Environmental Studies Thesis (M.E.S.)--Dalhousie University, 2000.

Book review of Producing Predators by Michael D. Wise.

Discusses reasons for Indigenous people being at the exposition held in Seattle in 1909.

Looks at health determinants such as chronic illness and risky behaviors that effect well-being and social determinants that contribute to disadvantages in areas of education, income and employment.

Provides statistics on key population, cultural, social and economic traits. Based on 2001 Canadian Census data. Background paper for the Ipperwash Inquiry.

Provides an overview of the Reserve's history to 1976.

Study drew data from case files in order to compare socio-demographic, case needs and criminal offence/history characteristics of offenders from each group.

Describes the program and the people who run it.

Review of three books: Progressive Transitions by Joshua B. Nelson Sovereign Stories by Padraig Kirwan Settler Common Sense by Mark Rifkin

Community Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2000.

"Part of a series of guides for planning, designing and constructing adult and juvenile correctional and detention facilities on Tribal Lands".

Studies Seminole word use by third and fourth graders attending a Bureau of Indian Affairs elementary school.

Report presents projections based on the latest data available, the 2011 National Household Data Survey.

Analyzed data to determine the efficacy of tribal governments self-administering temporary assistance to needy families.

Talks about literacy programs developed for FNMI students in the Grasslands Regional Division No. 6 ,Lethbridge School District No. 51 and Pincher Creek.

Study focuses on three types of policy initiatives: (1) control of alcohol within tribal jurisdictions; (2) education and treatment (3) social and environmental risk factors.

Reports results of interviews and group discussions with health directors and program coordinators for First Nations communities, as well health authority and government staff responsible implementing programs.

Looks at agency which provides services based on traditional systems.

Examines parent and community engagement, cultural and language programming, teachers, instruction and curriculum resources, professional development, and individual students supports at Francis of Assisi Elementary School and Le Roi Daniels Elementary School.

Shows how physical activity programs have a positive effect on mental wellness and disease prevention.

Discusses Nation building and the use of the Constraints Model for effective strategic thinking and decision making by Native leaders.

Analysis of issues published in the late 1800s of the Yakima Herald noting biased views and racist notions.

Focuses on results of survey conducted with 116 First Nations.

Discusses plans to erect dams on the Moose River basin in Ontario and the environmental protection goals of the Waterkeeper Alliance.

Discusses reasons postgraduate program is needed: lack of Native Americans professionals, interdisciplinary approaches to research, evaluation and critical assessment of methodologies, testing existing research for validity, and addressing community needs and priorities.

Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, March 31, 1980 regarding the proposed hiring of a person to assist the Community Liaison Committee of the City in formulating Aboriginal policy.

Reflects attitudes and policies of the time.

Argues that changes in the kinship system took place in the early 19th century due environmental, economic and demographic factors that became more acute during the reservation period.

Discusses the unauthorized use of the the Quileute Tribe name and creation story in the movie and the lack of copyright protection for creation stories.

Examines why Canadian movements did not lead to on-going national movements as they did in the United States.

Four slides of a man and children at a protest in Memorial Square, Prince Albert, in solidarity with the Mohawks during the Oka Standoff in Quebec, 1991.

Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Thesis (Ph.D.)--Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2001. Discussion of the James Bay Crees fight, called the Great Whale Campaign (1989-1994), to keep a dam from being built in their territory.

"This document describes the Provincial approach to consultation with the Mi'kmaq regarding their treaty rights, or their asserted or proven Aboriginal rights".

Book review of: Prudence: A Novel by David Treuer.

Education Thesis (MC)--University of Lethbridge, 2013.

Reviews the history of uranium and discusses efforts for compensation.

Shows how cultural assumptions can encourage perspectives based on psychological concepts, limiting social, economic, and political aspects of health determinants.

Contends that the mental health of Aboriginal communities with more control of local government, renewed cultural practices, and successful land claims, boast overall improved mental health for their constituents. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll to page 10.

Looks at effects of PL 280 which shifted federal jurisdiction of offences to states creating jurisdictional uncertainty and lack of funding for law enforcement.

Speaks about a plan for collaborative change to close the gap between Canadian and Indigenous people's quality of life. According to the United Nation's Human Development Index country as whole is rated sixth, while Indigenous people are rated at 63rd. Duration: 1:17:26.

Investigates how peace and order were maintained in the 1930s and earlier in an Indigenous community.

Culture, Environment and Sustainability Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oslo, 2013.

Looks at the Pueblo of of Acoma in Valencia County located 7500 feet above sea level on top of a mesa.

Book review of: A Pueblo Social History by John A. Ware.

Discusses Pueblo culture's central role in the establishment of the internationally known artist and writer colony established in the area.

Looks at how the book A Narrative of Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes, of Mary Rowlandson gave Puritan women a voice in the early 1700's.

Outlines how death of Jordan River Anderson brought attention to denial or delay of services to First Nations children due to juristictional disputes and inspired passage of the child first and needs-based principle, and discusses federal and provincial governments' continuing failure to implement it properly.