IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 1, no. 2, 2015, pp. 1-31
Description
Looks at the success or failure of laws and policies that were meant to protect community rights, culture, and material resources and the use of community protocols as tools.
American Anthropologist, vol. 113, no. 2, June 2011, pp. 262-276
Description
Looks at landscape anthropology and how anti-clearcutting activism at the Grassy Narrows First Nation has changed the vantage point from which activists conceive their experiences with the landscape.
Lists works written by Indigenous authors published between 2000 and 2018. Focuses on substantial books, articles and book chapters on original primary historical research, research methodology and historiography.
Suggests several strategies that aboriginal peoples might consider for research relating to their land, environment, resources and non-human life forms.
Brief history and evolution includes discussion of the ecological, social, and cultural factors surrounding the international governance of biodiversity, traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights.
Divided into seven sections: Legal Frameworks and Analysis; DNA and Property Rights; Historical and Theoretical Accounts of Intellectual Property Rights; Case Studies; Biological Resources and Ethnomedicine; Websites on Intellectual Property Rights and Related Issues; and Organizations.
Ryerson University Rally supporting Robert Lovelace, KI Chief Donny Morris of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) community, (Ontario) and councillors who were jailed for protesting mining development on traditional land.
Duration: 10:00.
International Conference on the Cultural & Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples ; 1st, 1993
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First International Conference on the Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Description
Conference held to discuss significant issues including Indigenous knowledge, biodiversity, biotechnology, environmental management, arts, music, language, and spiritual and cultural issues.
Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 6, no. 35, Spring, 1981, pp. 2-13
Description
Discussion of uranium mining, questions of sovereignty, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, cultural integrity, radiation hazards and the anti-nuclear movement.
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Description
Looks at the legal rights First Nations people have in Canada to be able to assert to own and to use carbon in trees, and focuses on how Aboriginal, treaty, and land title rights might be exercised so that they can sell credits to industry or government.
Describes the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve and sets out the legal framework for the Sencot'en Alliance First Nations' involvement in the planning and management of the park.
Explores the role of water spirits in the belief system of Africans and the ramifications of environmental threats to sacred pools. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.
Documents sixteen case studies and highlights innovative tools and approaches developed to help local communities address critical challenges that affect their natural and cultural resources.
Uses three case studies to show the inadequacies in sharing arrangements for traditional knowledge holders regarding the use of biological and genetic resources and the restrictions of using existing intellectual property frameworks.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 10-35
Description
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.