Book reviews of: The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874 by Robert Boyd and Doing Things the Right Way: Dene Traditional Justice in Lac La Martre, N.W.T. by Joan Ryan.

Reports on the failure of the Kelowna Accord, talk of privatizing Indian land, and the cancellation of a tobacco control program as disturbing trends under the new Conservative government.

Discusses the importance of Aboriginal people taking charge of their own health through education.

Short discussion of future health priorities and research options regarding the impacts of environmental contamination.

Advocates for greater awareness of healthy lifestyles in order to assist people to age well.

Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern Denmark, 2014.

Results of project showed that the Indigenous perspective was more wholistic than the mainstream and encompassed community safety, environment, beliefs, kinship patterns, social arrangements, and norms of individual, familial and social conduct. Includes case study of a project which failed to move forward because researchers refused to sign a Research Collaboration Agreement. Related material: Ganohonyohk Tool.

Conference sponsored by Assembly of First Nations and the law faculty of the University of Calgary explores the aftereffects of residential schools.

Volume 3 of Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Describes the Aboriginal Apprenticeship Initiative and the GDI-Saskatoon health Region Scholarship, both designed for the success of employers and recipients. Article located by scrolling to page 18.

Briefing notes present key issues/challenges and implications of a gender perspective.

Investigates the different roles and perspectives Inuit women and men have regarding hunting participation and lead contamination.

Study findings suggest that environment and lifestyle conditions could have influenced certain gene frequencies.

Examines the bioethical issues involving genetic ownership related to beliefs and practices of a culture and the effects on both health care and research.

Results found that a significant genetic differentiation among the three Dogrib villages in the Northwest Territories.

Summarizes genetic research done on 25 standard protein and blood markers and genetic discontinuity in two language groups.

Findings reflect the prevailing view that the PPARGA12 allele protects against damaging traits.

A photograph of George Mann Jr. with a group of Aboriginal men, women and children, probably taken in the Onion Lake North West Territories in the 1890s. Mann spent much of his youth in Onion Lake, and fathered a child there in 1898 before his father was transferred to Saddle Lake in 1900.

Examines daily medicine practice in the fur trade.

This file contains "Sinasia Remembers" the reminiscences of Harriet E. Gerry (unpublished), and published articles about her work nursing among the Indians of western Canada. Her extensive memoir is made up of several short stories and anecdotes about the many communities she worked in. These include Onion Lake, Kehewin Reserve, Leask, Sturgeon Lake, Cold Lake, Fort Qu'Appelle, One Arrow Reserve, Piapot Reserve and many in British Columbia later in her career.

Article about a new comedy series on APTN by Métis writer/producer Jason Friesen titled, Health Nutz.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.22.

Includes background papers and summary of outcomes in the areas of health, education, housing and self-government. Part. 2.

Includes background papers and summary of outcomes in the areas of health, education, housing and self-government. Part 1.

Discusses two initiatives being tested to control alcohol abuse and violence in northern Australia: partial prohibition and night patrols.

"Provides an overview of the initial start up activities in planning and developing a Home and Community Care Program." Related material: Community Needs Assessment - 2. Service Delivery Plan - 3A. Capital Plan - 3B

Discusses the disproportionate risk of injury and illness in the Aboriginal population.

Discuss workshop that assists content submitters on refining their stories along with the process involved in selecting a piece.

Comments on five cases identified in16 months.

Includes greetings, anatomical terms, pain scale, and health phrases. Volume 1.

"This curriculum is developed for the purposes instructing Aboriginal Court Workers on how to integrate Gladue Principles into speaking to sentence for an Aboriginal client."

Communities assessed: Constance Lake First Nation, North Spirit Lake, Slate Falls Nation, Anishinabe of Wauzhushk Onigum, Shoal Lake 40, Obashkaandagaang, Wawakapewin First Nation, Northwest Angle No. 33, and Nibinamik First Nation.

Examines the impact of mining operations on the health of an Indigenous community.

Presents thoughts from Chairperson of Australian Inquiry into Response by Government Agencies to Complaints of Family Violence and Child Abuse in Aboriginal Communities.

Discusses the inequity of federal funding to First Nations Child and Family Services Program in comparison to provincial agencies and off reserve child welfare programs.

Studies the emergence of a new health care sector committed to local Indigenous needs.

Overview of provincial legislation, agreements, and programs and services specific to Indigenous women and girls.

Primary focus of recommendations was education. The seven youths had relocated to Thunder Bay from their home communities in order to complete high school.

Response to questionnaire sent out by United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples. Related material: Annex A: Additional Information Provided by Indigenous Services Canada.

Looks at the Master of Tropical Health (MTH) degree and two recent Aboriginal graduates.

Reports on the comprehensive database which contains studies and biological samples from 1979 to the present.

Describes how the project uses a variety of outreach and community education programs to promote healthier lifestyles, sustainability, and self-sufficiency among reservation residents. The demonstration garden allows community members to learn about gardening, and food preparation and preservation in a direct, hands-on way.

Discusses the experiences surrounding the development in a Mohawk community of 7,000 people near Montreal, Quebec.

Resource for parents. Looks at physical activity and eating traditional and healthy foods on a budget.

Discusses Earth Guardians, the organization devoted to youth environmental activism, and their current work advocating for a statewide ban on fracking in Colorado. Highlights activist, Xiuihtezcatl Martinez.

Introductory article to themed issue dedicated to the 1979 International Year of the Child.