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Theses
Author/Creator
Michael Leibovitch Randazzo
Description
Human Kinetics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.
Leading the Way to Sustainability: A First Nation’s Case Study in Self-Sufficiency
Theses
Author/Creator
Kimberleigh C. Schultz
Alderville First Nation
Description
Environment and Management Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2017.
Focuses on the Alderville First Nation's large solar project.
Learning about Walking in Beauty: Placing Aboriginal Perspectives in Canadian Classrooms
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Renee Abram
Nora Allingham
David Anderson
Robin Buyers
Jacqueline Moore Daigle .... et al.]
Learning From Experience: Editor's Introduction [Volume 3, Number 1]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Warren I. Weir
The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 3, no. 1, Special Issue on Sustainability, Summer, 20021-3, pp. 1-3
Description
Brief, introductory article for this issue focusing on sustainable development.
Lessons Learned through Community-Engaged Planning
Alternate Title
Manuscript 1338
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert J. Patrick
Laura Machial
Kendra Quinney
Len Quinney
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-17
Description
Looks at a community project to get safe drinking water through source water protection and water management.
Letter from the Editors: [Food (In)security in the North]
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andrew Spring
Deborah Simmons
Joshua Gladstone
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, p. 8
Description
Introduction to articles in journal issue on food security from the perspectives of community members, researchers, and policy analysts.
Levels of Cadmium, Lead, Mercury and [Caesium.sup.137] in Caribou (Rangifer Tarandus) Tissues from Northern Quebec
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
S. Robillard
G. Beauchamp
G. Paillard
D. Belanger
Arctic, vol. 55, no. 1, March 2002, pp. 1-[?]
Description
Contaminants in wild animal organs and tissue harvested in 1994 and 1996 indicate risk for human consumption.
Linking Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and Western Science in Natural Resource Management: Conference Proceedings
Alternate Title
SIFERP series ; 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeanette Armstrong
Dick Cannings
Fred Fortier
Lauretta Prince
Ken Lertzman ... [et al.]
Description
Discusses perspectives regarding natural resources and working toward common principles of sustainability based on Indigenous and western approaches.
Linking Social Values of Wild Reindeer to Planning and Management Options in Southern Norway
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bjørn P. Kaltenborn
Mehmet Mehmetoglu
Vegard Gundersen
Arctic, vol. 70, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 129-140
Description
Examines responses of 1000 respondents to 39 statements of attitudes and values associated reindeer presence and management in two regions.
Living Traditions: Museums Honour the North American Indigenous Games
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Canadian Canoe Museum
Elliott Avedon Museum
Musée des Abénakis
Wabanaki Confederacy
University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
National Museum of the American Indian
St. Boniface Museum
Sport Canada
Woodland Cultural Centre
Description
Site explores “traditions and histories of sporting events and games of yesterday and today.” Featured are 2002 North American Indigenous Games, the “Sacred Run,” lacrosse, canoe, kayak, Métis, Inuit and Woodland games and sports, archery, and Coast Salish canoe racing. Includes link to teacher resources.
Mars Project Brings Space Program to Nunavut Youth
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 5, September 2002, pp. 30-31
Description
Reports on the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS), which simulates a mission to Mars on Devon Island.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.16.
Mechanisms of Indigenous Exclusion in British Columbia's Environmental Assessment Process
Theses
Author/Creator
Hollis Katherine Andrews
Description
Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.
Mine Site Reclamation Policy for Nunavut: A Policy for the Protection of the Environment and the Disposition of Liability Relating to Mine Closures in Nunavut
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Document outlines policy to manage mineral resources while ensuring environmental and human health impacts are minimized.
Mine Site Reclamation Policy for the Northwest Territories
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)
p. 18
Description
Outlines the policy for environmental protection and any liability issues relating to mine closures located in the Northwest Territories.
The Moral Epistemology of First Nations Stories
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jim Cheney
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 7, no. 2, [Telling Our Stories], 2002, pp. 88-100
Description
Comments on several storytellers (Carol Geddes, Louise Profeit-Leblanc, Vine Deloria, Lee Hester) to show that storytelling should be part of environmental education, ethics and practice.
Moving Toward the Circle of Prosperity: the Cyber-Journey
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carrie L. Billy
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 14, no. 2, American Indian Higher Education Consortium 30th Anniversary, Winter, 2002
Description
Discusses the use of new technology, in Colleges, to grow, serve, and preserve the languages, stories and songs of the surrounding communities.
Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
G. Hattersley-Smith
Arctic, vol. 55, no. 3, September 2002, pp. 302-3
Description
Book review of: Muskox Land by Lyle Dick.
Muslims, Navajos, and Peaches
Articles » General
Author/Creator
George H. Junne
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Looks at how an Asian fruit was cultivated by Navajo Indians in the Chelly Canyon.
"Native" Advertising: An Evaluation of Nike's N7 Social Media Campaign
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W. Scott Sanders
Selene G. Phillips
Cecelia Alexander
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 43-63
Description
Evaluates the success of the campaign in the context of targeted marketing to ethnic minorities and representation of Native Americans in advertisements, and presents two case studies which assess whether the company successfully engaged with youth via Twitter.
