Archaeology and indigenous history of Native Amazonian peoples in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil reveal unexpectedly complex regional settlement patterns and large-scale transformations of local landscapes over the past millennium. Mapping and excavation of archaeological structures document pronounced human-induced alteration of the forest cover, particularly in relation to large, dense late...

The Life of St Columba offers an account of events in the life of the sixth century saint who founded an influential monastic community with strong connections to the peoples of Ireland and Scotland. The text’s relationship to the categories of ‘Celtic Christianity’ and ‘Celtic spirituality’ is critically examined. It is deemed justifiable to locate the Life within these categories because it m...

Indigenous communities and federal funding agencies in Canada have developed policy for ethical research with Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous scholars and communities have begun to expand the body of research regarding their peoples, and novel and innovative methods have begun to appear in the published literature. This review attempts to catalogue the wide array of Indigenous research methods i...

Shikai Liu,* Xiuli Wang,* Fanyue Sun, Jiaren Zhang, Jianbin Feng, Hong Liu, K. V. Rajendran, Luyang Sun, Yu Zhang, Yanliang Jiang, Eric Peatman, Ludmilla Kaltenboeck, Huseyin Kucuktas, and Zhanjiang Liu The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Auburn University,...

It is widely assumed that sign languages are secondary semiotic phenomena that only come into being when deafness prevents the normal acquisition of a spoken language. That this is not always the case is well illustrated by the sign languages used by contemporary indigenous Australian groups (Kendon 1989), and the sign language shared by indigenous peoples of the Plains region of North America ...

1 In this review, a lower case ‘i’ is used to spell indigenous when referring to indigenous peoples generally. An upper case ‘I’ is used when referring to both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the Indigenous peoples of Australia. There is little documented information regarding the ear health and hearing of Torres Strait Islander people, and much of the information reported here ha...

It is a sad fact that Canada’s Aboriginal people, whether living in rural communities or in urban centers, have a significantly lower life expectancy than non-Aboriginal Canadians.1 The gap in health status of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples is a matter of ongoing concern;2 recognizing and understanding the social determinants of health is key to understanding the difference in health status and, i...

Aboriginal populations suffer a disproportionate burden of infectious disease in Canada; including high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). These disparities cannot be adequately understood without a rooted focus on the social determinants of health. This paper examines the effects of social exclusion on STI rates in Aboriginal populations. Evidence suggests the social exclusion of...

N Zealand (NZ) is a fairly small nation by international standards, with a total population currently approaching 4.3 million. The NZ population is diverse and, like many nations, is called home by people from a number of different ethnic backgrounds. According to 2006 census figures, roughly 67-68% of the population are of European descent (referred to here using the Māori term, Pākehā). Māori...

The paper reviews whether Indigenous Peoples’ worldview has di-rectly influenced or not the decisions made by Inter-American Court of Human Rights related exclusively to their human and environmental rights.In first section investigation, it is described main aspects take into consideration regarding Peoples international law; i.e. conceptualization term Peoples, its evolution in interna-tional...