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Recommended Mitigation Measures for an Influenza Pandemic in Remote and Isolated First Nations Communities of Ontario, Canada: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nadia A. Charania
Leonard J. S. Tsuji
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 1-22
Description
Study resulted in a list of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical measures to mitigate the effects of an influenza pandemic in three remote communities.
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Reemergence, in Southwestern Alaska, of Invasive Haemophilus Influenzae Type b Disease Due to Strains Indistinguishable from those Isolated from Vaccinated Children

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynne A. Lucher
Michael Reeves
Thomas Hennessy
Orin S. Levine
Tanja Popovic
Nancy Rosenstein
Alan J. Parkinson
Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 186, no. 7, October 1, 2002, pp. 958-965
Description
Widespread vaccination, begun in 1991 failed to prevent return of this flu strain to rural Alaska in 1996-1997.
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A Rejoinder to Body Bags: Indigenous Resilience and Epidemic Disease, from COVID-19 to First “Contact”

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lindsay M. Montgomery
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 3, COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples: Tools to Promote Equity and Best Practices, 2020, pp. 65-86
Description
Uses oral and historical accounts to show how culturally grounded practices including dreaming, dancing, singing physical distancing were used in response to epidemics. Small pox, Spanish Flu, and COVID-19 time periods are discussed.
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The Responses of Aboriginal Canadians to Adjuvanted Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza Vaccine

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ethan Rubinstein
Gerald Predy
Laura Sauvé
Greg W. Hammond
Fred Aoki
et al.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 183, no. 13, September 20, 2011, pp. E1033-E1037
Description
Looks at a study, with 138 First Nations and Métis participants, used to conclude whether one dose of vaccine proved to be protective against influenza in a high risk group.
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Social Power and Cultural Change in Pre-Colonial British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cole Harris
BC Studies, no. 115/116, Native Peoples and Colonialism, Autumn/Winter, 1997/1998, pp. 45-82
Description
Examines the current scholarship of colonialism by looking at three aspects of Northwest coast history: geopolitical recording and transposition of information, the introduction and distribution of disease, and the profits of fur trade.
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Treating American Indians / Alaskan Native Elders

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melvina McCabe
Geriatric Times, vol. 2, no. 6, November/December 2001, p. [?]
Description
Brief discussion of diseases prevalent in the American Aboriginal population and on culturally appropriate communication methods when dealing with elderly patients.
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