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Implementation of a Community Greenhouse in a Remote, Sub-Arctic First Nations Community in Ontario, Canada: A Descriptive Case Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
K. Skinner
R.M. Hanning
J. Metatawabin
L.J. Tsuji
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 14, no. 2, June 2014, p. article 2545
Description
Discusses context and process from the perspective of Fort Albany First Nation community participants. Information was gathered through interviews, direct observation, and written and photo-documentation.
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Implementing a Reward and Reminder Underage Drinking Prevention Program in Convenience Stores Near South California American Indian Reservations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roland S. Moore
Jennifer Roberts
Richard McGaffigan
Daniel Calac
Joel W. Grube ... [et al.]
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, vol. 38, no. 5, September 2012, pp. 456-460
Description
Study shows that a culturally adapted, community level prevention program does have a positive effect on reducing alcohol sales to minors. Recommends further analysis.
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Implementing the eGFR Study in a Remote Site: A Case Study

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jaqui Hughes
Maria Nickels
Suresh Sharma
Kerin O'Dea
Louise Tucker
Louise Maple-Brown
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, March/April 2010, pp. 6-8
Description
Concludes a successful partnership between the research team and the community hospital, aids the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians by providing accurate reports of kidney function.
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Importance of Traditional Foods For the Food Security of Two First Nations Communities in the Yukon, Canada

Alternate Title
Importance of Traditional Foods in Food Security
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roseanne C. Schuster
Eleanor E. Wein
Cindy Dickson
Hing Man Chan
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 70, no. 3, 2011, pp. 286-300
Description
Concluded that while overall frequency of consumption had not changed, certain groups of foods had been affected due to changes in availably.
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Improving Aboriginal Health Data Capture: Evidence From a Health Registry Evaluation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
S. L. Harper
V. L. Edge
C. J. Schuster-Wallace
M. Ar-Rushdi
S. A. McEwen
Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 139, no. 11, November 2011, pp. 1774-1783
Description
Study shows that systematic and standardized evaluation of health registry systems can address challenges in obtaining quality health date in remote Aboriginal communities.
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Improving Access to Specialists in Remote Communities: A Cross-sectional Study and Cost Analysis of the Use of eConsult in Nunavut

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clare Liddy
Fanny McKellips
Catherine Deri Armstrong
Amir Afkham
Leigh Fraser-Roberts ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1323493
Description
Discusses the benefits of Chaplain BASE (Building Access to Specialists through eConsultation) service. eConsult provides advice instantly from specialists which otherwise patients would have to wait for.
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Improving Business Investment Confidence in Culture-Aligned Indigenous Economies in Remote Australian Communities: A Business Support Framework to Better Inform Government Programs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann E. Fleming
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, June 2015, pp. 1-36
Description
Presents a pragmatic approach to Indigenous business support that works within existing systems of government, business and culture.
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Improving on Nature: The Legend Lake Development, Menominee Resistance, and the Ecological Dynamics of Settler Colonialism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Dockry
Kyle Whyte
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, Spring, 2021, pp. [95]-120
Description
A discussion of the attempted sale of lands from the terminated Menominee reservation to the large- scale recreational vacation property development and resistance by the Determination of Rights and Unity for Menominee Stockholders or DRUMS to stop the sale and restore tribal status. The U.S. government's withdrawal of tribal status and federal support had created economic issues for the group and the sale of land was looked upon as a means to rectify that issue.
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Improving the Oral Health of Alaska Natives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eugene Sekiguchi
Albert H. Guay
L. Jackson Brown
Thomas J. Spangler
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 769-773
Description
Comments on a strategy that combines addressing both current disease and prevention of the disease.
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Improving the State of Health Hardware in Australian Indigenous Housing: Building More Houses is Not the Only Answer

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Pholeros
Tess Lea
Stephan Rainow
Tim Sowerbutts
Paul J. Torzillo
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, Supplement 1, 2013, p. article no. 21181
Description
Results indicated that greater allocation of funding is not always going to produce the desired outcome of improved health benefits.
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In Conversation With Dr. Esther Tailfeathers

Alternate Title
1 in 3: Cancer View Digest
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Esther Tailfeathers
Description
Looks at healthcare, including cancer screening, western medicine, traditional medicine, and palliative care in a remote community. Duration: 11:24.
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In-Hospital Mortality, Length of Stay, and Discharge Disposition in a Cohort of Rural and Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John M. Clements
Stephanie J. Rhynard
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 3, 2018, pp. 78-91
Description
Study uses data from the 2012 National Inpatient Sample to identify disparities between the two groups in terms of alcohol abuse, depression, diabetes, and post-traumatic stress related health concerns.
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[Income Earnings Tables by Nunavut, Region and Community, 2011 NHS (4 tables)]

