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2019-11-29

Young, T. Kue, Chatwood, Susan, Ng, Carmina, Young, Robin, W., Marchildon, Gregory, P.

indigenous people constitute the overwhelming majority of the population, ranging from 70% to 90%, and where they also fare worst in terms of adverse social determinants. All northern regions perform worse than Canada nationally in hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions and potentially

between health system inputs, outputs and outcomes, are largely unexplored. Improvement of health system performance for northern and remote regions will require the engagement of indigenous leadership, communities and patient representatives." (as cited in abstract)

2013

Chan,W. W., Ng, C., Young, T. K.

"Introduction: We examined the concordance between the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 'identity' and 'ancestry' questions used to estimate the size of the Aboriginal population in Canada and whether the different definitions affect the prevalence of selected chronic diseases. Methods:...

2012

Hokowhitu, Brendan

I didn’t really understand why at the time of watching Boy I had feelings of dissociation with Taika Waititi, but I have come to comprehend this reaction more fully as I have read the articles of this special issue and thought about it less intuitively. “Alamein’s Encore”, the ...

2014-01-01

Couture, Selena

response to a Canadian federal government bill that eroded indigenous sovereignty and environmental protections. INM continued to grow –often using social media for expression and coordination – with hundreds of rallies, teach-ins and protests resisting neo-colonialism (Idle No More n.d.).

2022-01-01

Jiwa, Nawazali A.

), the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system, and indigenous Islamic classification schemes. The study demonstrates how the use of the term sect is discriminatory and disparaging towards library users who identify as Shīʿī Muslims. It also offers non-pejorative alternatives that can be used in its

2020-01-01

Korris Lee, Ania Ulrich

take on an anaerobic context, which complicates the energetics of contamination sites and is a subject that is scarcely broached in studies of Albertan sediments. This study examines the innate potential for indigenous microbial communities in Albertan sediments to remove C6H6 in a multitude of reduced

2011

Mackey, Margaret

as represented in a variety of materials accessible to her in the 1950s—across the discourses of television cowboy shows, school and recreational texts featuring settlers and indigenous people, and a British children’s novel about claiming the land. The article suggests that this kind of

2019-07-01

Rosés Labrada, Jorge Emilio

The Jodï are a small indigenous group of approximately 1,000 people living in relative isolation in the Venezuelan Sierra de Maigualida. Their language has generally been treated as an isolate or left unclassified in the language classification literature. However, different researchers have

2009

Lam, Y., Dorian, N.C.

four decades. I will show that this shift resulted from the combination of long-standing negative attitudes towards indigenous cultures with new social and economic conditions, namely the establishment of Spanishlanguage schooling and a shift to a cash-based economy. The proximate cause of the

1994

Asch, Michael, Bell, Catherine

Professors Asch and Bell argue that Aboriginal title litigation presents a unique set of evidentiary problems both for Aboriginal plaintiffs and the courts. The elements of proof of title are themselves imbued with an ethnocentrism which serves to ignore Aboriginal systems of land ownership and...