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Genome-Wide SNP Analysis Reveals No Gain In Power For Association Studies Of Common Variants In The Finnish Saami

Alternate Title
Genome-Wide SNP Analysis Reveals No Gain In Power For Association Studies Of Common Variants In The Finnish Sami
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeroen R. Huyghe
Erik Fransen
Samuli Hannula
Lut Van Laer
Els Van Eyken ... [et al.]
European Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 18, no. 5, May 2010, pp. 569-574
Description
Study results indicate that the Sami would benefit from the HapMap of the human genome to describe the common patterns of the human genetic variation.
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Getting in Touch: Language and Digital Inclusion in Australian Indigenous Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Carew
Jennifer Green
Inge Kral
Rachel Nordlinger
Ruth Singer
Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. 9, 2015, pp. 307-323
Description
Discusses the detriment to Indigenous languages arising from predominance of English in the digital environment and describes the Getting in Touch project aimed at exploring how app design could meet community goals of language and cultural practices maintenance.
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Getting It Right: Assessing and Building Resilience in Canada's North

Alternate Title
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; May 2012
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 12-294]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stefan Fournier
Description
Provides four recommendations: recognize the inherent resilience of these communities, encourage sustainable investment, understand the sources of risk, and ensure that assessment processes follow key principles.
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Giving Voice to Food Insecurity in a Remote Indigenous Community in Subarctic Ontario, Canada: Traditional Ways, Ways to Cope, Ways Forward

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Skinner
Rhona M. Hanning
Ellen Desjardins
Leonard J. S. Tsuji
BMC Public Health, vol. 13, 2013, p. article no. 427
Description
Looks at ways that Aboriginal people are coping with food insecurity and notes that public health policies to improve food security are urgently needed.
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God's Lake Narrows

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Kevin Lee Burton
Alicia Smith
Christine Fellows
Scott Benesiinaabandan
Description
Slide show accompanied by text describing the northeastern Manitoba reserve. Awarded a Webby Award by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science for best use of photography.
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Good Health - Good Country: The Sixth National Rural Health Conference

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rose Ellis
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, May/June 2001, pp. 26-31
Description
Speakers which include various politicians and healthcare professionals commented on the challenges of delivering health services in rural and remote areas of Australia.
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'Gotta Be Sit Down and Worked Out Together': Views of Aboriginal Caregivers and Service Providers on Ways to Improve Dementia Care For Aboriginal Australians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
K. Smith
L. Flicker
G. Shadforth
E. Carroll
N. Ralph
D. Atkinson
M. Lindeman
F. Schaper
N. T. Lautenschlager
D. LoGiudice
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 11, no. 1650, June 14, 2011, pp. 1-14
Description
Discusses caregiver role, perspectives of dementia, community and culturally-appropriate care, workforce, education and training, and issues affecting remote and urban communities.
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Governance and Entrepreneurship in Northern and Indigenous Areas

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Humans in the Arctic: How to Create a Climate for Change
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
Description
Discusses economic realities, challenges and opportunities in the Arctic and argues that there is strong support from both the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community for energy production and exploitation as an opportunity for an improved quality of life. Duration: 27:29.
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Governing Indigenous Recreation at a Distance: A Critical Analysis of an After School Active Health Intervention

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Moss E. Norman
LeAnne Petherick
Eric Garcia
Gordon Giesbrecht
Todd Dumel
Sport, Education and Society, vol. 23, no. 2, 2018, pp. 135-138
Description
Contends that broad-based health interventions should not be universally implemented across diverse locales but rather need to account for the diverse, place-specific priorities and needs of the communities they are serving.
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Greenland's Way Forward

Alternate Title
Arctic Frontiers Conference ; 8th, 2014
Arctic Frontiers Conference. Session III: Health, Environment, and Society
Humans in the Arctic
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aleqa Hammond
Description
Keynote speech by the Prime Minister of Greenland.
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Group Hunting on Spring Ice: Part 1