Alternate Title
Median and Average Earnings of Population 15 Years and Over With Employment Income by Sex, Nunavut, Region and Community, 2011 NHS
Median and Average Income of Economic Families by Economic Family Structure by Nunavut, Region and Community, 2011 NHS
Median Total Household Income of Private Households by Household Size for Nunavut, Regions and Communities, 2005, NHS
Total Income and Median Total Income for the Population 15 Years and Over by Nunavut, Region and Community, 2001 NHS
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Nunavut Bureau of Statistics
Description
2 statistical tables. Source: 2011 National Household Survey.
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Increasing Incidence and Prevalence of Diabetes among the Status Aboriginal Population in Urban and Rural Alberta, 1995-2006

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeffrey A. Johnson
Stephanie U. Vermeulen
Ellen L. Toth
Brenda R. Hemmelgarn
Kelli Ralph-Campbell
et al.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 100, no. 3, May/June 2009, pp. 231-236
Description
Presents a study that compares trends in diabetes prevalence and incidence among Aboriginal men and women living in urban and rural areas of Alberta.
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Increasing Nunavut Housing Ventilation Rates with HRVs

Alternate Title
Research Highlight (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation)
Research Highlight. Technical Series ; 10-102
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Description
Project looked for correlations between poor indoor air quality and frequency of respiratory infections in children. This phase looked at whether installation of heat recovery ventilators, by providing more fresh air, would result in better health.
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"The Index to a Man's Principles": Dawson and the Canadian Yukon Patriotic Fund, 1914-1920

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Kikkert
P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Northern Review, vol. 44, The North and the First World War, April 2017, pp. 51-78
Description
" ... this article complicates the glowing contemporary and historical assessments of the Yukon's war effort by revealing the social divisions, frustrations, and disillusionment that also mark the community's complex First World Ward experience".
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Indian Record (Vol. XXIV, No. VI, June 1961)

Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
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Indian Record (Vol. XXX, No. 5, May 1967)

Documents & Presentations
Description
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record . Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
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Indigenous Australians and the COVID-19 Crisis: Perspectives on Public Policy

Alternate Title
CAEPR Topical Issue ; 1/2020
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Yonatan Dinku
Francis Markham
Diane Smith
Chay Brown
Julie Lahn … [et al.]]
Description
Compilation of eight short papers that focus on employment impacts, social security reforms, Indigenous governance, violence against women, the Indigenous health workforce, school closures, energy security, and a proposal for an Indigenous reconstruction agency.
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Indigenous Broadband Policy Advocacy in Canada's Far North

Alternate Title
The Role of Advocacy in Media and Technology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rob McMahon
Heather Hudson
Lyle Fabian
Description

Discusses the history of Indigenous engagement with media and telecommunication policy and looks at how a consortium composed of academic researchers and First Nations technology organizations used hearings held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to bring three issues to the forefront: open access to transport networks; subsidy support for First Nations community networks; and the need for consultation with Indigenous communities about infrastructure development and service upgrades taking place in their territories.

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Indigenous Content in the Health Promotion Curricula

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tony Lower
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, May/June 2001, pp. 33-35
Description
Assesses the percentage of Indigenous content to be 1.9% in Australia where health in rural/remote areas lags consistently behind the country as a whole.
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The Indigenous Experience of Work in a Health Research Organisation: Are There Wider Inferences?

Alternate Title
The Indigenous Experience of Work in a Health Research Organization: Are There Wider Inferences?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sharon K. Chirgwin
Adrienne Farago
Heather d'Antione
Trish Nagle
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 3, July 2017, pp. 1-32
Description
Interviews current and past staff to identify positive and negative things that impacted their work life.
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Indigenous Governance at the Crossroads: The Way Forward

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Cleary
Issue Analysis, no. 78, November 29, 2006, pp. [1]-[16]
Description
Discusses the dysfunction of 1,200 remote communities where 120,00 Australians are living in poor conditions due to second-rate governance.
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Indigenous Housing Employment Benchmarking Study

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Burr
Steve Pomeroy
Description
Reports results from a survey of 135 housing providers to check status of Indigenous employment, obtain information on training experiences, and gauge how organizations were coping as housing agreements expired. Includes 11 case studies: Lloydminster Métis Housing Group; Tawaak Housing Association; Native People of Sudbury Development Corporation; Native Inter-Tribal Housing Co-operative; Kinew Housing Incorporated; Namerind Housing Corporation; Centre d’Amité Autochtone de Val d’Or; Metis Urban Housing Corporation; Cariboo Friendship Society; Grey Mountain Housing Society; and Skigen-Elnoog H
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Indigenous Housing Need

Alternate Title
2011 Census Paper Series
CAEPR Indigenous Population Project 2011 Census Papers ; no. 3
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nicholas Biddle
Description
Using data from the 2006 and 2011 Australian censuses, analysis found that although need was greatest in remote areas, there were still large disparities with the non-Indigenous populations in urban areas.
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