Science & Technology

Information Systems project towards (M.Sc.)--Athabasca University, 2007.

Analysis of 185 individuals from various tribes suggests large population movements and the mixing of lineages. Results appear to be consistent with linguistic movement.

Argues that First Nation communities must look beyond timber harvesting to develop strategies encompassing new and different approaches to forest-based development.

Discusses how the world wide web makes the author invisible, but not the content or "object" of knowledge. The original text was published in Textual Studies in Canada, no. 13/14, 2001.

Designer of the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the National Museum of the American Indian talks about various commissions, evolution of his career and his approach to architecture. Interview took place in 1996. Duration: 41:47.

Public Policy and Public Administration (Geography Option) (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2004.

Podcast of interview with the first Métis student to earn a Ph.D at the university. He discusses his research in chemistry and its applications in Aboriginal communities for the improvement of water quality. Duration: 34:35.

Contains general guidelines as well as chapter specific to Aboriginals. Scroll to p. 91 for chapter 9.

Describes a project named “Gi bugadin-a-maa goom (‘To Sanction, To Give Authority, To Bring to Life’)" undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,and discusses questions which arise when digitization takes place.

Reports on developments using e-mail to enhance patient-physician contact in order to improve health care delivery in Greenland.

Investigates the potential enhancement of social media to increase Mãori political engagement.

Discusses the Australian government's initiative, InfoNet to recognize the importance of sharing health information. NOTE: pdf displays incorrect information (vol. 30 no.6 November/December 2006)

Discusses songs recorded by phonograph with the earliest being the Aivilingmiut and Qaernermiut in Canada and Alaska.

Applications of new concepts in sedimentology-stratigraphy and palynology help to date a pendant made from a fossil whelk shell.

Article details the sustainable energy policies and practices that have implemented at the Turtle Mountain Community College (TMCC) and describes how those practices have also created demonstrable economic benefits.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Laval University, 2010. Text in French, includes abstract in English.

Brief description of articles dealing with formulation of federal forestry policy, First Nations-operated call centres, and Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBA).

Overview of themed issues on Indigenous peoples, new information and communication technologies. To access this article scroll down to page 4.

Organizational Learning and Instructional Technologies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2000.

Describes development and outcomes of the University of Saskatchewan Science Ambassador Program, which involves sending outreach staff to remote Northern Indigenous communities.

Looks at the development and implementation of information technology in health care and welfare.

Discusses various telehealth programs and upcoming articles in special issue.

Native American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Lethbridge, 2005.

Humanistic Studies Thesis (D.A.)--State University of New York at Albany, 2001.

Describes developments in science education since 2006 related to an agenda to decolonize the Pan-Canadian Science Framework by recognizing Indigenous knowledge as being foundational to understanding the physical world.

Education Thesis (Ph.D)--University of New Brunswick, 2005.

Looks at the development of an experimental program merging western and Mohawk beliefs with a focus on science and math.

Provides a sample of images from western Canada and the Arctic demonstrating its range of subject and detail.

Introduces a pilot project aimed to foster cultural intelligence and awareness in students. Paper from Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education.

Overview of how one community energy planning template was designed by the Sustainable Energy Solutions (SES) team.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 1999.

Comments on the importance of incorporating the local landscape into science courses and focusing on real-world topics to engage students.

Studies the existing process and suggests a more appropriate system for Aboriginal participation in environmental and resource management that takes into account the traditional world view.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.

Satellite delivered TV programming for education aimed at children in remote areas of Alaska, Appalachia and Rocky Mountains states; focus of programs was basic oral language development and health.

Considers the issue of repatriation of human remains as an ethical/cultural conflict within the field of archaeology; discusses means of resolving this conflict based in negotiation and mutual respect; concludes that archaeology must “change the way it does business,” and presents a course for this change.

Introduces a number of sources of data on the internet that offer health data relevant to Native Hawaiians and other minority populations in the State of Hawai'i.

Research indicated that achievement is enhanced when examples of materials and topics relevant to Native American culture are presented.

Summary of an ecological approach, that incorporates environmental, cultural & historical data with biological data, to help understand the causes of acute ear infections.

Reports on the activities and eHealth Action Plan of the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2002.

Study used community approach based on Inuit preferences for sources of health knowledge and distribution methods.

Book review of: Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 93.