More on (traditional) stone carving and lung hazards HazArt

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Study probes link between soapstone and cancer – Waterloo Record
Forty-six-year-old Jimmy Cookie feels dizzy and has trouble breathing every time he carves into a slab of soapstone.
Now, University of Manitoba researchers are looking at whether Cookie’s lung problems could be linked with the traditional [...]

Sources of indigenous peoples info from Librarians’ Internet Index

LII is such a great resource, available through RSS feed.
Librarians’ Internet Index: New This Week New and newly-discovered Web sites for librarians and everyone else, updated every Thursday morning. See more resources on our site

http://lii.org/

CBC News In Depth: Aboriginal Canadians
News and feature stories about Canada’s aboriginal population of Indians, Métis, and Inuit, which “is [...]

Traditional foods guide

from NAEP Native Access to Engineering Programme First aboriginal food guide balances traditional, practical
and from CBC [read the entire story here]

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/04/12/food-guide.html

“Bannock, berries, wild game and canned milk are part of a new version of Canada’s Food Guide, created specifically for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
“With this guide, First Nations, Inuit and Métis will have [...]

Nuclear Winter transmittal letter

This really belongs with the post but I only just located it.

The Anthropology of Human Survival –
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/ the-anthropology-of-human-survival/

mpb
DATE: May 8, 1986
IN REPLY TO: CHM-1/86-349-MPB
Chemistry Division
NAME, ADDRESS
The enclosed document, NUCLEAR WINTER: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF HUMAN SURVIVAL, may be of interest to you as a professional in [public communication] [or public policy] . [...]

Inuktitut-based Bible

The Yup’ik Eskimo language Bible (sponsored by the Alaska Moravian Church) is also getting a major revision. It is written in the Roman or Latin script. See previous post

Yup’ik Bible -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/11/ regional-bookstore-planning/

This version described in this newstory,

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/10/17/moravian-bible.html

is written in the Inuit script, Inuktitut
The Inuktitut syllabary is actually only used in Canada, especially [...]