A Nation Within a Nation: Dependency and the Cree

Assistive Technology Provision Within the Navajo Nation

In this study we explored the factors that affect assistive technology (AT) provision within the Navajo Nation using a qualitative approach to inquiry. Focus groups were held in which AT users discussed their awareness of AT and their need for, use of, and satisfaction with AT devices and services. Twenty-eight individuals who used wheelchairs, orthotics or prosthetics, hearing aids, communicat...

A nation divided.

A Nation by Design

Not yet a GM nation

" We won't swallow it " (Daily Mirror) and " GM comes a cropper as Britain says a huge No " (Daily Express) were typical headlines greeting the results of the UK's public consultation on GM food. The government-funded " GM Nation? " survey showed that only 2% of people would eat it. 95% were worried that growing GM plants would contaminate non-GM ones, 93% felt not enough was known about long-t...

A New Spirit : The Hawaiian Nation

Hawai'i today is a microcosm of the many problems suffered by the United States generally. Society is plagued with inequality and injustice, an over-emphasis on economic priorities, an imbalance between humans and nature, an increasingly unrepresentative democracy, a lack of future consciousness, and an unstable economy. The values which predominate in Hawai'i are borrowed from those of the gre...