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The Americas Before and After 1492: An Introduction to Current Geographical Research
Karl W. Butzer Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 82, No. 3, September 1992, pp. 345-368. Introductory essay outlines the contributions of the ten attached reviews focused on the title theme from a variety of different subject areas. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Anasazi Legacy Is the Light of the Jurassic Sun
William Willard Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 7, No. 4, Series 2, Winter, 1995, pp. 37-50. Examines the culture similarities and differences of the Anasazi people and their descendants. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Anishnaabe-Kwe, Traditional Knowledge, and Water Protection
Deborah McGregor Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 26, No. 3/4, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 26-30. Discusses the importance of women's roles in determining outcomes of water issues. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Aquagenesis: Drowning by Flooding is So Good for You
Joseph Mercredi Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1981, pp. 331-336. Satirical pseudo-report to the Board of Directors of a hydroelectric project, proposing a solution to the problem of Indigenous people displaced by flooding. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Arctic Change and Coastal Communities: Overview of the Coastal Zone Canada Conference, Tuktoyaktuk, August 2006
Jack Mathias, Burton Ayles, Sherrie Blakney, Tony Charles, Helen Fast, Peter Irniq Arctic, Vol. 61, suppl. 1, 2008, pp. iii-xi. Looks at the challenges of climate change being witnessed in Arctic marine and coastal areas and the impact of those changes on the coastal communities. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Arctic Climate Impacts: Environmental Injustice in Canada and the United States
Sarah F. Trainor, F. Stuart Chapin, Henry P. Huntington, David C. Natcher, Gary Kofinas Local Environment, Vol. 12, No. 6, December 2007, pp. 627-643. Discusses how Indigenous peoples in Canada are better positioned than those in the United States to shape policy in a way that would ensure their adaptation to climate change. [Find offline items for Natcher, David] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Arctic Indigenous Women Consume Greater Than Acceptable Levels of Organochlorines
H. V. Kuhnlein, O. Receveur, D. C. G. Muir, H. M. Chan, R. Soueida Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 125, No. 10, October 1995, pp. 2501-2510. Examines the exposure of Arctic Indigenous women, living in two communities of the Canadian Arctic, to polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides via their diet. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Increased UVB Radiation: Potential Impacts to Human Health
Edward C. De Fabo International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol. 64, No. 5, 2005, pp. 509-522. Presents some of the health problems from UVB radiation including cataracts, photokeratitis, immunosuppression, genetic interaction, skin cancer, non-hodgkin's lymphoma etc.. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Assessment of Dietary Exposure to Trace Metals in Baffin Inuit Food
Hing Man Chan, Christine Kim, Kishan Khoday, Olivier Receveur, Harriet V. Kuhnlein Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 103, No. 7/8, July-August 1995, pp. 740-746. Reports the levels of cadmium, lead, and mercury in traditional foods from Qikiqtarjuaq, Baffin Island and the related health risks and benefits of eating these foods. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Assessment of Radiation Exposures in Native American Communities From Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada
Eric Frohmberg, Robert Goble, Virginia Sanchez, Dianne Quigley Risk Analysis, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2000, pp. 101-111. Discusses how the radiation exposure experienced by Native American Communities near the Nevada Test Site during the 1950s and 1960s were not properly represented in dose reconstructions due to diet variables. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Balancing Risks in the Management of Contaminated First Nations Fisheries
Clare L. S. Wiseman, Frank A. P. C. Gobas International Journal of Environmental Health Research, Vol. 12, No. 4, December 2002, pp. 331-342. Study of seafood diet , that may be contaminated, and potential health risks for Aboriginal coastal peoples. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"Berry Patch" As a Kind of Place - The Ethnoecology of Black Huckleberry in Northwestern Canada
Scott Trusler, Leslie Main Johnson Human Ecology, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2008, pp. [553]-568. Study examined the characteristics of several berry patches where the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en of Northwestern British Columbia had used landscape burning as a tool for plant management. [Find location of Wet'suwet'en First Nation using Google Maps] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Beyond the Blue and Green: The Need to Consider Aboriginal Peoples' Relationships to Resource Development in Labor-Environment Campaigns
