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Alaska Recovery and Spirit Camps: First Nations Community Development

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Hampton
Eber Hampton
Germaine Kinunwa
Lionel Kinunwa
Community Development Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, 1995, pp. 257-264
Introduces two examples of community development efforts initiated by indigenous people to address the threat to subsistence and self-determination.
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Algonquian Land Tenure and State Structures in the North

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adrian Tanner
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1983, pp. 311-320
Describes differences in the hunting territory between the Eastern James Bay Area and Southern Labrador and also notes distinctions regarding land tenure and rights.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William J. Stilwell
E. Peers
Agnes Grant
Lynn Whidden
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1985, pp. 277-282
Book reviews of 4 books: Treaties on Trial by Fay G. Cohen. The Canadian Prairies: A History by Gerald Friesen. New Native American Drama: Three Plays by Hanay Geiogamah. The three plays are entitled Foghorn, 49, and Body Indian. A Homeland for the Cree by Richard F. Salisbury.
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Changing Patterns of Indian Trapping in the Canadian Subarctic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James W. VanStone
Arctic, vol. 16, no. 3, September 1963, pp. 158-174
Looks at the decline in trapping due to adoption of a western way of living in the Chipewyan community of Snowdrift in the Northwest Territories between 1960 and 1961.
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[Deciphering Inuit Land Claims]

Alternate Title
Front Page Challenge ; December 13, 1976
[Deciphering 'Eskimo' Land Claims]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Amagoalik
Pierre Burton
Gordon Sinclair
Betty Kennedy
Features activist who is trying to get claim settled before construction begins on the Mackenzie Valley pipeline. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section. Duration: 8:40.
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Dietary Intake of Alaska Native People in Two Regions and Implications for Health: the Alaska Native Dietary and Subsistence Food Assessment Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer S. Johnson
Elizabeth D. Nobmann
Elvin Asay
Anne P. Lanier
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 68, no. 2, 2009, pp. 109-122
Calculates the energy and nutrient intake in two regions of Alaska and describes the implications for development of chronic disease.
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Domestic Hunting and Fishing by Manitoba Indians: Magnitude Composition and Implications for Management

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M.W. Wagner
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1986, pp. 333-349
Indian reservations were surveyed regarding their consumption of wildlife. Calls for increased joint management efforts between provincial and Indian governments to identify all forces affecting wildlife populations and to create equitable conservation programs.
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"Ethnicity, Not Culture?..." A Reply

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph G. Jorgensen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, 1996, pp. 171-175
Looks at Federal District Judge H. Russel Holland's decision about the infamous oil spill of the Exxon Vuldez (Order No. 190 in the U.S. District Court of Alaska, 23 March 1994).
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Food Fish, Commercial Fish, and Fish to Support a Moderate Livelihood: Characterizing Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to Canadian Fisheries

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas C. Harris and Peter Millerd
Arctic Review on Law and Politics, vol. 1, no. 1, 2010, pp. 82-107
Looks at characteristics and meaning of Aboriginal fishing rights within context of in Canadian law and goals of effective management and fair distribution.
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The Household as an Economic Unit in Arctic Aboriginal Communities, and its Measurement by Means of a Comprehensive Survey

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter J. Usher
Gérard Duaime
Edmund Searles
Social Indicators Research, vol. 61, no. 2, February 2003, pp. 175-202
Outlines a model of the household in mixed, subsistence-based economies; model is based factors including measurements of hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering.
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Hunting Rights Disrupted

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 3, no. 12, December 1972, p. 2
Leaders from Keeseekoose Cote, Cowessess, Kahkewistahaw and Nut Lake draw up a resolution in support of First Nation's being able to hunt for food at any time of the year .
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The Impact of Dietary Changes Among the Inuit of Nunavik (Canada): a Socioeconomic Assessment of Possible Public Health Recommendations Dealing With Food Contamination

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gérard Duhaime
Marcelle Chabot
Pierre Fréchette
Véronique Robichaud
Solange Proulx
Risk Analysis: An International Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, August 2004, pp. 1007-1018
Results show little downside economically or nutritionally when replacing some "country food" with food from other sources, but few have actually altered their lifestyle perhaps because of the high value placed on the traditional economy.
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Infant Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1914-1964

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifford E. Trafzer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 77-96
Investigates how confinement on reservations lead to changes in subsistence, child care and housing that contributed to infant deaths from pneumonia, gastrointestinal disorders, tuberculosis, heart disease, and syphilis.
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Inorganic Nutrients and Contaminants in Subsistence Species of Alaska: Linking Wildlife and Human Health

Alternate Title
Inorganic Nutrients and Contaminants in Seals and Fish
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sara K. Moses
Alex V. Whiting
Gerald R. Bratton
Robert J. Taylor
Todd M. O’Hara
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 68, no. 1, February 2009, pp. 53-74
Examines the risk-benefit analysis of subsistence foods consumed by Indigenous people in Alaska.
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Introduction to Documents: Indian Hunting Rights, Natural Resources Transfer Agreements and Legal Opinions From the Department of Justice

Alternate Title
[Document Four]: Legal Opinion by W. Stuart Edwards
[Document One[: Memorandum by C.P. Paxton for W. Stuart Edwards
[Document Three]: Letter by W. S. Gray to Harold W. McGill
[Document Two]: Legal Opinion By W. Stuart Edwards
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Tough
C. P. Paxton
W. Stuart Edwards
W. S. Gray
Native Studies Review , vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 121-167
Introduction and Documents regarding controversial Indian hunting rights stemming from the transfer of natural resources from the Dominion to the provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta.
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Inuvialuit Use of the Beaufort Sea and its Resources, 1960-2000

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter J. Usher
Arctic, vol. 55, no. 2, Supplement, June 2002, pp. 18-[?]
Thirty year comparative study of commercial and subsistence harvesting, area hunted and population, showed little change in wildlife levels despite changes in travel mode, population, and oil and gas exploration in Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
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Is Community Economic Development Putting Health Food On the Table? Food Sovereignty in Northern Manitoba's Aboriginal Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shirley Thompson
Asfia Gulrukh
Myrle Ballard
Byron Beardy
Durdana Islam ... [et al.]
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall, 2011, pp. 14-39
Looks at The Northern Health Food Initiative (NHFI), a food-related community economic development (CED).
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Joseph Boyden. Through Black Spruce

Alternate Title
Through Black Spruce
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ray Taras
World Literature Today, vol. 83, no. 3, May/June 2009, p. 60
Book review of: Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden.
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Labrador Inuit Harvesting and the Politics of Land Claims

Alternate Title
Inuit Studies Conference ; 17th, 2010
[Inuit People and the Aboriginal World]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andrea Procter
Looks at influences regulating Inuit economic activities, the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement, and new governance arrangements.
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Letter

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
H. Russel Holland
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, 1996, pp. 167-170
Response to the article, ""Ethnicity, Not Culture? Obfuscating Social Science in the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill" which was in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 19, No. 4, 1995, at pages 1-124. This response letter discusses the misconceptions in the original article.
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