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Estimating Wildlife Harvest Based on Reported Consumption by Inuit in the Canadian Arctic
Food Insecurity among Inuit Living in Inuit Nunangat
The Indigenous Land Claims in New Zealand and Canada: From Grievance to Enterprise
The Inuit Food System: Ecological, Economic and the Environmental Dimensions of the Nutrition Transition
Paddling Together: Co-Governance Models for Regional Cumulative Effects Management
Presentation to: Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs and Technology: Bill C-5: Proposed Public Health Agency of Canada Act
Project Jewel
Psychosocial Correlates of Suicide Ideation and Attempt among Inuit from Nunavut, Nunatsiavut and Inuvialuit
Recovering Rights: Bowhead Whales and Inuvialuit Subsistence in the Western Canadian Arctic
Regional-scale Food Security Governance in Inuit Settlement Areas: Opportunities and Challenges in Northern Canada
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Billy Day, Inuvialuit Communications Society
Vice-President of the organization discusses his organization's role providing information and entertainment to the Inuvialuit (Inuit) of the Western Arctic; the importance of media and communications; their newspaper and television operations; revitalizing the Inuit language and culture via media; the cultural effects of southern mass media on the Inuit; funding, equipment, and staffing concerns; and a recommendation to the Commission that Aboriginal peoples get the same resources and consideration for their broadcasters as French and English Canadians do.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Mary Jane Adamson and Billy Day, Inuvialuit Communications Society
Adamson discusses the importance of Aboriginal broadcasting to not only Aboriginal but non-Aboriginal Canadians as an educational and cross-cultural understanding tool; language and educational issues; and job training in broadcasting. Billy Day comments on trapping in Inuvik; the impact of the animal rights movement on the trapping economy; land claims and conservation; relations with the RCMP; as well as education and the impact of residential schooling in the North on Aboriginal languages. Following the presentation the assembled Commissioners discuss some of the issues raised.