BACKGROUND A battery of clinical assessments was used in the Lililwan Project, Australia's first population-based Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) prevalence study, conducted in the remote Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia. One objective was to develop and assess test-retest reliability of an acceptable questionnaire for collecting health information in remote Aboriginal communities feas...

This brief report details a preliminary investigation into how community-level variability in knowledge of Aboriginal languages relate to “band”-level measures of youth suicide. In Canada, and, more specifically, in the province of British Columbia (BC), Aboriginal youth suicide rates vary substantially from one community to another. The results reported demonstrate that not only did this simpl...

Numerous studies indicate strong associations between languages and genes among human populations at the global scale, but all broader scale genetic and linguistic patterns must arise from processes originating at the community level. We examine linguistic and genetic variation in a contact zone on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, where Neolithic Austronesian farming communities settled ...

The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) identifies two focus areas that graduate teachers need to be familiar with competent teach Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander students all other about languages, history, culture (AITSL 2017). Embedding history into pedagogy practice engaging families communities can daunting educators. While on paper these appear different elem...

It was observed that in all circles of discussion, Africans talk about decolonisation and turning away from systems favour the West disfavour Africans. Thinkers like Molefi K. Asante, Chukwunyere, others have approached this matter at an angle Afrocentrism. They intend to present African views undiluted perspective. However, within struggle, it is quite noticeable basic education system has not...

There are important efforts being made to revitalise Aboriginal languages in Australia, which both pedagogically and culturally appropriate. This research seeks expand the current knowledge of effectiveness gesturing as a teaching strategy for young children learning Gathang language. An experimental method was used investigate gesture by employing context other variables (e.g., pedagogies) cou...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of Aboriginal status, active cigarette smoking and smoking cessation during pregnancy on perinatal outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study from 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2008. SETTING All singleton births in South Australia. PARTICIPANTS Population-based birth records of pregnancies to Aboriginal women (n = 4245) and non-Aboriginal women (n = 167 746...