scholarly journals Increasing the Adaptive Capacity of Indigenous People to Environmental Change: The Potential Use of an Innovative, Web-Based, Collaborative-Geomatics Informatics Tool to Reduce the Degree of Exposure of First Nations Cree to Hazardous Travel Routes

10.5772/64212 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine D. Barbeau ◽  
Donald Cowan ◽  
Leonard J.S. Tsuji
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Potential Use

Indische Culture, and its Relationship to Urban Life

1967 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Dublin Milone
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Tropical Environment ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Tropics

The Brazilian historian, Gilberto Freyre, has stated that only the Portuguese had the innate adaptive capacity which enabled them to stay in the tropics and, through intermarriage with indigenous people and imported slaves, create a new culture suitable to the challenges of an underdeveloped tropical environment. He emphasized that it was particularly Northern Europeans who were incapable of adjustment. They returned home after their tours of duty, and those few remaining invariably degenerated. Yet many Dutch and other Europeans stayed on in Batavia (present-day Djakarta), and through intermarriage with Indonesians helped create a new Indonesian-European culture. Admittedly this resulted initially through imitation of the Portuguese style of life, but it is nevertheless evident that the new Indische culture became in many ways as adaptive to local conditions as the mestizo culture of Brazil, and as much a channel for the introduction of new cultural elements.

Promoting Healthy Medication Use Through Indigenous Knowledge Sharing: A Coyote Story

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Gaspard ◽  
Carrie Gadsby ◽  
Cindy Preston
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Health Authority ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Claims Data ◽  
Medication Management ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Care Services

Polypharmacy is the administration of more medications than clinically required or appropriate, and it can negatively impact wellness. Prescribers, pharmacists, nurses, and those receiving care services all have an important role to play in promoting healthy medication use and minimizing the risk related to polypharmacy. Medication management involves health care professionals regularly reviewing drug therapies with patients for any needed changes. This strategy is a key way to reduce the harms of polypharmacy. A review of the First Nations Health Authority Health Benefits Claims data in 2015 confirmed that polypharmacy is an issue for First Nations in British Columbia, Canada. This was further validated in a series of meetings held in four First Nations communities. The learnings from these meetings were that many people do not know the names of their medications, the reasons for taking them, or how to advocate for themselves during health care interactions. A unique strategy was needed to both encourage and empower First Nations and Indigenous people to discuss managing their medications, and to support health care professionals to better understand how to engage First Nations patients about their medications.

scholarly journals Our Shared Future: Windows into Canada’s Reconciliation Journey — A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-182
Author(s):  
Peter D Shipley
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Residential Schools ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Road Map ◽  
To Come ◽  
New Recruits

The challenges and complexity of the reconciliation process are still not well understood by a large number of non-Indigenous people in Canada. As a nation, we are attempting to grasp the intricacy of how to unravel and atone for the damage that has been done in establishing and managing the more than 130 residential schools in Canada. This not only impacted more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children but destroyed generations of families that are still and will continue to be impacted for years to come. The official apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper on June 11, 2008, to all Indigenous people in Canada for the atrocities of the Indian Residential Schools was the start of a very long and painful continuous journey. The 94 calls to action released in 2015 by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission provide a road map to a complex recovery process for Indigenous people across the country. In January 2018, Health Canada held a national panel discussion with Indigenous leaders and experts on the question “Reconciliation—What Does it Mean?” One of the main themes of reconciliation revolves around education, and, in order to stay focused, we must continue to educate Canadians, including police leaders and new recruits, as we move through the meandering path of econciliation. The book Our Shared Future provides an outstanding in-depth look through the windows into a number of individual perspectives on the reconciliation journey.

