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Alberta's North: A History, 1890-1950

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean Manore
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 82, no. 3, September 2001, p. 592
Book review of: Alberta's North by Donald G. Wetherell and Irene R.A. Kmet. Book is part of the Alberta Reflections series, its focus includes "Native/non-Native relations, technological development, and federal/provincial relations."
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Alexis First Nation Inquiry: TransAlta Utilities Rights of Way Claim

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) concerning the federal Crown's granting of three rights of way to Calgary Power on Alexis IR133 during 1950s and 1960s. ICC concluded no effort was made to provide annual payments to the Band and recommended the claim be accepted for negotiation under Canada's Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Sheila G. Purdy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
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Alexis First Nation, TransAlta Utilities - Right of Way, Public Edition

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains statements of claim, correspondence/letters, maps and transcripts in regards to Calgary Power's (now TransAlta) access to electrical transmission right of way granted in the 1950s and 1960s. The Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Sheila G. Purdy.

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Annotated Bibliography: Effective Partnerships: Institutions for Shared Forest Management and Community Development - Annotated Bibliograhy

Alternate Title
Working Paper (Sustainable Forest Management Network) ; 2000-1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Leslie Treseder
Naomi T. Krogman
Working Paper (Sustainable Forest Management Network)
Part of an examination of co-operative forest management involving First Nations, government and industry in Northern Alberta.
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Antiretroviral Treatment Outcomes Among Foreign-Born and Aboriginal Peoples Living With HIV/AIDS in Northern Alberta

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Megan E. Lefebvre
Christine A. Hughes
Yutaka Yasui
L. Duncan Saunders
Stan Houston
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 105, no. 4, July/August 2014, pp. e251-257
Findings indicate similar outcomes for foreign born and Canadian born non-aboriginal patients but Canadian born aboriginal patients had poorer results. More research is recommended.
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Appendix Table 2: The Adequacy, Suitability, and Affordability of Off-reserve Status Indian Households, Canada, Provinces and Territories; 2011

Alternate Title
[Appendix Tables for 2011 Census/National Household Survey Housing Conditions Series: Issue 10: The Housing Conditions of Off-reserve Status Indian Households]
[Off-reserve Housing Conditions Online Appendix Tables]
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).
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Are We Seeking Pimatisiwin or Creating Pomewin? Implications for Water Policy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patti LaBoucane-Benson
Ginger Gibson
Allen Benson
Greg Miller
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, Water and Indigenous Peoples, 2012, pp. 1-22
Describes how colonial policy has created a disconnect in the relationship between Cree people in Alberta and water.
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Arriving at Appropriate Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management: A First Nation's Perspective

Alternate Title
IIFET 2000 Proceedings
[Microbehavior and Macroresults:Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute ofFisheries Economics and Trace
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David C. Natcher
Discusses a self-improving management system which is facilitating an assessment of forest management as it relates directly to Little Red River/Tall Cree culture and their continued land use needs.
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Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Resistance in the Age of Big Oil: Corwin Clairmont's Two-Headed Arrow/The Tar Sands Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katie Kane
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, Spring, 2021, pp. [152]-195
An analysis of the art installation performed and exhibited in 2018 and discussion of how the artist's works express resistance to the proposed oil pipeline and energy extraction projects going through or near Indigenous lands in the U.S. and Canada.
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An Arts-Based Curriculum Encounter: What Does It Mean to Live on This Land?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diane Conrad
Patricia Jagger
Victoria Bleeks
Sarah Auger
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 379-392
The authors describe their experience in a graduate course on arts-based research methods. Their research touches on contexts of and relationships with/as land, Indigenous peoples, settlers, environmental crisis, and personal journey and the art they created in the process of the course.
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Association Between First Nations Ethnicity and Progression to Kidney Failure by Presence and Severity of Albuminuria

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan M. Samuel
Luz Palacios-Derflingher
Marcell Tonelli
Braden Manns
Lynden Crowshoe
Sofia B. Ahmed
Min Jun
Nathalie Saad
Brenda R. Hemmelgarn
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 186, no. 2, February 4, 2014, pp. E86-E94
Study demonstrated albuminuria confers a risk of progression to kidney failure for First Nations and non-First Nations people.
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Asthma and COPD Among Aboriginals in Alberta, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Don D. Sin
Heather Wells
Lawrence W. Svenson
S. F. Paul Man.
Chest, vol. 121, no. 6, June 2002, pp. 1841-1846
Study to determine rates of office and emergency visits for chronic respiratory conditions.
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Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Inquiry, W.A.C. Bennett Dam and Damage to IR 201, Public Edition July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains submissions, reports, studies, correspondence/letters and video in regards to inquiry which was trying to determine whether the Crown owes compensation in relation to the dam construction. Commissioners include: P.E. James Prentice, Carole T. Corcoran, Aurélien Gill.

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Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry - Aboriginal and Treaty Harvesting Rights: Public Release - July 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains correspondence/letters, submissions, and oral transcripts in regards to the claim for formal recognition of treaty harvesting rights north of the 60th parallel. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice.

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Attitudes and Perceptions of Saskatchewan Educators and Non-Educators Towards the Importance of First Nations and Métis Achievement

Alternate Title
[Research Report (Saskatchewan School Boards Association) ; no. 13-01]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shauneen Pete and Associates Consulting
Looks at strengthening the engagement and success of students by providing an analysis of best practices and recommendations for boards of education.
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Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada During the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Alternate Title
Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada During the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Hackett
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 78, no. 3, 2004, pp. 575-609
Argues that Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) served as a de facto public health agency and by the late 1830s provided an effective vaccination campaign covering most of western Canada.
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AWCS Host Conference to Create an Awareness

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chereise Morris
Windspeaker, vol. 26, no. 7, October 2008, p. 11

Author discusses the first World Conference of Women's Shelters arguing that governments need to understand that social problems have an economic and historical social basis.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.

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Baby Annie

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Del Graff
Investigate review into the circumstances surrounding the death of a two-week-old infant whose family was involved with Alberta's child intervention system.
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Battle at Fort Edmonton: Fur Traders Under Siege

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hugh A. Dempsey
Alberta History, vol. 59, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 12-17
Looks at an 1826 battle between horse thieves and fur traders ending with six fewer horse thieves.
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