Aboriginal/Native American workers face unique occupational health challenges. This panel will address those challenges and describe the resources such workers offer as well. In addition, this international panel of speakers will share their practical tools and organizational efforts to develop culturally appropriate programs in a variety of settings and sectors, including agriculture, uranium mining, construction and community outreach.
• Wings of Change: Aboriginal Workers' Education and Outreach Project. J. Green, Manitoba Federation of Labour Occupational Health Centre, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
• Outreach and Collaborative Dialogue with Native American Communities. C. Becnel, Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center, Denver, CO.
• Navajo Uranium Miners in the United States. P. Harrison, Jr., Uranium Mining Workers Shiprock RECA Field Office, Shiprock, NM.
• Indigenous Migrant Farmworker Youth: Perspectives on Occupational Risks. E. Kissam, Aguirre International, Burlingame, CA.
• Native American Workers in the Building Trades. J. McInnis, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Fall River, NS, Canada.