Indigenous Studies in the United States and Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aubrey Jean Hanson ◽  
Sam McKegney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Indigenous Voices

Indigenous literary studies, as a field, is as diverse as Indigenous Peoples. Comprising study of texts by Indigenous authors, as well as literary study using Indigenous interpretive methods, Indigenous literary studies is centered on the significance of stories within Indigenous communities. Embodying continuity with traditional oral stories, expanding rapidly with growth in publishing, and traversing a wild range of generic innovation, Indigenous voices ring out powerfully across the literary landscape. Having always had a central place within Indigenous communities, where they are interwoven with the significance of people’s lives, Indigenous stories also gained more attention among non-Indigenous readers in the United States and Canada as the 20th century rolled into the 21st. As relationships between Indigenous Peoples (Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) and non-Indigenous people continue to be a social, political, and cultural focus in these two nation-states, and as Indigenous Peoples continue to work for self-determination amid colonial systems and structures, literary art plays an important role in representing Indigenous realities and inspiring continuity and change. An educational dimension also exists for Indigenous literatures, in that they offer opportunities for non-Indigenous readerships—and, indeed, for readers from within Indigenous nations—to learn about Indigenous people and perspectives. Texts are crucially tied to contexts; therefore, engaging with Indigenous literatures requires readers to pursue and step into that beauty and complexity. Indigenous literatures are also impressive in their artistry; in conveying the brilliance of Indigenous Peoples; in expressing Indigenous voices and stories; in connecting pasts, presents, and futures; and in imagining better ways to enact relationality with other people and with other-than-human relatives. Indigenous literatures span diverse nations across vast territories and materialize in every genre. While critics new to the field may find it an adjustment to step into the responsibility—for instance, to land, community, and Peoplehood—that these literatures call for, the returns are great, as engaging with Indigenous literatures opens up space for relationship, self-reflexivity, and appreciation for exceptional literary artistry. Indigenous literatures invite readers and critics to center in Indigeneity, to build good relations, to engage beyond the text, and to attend to Indigenous storyways—ways of knowing, being, and doing through story.

Adaptive Capacity and Social-Environmental Change: Theoretical and Operational Modeling of Smallholder Coffee Systems Response in Mesoamerican Pacific Rim

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hallie Eakin ◽  
Luis A. Bojórquez-Tapia ◽  
Rafael Monterde Diaz ◽  
Edwin Castellanos ◽  
Jeremy Haggar
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Social Environmental

scholarly journals Silent but deadly: a review of "Samson & Delilah"

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayane Tamer
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Nations People ◽  
Indigenous Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
First Nations People ◽  
Indigenous Society

Ironically, since European colonisation, there has been a deafening silence of Indigenous representation in all forms and at all societal levels. As Stanner asserts, Indigenous people have been written out of history (1967, p. 22), but the disappearance of our First Nations people is not limited to just the encyclopaedias. Australians have long been viewing media and cinema through a white lens, largely representing an Anglo society, and by its binary, neglecting the Indigenous society that – while subjugated to a near nothingness – remains poignant to this nation’s existence. Indigenous filmmaker Warwick Thornton challenges this white lens in Samson & Delilah (2009), in what has been hailed as Australia’s ‘most important film’ (Redwood 2009, p. 27). Thornton’s film encapsulates the post-colonial state of Indigenous society through a perspective that is rarely shown, but is necessary for the nation and, more generally, the world, to understand the ways in which the First Nations people are subordinated on their own land.

scholarly journals Validation of an Internet delivered and analysed test of cognitive function for use in web based psychology courses

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Wilson ◽  
Paul Maruff
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Cognitive Test ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Similar Data ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Psychology Courses ◽  
Psychology Course ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Potential Use

In this study we investigated the use of Internet technologies for administering and analysing a test of cognitive function in a web based psychology course. The aim was to determine whether the cognitive test actually measured the same functions when administered in three different settings: a supervised university based laboratory , an unsupervised university based laboratory, and a remote (or off campus) setting. Results showed that the different data collection processes generated similar data sets: the profile of responses over the four different tests of cognitive function were preserved across the different assessment settings, and improvements that occurred with practice were also consistent. Thus, the dataset can be used confidently to model key psychological principles, despite the added experimental noise created by having participants sit the tests in different settings, using different computers. The present findings highlight the potential use of web based technologies for delivering laboratory experiments in core psychology courses.

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