Integrates the Inuit perspective with the standard school curriculum enabling students to learn about Inuit history, knowledge, traditions, values, beliefs and language.
Northern Review, no. 47, Dealing with Resource Development in Canada's North, August 03, 2018, pp. 167-185
Description
Study employs the Arctic Social Indicators (ASI) framework to assess the health of six communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR). Indicators assessed include: health and population, material well-being cultural vitality, closeness to nature, education, and fate control.
Project had three phases: initial scan of academic and grey literature dealing with training, education and workforce development programs, jurisdictional scan of government, industry, and Aboriginal-led programs in six case-study regions, and subsequent discussions with stakeholders about findings.
Study consisted of sharing circles with five groups of grandmothers in four regions, semi-structured interviews conducted with 24 mothers, chart audit of 597 babies born in 2016, and examination of practices reported during well-baby visits.
Identifies ways in which the Government of the Northwest Territories can ensure access and decision-making roles for Indigenous women. Discusses human resource policies, educational opportunities, role of the Women's Advisory Office, and the need for affordable and accessible child care.
Alternatives Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, October 1996, p. 10
Description
Argues that assessment can be a good process for determining whether or not the outcomes of economic development are positive or negative and for ensuring that environmental and human equity concerns provide an ethical base for decision making.
Discusses Indigenous, regional, state or territorial, and federal policy context in Canada and the U.S. At each level options and their accompanying opportunities and challenges are identified, and recommendations are made.
The Northern Review, no. 41, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, 2015, pp. 41-80
Description
Looks at how policy-making has addressed mine and mineral exploration reclamation problems in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, northern Labrador, and Nunavik.
Looks at the demographic profile of the Northwest Territories and summarizes literature relevant to nutritional health of the Déne and Métis populations.
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 60-75
Description
Considers Aboriginal worldviews around the relationships humans have with, and the responsibilities they have to non- or more-than-human entities as a framework for environmental activism, opposition to resource extraction, and government regulation. Asserts that a re-examination of the way that humans connect to our non-human relations is necessary for survivance.
Riel Rebellion troops (Canadian militia?) in the Touchwood Hills, east of Humboldt, en route to Long Lake, N.W.T. Man on white horse is General Middleton, according to Aboriginal archivist Wes Fineday. (See RDB). There were several successive HBC fur trade ports in Touchwood Hills. Note telegraph poles.
Statistical data of percentage of daily or occasional smokers amongst the population 12 years and over in Nunavut, Canada as a whole, as well as each province and other territories.
Statistical data for number of police officers and the rate per 100,000 population in Nunavut, Canada as a whole, as well as each of the provinces and other territories.
Provides links to documentation about Copper and Caribou Inuit, NLaka'pamux and Dene peoples. Explores changes in materials, methods used, styles, and decoration of traditional and contemporary garments.