Science & Technology

To move forward requires incorporation of Indigenous knowledge into curricula, which will be challenging as each community considers its own traditions and understandings.

Comments on the book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan.

Study evaluates usefulness of methods used for dating rock art.

Explores how being female and/or holding Aboriginal beliefs can influence/change Western scientific medodologies and thought. Paper presented at the Women and Other Faces in Science Conference in Saskatoon, 1996

Chapter 14 from book: The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development, Vol. 1 by Gorm Winther, Gérard Duhaime, Jack Cruise, Chris Southcott, Hans Aage ... [et al.]. Discusses gathering data and metadata and building the ArcticStat databank.

Discusses the use of Ancestral Knowledge Systems (AKS) to decolonize research methods and utilize many knowledge systems in academy.

Book review of: Ancient Iron and Slags in Greenland by Vagn Fabritius Buchwald.

Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2006.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

Discussion of a case study done in Frobisher Bay, NWT (now Iqaluit, Nunavut) that centers on the variables of: availability, exposure patterns, preferences in programming and language, knowledge of Canadian facts, perceptions and attitudes towards dominant information sources, leisure activities, and socioeconomic aspirations.

Looks at how Indigenous knowledges can be used in the science classrooms.

An annotated bibliography of Native American and Canadian Aboriginal resources on the Internet, with a brief introduction arguing the pros and cons of digitization, reasons for the selection and scope, and how to access the resources on the Internet.

Uses the Northern Cultural Heritage Project to show the mixing of research with a northern social context.

Discusses how vitamin D helps fend off germs and helps fights the tuberculosis (TB) germ Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Lethbridge, 2006.

Looks at an ecological approach, that incorporates environmental, cultural & historical data with biological data, to help understand the causes of acute ear infections [Text in French].

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2017.

Discusses the opposing scientific and ethical views regarding skeletal remains.

States that scientific findings from research have influenced government policy, including those issues that involve Arctic Indigenous health and the disparities that exist in this region.

Brief article looks a challenges facing the Circumpolar North including climate change, resource development, and technology. Scroll down to page 14 to read article.

Article reviews a paper presented in 1993 by the late Steven McNabb urging northern researchers to be open minded for better science.

Database covers all subjects and contains two types of information: citations to publications and descriptions of research projects. The ASTIS subset databases provide selected ASTIS records and background information for specific regions, subjects and projects.

Relevant presentation is entitled Participation, Communication and Indigenous Peoples: Scientists Need to Do More.

Describes evolution of improvements in healthcare in Alaska due to communication technology from early 1970 to early 2000.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massey University, 2008.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 23, (pp283-296).

Looks at construction, usage and changes to weaponry focusing on the changes to Omushkego bow making due to environmental restrictions.

Looks at the research network Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace five years after its inception and how digital media technologies have been used to tell stories.

Comments on a business, called Tipi Tones, started by a group of high school students which features distinct Aboriginal ring tones for cell phones. Article located by scrolling to page 18.

Redating of the Laguna and Los Angeles skeletal remains by accelerator mass spectrometry.

Nutrition and Food Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wayne State University, 2015.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2015.

Special Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Kansas, 2014.

Applied Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--Saint Mary's University, 2010.

Website provides links to: Arctic library, games, maps, songs, jokes, weather, and much more. Aimed towards elementary school aged children and youth.

Assessment of the success of a program delivered by satellite which involved physicians, teachers, nurses, engineers, government officials, rural and urban residents and school children.

Annotated list of material includes reading level, curriculum areas, themes and topics, publication dates and number of pages. Updated version. Originally published in 2011.

International/Intercultural Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2002.

Advocates a culturally responsive curriculum which is only possible with culturally-based instructional resources and teacher involvement. Paper originally presented to 9th Symposium of the International Organization for Science and Technology.

Concludes that beveling creates in-flight rotation which improves accuracy.

In partnership with the government of Manitoba, the company will forge contacts with Aboriginal companies to encourage careers in Information Technology (IT) .

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1982.