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Negotiating TEK in BC Salmon Farming: Learning from Each Other or Managing Tradition

Alternate Title
Negotiating Traditional Ecological Knowledge in BC Salmon Farming: Learning from Each Other or Managing Tradition
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothee Schreiber
Dianne Newell
BC Studies, no. 150, Aquaculture, Summer, 2006, pp. 79-102
Description
Argues there is a distinction between Aboriginal perceptions of TEK (traditional ecological knowledge) and those of government and industrial sectors.
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Noun Reduplication in Comox, a Salish Language of Vancouver Island

Alternate Title
Memoir (Geological Survey of Canada) ; 63
Memoir (Geological Survey of Canada). Anthropological Series ; no. 6
E-Books
Author/Creator
Edward Sapir
Memoir (Geological Survey of Canada)
Description

Original issued in series: Memoir 63. Anthropological series / Geological Survey of Canada ; no. 6

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Observations on the Indigenous Tribes of the N. W. Coast of America

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Scouler
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, vol. 11, 1841, pp. 215-251
Description
Exploratory comments from Dr. Scouler examinations of diet, clothing and living conditions of the Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands to the Nootka of British Columbia in the early 17th century.
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Pipeline Panel Withdraws Over Concerns of Safety

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shauna Lewis
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 2, May 2012, p. 8
Description

Looks at review hearings held for people to express their views about a pipeline project.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.

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Promoting or Protecting Traditional Knowledges? Tensions in the Resurgence of Indigenous Food Practices on Vancouver Island

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Megan K. Muller
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, October 2018, p. Article 4
Description
Discusses food sovereignty and Indigenous ways of knowing with an eye to the conflict between promoting knowledge for the sake of resurgence and running the risk of subjecting knowledges, resources and communities to exploitation, criminalization and over-harvesting.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Chief Edward John

Alternate Title
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Edward John
Description
This file contains a transcript of a part of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Prince George, British Columbia. This part includes a presentation by Chief Edward John with the First Nations Summit Task Group, regarding Treaty negotiations between the the government of Canada and the Aboriginal Community in the Province of British Columbia. Questions from the assembled commissioners are also included with the answers that were provided.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Chief Russell Kwasistak

Documents & Presentations
Description
This file contains a transcript of a part of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This part includes opening remarks from Elder Vincent Stogan and moderator Lou Desmarais. Also included in this portion is a presentation by Chief Russell Kwasistak concerning treaty rights, self-sufficiency and Aboriginal self-government. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow the presentation.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Professor Vance Peavy

Documents & Presentations
Description
This file contains a transcript of a part of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This part includes presentation by Professor Vance Peavy concerning the health system in the Aboriginal community. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow the presentation.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Tom Sampson, Doug Campbell, and Bob Gillen

Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains a presentation by Tom Sampson, Doug Campbell, and Bob Gillen. Sampson introduces Doug Campbell and Bob Gillen. Campbell gives a conceptual framework for the work their group has done on south Vancouver Island, discussing his work in judicial education with the Western Judicial Education Centre. Campbell discusses the need to form personal relationships and trust in reforming the justice system, and some traditional Salish concepts.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation for the Louis Riel Metis Association by Tom Lalonde, Lyle Letendre and Fraser Hall

Documents & Presentations
Description
This file contains a transcript of a part of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This part includes presentation for the Louis Riel Metis Association by Tom Lalonde, Lyle Letendre, Fraser Hall and Derwin Calliou concerning rural and urban housing for the Aboriginal community. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow the presentation.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation for United Fishermen and Allied Worker's Union by Dennis Brown

Documents & Presentations
Description
This file contains a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This portion includes a presentation of the United Fishermen and Allied Worker's Union by Dennis Brown concerning the issue of economic independence of the Aboriginal Fishing Community in British Columbia. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow the presentation.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation for Vancouver Native Health Society by Alan Kennard and Deborah Mearns

Documents & Presentations
Description
This file contains a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This portion includes a presentation of the Vancouver Native Health Society by Alan Kennard and Deborah Mearns concerning health care systems and services in the Aboriginal Community. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow the presentation.
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Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation of the Nechako Fraser Junction Metis Association by Jim Pavich

Documents & Presentations
Description
This file contains a transcript of a part of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Prince George, British Columbia. This part includes a presentation of the Nechako Fraser Junction Metis Association by Jim Pavich concerning National and Provincial concerns of the Metis community. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow.
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Scenes and Studies of Savage Life

E-Books
Author/Creator
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat
Description
Focuses on colonists' perspectives of Vancouver Island First Nations including Aht, Nootka, Niinaht, Klah-oh-quots (Claqoquot); includes some Aht vocabulary.
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“The Secret Past Life of Plants”: Paleoethnobotany in British Columbia

Alternate Title
Artifacts as Botanical Specimens: An Example from Vancouver Island
Plant Technology in Archaeology: From the Ancient Past into the Future
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dana Lepofsky
Natasha Lyons
[Dale R. Croes
Kathleen Hawes
Kathryn Bernick]
BC Studies, no. 179, Ethnobotany in BC, Autumn, 2013, pp. 39-83
Description
Provides brief description of development and status of the discipline, and uses two case studies to illustrate the applications and results of research. Case Study 1: Plant Technology in Archaeology: From the Ancient Past into the Future. Case Study 2: Artifacts as Botanical Specimens: An Example from Vancouver Island.
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Some Aspects of Nootka Language and Culture

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward Sapir
American Anthropologist, vol. 13, no. 1, New Series, January-March 1911, pp. 15-28
Description
Description based on ethnological and linguistic data gathered from two groups in British Columbia during 1910.
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Standard English Difficulties and Helpful Intervention Strategies for Aboriginal Students

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. Colleen Bovaird Wawrykow
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 35, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 198-205
Description
Comments on the difficulties and differences that may cause Aboriginal students to struggle with Standard English.
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Trained and Certified Operators Key to Managing Water Systems

Alternate Title
Clean Water, Healthy Communities: Trained and Certified Operators Key to Managing Water Systems
Articles » General
On the Go, Winter, 2005/06, p. 6
Description
Discussion of First Nations Water Management Strategy (FNWMS) and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) efforts in supporting operator training, giving the example of Louie Sabbas.
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Tribe Blasts 'exploitation' of Blood Samples

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rex Dalton
Nature, vol. 420, November 14, 2002, p. 111
Description
Argues that international rules are needed for the collection of genetic material and gives an example of explotation among the Nootka of Vancouver Island.
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Tseshaht First Nation

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Tseshaht First Nation
Description
Provides links to council members, programs and services, and tradition and history for one of the 14 Nations belonging to the Nuu chah hulth Tribal Council on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
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A Visit From Captain Cook

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Colin Browne
Peter Jones
Description
Comments on Cook's explorations including his search for a northwest passage to the Orient. Duration: 15:22.
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