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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William J. Stilwell
E. Peers
Agnes Grant
Lynn Whidden
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1985, pp. 277-282
Book reviews of 4 books: Treaties on Trial by Fay G. Cohen. The Canadian Prairies: A History by Gerald Friesen. New Native American Drama: Three Plays by Hanay Geiogamah. The three plays are entitled Foghorn, 49, and Body Indian. A Homeland for the Cree by Richard F. Salisbury.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Furniss
Barry McGrory
Jeremy Hull
E. Paul Morrissy
Rosanne Gasse
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 1990, pp. 307-341
Book reviews of 15 books: Metaphors of Interpretation: Essays in Honour of W.E.H. Stanner edited by Diane E. Barwick, Jeremy Beckett and Marie Reay. Convertir Les Fils de Cain, Jesuites et Amerindiens Nomades en Nouvelle-France by Alain Beaulieu. The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium edited by Kenneth Coates. Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage by Brain W.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Christopher Paci
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 175-177
Book review of: The Campo Indian Landfill War: The Fight For Gold in California's Garbage by Dan McGovern.
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Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Susan Campbell
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 167-170
Book review of: If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans by Peter H. Eichstaedt.
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The Boreal Woodland Caribou - A Species at Risk

Articles » General
Eagle Feather News, vol. 10, no. 3, March 2007, p. 21
Looks at how to recognize a Woodland Caribou, their habitant, and reasons for being at risk. Article located by scrolling to page 21.
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The Botanical Identification of Northwest Coast Tobacco

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert F. Heizer
American Anthropologist, vol. 42, no. 4, Part 1, New Series, October-December 1940, pp. 704-706
Describes efforts to identify the plant chewed with lime by the Haida and Tlingit.
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Bottom Up and Top Down: Analysis of Participatory Processes for Sustainability Indicator Identification as a Pathway to Community Empowerment and Sustainable Environmental Management

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Evan D. G. Fraser
Andrew J. Dougill
Warren E. Mabee
Mark Reed
Patrick McAlpine
Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 78, no. 2, January 2006, pp. 114-127
Paper assesses the participatory process of three different case studies and comes to three common conclusions, one being that community empowerment is vital.
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Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixed-Blood Indian Creole Identity Outside the Written Record

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
L. Rain Cranford-Gomez
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, 2008, pp. 93-108
Illustrates converging narratives, oral traditions and dialogues that root Louisiana Creoles to an Indigenous history. The Louisiana Creoles are a métis/mestizo people separate but linked to their land and kinship ties.
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Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Heather Myers
Helen Fast
Mina Kislalioglu Berkes
Fikret Berkes
Shirley Thompson ... [et al.]]
Plain language version of Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North edited by Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, and Alan Diduck.
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Breast Cancer in the Arctic - Changes Over the Past Decades

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stine Overvad Fredlund
Eva Cecilie Bonefeld-Jørgensen
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 71, 2012, p. article no. 19155
Reviews current literature and reports on the trends in incidence and cause including health and lifestyle conditions and increases in environmental contaminants.
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A Brief Guide to the James Bay Controversy

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Canadian Association in Support of Native Peoples
Concerns about man-made environmental damage with the undertaking of the James Bay Project is the focus of this booklet. Also mentioned is relocation of 7000 Cree persons and flooding of land.

Historical note:

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Bringing Bison Back to the Badlands

Alternate Title
PERC Case Studies ; February 2014
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Todd Graham
Jeremy Gingerich
Offers sustainable management information on how to successfully manage a buffalo herd in the Badlands.
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Broken Glass as an Injury Hazard in an Indigenous Community

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard Henshaw
Robert Eley
Don Gorman
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, June 2011, pp. 18-26
Looks at ways to reduce glass litter including a public awareness campaign and plans for a recycling plant.
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Buffalo and Snow

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
F. G. Roe
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 17, no. 2, June 1936, pp. 125-146
Discusses whether severe winters could have contributed to the extinction of the buffalo.
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Building a Resilient and Prosperous North: Centre for the North Five-Year Compendium Report

Alternate Title
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; April 2015
[Publication (Conference Board of Canada) ; 6973]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anja Jeffrey
Adam Fiser
Natalie Brender
Brent Dowdall
Summarizes the Centre for the North’s half-decade of research on Canada’s North and provides an analysis of three priority items to be addressed.
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Building Green Campuses for the Seventh Generation

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Marjane Ambler
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 2, Sustainability, Winter, 2005
Describes the installation of geothermal heat pumps at Turtle Mountain Community College in an effort to reduce energy costs and find a source of renewable energy.
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Building Inuit Nunaat: The Inuit Action Plan

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Inuit Circumpolar Council (Canada)
Looks at linkages between issues affecting Inuit and the existence of shared and overlapping responsibilities.
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The Bush Harvest in Pinehouse, Saskatchewan, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terry N.Tobias
James J. Kay
Arctic, vol. 47, no. 3, September 1994, p. 207–221
Reports the findings of a harvest survey on the quantities of bush resources harvested by villagers, over a one-year period, from April 1983 through March 1984.
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Buy Smart Fact Sheet

Web Sites » Organizations
Discusses goals of the Vancouver Organizing Committee's Sustainability and Aboriginal Participation Purchasing Program.
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Cadmium: Fact Sheet

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Guylaine Charbonneau
Provides information about cadmium, its uses, and how if affects people.
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Cairn Above Rankin

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Photograph depicts a cairn built near Rankin [Inlet, NU].
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Calendars of the Indians North of Mexico

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.16, no.4
E-Books
Author/Creator
Leona Cope
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 16, (pp119-176).
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California's Endangered Peoples and Endangered Ecosystems

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M. Kat Anderson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 7-31
Explores the linkages between the diversity of Aboriginal cultures and the diversity of the total collection of organisms in California. The article shows how the diminishment of one adversely affects the other.
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Campbell Clan Credits Sports for Success in Life

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Star-Phoenix, April 23, 2010, p. A15
Comments on three difference themes: the relevance of sport for future success; adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; opposition to the series of dams on the Peace River in British Columbia.
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