Discusses the evolution and contemporary role of institutional review boards (IRBs) in research oversight, noting that their primary function is "to ensure protection within and benefit from research participation for both AI/AN individuals and communities."

Author describes her experiences of winter in the Yukon.

Episode 66: Eden Robinson discusses Trickster Drift, the second novel in her Trickster Trilogy, and her process for writing it. Duration: 26:38.

Examines how the Turtle Lodge International Centre for Indigenous Education and Wellness in Sagkeeng First Nation, Manitoba teaches a flexible, community-based process of responsibility-based self-determination discourse; stresses respectful and reciprocal relationships, community well-being, earth guardianship, and cultural resurgence.

Comments on a group of Indigenous teenagers who use square dancing to help heal from the trauma of a suicide epidemic and bullying in their remote community. Duration: 16:31.

Study seeks to understand how diabetes is understood and treated in Indigenous settings in rural Yucatán.

Describes the work of the J.A. Hildes Northern Medical Unit in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories and discusses the University's program designed to recruit and retain Aboriginal health practitioners.

History of the remote Russian settlement, located on the Chukotka Peninsula, where the Bering Strait meets the Arctic Ocean.

Integrated Studies in Education Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2012.

Series follows the lives of members of an Inuit women's hockey team from Inukjuak, Nunavik over the period of a year. Episode 2: Mothers and Babies. Episode 3: Modern Times. Episode 4: I Am Young, I Am Proud. Episode 5: The Great Whale Cup.

Describes an early detection renal disease program in a remote community of South Australia. Aboriginal Australians are six times more likely to suffer from advanced kidney disease than non-Aboriginal Australians.

Social Welfare Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2001.

Looks at participant data from the Innovative Learning Institute on Circumpolar Health events initiated by the Northern Nursing Education Network. Reports findings in five areas: language as barrier and enabler; shared values and traditions; characteristics of nursing practices; new perspectives in nursing; and building sustainable partnerships.

Social Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New South Wales, 2016.

Social Work Thesis (MSW)--McGill University, 2017.

Reports that partnerships are formed due to the shared need among healthcare providers to reduce barriers to equitable access of quality health care for all northerners.

Concludes that providing home based palliative care in remote Aboriginal communities can be an effective way of addressing the medical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of patients.

Concerns by the midwives in the region include unhealthy behaviours in young women, the decline of traditional beliefs particularly during pregnancy, and nutritional deficiencies.

Comments on the urgent need to enhance the delivery of culturally appropriate practices in emergency health care for Aboriginal people.

Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2016.

Study conducted with three Ontario communities: Ginoogaming First Nation, Aroland First Nation, and Eabametoong First Nation. Summarizes associations of behavior with health and well-being, and outlines how behaviour is occurring and what variables are associated with it.

Law Thesis (MPhil) --Queensland University of Technology, 2018

Looks at selected socio-economic trends and examines the multiple dimensions of poverty including lack of financial resources, absence of skills, knowledge, and capabilities to lead a fulfilled life, and social exclusion.

Study found that of the members of the Nuxalk Nation reported worse functional health status and sense of wellbeing than the rest of the rural population.

Looks at risk factors and reports traditional knowledge and community based practices could break the cycle of abuse in Aboriginal communities.

Feminist and Gender Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Charles Darwin University, 2008.

Authors of this study examine the tensions, concerns, and cultural factors around dog management in a community in Nunavik, Quebec; following this community assessment they work to articulate an EcoHealth approach to this issue that will engage the myriad of factors surround the controversy. Text in French.

French language transcript, with English translation, of a speech given by a student from The Sacred Heart School of Montreal, about on-reserve boil water advisories, urban infrastructure, and access to medicine, nutrition and food security issues. Given at Art Oratoire, a public speaking competition in Quebec.

Looks at the access to safe drinking water in Indigenous communities and how Source Water Protection can provide a means to deal with this issue in the long term.

Examines issues and implications related to the transfer of political authority to the governments of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Issues include autonomy, integration, responsibility, accountability and capacity.

Results of gathering of representatives from several AIDS organizations, funders, federal and provincial governments, Tripartite First Nations Health Plan staff, and researchers which discusses and identifies strategies and challenges faced in ending the HIV epidemic.

Project involved interviewing participants from the communities of Igloolik and Qikiqtarjuaq. Common themes were: loneliness, romantic relationship problems, family problems, anger at family or romantic partners, hiding suicidal thoughts or distress, and youth copying each other.

Summary. Infographic.

Study shows unintentional injury hospitalization rates were higher in the less affluent and remote areas.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002

Explores some of the experiences, challenges and opportunities of teaching and living in a First Nations community.

Data from the 2011 Australian Census shows that a high proportion of caring activities are being undertaken in regional and remote areas of the country.

Anthropology and Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2007.

Estimate of pneumococcal vaccination coverage revealed that the rate ranged from 84% to 90%.

Looks at the differences in rural versus urban birth and infant outcomes for Indigenous peoples in Quebec.

Looks at housing need and homelessness, spending and counts of housing, and unit costs.

Describes the upheaval suffered by Greenlanders when they were relocated to accommodate the United States military. To access this article scroll down to page 45.

Evaluation of 252 remote presence sessions found that air transport was only required in 40% of the cases that previously would have resulted in all patients being flown in the past.