the issue of teen pregnancy among Aboriginal women by speaking with them about their experiences and perceptions on sex, protection and pregnancy and their expectations and the realities of becoming a young mother.
Published by the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence.
Includes results of brief literature review and findings from study with a sample of 84 individuals, 28 of whom were pregnant women or birth mothers 16-21 years, with the remainder being senior women and service providers. Themes which emerged were vulnerability, family support, accessing care, education, trusted provider and relocation.