Indigenous Knowledge

Discusses the environmental damage that mining, including exploration, has caused the Takla Lake First Nation. The paper includes an overview of international and domestic Aboriginal rights law; analyzes the problems mining raises for First Nations; and concludes that structural, procedural, and substantive legal reforms are needed.

Book review of: The Beaver Hills Country: A History of Land and Life by Graham A. MacDonald.

Participant's description of the Canadian Armed Forces' Junior Canadian Rangers (JCR) program, which gives 12-18 old youth discipline and increased traditional knowledge.

Outlines the modernist beginnings of Aboriginal literature in Canada. Part one.

Looks at effective and culture-based approaches to research that is grounded in a holistic methodology from the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional aspects, not only from the researcher's point of view, but also from the community members themselves.

Discusses how the Ktaqamkukeweq Mi’kmaq are working to revitalize traditional practices to reclaim their cultural and ethnic identity.

Author's interpretation of Michael Chandler's essay, On Being Indigenous: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of 'Cultural Identity'.

Discussion of the future of the 300 million Indigenous Peoples around the world.

Bernard Irkogartuk with his children (including his daughter [Netsitih]) at Pelly Bay, N.W.T. [NU] (community changed name to Kugaaruk in 1999).

Study examined the characteristics of several berry patches where the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en of Northwestern British Columbia had used landscape burning as a tool for plant management.

Looks at the parallels that exist between structures of traditional Indigenous resource management systems and those based in western science to develop forest practice standards in the coastal temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound.

Includes extensive literature review and examples from different regions and sectors and from different adaptation contexts based on submissions from relevant organizations.

Report provides suggestions of how to promote the meaningful involvement of First Nations in the environmental assessment processes with respect to land and resources.

Discusses the medicalization of women’s in health in Mexico; articulates considerations of separation from traditional healthcare providers and practices, invasive Western practices surround pregnancy and birth, and discrimination against Indigenous and/or Afro-descendant women. Analyzes the way that poor women use the phrase “being cut” to describe “multiple experiences of frustration, mistreatment, and violence during childbirth.”

Interview discusses the different ceremonies and dances relating to culture and tradition. Duration: 1:02:31.

Book review of: Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England by Amy E. Den Ouden.

Describes the development of a culturally relevant preschool curriculum model for training programs and services.

Discusses the concept of schools being intercultural meeting grounds.

Author discusses his experience in working with the Hopi tribe, and the development of culturally sensitive dispute-resolution services and legal systems.

Author explores relationship between Indigenous knowledge and Western thought. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.

Comments on practical ways to address the physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health of Indigenous peoples.

Supports the need for Australian Aboriginal health worker to continually promoted themselves as distinct.

Curriculum & Instruction Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2017.

Gila River Indian Community process of transforming their Department of Public Health (DPH) into one that incorporates the values and health concerns of the Native American community.

Books and articles published in academic journals.

Argues that construction of medicine wheels illustrates knowledge of stars and astronomy that the Indigenous people possessed.

Looks at the success or failure of laws and policies that were meant to protect community rights, culture, and material resources and the use of community protocols as tools.

Examines biocultural engineering design methods to enhance modern sustainable buildings.

Integrated Studies Project towards (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2013.

Emphasizes the need to provide immediate, short and medium-term benefits, rather than waiting the 8-10 years it may take for monetary reimbursement, when new plant derived therapeutics based on Indigenous Knowledge are being explored. The article uses examples of initiatives taken by Shaman Pharmaceuticals and the Healing Forest Conservancy.

Examines initiatives in Vancouver and Perth.

Uses visual and mixed art media to explore one's ancestry and identity, heritage and land. Timiskaming First Nation included.

Discusses link between the arts, ancestry and identity.

Author was founder of the Woodcraft Indians, a youth movement which appropriated Aboriginal culture.

Discusses the origin story of the irö and how to identify and tally migrating raptors.

Discusses early anthropological misconceptions about Blackfeet women and the construction and maintenance of the tipi.

Consists of an interview the tells the legend of the creation of the moon.

Consists of an interview that mentions how the priests gave the Blackfoot a new calendar as well as discussing how the Indians count.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2014.

Examines problem gambling among individuals through an exploratory study that presents a hypothetical model utilizing traditional knowledge.

Book review of: Blackfoot Ways of Knowing by Betty Bastien.

A performance piece recreates the author's experiences growing up as he attempted to reclaim his Native American heritage.