Discusses the three most significant aspects of the SGA: the right to mineral resources, the recognition of Greenlanders as people in international law, and the prospect of independence.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity, 2015-05, pp. 1-20
Description
Looks at the relationship between traditional communities, researchers, and entrepreneurs interested in their knowledge and the resulting legal and ethical issues.
Designed to help communities and their leaders: understand the environmental assessment process, how First Nations can be effectively involved, regimes under agreements and acts, and regulatory processes. Some information is specific to the British Columbia context.
Website contains publications, videos, resources and related links to address strategic issues of concern for sustainable development and solutions to pressing global concerns.
Keepers of the Green World: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainability
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kyle Powys Whyte
Description
Essay from forthcoming book Keepers of the Green World: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainability edited by Melissa K. Nelson and Dan Shilling.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 74, no. 1, 2015
Description
Reports on a project that used a collaborative process to create a 13 minute whiteboard video about changing environments in Northern Canadian communities and distributed it to local people. Project stakeholders were able to resolve multiple challenges and feel whiteboard videos may provide a viable and culturally relevant way of disseminating information.
Elders present songs and prayers with discussion about the loss of traditions and values, evils of alcohol, role of elders, etc. Also stories of adventures in intertribal warfare ; a story of a man who married a thunderwoman.