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Filter to Retrieve Articles Related to Indigenous Peoples of the Yukon Territory from the OVID MEDLINE Database Filter to Retrieve Articles Related to Indigenous Peoples of the Yukon Territory from the OVID MEDLINE Database Sandy Campbell, Marlene Dorgan and Lisa Tjosvold John W. Scott Health Sciences Library University of Alberta Copy and paste into the OVID MEDLINE search box: ((Carcross or (Tagish not meteorite*) or Champagne First Nation or Aishihik or Ehdiitat or Nacho Nyak Dun or Gwichya or Little Salmon or Carmacks or Nihtat or Selkirk First Nation or Ta'an Kwach'an or Tetlitn or Tr'ondek Hwech'in or White River First Nation or Vuntut or Yellowknives or (Hare adj2 (man or men or woman or women or child* or youth* or adult* or people* or person or persons or tribe or tribal or band or bands)) or Tanana or Tanana or Tutchone* or Denesuline or Tahltan or MacKenzie Valley or Old Crow or "Upper Liard" or "Eagle Plains" or "Keno City" or Carcross or Teslin or "Fort Selkirk" or Carmacks or Haines Junction or Dawson City or (Canad* or exp Canada/ and (Beaver Creek or Pelly or Destruction Bay or Watson Lake))) OR ((exp Indians, North American/ or exp Health Services, Indigenous/ or exp Medicine, Traditional/ or exp Shamanism/ or exp Ethnopharmacology/ or Indigenous* or Aboriginal* or Amerindian* or Autochtone* or Metis or First Nation or First Nations or exp Inuit/ or Inuit* or Chipewyan or Kaska or Kaskas or Tlingit or Dene or Gwich'in or Gwichin or Gwitchin or Kutchin* or Sahtu or Tlicho or Tli Cho or (traditional adj1 (medicine* or heal* or food* or health*)) or Urban Indian* or "on reserve" or "off reserve*"or country food* or shaman* or medicine m?n or medicine wom?n or treaty or treaties or ((native* or Indian or Indians) adj2 (person or persons or man or woman or men or women or child* or youth or youths or population* or people* or band or bands))) AND (exp Yukon Territory/ or Yukon* or (( Beaufort Sea or Whitehorse) and Canad*.mp.))) NOT (exp Alaska/ or Alaska* not ((exp Alaska/ or Alaska*) and (exp Yukon/ or Yukon*))) Not (Yukon-Kuskok* or lepus or geology* or stratigraphi* or subduction* or volcan* or Holocene or pleistocene).mp.) Notes: 1. This filter is designed to restrict to the Yukon jurisdiction. Almost all Yukon First Nations peoples have territories that overlap into Alaska, British Columbia or the Northwest Territories. Searchers who are attempting to retrieve works about the people, rather than the people inside of the jurisdiction will want to search across all four jurisdictions. References: Campbell, Sandy, Tjosvold Lisa, Dorgan, Marlene and Behn-Smith, Daniele. Finding Canadian Polar Indigenous Studies in Medline, in Sommer, Shelly and Ann Windnagel, eds.: Cold Regions: Pivot Points, Focal Points: Proceedings of the 24th Polar Libraries Colloquy, June 11- 14, 2012, Boulder, Colorado p. 88 – 95, http://nsidc.org/pubs/gd/gd-34/PLC-24-proceedingsGD-34.pdf Accessed May 8, 2013 Canadian Encyclopedia. Yukon. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/yukon#SEC943414 Accessed May 18, 2013 Council of Yukon First Nations. Our Nations. http://www.cyfn.ca/ournationsAccessed May 18, 2013 Environment Yukon. Traditional Territories of Yukon First Nations and Settlement areas of Inuvialuit and Tetlit Gwich’in. 2005. http://www.eco.gov.yk.ca/pdf/fn_trad_terr_map.pdf Accessed May 18, 2013 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Federal Treaty Negotiation Office, and the Information Management Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. Transboundary Traditional Territories in B.C., Yukon and N.W.T. http://www.eco.gov.yk.ca/images/transboundary_map.pdf Accessed May 18, 2013 Cite as: Campbell, Sandy, Marlene Dorgan and Lisa Tjosvold. Filter to Retrieve Articles Related to Indigenous Peoples of the Yukon Territory from the OVID MEDLINE Database. John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta. Rev. Dec. 20, 2013. http://guides.library.ualberta.ca/aecontent.php?pid=448005 Contact for questions or improvements: Sandy Campbell John W. Scott Health Sciences Library University of Alberta Edmonton, AB Canada T6H 5L8 780-492-7915 [email protected] .
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