Indian Summer of Language and Medicine
Points toward language and medicine websites.
How slow can it go?
Landmark landlease settlement fought for by Elouise Cobell stalls in Washington. Again.
In the midst of ‘truth’ and ‘reconciliation,’ Canada fails to bring child abusers to justice
Alois Brunner, Dr. Aribert Heim, Ivan Demjanjuk — names of but a few of the most wanted war criminals named by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based human rights advocacy group and well-known Nazi-hunting organization. According to the CBC, just this week, former Nazi death camp guard Samuel Kunz (3rd most wanted on the list) was […]
Why do most health and social services fail Aboriginal people?
An Australian research team will receive AUD$2.5 million (or apx CAD$2.3 million) over 5 years to explore the depressing question of why most health and social services continually fail to improve Aboriginal health. The research will take place under the auspices of the Perth Telethon Institute for Child Health Research project in Western Australia. It […]
New stats on Aboriginal youth sport and culture activity
Earlier this month, StatsCan released a study entitled “Participation in sports and cultural activities among Aboriginal children and youth.” Based on the 2006 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, the report drew on a total of 11,940 respondents, representing nearly 170,000 children. First, the overall picture: over 65% of Aboriginal children participated in sports at least once a […]
