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Indian/Non-Indian Life Expectancy: The Future of Health Care in Canada
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4014/is_200301/ai_n9344253.
In an article originally appearing in Inroads in 2003, John Richards discusses the Canadian government Health Department's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch and the programs it administers for First Nations and Inuit Canadians. During the "Red Power" period in the late 1960s, the Canadian government proposed and then tabled a plan to end the legal distinction between Indians and other Canadians.
Richards states that "communal features of culture are more important to Aboriginals than analogous cultural features are to non-Aboriginal Canadians." What does that statement mean to you?
Anthropological ideas, according to Richards, have served as a mixed blessing to First Nations and Inuit people in Canada, helping not only to define these indigenous people but also to point out the need for self-government and highlight their lack of power for self-determination in terms of treaty rights.
As traditional hunter-gatherers, how were indigenous people in Canada been affected by twentieth-century economic and social change?
Does this concur with the discussion of hunting and gathering populations in your text?
How has this rapid change impacted Indigenous people in Canada in terms of life expectancy? How did the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples change in the second half of the twentieth-century?
Around the Indus in 90 Slides
http://www.harappa.com/indus/indus0.html.
Go to "Around the Indus in 90 Slides" by Jonathan Kenoyer from the Harappa Web site, which is dedicated to the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro (around 2600 B.C.) in Pakistan. Click on "Experience the Slide Show." Follow the slides, paying particular attention to the sewage and sanitation features of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
This is one of the earliest urban cities in the world. How did the inhabitants handle sewage and public health?
Did these cities have effective tools to combat new, dangerous infectious diseases?
How would the sanitation facilities of these cities compare to those of modern industrialized cities?
How would you estimate the health of the inhabitants of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro? What evidence would you need to test your hypothesis about the health of an early urban community?
