Science & Technology

Comments on the advantages of on-line teaching and learning and offers tips and best practices for success.

Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2008.

Ambulance personnel from northern Sweden rate their experiences as being positive for patient comfort.

Examines how information and communication technology has made outsourcing certain functions to remote locations possible and whether this is a viable source of employment for Aboriginal communities. Specifically looks at call centres.

Recommendations include: improving teacher and community engagement, developing and implementing strategies to deliver expanded and flexible programs to a variety of students, increasing and extending funding, and conducting needs and outcomes assessment.

An ornately decorated telephone booth. Victoria, B.C. On booth: "B.C. TEL 806, 000 TELEPHONE INSTALLATIONS OCT. 20/67 VICTORIA B.C."

Public Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2013.

Examines a University of Central Arkansas Native American Literature course providing experiential learning about traditions. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 32.

Discusses the evolution of technologies used to restore and create space to preserve languages and cultures while communicating across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries.

Information Management Thesis (M.I.S.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2013.

Book review of: Palaeopathology of Australian Aboriginals by Stephen Webb. Review located by scrolling to page 295.

Discusses how the establishment of archaeoparasitological laboratories in the 1980's has led to a wide range of archaeological applications.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Guelph, 2006.

Concluded that telemedicine has potential to supplement and improve patient-provider relationships and improve outcomes.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of Tennessee, 2010.

Website contains aggregation of visual, material and sonic collections based on the work Edward S. Curtis, the early 20th century photographer and amateur ethnographer who created the monumental 20 volume The North American Indian. The 25,000 media assets are accompanied by scholarly and contextual materials.

Discusses the factors affecting the subsistence-based livelihood of the Iñupiaq people including technology and climate change.

Environmental Studies Thesis (MES)--Dalhousie University, 2012.

Discusses three examples of Sámi mathematics which could be part of a possible Sámi mathematics syllabus.

Examines the Indigenous peoples' ability to adapt to technological change. To access this article scroll down to page 14.

Examines classroom teaching and learning strategies to uncover what might make science and mathematics more attractive to Indigenous and minority students.

Study reports on a case involving a 44 year old First Nations man who was admitted to hospital with headache, nystagmus, diplopia and ataxia.

Discusses the use of the terms actinic prurigo (AP) versus hereditary polymorphic light eruption (HPLE) for a dermatology disorder.

Outlines the mechanisms guiding and informing the development process.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of New Brunswick, 1998.

Draws on the fields of ethnobotany, linguistics, and anthropology to provide an overview of systems of naming and organizing knowledge about categories of plants.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp213-242).

Considers differences in science education between Navajo students and that of the dominate culture.

Uses radiocarbon dating on points with organic hafting material, (sinew) bindings. Samples are from Elephant Mountain Cave, Bob's Cave in Elko County, Kramer Cave, Bonneville Estates Rockshelter and Siblings Shelter, and Lower Lead Mine Hills Cave.

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

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2006.

Discusses the development of science programs at tribal colleges.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2006.

Public Policy Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2015.

Environmental Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2018.

Uses lithic analysis to determine land-use patterns in the islands of this "peripheral" region.

Study focuses on Inuit sample biology in the area of bone mass and skeletal dynamics.

Proposes a new method of forecasting the onset of diabetes by using a biostatistical math formula.

Study shows that video media is a powerful and useful tool to preserve oral language and culture.

Symposium held September 24-28, 2007 in Ottawa.

Discusses the research conducted to ascertain the risk factors and prevalence for diabetic neuropathy among adult members of the Sandy Lake First Nation.

General discussion of her life.

Toolkit developed to help manage stress by understanding energy and vibration based on concepts of interconnection and energetic aura that links all living beings to the universe.

Speaker discusses ongoing activism by Hawaiians to assert sovereignty and protect their environment, the movement to stop the construction of a new telescope on the sacred peak of Mauna Kea, and how it has been utilizing social media. Duration 51:11.

Discussion on the social and legal measures employed by Aboriginal and Māori peoples in the protection, preservation, repatriation and promotion of their digital cultures.

Focuses on the lack of Native American college students in the sciences.