Yukon

Dietetics and Human Nutrition Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2006.

Book review of: What's The Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp and illustrated by George Littlechild.

Provides an overview of a project that synthesized available information on climate change for the Champagne-Aishihik Traditional Territory (CATT) to support informed forest management decision-making.

Looks at the Berger Inquiry and the perspectives of First Nations communities on building the Mackenzie Valley pipeline. Duration: 47:12.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2012.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by M. W. Stirling Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri by Edwin Thompson Denig, edited by J. N. B. Hewitt

Uses a process of document review and interviews with key members of governance institutions to evaluate territorial engagement with the practice of FPIC as per the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Documents Reviewed include the Umbrella Final Agreement (UFA) the Quartz Mining Act, the Placer Mining Act, the Territorial Lands (Yukon) Act, the Environment Act, the Wildlife Act, the Yukon Waters Act, the Historic Resources Act, the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Act (YESAA), the Y

Discusses the participation of the Yukon in the war including those who enlisted, those committed to efforts at home, women volunteers who fund raised and personal stories of participation by such folks as Joe Boyle, Robert Service, George Black, Martha Black and others.

Considers how Tlingit and Tagish oral traditions about the sentience of glaciers might be used to inform discussions about the effects of climate change. Argues that concepts of “slow activism” and “narrative ecologies" embedded in these traditions can help to upset mainstream perceptions of environmental realities.

Study identified 34 boards with a total of 210 members; 176 (84%) were males and 34 (16%) were females. Nine boards had no female members, and 18 had only one.

Study looks at gender imbalance in wildlife co-management boards in the Yukon. Current female representation ranges from 0 percent to 83 percent.

Studies the relationship between gender and decision making on co-management boards in the Yukon.

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 1999.

Fictional account of a teenage northern Aboriginal girl who learns to detect and prevent signs of violence in her life. Duration: 28:00.

Examines the contentious role of oral histories in ethnohistorical reconstruction and discusses how six elderly individuals living in the Yukon used named locations in space to talk about past events.

Address given at the 34th Annual Assembly of First Nations, Whitehorse, Yukon, Tuesday July 16, 2013.

Use of local Tlingit and Athapaskan oral history in non-Indigenous approaches to scientific and historical understanding of global environmental issues.

Discusses how communities in and around the City of Yellowknife are becoming involved in the economic and environmental issues surrounding mineral extraction in their region.

Examines the conflicted history and cultural appropriation of the potlatch, and the different objectives used for the festival.

Canadian Heritage and Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1996.

Examines the various models of governance that will be established after Aboriginal claims are concluded.

Outlines government institutions and key governance issues including land claims, self-government agreements, intergovernmental processes, wildlife and resource management, institutional governance, and economic development. Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.

Links to agreements with individual First Nations, transboundary agreements, First Nations without land claims agreements, and the Understanding the Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement (The Green Book).

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2003.

Discusses results of project undertaken to map and inventory community gardens and greenhouses in Labrador, Nunavik, Nunavut, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories.

By looking at artifacts belonging to children, author compares childhood in the two cultures.

Looks at interviews with over 100 people working in the mining sector in the Yukon Territory and their spouses to understand how they manage shift cycles that come with work of this type.

Online exhibit of Gwich'in cultural material which explores the close relationship with the land through artifacts, oral stories and photos.

2nd edition.

Interactive online atlas of history, culture and traditional knowledge of the Gwich'in.

Regaining ways and understandings by a group of northern Athapaskans through creating replica 19th century hide clothing.

Examines factors which led to transition from life on the land to living in communities established in locations determined by administrative convenience rather than traditional land use patterns. Argues development of interventionist approaches by the federal government and Dept. of Indian Affairs were primarily responsible for the change.

Discussion of the cost difference between Northern communities and the rest of Canada plus the First Minister's accord on health care renewal in February, 2003.

In the Yukon, Northwest Territoires, and what is now Nunavut, more Aboriginals than non-Aboriginals rated their health as "fair" or "poor".

2nd edition.

Book review of: Heart of the Yukon edited by Lynette Bleiler, Christopher Burn, and Mark O'Donoghue.

Book review of: Heart of the Yukon: A Natural and Cultural History of the Mayo Area edited by Lynette Bleiler, Christopher Burn and Mark O'Donoghue.

Overview of strategies for providing effective education from pre-school to grade twelve and support for students and parents.

Book review of: Here is Where We Disembark by Clea Roberts.

Book review of: Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk edited by Christopher Burn.

Book review of: Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk edited by Christopher R. Burn.

Discovery of items which date from 90 to 7,500 years old, among the oldest organic artifacts in North America, generates excitement among First Nations youth.