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The Effect of First Nations Modern Treaties on Local Income

Alternate Title
E-Brief (C.D. Howe Institute). Public Governance and Accountability
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fernando M. Aragón
Compares communities that implemented a treaty between 1991 and 2006 to those who have not in British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and Yukon.
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Emergency Management in the Arctic: The Context Explained

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Meredith Kravitz
Vanessa Gastaldo
Discussions on the emergency preparedness needs of northern Indigenous communities with highlights of key issues and obstacles for success including geography, population density, infrastructure, communications, and climate change.
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EmPower the Yukon. Using Community Renewable Energy in the Transition to Energy Resilience: A Social Enterprise Approach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Furlong
Northern Review, no. 49, Place-Based Sustainability Research in the Provincial North, February 20, 2020, pp. 219-256
Article discusses the basis of and frameworks for moving to a community centered model of renewable energy production in the Yukon; examines current models of energy infrastructure ownership and argues that community-based energy production would create resilience.
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Environmental Change and Traditional Use of the Old Crow Flats in Northern Canada: An IPY Opportunity to Meet the Challenges of the New Northern Research Paradigm

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brent B. Wolfe
Murray M. Humphries
Michael F. J. Pisaric
Ann M. Balasubramaniam
Chris R. Burn
et al.
Arctic, vol. 64, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 127-135
Looks at identifying the effects and consequences of climate warming on traditional territory and discusses the success of a community-researcher partnership.
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Estimating Economic Activity in Canada’s Northern Regions

Alternate Title
Briefing (Conference Board of Canada) ; February 2011
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 11-201]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jacqueline Palladini
This report calculates and compares the gross domestic product output in Canada’s Northern regions, including the three territories and the Northern parts of seven provinces, between 1999 and 2009.
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Evaluating Food Use by Canadian Aboriginal Peoples

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eleanor E. Wein
Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, vol. 73, no. 6, 1995, pp. 759-764
Comments on necessary modifications to standard methods for assessing food consumption when researching Aboriginal communities.
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Expedition Yukon 1967: Centennial and the Politics of Mountaineering in Kluane

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
PearlAnn Reichwein
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 92, no. 3, September 2011, pp. 481-514
Discusses how the mountaineers narratives associated with the Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition can offer insights to an epistemology of place where landscapes, nature and culture exist as an integrated entity.
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Experiences of Opportunity in the Northern Resource Frontier

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cynthia Amati
Brenda Parlee
Naomi Krogman
The Northern Review, no. 41, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, 2015, pp. 181-206
Presents interviews with immigrants, temporary workers, and refugees in either Whitehorse or Yellowknife about their daily lives and plans for the future.
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Failing American Indian Languages

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbra A. Meek
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 43-60
Discusses the types of discourse in relations to American Indian speech, American Indian language, and Indigenous-language revitalization.
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Federal -- Provincial Welfare Services -- Indian Eskimo Welfare

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
The Missionary Society of the Anglican Church of Canada
Articles relating to: children in non-aboriginal schools, the status of indigenous persons, Diefenbaker's honorary degree from Dalhousie University, an issue of Indian Outlook, a copy of the first bulletin of the Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada, and the work of Anglican missionaries.
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First Nations Women: Leaders in Community Development

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jan Langford
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, Women of the North, Fall, 1994, pp. 34-36
Comments on the changes that have taken place in communities since the inception of the Yukon Indian Women's Association.
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FirstVoices Kids

Alternate Title
First Voices Kids
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
First Peoples' Cultural Foundation
Access to language archives for pre-readers. Links to words, colouring pictures, phrases, and exploring picture games. Over 30 languages represented.
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FirstVoices: Language Legacies Celebrating Indigenous Cultures

Alternate Title
First Voices
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
First People's Cultural Foundation
Mainly focusing on British Columbia languages, site supports language archiving, teaching and revitalization. Within each language there are links to alphabets, text and audio of words, phrases, and songs, stories with English translations, and games. Over 30 languages represented.
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Five Pre-Clovis Sites That Won't Go Away

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Science, vol. 249, no. 4970, New Series, August 17, 1990, p. 740
Brief descriptions and locations on a map of pre-Clovis sites in North and South America.
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