Rural & Remote

Discusses the process and outcomes of a community-based participatory research project aimed at improving on and off reserve shelter services in rural southwestern Alberta.

[Education] Thesis (Ed.D.)--Harvard University, 1997.

Looks at the organization of Indian society, the connection between rural and urban people and the opinion of young people in western Oklahoma.

Investigates the challenges that remote communities face regarding changing environmental and economic factors.

Describes the administrative structure and healthcare practices at Bathurst Island, located 60 kilometres from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Brief introductory article to themed issue on health care in the Torres Strait Islands.

Chronicles how the Alaska Tobacco Control program targets high-priority groups by creating population segments based on a combination of factors.

Engineering Thesis (MASc)--University of Guelph, 2014.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1992.

Focuses on the community of Badu located on Thursday Island and role government played in regulating the pearling industry.

Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey.

Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey.

Statistics. Source: 2011 National Household Survey.

Geography and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2000.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1986.

Overview of development and planning of tourism in Greenland and three cases of communities developing tourism as an additional way of making money. Chapter from Arctic Yearbook 2014 edited by Lassi Heininen, Heather Exner-Pirot, and Joël Plouffe.

Author interviewed residents of Ukkusissat, Itilleq, Qaanaaq, and Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland about the impact of cruise ship tourism.

Summarizes discussions from series of roundtables held in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Ontario. Topics covered: nature of the problem, current strategies and programs, key lessons, and future directions.

Looks at connections between Aboriginal self-determination, sustainable development, and use of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).

Contends that while "good practices" maybe generalized, each case situation is dependant on the community context and strategic approach to development.

City Planning Thesis (M.C.P.)--University of Manitoba, 2004.

First Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Northern British Columbia, 2012.

Looks at a program, implemented into a school curriculum, designed to prevent mental health issues later in life.

Comments that rural native people are a factor in the transformation not only of the environment, but of themselves.

Uses data from the Nunanvut Child Health Survey to assess household and nutritional characteristics, as well as reliance on traditional foods.

Biology and Wildlife Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2016.

Literature review.

Discusses how traditional knowledge has been applied to resource development and how it may or may not be benefiting northern communities.

Interviews conducted with 25 university students indicated that those who had a greater levels of traditional practice and subsistence activities tended to be less prone to suicide.

Author use oral histories, traditional knowledge and place names as well as tools such as GPS to map the well-established trade routes connecting two Inuit settlements and important places across into contemporary geographical systems. Highlights the need to consider Inuit culture in terms of moving as a way of living.

Looks at the effects of urbanization due to tourism and the loss of local knowledge and traditions in the Chongdu Valley.

Discusses approaches taken by the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan to create and implement a program aimed at building a local Indigenous health professional workforce.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1996.

Discusses factors effecting hunters' ability to travel on the ice and harvest seal and walrus.

Book review of: Tribal Communities in Rural Areas by Elspeth Young. Review located by scrolling to page 172.

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.