Yukon

Shows community locations and approximate number of residents.

Shows community locations and approximate number of residents.

Map shows community locations and approximate number of residents.

Author recalls her attempts to avoid being sent back to a residential school.

Argues that for problems of identity the strategy for change requires committed leadership, populations that demand change, and changes to institutions and bureacracies.

Focuses on the Yukon-based First Nations dietetic internship program and other initiatives to recruit and support Aboriginal people who may choose a career in nutrition.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.

Statistical tables, pie charts and brief highlights.

Looks at the results of research undertaken to assess forest tenure as one indicator of Aboriginal participation in the management and economic aspects of forestry. The document also assess the progress made in achieving increased Aboriginal participation in the forest sector.

Statistical table broken down into on-reserve and in Census Metropolitan Areas, and by owners, renters, band housing for Canada as a whole and provinces/territories. Each Census year on separate tab. Source: CMHC (National Household-based housing indicators and data).

Master of Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--The University of Manitoba, 2013.

Looks at an environmental assessment system, that aids in balancing the use of scientific and Aboriginal knowledge, to foster meaningful Aboriginal participation in federal and provincial environmental assessment procedures.

Focuses on opportunities in hard-rock and placer mining. Sources of information include literature review and interviews with Aboriginal leaders, territorial and federal government mining department staff, and industry representatives.

Case studies provide an overview of how aboriginal communities have come to terms with mining and mineral exploration in their territories. They are: Innu Nation and Inco's Voisey's Bay Nickel Mine/Mill; Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation and BHP Diamonds Inc.; Tahltan First Nation, the mining industry, and environmental assessment; Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation and B.Y.G. Mt. Nansen Gold Mine; Makivik Corporation and Falconbridge's Raglan Mine; and Nishnawbi-Aski Nation and Ontario's living legacy.

Looks at the background of Aboriginal and Treaty rights and inherent right to self-government.

Study conducted 2012-2015 included assessment of 40 private drinking wells and how surface water and groundwater were connected using hydrological models and community survey that asked residents about their water sources, opinions about quality, alternative beverages, and preferences in ways to communicate with leaders.

Describes political traditions of First Nations living in the region, considers how cultural and material forces are impacting political cultures, and discusses how formal governments converge or diverge with political traditions.

Focuses on the context of adoption in the Arctic and compares it to patterns in Oceania and West Africa.

Environment and Management Thesis (M.Sc.)--Royal Roads University, 2014.

Examines economic opportunity, wilderness preservation and cultural survival in Alaska and the Yukon. To access this article, scroll down to page 8.

Interview with Alootook Ipellie about shamanism, his works, and walking an invisible border.

Discusses the two most influential environmental assessments; the Berger Inquiry (Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry) and BEARP (Beaufort Sea Environmental Assessment and Review Process) as well as the Great Whale River Hydroelectric Project in Northern Quebec and the Ekati Diamond Mine in NWT.

Compares Yukon Aboriginal government employment and wages to data from across Canada, Northwest Territories and Alaska.

Examines some of the innovative structures and processes of government found in the North and their roots in Aboriginal cultures.

Includes definition of bylaw, discussion of powers under the Cree Naskapi and James Bay Northern Agreement Act and Kwanlin Dun First Nation agreement, brief list of websites and sample residency bylaw.

Source: CMHC (National Household Survey-based housing indicators and data).

59 tables. Access full report.

Uses radio-carbon dating to investigate the hypothesis that two volcanic events forced displacement and migration of Athapaskan speakers in Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon.

Reports survey data from three large cultural areas: the Yukon First Nations, Dene/Métis, and Inuit communities and compares current proportion of traditional food in diets to the precontact period and the amount of traditional food consumed by older vs. younger generation.

Comments on some of the key challenges for northerners and their governments.

Film review of Arctic Son by Andrew Walton.

Investigates the myth of the Arctic as an unspoiled wilderness, a view not shared by Inuit people.

Presents an ecological and nutritional overview of Inuit food sources.

Discussion of the higher risk for obesity, the need for ethnospecific obesity criteria and health interventions.

Looks at impact of the process since 2003 and concludes that outcomes have generally been positive, especially in terms of land use and mining permit processes.

Discusses the significance of the release of the first Inuit- produced feature film, script by Paul Apak Angilirq and directed by Zacharias Kunuk.

Book review of: Athapaskan Women: Lives and Legends by Julie Cruikshank

Comparison of Athabaskan languages.

Looks at the author of The Cremation of Sam McGee, Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Call of the Wild, The Spell of Yukon The Law of Yukon, Songs of a Sourdough and many others.

Project reflects on over 250 publicly-known benefit agreements from the northern regions of Canada.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1984.

After examining the development of Indian policy in the Yukon Territories, government agents were required to adjust procedures and policies from a national perspective to better meet regional realities.

Discusses how administrators of the school modified the curriculum to reflect economic realities of the region. Students returned to their villages but were still disconnected from their communities.

Compares and contrasts indigenous clothing design and recent textile art as "parallel artistic traditions."