Native American Issues in Early Childhood Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Guy W. Jones
Sally Moomaw
Description
Chapter one in book: Lessons From Turtle Island: Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms by Guy W. Jones, Sally Moomaw.
Native Lands and Livelihoods in British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cole Harris
Historical Geography, vol. 30, Indigenous Peoples: Contested Lands, Contested Identities, 2002, pp. [15]-32
Description
Discusses the variety of reasons for many small reserves rather than a few larger ones.
Native Studies 10
E-Books
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Learning
Description
Saskatchewan Learning Curriculum Guide.
Negotiating Life Within the City: Social Geographies and Lived Experiences of Urban Metis Peoples in Ottawa
Theses
Author/Creator
Daniel Dumas
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.
Negotiating Space: Geographies of the British Columbia Treaty Process
Theses
Author/Creator
Marian Hyndman
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2002.
Neurobehavioral Performance of Inuit Children with Increased Prenatal Exposure to Methylmercury
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pál Weihe
Jens C. Hansen
Katsuyuki Murata
Frodi Debes
Poul J. Jørgensen
et al.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 61, no. 1, 2002, pp. 41-49
Description
Reports that prenatal or early postnatal exposure to methylmercury causes subtle neurobehavioral problems.
Never Alone: (Re)Coding the Comic Holotrope of Survivance
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michelle Lee Brown
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 22-44
Description
Article examines the use of gaming and other communication technologies as strategies for resistance, survivance and cultural resurgence; discusses practices of re/mapping, kinship-making and relationality.
Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story
Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
Description
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
New Media Cultures: Protocols for Producing Indigenous Australian New Media
E-Books
Author/Creator
Terri Janke
A New Shared Arctic Leadership Model
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mary Simon
Nilliajut 2: Inuit Perspectives on the Northwest Passage Shipping and Marine Issues
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
[Aqqaluk Lynge
Robert Comeau
Mary Simon
Nancy Karetak-Lindell
Alfred E.R. Jakobsen … [et al.]]
Description
Essays by authors from across Inuit Nunangat and Greenland discuss the possible impacts of the opening of the Passage due to climate change.
No Takebacks
Alternate Title
No take backs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen Graham Jones
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 139-169
Description
Short fiction piece. When two friends develop an app for mobile devices the results are much different than they expect.
Non-Timber Forest Products: Indigenous Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Livelihood Security in West Suriname
Theses
Author/Creator
Tim van den Boog
Description
Forestry Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.
Not Your Grandfather's Horse: Automobiles Performing the Trickster in Modern and Contemporary Work by Artists from Plains Cultures
Theses
Author/Creator
Aaron Moses
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Oklahoma State University, 2017
Refers to the works of Horace Poolaw, Dallin Maybee, Arthur Amiotte, Jay Polite Labor, and Wendy Red Star
La Nuit Inuit: Éléments de Réflexion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Guy Bordin
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, Inuit and Qallunaaq Perspectives: Interacting points of view, 2002, pp. [45]-70
Description
Compares historical writings about the Inuit and the effect of the long periods of darkness and the actual Inuit attitudes and perceptions.
Text in French.
Nutrition North Canada: Real Change is Yet to Come
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michael Fitzgerald
Fred Hill
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 44-48
Description
Examines what the Liberal government has done since coming into power, in October 2015, for the Nutrition North Canada program.
Oil and the Iñupiaq: Linking Industry and Education at Iļisaġvik College
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pearl Kiyawn Brower
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 4, Oil and Indian Country, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Comments on college programming designed to support industry jobs.
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ezekiel Gow
BC Studies, no. 195, Autumn, 2017, pp. 174-175
Description
Book review of Once They Were Hats by Frances Backhouse.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 174.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Eleven: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
The Opinions of Ambulance Personnel Regarding Using a Heated Mattress for Patients Being Cared for in a Cold Climate - An Intervention Study in Ambulance Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonas Aléx
Tom Uppstu
Britt-Inger Saveman
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1379305
Description
Ambulance personnel from northern Sweden rate their experiences as being positive for patient comfort.
Our Identities as Civic Power
Alternate Title
2017 State of Native Youth Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute
[Erik R. Stegman
Amber Richardson
Josie Raphaelito
Aaron Slater
Bettina Gonzalez]
Description
Reports on the results of the Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) Online Roundtable Survey of Native American youth between the ages 18-24. Respondents were asked about their three top priorities, what they are doing to tackle their challenges, and some of the ways they are partnering with their community to build resilience.
Our National Competitiveness and Canada's Territories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Description
Discusses the adaptability of businesses in Canada's territories and the necessity of the federal and territorial governments to do the same.
Paddling Together: Co-Governance Models for Regional Cumulative Effects Management
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica Clogg
Gavin Smith
Deborah Carlson
Hannah Askew
Description
Includes case studies of co-management models from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Florida.
Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Scott P. Stephen
BC Studies, no. 194, Summer, 2017, pp. 202-204
Description
Book review of Pemmican Empire by George Colpitts.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 202.
La perception du carcajou/glouton par les Inuit du Nord canadien: Du passé au present
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frédéric Laugrand
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 243-263
Description
Author describes the different perceptions of the wolverine in Dené and Gwich’in culture both as a presence that people must be wary of in the bush and status as a powerful tuurngaq (totem or spirit guide).
Text in French.