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Preparing Our Home by reclaiming resilience

Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Indigenous communities in Canada are faced with a disproportionate risk of disasters and climate change (CIER, 2008). Indigenous communities in Canada are also at the forefront of climate change adaptation and resilience solutions.
Lilia Yumagulova, Darlene Yellow Old Woman-Munro, Casey Gabriel, Mia Francis, Sandy Henry, Astokomii Smith, Julia Ostertag   +6 more
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Community, Culture, and Indigenization

Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines, 2022
Building on a creative synthesis of sociology and anthropology, community studies represented an early attempt in the indigenization of social science under non-Western settings. In this paper, I review the historical development of community studies in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
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Assessment of the environmental impact of three types of fertilizers on the cultivation of coffee at the Las Delicias indigenous reservation (Cauca) starting from the life cycle assessment

Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia, 2016
This paper aims to assess and to compare the environmental performance of three different types of fertilizers in the production of coffee using the methodology of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the Las Delicias indigenous reservation (located in the ...
Luz Dinora Vera-Acevedo, Johan Andrés Vélez-Henao, Natalia Marulanda-Grisales   +2 more
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Closing the gap between rhetoric and practice in strengths‐based approaches to Indigenous public health: a qualitative study

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2020
Objective: To understand strengths‐based practice as articulated by urban Indigenous community workers and to consider its application for public health approaches to Australian Indigenous health advancement.
Deborah A. Askew, Karla Brady, Bryan Mukandi, David Singh, Tanya Sinha, Mark Brough, Chelsea J. Bond   +6 more
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Indigenous Communities and Evidence Building

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2011
Indigenous populations in the U.S. and Pacific Islands are underrepresented in mental health and substance abuse research, are underserved, and have limited access to mainstream providers. Often, they receive care that is low quality and culturally inappropriate, resulting in compromised service outcomes. The First Nations Behavioral Health Association
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Violence and Indigenous communities [PDF]

, 2018
This chapter focuses on violence and Indigenous peoples in the Anglo settler colonial states of Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United States. Indigenous activists and scholars in the Anglo settler colonial states have long tackled the complex issues contributing to the high rates of violence occurring in some Indigenous communities ...
Chris Cunneen, Juan Tauri
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POS-828 WABISHKI BIZHIKO SKAANJ: A LEARNING PATHWAY TO FOSTER BETTER INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMPETENCE WITHIN CANADIAN KIDNEY RESEARCH

Kidney International Reports, 2021
C. Settee, H. Robinson-Settee, A. Desjarlais, C. Turner, M. King   +4 more
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Community engagement in Indigenous food systems contamination studies: A systematic scoping review.

PLoS ONE
IntroductionIndigenous food systems are vital for maintaining cultural practices, physical and mental well-being, and community health. However, these systems are increasingly threatened by environmental contamination, exacerbating health disparities ...
Federico Andrade-Rivas, Hallah Kassem, Kira Mok, Chenoa Cassidy-Matthews, Matthew Little, Mélanie Lemire, Annalee Yassi, Jerry Spiegel   +7 more
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The impact of sustainable indigenous tourism on indigenous rights and community well-being moderated by empowering communities in Lake Toba, Indonesia

Frontiers in Human Dynamics
This study examines the complex relationships between sustainable indigenous tourism, indigenous rights, and community well-being among the Batak indigenous community in Lake Toba, Indonesia, with community empowerment as a moderating variable.
Tonny Pangihutan Situmorang, Bengkel, Triyono, Alwi Dahlan Ritonga, Putri Evi Oviyanti Batubara   +4 more
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Transition from Remote Indigenous Community to Boarding School: The Lockhart River Experience

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2015
The transition to boarding school for students from the remote Indigenous community of Lockhart River on Cape York is a fact of life when they complete Year 7.
Richard Stewart, Brian Lewthwaite
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