Rural & Remote

Looks at the interaction between social capital and entrepreneurship in Aboriginal communities in Canada.

Book review of: A Study of Drinking in a Remote Aboriginal Community by Maggie Brady and Kingsley Palmer.

Book reviews of 5 books: Service Delivery to Remote Communities edited by P. Loveday. Service Delivery to Outstations edited by P. Loveday. Aboriginal Arts and Crafts and the Market edited by P. Loveday and P. Cooke. The NAC Election in the Northern Territory 1981 by P. Loveday and D. Jaensch. Yugul: An Arnhem Land Cattle Station by Steven Thiele. Review located by scrolling to page 196.

Looks at the Alutiiq and commercial entrepreneurship in Old Harbor, Alaska.

Comments on Aboriginal women affected by Bill C-31.

Epidemiology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2011.

Paper reflects on some of the issues raised in the study of expanding the service to remote areas of Queensland, Australia. Key recommendations were to implement a mobile, culturally relevant program in order to improve participation rates.

Interview and focus group participants in study were primarily grandmothers and mostly great grandmothers who were asked questions about traditional and contemporary practices, and reasons for the increase in dental problems.

Nursing Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 2005.

Examines information disparities due to remote locations and lack of infrastructure, assesses policies which effect electronic access to information, and discusses the development of First Nations-controlled networks.

Discusses the limited access to physical therapy for rural communities and suggestions for improvements based around cultural sensitivity.

Looks at the use of on-line courses and webinars to exchange knowledge and information on approaches to health care.

Discusses health disparities between Indigenous and other Australians in both care and innovative technology and how these disparities are being addressed.

Focuses on literature relating to driving forces and motivations of governments, education and scholarship providers, and students and families for this education option when students reside in remote locations.

Chronicles the 30 year history of the tourism development plan for the community and analyzes the challenges and lessons learned. [One or more images have been omitted from this article due to copyright restrictions. These images are accessible in the print version of this journal.]

Summarizes the Centre for the North’s half-decade of research on Canada’s North and provides an analysis of three priority items to be addressed.

Explores way to enhance capacity and well-being in Tłįcho community by identifying strengths and vulnerabilities and pinpointing strategies to increase capacity and manage change and opportunities.

Comments on strategies that may be the most effective tools to help decrease suicide and suicide attempt including community wellness and cultural competence strategies.

Focuses on partnership developed between the First Nations Education Council's Technology Department and 30 Quebec First Nations for the provision of network services.

Focuses on strategies which balance physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health. Includes three case studies: Winnipeg Aboriginal Sports Achievement Centre North, Makimautiksat Youth Wellness and Empowerment Camp, and Government of the Northwest Territories’ Take a Kid Trapping program.

Case study explores the historical and contemporary factors that contribute to the challenges surrounding police-First Nations relations.

Interdisciplinary Health Thesis (M.Sc.)--Laurentian University, 2014.

Article describes traditional treatment methods for various ailments.

Recommondations for policy changes to reduce infrastructure gaps and redtape.

Looks at issues in the context of remote locations as expressed by the women living there. Concludes with recommendations in the areas of health and social services, education, politics and leadership, justice and culture.

Author uses the frameworks created in Vizenor’s two 2006 poetry collections to discuss Anishinaabe concepts of belonging and citizenship separate from colonial discourses and dichotomies.

Briefly discusses Aboriginal health team serving the remote communities of South Australia.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2010.

Social Science Thesis (MSSc)--University of Queensland, 2011.

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Looks at how Indigenous-led initiatives have dealt with the lack of private sector investment in provision of information and communication technologies in the region due to its sparse population and remote locations. Chapter from Shifting Terrain: Nonprofit Policy Advocacy in Canada edited by Nick J. Muléandd Gloria C. DeSantis.

Studies the retail subsidy program to evaluate success of goal to provide access to nutritious food for northern people.

Looks at government policies effecting the child welfare system from the residential school era to present day.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.

Community and Regional Planning Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1995.

Discusses development of replicable design which would enable northern communities to have access to locally produced food on a year-round basis.

Book review of The Canadian Rangers by P. Whitney Lackenbauer.

Presents the results from a Canadian Water Sustainability project to assess various elements of water well-being in Canadian communities.

Data compiled using area of residence in the Tumour File and the mortality file.

Compares provincial and national averages of cancer death rates in the Yukon.

Epidemiology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1998.