Environment

Comments on the International environmental organization Ecotrust on choosing a British Columbia educator, Jeannette Armstrong for the Buffet Award for Indigenous Leadership, and honouring four other finalists.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.22.

"This toolkit is designed to assist First Nations in understanding the kinds of clean/renewable energy there are, how to begin looking into doing a clean energy project, pre-feasibility, feasibility, developing, financing, relationship building, opportunities, and where to find resources".

[Nursing] Thesis (M.N.)--Montana State University, 2011.

Project chronicles the changes encountered during Soviet rule concerning relocation and centralization of reindeer herding communities.

Looks at issues raised in the First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey with respect to safety of community water.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page [1]. Provides an overview, facts and figures and an analysis of the urban ecosystem.

Comments on traditional ecological knowledge and practices.

Study of seafood diet , that may be contaminated, and potential health risks for Aboriginal coastal peoples.

Book review of: The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan by William Sanders.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1970.

Presents an introduction to childrens books that promote multi-culturalism, and world and environmental issues. Article found by scrolling to page 24.

Overview of cultural and ecological background of study, description of process of harvesting and constructing baskets, and discussion of the role of gender in archaeology.

Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies Thesis (M.A)--Trent University, 2013.

Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, 2011.

Looks at a variety of indicators measuring economic development to provide the Atlantic Aboriginal community with a tool to measure progress in its economy; and to collect, analyse, and report on indicators of socio-economic progress.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.17 (p.115-273).

Discusses action plan resulting from hearings in First Nations communities regarding management and allocation in BC fisheries.

Summarizes the knowledge arising from First Nations land use planning activities as expressed through practitioners and participants themselves. Final version.

Series of eleven articles about the rainforest environment and wildlife and the threats including a proposed pipeline project.

Book review of: Book of Good Mind: Essay on the Coast Salish by Bruce G. Miller.

Book review of: Be of Good Mind: Essays on the Coast Salish by Bruce Granville Miller.

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.

Author relates her experiences of going, "back to nature" during the 1980s and 1990s in the Soviet Union/Russia era.

Book review of: Before Custer edited by M. John Lubetkin.

Results of a 5 year study conducted with Inuit in northern Quebec, published in The Canadian Arctic Contaminants Assessment Report show exposure to mercury and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) and correlation with behaviours.

Book review of Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton.

Book review of: Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton. Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 131.

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

Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 2012.

Director of the Saskatchewan Medical Services Branch of the Department of Health and Welfare claims radon level in Red Earth Reserve water is not a hazard.

Looks at how the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry was conducted and methodology developed by the Inquiry.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 1983.

Discusses the Berger Inquiry and how the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry (MMIWGI) should emulate the Berger Inquiry in three fundamental ways.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2002.

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.

Depicts the Board's challenges addressing the declining amount of contaminated, traditional food versus the increasing consumption of high caloric, processed foods.

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.

Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M)--University of Manitoba, 2010.

Natural Resources Management (M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 2010.

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

Book review of: Between Fire and Water, Ice and Sky by Gretchen Diemer.

Paper presented at Conference on Canadian-United States Energy Issues After Copenhagen: Oil Sands and Energy Interdependence. Looks at the First Nations relationships to mining development as both critics and supporters.

Speech by the President of the Native Women's Association of Canada at the Teach-In on Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization, November 2006. (8:34 minutes)

Environmental Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2013.