Science & Technology

Discusses the scholarly relevance of using the concept of tribalography as a research methodology and the risks and rewards associated with it. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 65.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2016.

Looks at integrating Western science to Aboriginal science to incorporate a sociocultural perspective in assessment practices.

Discusses databases installed in fourteen sites in the Northern Territory, Australia, which form a component of the "Libraries and Knowledge Centres" program designed to bring information to remote Aboriginal communities.

Looks at the use of videoconferencing as an effective and cost saving way to provide mental health assessments.

Discusses Europeans' refusal to believe that sophisticated artificial mounds could have been constructed by the ancestors of contemporary aboriginals; author presents her alternate theories regarding builders.

Ojibwa ethnographic data (Black River Band) on defleshing tools.

Comments on the prevalence of diabetes in youth less than 20 years old using data collected by age, sex, and race/ethnicity.

Visual and Material Culture Thesis (M.A.)--Massey University, 2014.

Reports on how Māori cultural identity is formed and constructed on social networking sites (SNS).

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2013.

MacDougall and Evans discuss their work developing a Métis digital archive database. Innes discusses culturally-mixed bands and cultural similarities of First Nation and Métis peoples. Signa Daum Shanks speaks about using community stories to improve modern community relationships. Duration: 1:18:18

Book review: Maps and Memes by Gwilym Lucas Eades. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 164.

Consists of an interview where she gives a brief account of life in a residential school.

Study surveyed seven teachers from the Great Plains Technical College in an effort to see if their attitudes might influence the high retention rate at the institution.

Letter to the editor in response to "Pathways to Success in Pre-College Mathematics" published in Vol. 18, Issue 2 of Tribal College Journal (2006 Winter) p. 28-30.

Includes foundations for teaching, multi-grade thematic units and list of additional resources. Developed to conform to the British Columbia curriculum, but material can be adapted to other contexts. Updated version of 2011 edition.

Results of two year study which examined use of culturally specific mathematics in Shoshoni traditional living practices and its possible applications with other local cultures.

Advances the possibility that concepts of math are being communicated and suggests several related classroom activities.

The introduction of western medicine to Native Americans during the 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition and the implications for Native American health and policy in the United States.

Report for the Canadian Radiological Foundation investigates diagnostic imaging in the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2010.

Looks at Deloria's exposition of the differences between Western and Non-Western views of nature.

Education Research Paper (M.Sc.)--University of Wisconsin - Stout, 2003.

Commentary on contemporary Métis issues including transcripts of Twitter exchanges on IndigenousXca.

Curriculum Studies Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2012.

Cultural Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Cape Breton University, 1992. Text in Mi'kmaq.

Discusses involvement of the integrative science team on the Mi'kmaq night sky story Muin and the Seven Hunters linking astronomy and legend.

Book review of: Microevolutionary Pattern in Aboriginal Australia by Joseph B. Birsell. Review located by scrolling to page 186.

Instruction on how to use an otoscope and a pneumatic otoscope for examining the ear canal and ear drum. Includes pictures. Part 2.

Educational Administration and Higher Education (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1993.

Looks at how technology can facilitate multiple forms of violence against women, including stalking, human trafficking, and abuse of child images.

Comments on public broadcasting and the necessity for First Nations participation to be continued, to ensure that languages and cultures are kept alive.

Educational Foundations Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 2013.

Looks at election-related tweets which carried hashtag #MMIW; content analysis showed that they mostly commonly conveyed hope, anger and disgust. Paper from: SMSociety '16: Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society.

[Education] Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Montana, 2011.

Advocates the implementation of new approaches to reduce disease incidence.

Synopsis of keynote speeches and presentations of conference held March 7-9, 2007, Edmonton, Alberta. Includes summaries of six animation theme bundles, promising practices, participant commentaries, and analysis of problems and prospects of Aboriginal learning in the future.

Discusses past and emerging practices, giving examples of projects taking place throughout the circumpolar region. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.

Topics covered: legislative/jurisdictional context, funding, technology, employment and education, integrating community energy solutions, energy efficiency and conservation programming, and partnership opportunities.

Book reviews of: The Mother Tongue by Will Taegel Original Thinking by Glenn Aparicio Parry.

Looks at reasons for under achievement, how learning styles affect motivation, the role of cultural systems of knowledge and of teachers.

Argues that researchers and the media have focused on a tenuous biomedical link while ignoring social issues such poverty and housing. Also argues that this has created a culture of fear which targets Aboriginals.

Discusses the use of new technology, in Colleges, to grow, serve, and preserve the languages, stories and songs of the surrounding communities.

Discussion of the remodelling of the local church. No date given, probably in the 1970's.

Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2010.