Water

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Report summarizes the major findings from a workshop on the challenges and solutions relating to water governance in First Nations communities.

Reports on impact of poor water resources on the overall health of the Aboriginal population.

Discusses Ortiz’s essay in the context of contemporary concerns surrounding water and environmental damage as forms of oppression of marginalized peoples. Calls for Indigenous led resistance to government and corporate control, and for dismantling systemic factors of oppression which sacrifice peoples and lands in favour of neocolonial and corporate interests.

Discusses some of the sociopolitical issues and topics addressed in special issue including #NoDAPL, the cuts to the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), water sovereignty, regulation and distribution, and extractive practices.

Comments on the development of water management plans as called for by Alberta's Water Act

Global Indigenous Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, 2009.

Article analyzes the existence and nature of Aboriginal water rights, and argues that Aboriginals should be fully involved as the government of Alberta reviews water management policies.

Examines unsafe water and related health problems in Black Tickle, Labrador.

Discusses the legal and political fights for water in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community, and the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, and looks at the impact of water-rights in those communities.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University, 2011.

Explores the Pala Indians' relationship with the river and traces the history of the litigation.

The meaning of the settlement claims of the James Bay Cree and the Inuit of Northern Quebec.

Global Indigenous Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, [2011]

Discusses historical Native land rights issues in these two novels.

Focuses on Standing Rock Sioux Water Protectors' fight against construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, United States v. Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska’s defense of Blackbird Bend.

Discusses whether or not the consultation was adequate with respect to the Site C Clean Energy Project.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2006.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2013.

Argues that neo-liberal reform in Ontario has served to exacerbate historical disparities in the health, environment and well-being of First Nations in southern Ontario.

Presents legal issues pertaining on-reserve water rights in an historic context.

English Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2010.

Examines author Leslie Marmon Silko’s post-1990 works, Almanac of the Dead, Sacred Waters, Gardens in the Dunes, and Oceanstory in the context of a growing focus on water scarcity and sovereignty; highlights Aboriginal and Native American perspective on the privatization of water for profit, and neocolonial and imperial interests.