Suzanne E. Mills Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1, March 2011, p. 104–121. Discusses the need for labor researchers to engage with Indigenous studies to advance social and environmental justice. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Beyond the Mirror: Indigenous Ecologies and 'New Materialisms' in Contemporary Art
Jessica L. Horton, Janet Catherine Berlo Third Text, Vol. 27, No. 1, Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology, January 2013, pp. 17-28. Discusses how several Aboriginal artists have incorporated the traditional worldview, in which everything is animate, into their modern works. Highlights Jimmie Durham, Rebecca Belmore, Jolene Rickard, and Will Wilson. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Beyond Water Harvesting: A Soil Hydrology Perspective on Traditional Southwestern Agricultural Technology
Steven Dominguez, Kenneth E. Kolm American Antiquity, Vol. 70, No. 4, October 2005, pp. 732-765. Discusses how studies of Hopi maze fields have identified hydrological processes linked to field location criteria and farming practices. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Biological Monitoring for Mercury within a Community with Soil and Fish Contamination
Martha Harnly, Sharon Seidel, Primitivo Rojas, Raymond Fornes, Peter Flessel, Daniel Smith, Richard Kreutzer, Lynn Goldman Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 105, No. 4, April 1997, pp. 424-429. Study monitoring residents living next to an inactive mercury mine in Clear Lake, California found results consistent with other studies; also considers protective public health measures. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Bison, Acid and Budworms
Stephen Bocking Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer, 2002, pp. 89-92. Describes how the differing importance of the forestry industry in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick has led to contrasting strategies of pest management. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Bison and Elk in the American Southwest: In Search of the Pristine
Joe Truett Environmental Management, Vol. 20, No. 2, March 1996, pp. 195-206. Evaluates theories that attempt to explain the scarcity of these large herbivores. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Bison: Back from the Brink
Bill Burns The Beaver, Vol. 82, No. 5, October/November 2002, pp. 16-[?]. Describes historic role of the bison, reasons behind its near extinction, and the status of the population today. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Blood Tribe: Adapting to Climate Change
Lorenzo Magzul Prairie Forum, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 289-309. Discusses the socio-economic impact that climate change will have on the Blood Tribe in the South Saskatchewan River Basin. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Boreal Forest Carbon Sequestration Strategies: A Case Study of the Little Red River Cree First Nation Land Tenures
Emina Krcmar, G. Cornelis van Kooten Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 53, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 325-341. Examines the creation of carbon offset and emission reduction credits from the viewpoint of the Little Red River Cree Nation (LRRCN). More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Botanical Identification of Northwest Coast Tobacco
Robert F. Heizer American Anthropologist, Vol. 42, No. 4, Part 1, New Series, October-December 1940, pp. 704-706. Describes efforts to identify the plant chewed with lime by the Haida and Tlingit. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Bottom Up and Top Down: Analysis of Participatory Processes for Sustainability Indicator Identification as a Pathway to Community Empowerment and Sustainable Environmental Management
Evan D. G. Fraser, Andrew J. Dougill, Warren E. Mabee, Mark Reed, Patrick McAlpine Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 78, No. 2, January 2006, pp. 114-127. Paper assesses the participatory process of three different case studies and comes to three common conclusions, one being that community empowerment is vital. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixed-Blood Indian Creole Identity Outside the Written Record
L. Rain Cranford-Gomez American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2008, pp. 93-108. Illustrates converging narratives, oral traditions and dialogues that root Louisiana Creoles to an Indigenous history. The Louisiana Creoles are a métis/mestizo people separate but linked to their land and kinship ties. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
A Breach of Trust: The Radioactive Colonization of Native North America
Ward Churchill American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1999, pp. 23-69. Examines the genocidal mentality of the settler population and argues that if the current status quo remains we will continue down a deadly course. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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