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Climate Change Policy Response for Canada's Inuit Population: The Importance of and Opportunities for Adaptation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James D. Ford
Tristan Pearce
Frank Duerden
Chris Furgal
Barry Smit
Global Environmental Change, vol. 20, no. 1, February 2010, pp. 177-191
Description
Argues that policy intervention should focus on: transmission of environmental knowledge, emergency management capability, flexibility of resource management regimes, economic support to facilitate adaptation, increase research effort to identify risk factors and response options, protection of infrastructure, and promote awareness of climate change impacts
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Club Native

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Rezolution Pictures
Description

Documentary looks at the politics of identity and membership through the lens of the Mohawks of Kahnawake.

Duration: 1:18:13.

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Co-constructing Early Childhood Programs Nourished by Inuit Worldviews

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Caroline Rowan
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 38, no. 1-2, Cultures Inuit, Gouvernance et Cosmopolitiques / Inuit Cultures, Governance and Cosmopolitics, 2014, pp. 73-94
Description
Contends that Inuit approaches to child rearing should be incorporated into educator training programs.
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Co-management - An Attainable Partnership? Two Cases from James Bay, Northern Quebec and Torres Strait, Northern Queensland

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M. E. Mulrennan
C. H. Scott
Anthropologica, vol. 47, no. 2, 2005, pp. 197-213
Description
Comparison includes the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Agreement Concerning a New Relationship between Le Gouvernement du Québec and the Crees of Québec with the Torres Strait Treaty.
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Co-management and the Politics of Aboriginal Consent to Resource Development: The Agreement Concerning a New Relationship Between the Government of Québec and the Crees of Québec (2002)

Alternate Title
Canada: The State of the Federation ; 2003
Reconfiguring Aboriginal-State Relations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Colin H. Scott
Description
Discusses the resource co-management regime of the James Bay Crees in northern Québec, and looks at co-management institutions within the broader context of nation-to-nation treaty negotiations. Excerpt from Canada: The State of the Federation 2003. Entire book on one pdf. To access paper scroll to p. 133.
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Collaborating to Improve Child and Youth Mental Health in Nunavik

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Fraser
Rémy Rouillard
Lucie Nadeau
Léna D'Ostie Racine
Raymond Mickpegak
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, Inuit Health, 2016, pp. 23-41
Description
Looks at various collaborative care models and interviews administrators, clinicians, and Inuit families about expectations for mental health services and care.
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Commerce de Fourrures et Competition a Betsiamites de 1850 a 1880

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacques Frenette
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 41-56
Description
(Abstract in French and English, article in French) Examines how the Montagnais benefitted from competition between the Hudson's Bay Company and independent fur traders in this region and the methods employed by the Company while trying to control the market.
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Community Governance of the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project, Kahnawake Territory, Mohawk Nation, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Cargo
Lucie Lévesque
Ann C. Macaulay
Alex McComber
Serge Desrosiers
Treena Delormier
Louise Potvin
Health Promotion International, vol. 18, no. 3, September 2003, pp. 177-187
Description
Examines perceptions of community ownership among partners making decisions on behalf of the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Project (KSDPP).
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Community Governance of the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project, Kahnawake Territory, Mohawk Nation, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Cargo
Ludie Lévesque
Ann C. Macaulay
Alex McComber
Serge Desrosiers ... [et al.]
Health Promotion International, vol. 18, no. 3, 2003, pp. 177-187
Description
Study examined perceptions of community ownership among project partners taking responsibility for decision-making related to the prevention project.
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Community Remoteness, Perinatal Outcomes and Infant Mortality Among First Nations in Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Spogmai Wassimi
Nancy G. L. Mchugh
Russell Wilkins
Maureen Heaman
Patricia Martens
et al.
Open Women's Health Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, What We Have Known About Community Characteristics, Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality among Aborig, January 2010, pp. 32-38
Description
Determines there is a need for more effective perinatal and infant care programs in remote First Nations communities to reduce mortality rates.
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A Community's Loss

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Goldenberg
The Beaver, vol. 86, no. 2, April/May 2006, pp. 20-23
Description
Describes the impact of the collapse of the Quebec City bridge on the Mohawk community of Kahnawake.
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A Comparative Study on Dams and Power-water Diversion Projects across Canada, with Emphasis in Northern Ontario Proposed Water Developments and the Indian People Who Will Be Directly Affected by Their Impacts

