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"Drifting Away in the Tide": Water Symbolism and Indigenous Environmentalism in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ina Habermann
TransCanadiana, vol. 8, Canadian Sites of Resistance: Solidarity-Struggle-Change(?), 2016, pp. [123]-144
Description
Analyzes how Robinson's novel raises the awareness of Indigenous ways of understanding, living with, and respecting water and the environment. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 123.
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The Economic Urgency of Water Rights

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lee Ahenakew
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 10, January 2010, p. 13
Description

Brief article discusses the issues surrounding water allocation to First Nations and the difficulties in resolving the problem due to conflicting jurisdictions.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.13.

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Editorial

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Maggie Walter
David Singh
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2012, p. 1
Description
Introductory article previews articles contained in this issue related to the discipline of critical Indigenous studies.
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Enquête sur la Revendication de la Première Nation des Chipewyans D'Athabasca: Revendication Concernant le Barrage WAC Bennett et les Dommages Causés à la Réserve No 201

Alternate Title
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Inquiry: WAC Bennett Dam and Damage to Indian Reserve 201 [Inquiry Report, French Language Version]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Indian Claims Commission Final Report which examines whether the Crown has obligations relating to damages sustained by the construction of the dam, French language version. Commissioners include : P.E. James Prentice, Carole T. Corcoran, Aurélien Gill. Historical background and submissions to the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding Canada breaching its fiduciary obligations to the Band for environmental damages to Reserve 201 caused by construction and operation of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam.
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Finding Our Way: Discussion Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Leone Sandercock
Scott Graham
Description
Film about conflict between the Ts’il Kaz Koh First Nation (Burns Lake Band) and the Village of Burns Lake. In 2000 the municipality cut off water and sewage services to the reserve, which led in turn to the Band taking the Village to the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
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First Nations Land Rights and Environmentalism in British Columbia

Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Karen Wonders
Description
Website looks at First Nation relationships with the land, natural resource and development. Provides links to First Nations Bands - Tribes, Councils, Alliances, education centres and First Nations organizations in British Columbia.
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Fish for the Family

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Lois Dalby (photographer)
Description
A set of 36 photographs of Lydia and Napthelie McKenzie and their family catching, preparing, and cooking fish.
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Fishing through the Ice

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Larry Hewitt (photographer)
Charles Feaver (photographer)
Description
A set of 27 photographs showing Cree fishermen catching fish for their families through the ice in the 1970s using the jigger system.
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Forced to Abandon Their Farms: Water Deprivation and Starvation among the Gila River Pima, 1892–1904

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David H. DeJong
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 29-56
Description
Examines the National Reclamation Act and how many people in the Gila River and Casa Grande valleys, including government officials, thought that the first reclamation project would be built in Arizona.
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From Milk-Medicine To Public (Re)Education Programs: An Examination Of Anishinabek Mothers' Responses To Hydroelectric Flooding In The Treaty #3 District, 1900-1975

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brittany Luby
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2015, pp. 363-389
Description
Describes how Anishinabek women attempted to maintain their subsistence livelihood in light of the disruptive influence of several hydroelectric projects on the food supply and reproductive health.
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Generations of Betrayal: Mishkeegogamang, Called `Mish' by Those Who Live There, Is a Community That Sums Up All That Is Wrong with Canada's Treatment of Native People

Articles » General
Canada and the World Backgrounder, vol. 67, no. 6, May 2002, pp. 20-3
Description
Social and health problems of the Ojibway of northwestern Ontario in Treaty 9 territory, due in a large part to dams causing flooding of traditional hunting, fishing and trapping lands, and the peoples' subsequent move to reserve.
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[Grand Plans for More Hydro Power]

Alternate Title
Venture ; March 20, 1988
[James Bay Project: Grand Plans for More Hydro Power]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Robert Bourassa
Robert Scully
Description
Interview with Premier of Quebec about phase two of the James Bay Project (also known as the Great Whale). Duration: 6:06.
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