Presents the welcome page of the Our Legacy digitization project of archival materials relating to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples held by several archival cultural collections in Saskatchewan.
Summarizes the results of research with Pikangikum First Nation elders to learn about their perspectives and knowledge of fire in their traditional area.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 19, no. 3, Autumn, 1966, pp. 81-99
Description
Discusses the causes, management of, and groups responsible for prairie fires; contemporaries asserted that the Métis , halfbreed "bone hunters", and railroaders were primarily responsible.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 22, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 23-55
Description
Compares old and new environmental ethics pertaining to Indigenous peoples and Euro-Americans.The author also explores the concept of indigenous knowledge.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring, 2020, pp. [221]-242
Description
Uses a response justice framework to discuss research done in collaboration with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria which provides a more culturally relevant understanding of history that can also be used to speak about modern issues.
Assess the impact, implication and application of two traditional land use and occupancy studies that have been conducted in First Nation communities over the last decade.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 19, no. 2, Autumn, 2004, pp. 79-104
Description
Analyzes of the vision quest of Native Americans by using resources of the Lakota. The most famous resource is the book Black Elk Speaks, which is deemed controversial because of the sacred knowledge it imparts to the reader.
Identifies factors, issues, challenges and programmes that may enter into discussions about learning priorities among First Nations reserves and communities in order to provide guidance and direct potential actions.
Describes the role of narrative and land-based education in an eco-restoration forestry program and negotiations between the North Fork Mono Tribe and U.S. Forestry Service with respect to forest management.
Website mapping application used to showcase Tlingit Place names and the stories associated with those places; also to convey Tlingit ideologies of stewardship and relationship with the land.
Film about looking for one's roots which includes a dialogue between the Gourmantche tribe of Africa with the Atikamekw of Northern Quebec.This film contains scenes of violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
Duration: 48:27.
Society & Natural Resources, vol. 24, no. 4, April 2011, pp. 368-383
Description
Looks at tensions that exist between traditional First Nations values and the values of a commercial forestry operation by examining the experiences of the Tl'azt'en First Nation.
Open Journal of Nursing, vol. 2, no. 2, June 2012, pp. [143]-148
Description
Brief review of nine principles for community based participatory research and offers a description of the context of a long-term relationship with Standing Buffalo First Nation in Saskatchewan.
A summary of 15 semi-directed interviews with Cree and Inuit Elders, conducted in June of 2012 regarding climate change and the health of polar bears. Participants unanimously agreed on the reality of a warming climate and a prolonged ice-free season, but differed by community in their perception of the health of the polar bears
Sharing Indigenous Wisdom International Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ethan Baptiste
Description
Discusses five traditional leadership principles: the will of the people, leadership training, protection of the land, leading by example, and continuously validated authority.
Author analyzes ways in which settler colonialism manifests and can be explored through actions, self-reflection and relationships; discusses the process of self-decolonization and its implications for relationship-building between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 87-109
Description
Research report draws on field notes and case studies to assess the capacity of Tribal governance bodies to manage watersheds using a combination of Western and Indigenous scientific practices, and to analyze tribal management in context of collaborative watershed management groups.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, 2006, pp. 63-84
Description
Analysis of the inititiatives by the Tutelo of the Six Nations Reserve at Grand River, Ontario to protect their identity and culture amid the Great League of the Iroquois Nations in 1934-35.