"That land means everything to us as Anishinaabe. . ..": Environmental dispossession and resilience on the North Shore of Lake Superior

Health and Place

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-33

  Tobias, Joshua K ^a   Richmond, Chantelle A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community based research; Environmental dispossession; Indigenous; Lake superior; Resilience

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LANDOWNERSHIP; RESEARCH;

ANISHINAABE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL DISPOSSESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INDIAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTERVIEW; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WELLBEING; AMERICAN INDIAN; COMMUNITY CARE; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; ONTARIO; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR; ONTARIO [CANADA];

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; GREAT LAKES REGION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; ONTARIO; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84904664619     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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