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Group Hunting on Spring Ice: Part One
Netsilik Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Quentin Brown
Description
Film explores the kinship that exists during a spring seal hunt in this remote Inuit community. Duration: 34:15.
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Group Hunting on Spring Ice: Part 2

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Group Hunting on Spring Ice: Part Two
Netsilik Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Quentin Brown
Description
Film follows Nelsilik men hunting on the sea ice and women preparing a mean and previously caught game. Duration: 27:56.
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Group Hunting on Spring Ice: Part 3

Alternate Title
Group Hunting on Spring Ice: Part Three
Netsilik Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Quentin Brown
Description
Chronicle of spring seal hunt on the sea ice and the return to camp where the women process the catch. Duration: 33:00.
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Growing Beyond Nutrition: How a Prison Garden Program Highlights the Potential of Shifting from Food Security to Food Sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelsey Timler
Colleen Varcoe
Helen Brown
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 14, no. 2, Growing Roots of Indigenous Wellbeing, October 31, 2019, pp. 95-114
Description
Author describes a prison garden program in BC which aims to provide both meaningful and rehabilitative work for men within the prison system, and fresh produce to rural and remote communities suffering from food insecurity.
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Guidance on Re-Opening Northern, Remote, Isolated and Indigenous Communities

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Task Group on Guidance on Lifting of Restrictive Public Health Measures for Northern
Remote
and Isolated Indigenous Communities
Description
Includes general advice on personal and public health measures, criteria and indicators for re-opening, managing spread in the workplace, and phased re-opening, as well as guidelines and tools for specific settings by province and territory.
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Hā Ora: Reflecting on a Kaupapa Māori Community-Engaged Co-design Approach to Lung Cancer Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacquie Kidd
Shemana Cassim
Anna Rolleston
Rawiri Keenan
Ross Lawrenson ... [et al.]
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 16, no. 2, Wisdom of the Elders: Honouring Spiritual Laws in Indigenous Knowledge, 2021, pp. 192-207
Description

Examines barriers to detecting early signs of Lung Cancer for Māori living in rural communities.

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[Hardly a Grand Design: Aboriginal Resettlement in the Yukon Territory after World War II]

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Ken Coates]
Description
Examines factors which led to transition from life on the land to living in communities established in locations determined by administrative convenience rather than traditional land use patterns. Argues development of interventionist approaches by the federal government and Dept. of Indian Affairs were primarily responsible for the change.
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Harm Reduction Toolkit

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Alaska Tribal Health Consortium HIV/STD Prevention Program?]
Description
Developed to address substance-related harms such HIV, Hepatitis C and overdose in rural Alaska communities. Includes information on drugs and stigmas associated with use, definition of harm reduction, best principles and practices, instructions on using the toolkit and advice on educating staff.
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Healing Historical Trauma: Relocation of Aboriginal Communities: Case Study

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Studies ; 20
Peoples and Cultural Change Teacher Resource
Relocation of Aboriginal Communities: Case Study: The Mushuaua Innu and Davis Inlet
Walking Together: First Nations, Métis and Inuit Perspectives in Curriculum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kanai Board of Education
Description
Teacher resource for Grade 11 Aboriginal Studies classes. Discusses the relocation of the Mushuaua Innu of Labrador which happened on three separate occasions: 1948, 1967 and 2002. Excerpt from Peoples and Cultural Change Teacher Resource by the Kanai Board of Education.
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Healing Through Photography: A Reflection on the Brightening Our Home Fires Project in the Remote Hamlet of Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annie Goose
Dorothy Badry
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 8, no. 1, Special Issue: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), 2013, pp. [161]-170
Description
Project related to prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) by giving a voice to unheard voices on areas of health.
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Health Care Access of Northern Residents: MB/SK Workshop

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alison Moss
Colleen Hamilton
Frances E. Racher
Bonnie Jeffery
Robert C. Annis
Description
Comments on the priorities of a health care workshop including fostering new working relationships and partnerships to generate ideas for improving health services in the north.
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