The Energy Efficiency and Cultural Significance of Traditional Housing: Comparing the Navajo Nation and Pueblo of Acoma in an Effort to Reform Federal Indian Programs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kayla DeVault
Indigenous Policy Journal , vol. 29, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 22-33
Description
Publication of paper presented at Western Social Science Association 2018 Meeting, American Indian Studies Section; compares energy efficiency of the home-building materials and techniques of the Navajo Nation with those of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Public and Indian Housing. Argues for federal policies and programs that incorporate local Indigenous knowledge.
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Engaging Aboriginal Cultures: An Emergency Responder's Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
British Columbia. Ministry of Environment
Description
Resource offers information on cultural understanding, how culture might conflict with environmental emergencies, relationship building, emergency planning and emergency response phase.
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Engaging in Respectful Relations

Alternate Title
Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education: Unit 6 Introduction
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jan Hare
Description
Comments on how Indigenous ways of knowing are transforming educational spaces. Unit 6 of 6. Duration: 12:59
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Engaging Native Americans In Genomics Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ripan S. Malhi
Alyssa C. Bader
American Anthropologist, vol. 117, no. 4, December 2015, pp. 743-744
Description
Suggest methods for improving involvement such as encouraging researchers to follow up their results with the Native American communities studied.
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Engaging Northern Indigenous Communities in Biophysical Research: Pitfalls and Successful Approaches

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Eerkes-Medrano
Henry P. Huntington
Arturo Ortiz Castro
David E. Atkinson
Arctic, vol. 72, no. 2, June 19, 2019 , pp. 166-180
Description
Authors examine the existing guidelines for building research relationships in Arctic communities; they note the current guidelines are action centered and suggest that researchers also need a series of skills, attitudes and personal attributes if they are to be successful in building community relationships.
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Engaging Tensions: Methodological Reflections From Australia on Community-Based Participatory Housing Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charmine Green
Sarah Prout
Fiona Nichols
Kevin Merritt Gordon Gray
Jennifer Kniveton
Wayne McDonald
Ashley Taylor
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2013, pp. 17-28
Description
Examines multiple tensions and expectation issues regarding genuine partnership, funding, data collection and translation mediums and activities.
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"The English Has Now a Mind to Make Slaves of Them All": Creeks, Seminoles, and the Problem of Slavery

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claudio Saunt
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 157-180
Description
Article examines the difference between the type of slavery practiced by Indigenous people and that practiced by the early European settlers and considers the moral and ethical issues the practice of slavery created for Indigenous peoples.
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English-Inuit Hostilities at Cape Charles (Labrador) in 1767

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hans J. Rollmann
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, Les Inuit au Labrador méridional / Inuit in Southern Labrador, 2015, pp. 189-199
Description
Contends that the hostilities that resulted in the death of three English and 20 Inuit may have been an act of self-defence by the Inuit.
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Enhancing Student Achievement: The Importance of Second Level Educational Services in First Nation Schools in One Tribal Council in Saskatchewan

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larry Steeves
Sheila Carr-Stewart
Jim Marshall
in education: exploring our connective educational landscape, vol. 17, no. 2, Summer, 2011, p. [?]
Description
Researches how First Nations cultural access, practice & preservation are essential to the development and enhancement of second level support services to help Aboriginal students succeed.
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Ensuring Equitable Distribution of Land in Ghana: Spirituality or Policy? A Case Study From the Forest-Savanna Agroecological Zone of Ghana

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye
Paul Sarfo-Mensah
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, Traditional Knowledge, Spirituality and Lands, 2011, pp. 1-18
Description
Study explores dual system used in land tenure distribution and management that faces policy making.
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Ensuring the Rights of Indigenous Children

Alternate Title
Innocenti Digest ; no. 11
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
Description
Briefly looks at areas where rights are being compromised, what can be done to ensure those rights, and national and international action for Indigenous children. References the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Entitlement of Women in Latin America

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helia M. Corral
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 7, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 51-68
Description
Discussion on the misconception regarding Latin American women; some of the basic differences between Latin American and American realities; and the problems of entitlement in Latin America. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Environmental Racism on Indigenous Lands and Territories

Alternate Title
[Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 82nd, 2010]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Beverley Jacobs
Description
Discusses the disproportionate exposure of environmental hazards and extension of racism as it applies to the environment and the lands of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
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Environmental Scan of Métis Health Information, Initiatives and Programs

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Lamouche
Description
Examines the historical, political, and social issues that affect the health outcomes of Métis; looks at Métis organizations directly involved in the areas of health policy, programs, or services; and discusses federal and provincial initiatives that deal with the health issues of Métis.
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Envisioning Reconciliation and a New Way Forward

Alternate Title
Nation2Nation Speaker Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Robert Joseph
Description
Relates personal stories of residential school experiences, the moment of reconciliation and envisions a renewed Canada. Duration: 47:09.
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“Enwau Prydeinig gwyn?” Problematizing the Idea of “White British” Names and Naming Practices from a Welsh Perspective

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sara Louise Wheeler
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 251-259
Description
Compares the names and naming processes of different “White” Indigenous peoples in “Britain,” and challenges the assumptions of a cultural homogeneity, among the original peoples of Britain.
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Eora and English at Port Jackson: A Spanish View

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert J. King
Aboriginal History, vol. 10, no. 1, 1986, pp. 47-58
Description
Presents comments from two Spanish officers on the state of relations between the Aboriginal people and the English settlers including excerpts from their reports and documents.
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The Epidemiology of Colonialism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Konrad Jamrozik
Lancet, vol. 368, no. 9529, February 11, 2006, pp. 4-6
Description
Comments on modifiable factors and best points for intervention that might hold the keys to closing gaps in health status and mortality statistics.
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Epilogue: A New and Different Archaeology?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larry J. Zimmerman
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 297-307
Description
Article speaks to many of the pieces included in Issue 20:2 of American Indian Quarterly, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, and describes some of the process and changes happening in Indigenous and Archaeological communities.
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Epistemological Distinctiveness and the Use of "Guided History" Methodology for Writing Native Histories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yale D. Belanger
Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, Fall, 2001, pp. 15-34
Description
Argues that different historical perspectives between Native and non-Native cultures impact on writings about Native populations and suggests methodology of community input into writing local histories.
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