Health a focus at international conference

• Main Author: Fredericks, Bronwyn L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Australia : Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal 2009
• Subjects: Applied research; 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society; 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences; 111701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health; Aboriginal health > Conference > Indigenous health > Indigenous studies; Journal Article. Refereed; Scholarly Journal; Canada; Indian; New Zealand; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.cqu.edu.au/10018/1018297

The 2009 Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference recently held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America attracted over 600 scholars. The Conference was scholarly and interdisciplinary and was intended for Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars who work in American Indian/ Native American/ First Nations/ Aboriginal/ Indigenous Studies. Scholars came from USA, Canada, Hawaii, Central and South America, New Zealand, Switzerland, England and Australia.The aim of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference is to offer a chance to scholars working in the field of Indigenous Studies to present scholarly work. The 2009 witnessed a selection of papers from the discipline of Health. This article gives an overview of the Conference and some of the health papers.