This book includes 26 papers from a lecture series exploring issues in the lives of northern and Aboriginal Canadian peoples. The seven sections address health and healing issues from Aboriginal and Western perspectives, the need to incorporate traditional Aboriginal ways of learning into the dominant educational system, evolving northern research philosophies and appropriate field methodologies, impacts of colonization on Aboriginal identity, recent developments in Aboriginal self-government, resource management issues, and research policy issues. Papers are: "New Perspectives on Healing" (Lyle Longclaws); "An Ethnographic Study Exploring Quality of Worklife Issues of Outpost Nurses in Northern Manitoba" (Donna Martin, David Gregory); "A Determination of Reported Cases of Family Violence and Violence against Women" (Betty Thomlinson, Nellie Erickson, Richard Packo); "Would More Traditional Food Produce a Diet of Higher Nutrient Quality? An Example of Participatory Research in the Yukon" (Eleanor Wein); "The Athabasca Influenza Epidemic of 1835" (Patricia McCormack); "The Status Indian Health Utilization Database: A New Approach to Evaluation of Status Indian Health Services" (Jeff Reading); "Role of the Elders: Yesterday and Today" (Gary Raven, Betson Prince); "Integrating Traditional Aboriginal Teaching and Learning Approaches in Post-Secondary Settings" (Ann Charter); "Acimowina...Tales of Bush Experiences" (Ida Bear, Gary Merasty, Rudy Okemaw, Mary Richard); "Communicating Inuit Perspectives on Research" (Jill Oakes, Rick Riewe); "'Research As Praxis' in the Canadian Arctic; Thoughts of a Young Investigator" (Shannon Ward); "Culture and Informed Consent: The Role of Aboriginal Interpreters in Patient Advocacy in Urban Hospitals" (Joseph Kaufert, Margaret Lavallee, William Koolage, John O'Neil); "Conducting Dietary Surveys in Aboriginal Communities: Methodological Considerations" (Marian Campbell, Ruth Diamant, Margaret Grunau, Judy Halladay); "Oral Histories: A Tool for Aboriginal Communities To Document Knowledge of Traditional Foodways" (Daniella Demare, Victoria Moose, Hilda Spence, Marian Campbell, Ruth Diamant); "When the Other Is Me: Native Writers Confronting Canadian Literature" (Emma LaRocque); "Who Are the Metis?" (Fred Shore); "Oral History of the Michif/Metis People of the Northwest" (Audreen Hourie); "Beadwork As an Expression of Metis Cultural Identity" (Sharon Blady); "Dismantling and Restoring Jurisdiction" (Philip Fontaine); "Self-Government on Alberta's Metis Settlements: A Unique Solution to a Constitutional Dilemma" (Catherine Bell); "Sharing the Business Wealth, Inuit Style" (Bill Lyall); "The Significance of First Nations' Access to Natural Resources and Economic Development" (Harvey Payne, Harvey Nepinak); "Polar Bears and Whales: Contrasts in International Wildlife Regimes" (Milton Freeman); "All That Glitters Is Not Green: Environmental Responsibility and Canada's Arctic Diamond Rush" (Larry Reynolds); "What if the Climate Warms? Implications for the MacKenzie Basin" (Stewart Cohen); and "Shaping Circumarctic Science Policies" (Gerald S. H. Lock). (TD)