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Harry Achneepineskum
Description
The author, a member of the Ogoki (Martin Falls) band in northern Ontario, expresses concern with the Canadian government's plan to dam rivers in Canada and divert the water to the United States. He notes that Aboriginal land will be flooded, according to government proposals.
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Comparison of the Dietary Intakes of Two Different Groups of Children (Grades 4 to 6) Before and After the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M. Michelle Jimenez
Olivier Receveur
Mary Trifonopoulos
Harriet Kuhnlein
Gilles Paradis
Ann C. Macaulay
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 103, no. 9, September 2003, pp. 1191-1194
Description
Survey findings indicated a marked increase in the intake of beverages with white-sugar; overall food intake is a complex matter, but the need for more nutrition education about newly available food items is evident.
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Complementary Research on Traditional and Customary Child Care Practices/Adoption within Aboriginal Communities in Quebec: Presented to Working Group on Customary Adoption in Aboriginal Communities, Justice Québec

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Québec Native Women Inc.
Description
Results of qualitative survey conducted in response to amendments to the Youth Protection Act which gives courts the power to issue permanent placement orders outside of the immediate family.
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Completed Suicides among the Inuit of Northern Quebec, 1982–1996: A Case–Control Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lucy J. Boothroyd
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Sheila Spreng
Michael Malus
Stephen Hodgins
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 165, no. 6, September 18, 2001, pp. 749-755
Description
Study conducted to describe characteristics of those who had died, identify antecedents and correlates and determine if those at high risk could be identified by nonspecialist health care professionals.
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Completing the Circle

Alternate Title
Digital Stories of Caregiving from Kahnawake
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[University of Ottawa
Canadian Partnership for Cancer
Kateri Memorial Hospital
First Nations University
Centre for Research on Aging & Health
Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada
Chiefs of Ontario]
Description
Contains links to a series of 24 videos in which Elders, family members and health professions discuss death and end of life care from an Indigenous perspective.
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Complications of Type 2 Diabetes among Aboriginal Canadians: Increasing the Understanding of Prevalence and Risk Factors

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anthony J.G. Hanley
Stewart B. Harris
Mary Mamakeesick
Ken Goodwin
Edith Fiddler
Robert A. Hegele
John R. McLaughlin
Bernard Zinman
Canadian Journal of Diabetes, vol. 27, no. 4, December 2003, pp. 455-463
Description
Expands existing knowledge regarding metabolic and lifestyle risk factors.
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Composition of Fish Consumed by the James Bay Cree

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. L. Belinsky
H. V. Kuhnlein
F. Yeboah
A. F. Penn
H. M. Chan
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, vol. 9, no. 2, June 1996, pp. 148-162
Description
Studies the levels of heavy metals, nutritional minerals, and fatty acids found in five species of female fish consumed by the James Bay Cree.
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Condom Use-Related Beliefs In Adolescents of First Nations Communities of Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Djossa Adoun Serge
Marie-Pierre Gagnon
Bernard Roy
Marie-Noëlle Caron
Nancy Gros-Louis McHugh
Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research, vol. 6, Winter, 2014, pp. 39-69
Description
Study attempted to formulate recommendations that would be embraced by the target demographic group.
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Considering a Framework for Inuit Child Care

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Caroline Rowan
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 52-61, 117
Description
Discussion on incorporating local knowledge, values, directions, and Inuit approaches to early childhood curriculum development.
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Constitutional Work in Progress: Reconciliation & Renewal in Indigenous Australia and the World: A Background Paper on Indigenous Constitutional Reform Prepared for Indigenous Practitioners Per Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Jull
Description
"The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a range of options for constitutional reform in order to promote discussion and exploration of specific possibilities for Australia".
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Constructing "the Other" across Cultures and Agendas

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Philips Valentine
Allan K. McDougall
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2, Aboriginal Peoples and National Rights Issues in Quebec, 1999, pp. 55-88
Description
Discusses the language used in arguments by the various actors in the Great Whale (James Bay phase two) controversy.
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Consumption of Freshwater Fish in Kahnawake: Risks and Benefits

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hing Man Chan
Mary Trifonopoulos
Amy Ing
Olivier Reseveur
Eva Johnson
Environmental Research, vol. 80, no. 2, February 1999, pp. S213-S222
Description
Discusses a 1996-1997 study to research the health risks of contaminant exposure and the correlation to freshwater fish consumption in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake.
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Contemporary Aboriginal Land, Resource and Environment Regimes: Origins, Problems, and Prospects: A Report Prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

Alternate Title
Land, Resource, and Environment Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter J. Usher
Description
Focuses on integrated resource management throughout comprehensive claim territories in the Arctic and Subarctic, with special attention on the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.
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Contemporary Inuit Sculpture

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
National Gallery of Canada
Description
Teachers' lesson plans focus on 10 artists: Manasie Akpaliapik, Karoo Ashevak, Charlie Inukpuk, Mattiusi Iyaituk, Kiugak Ashoona, Osuitok Ipeelee, Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, Oviloo Tunnillie, Judas Ullulaq, and Natar Ungalaq. Includes activities, artworks and artists, chronology and glossary.
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