Video of speech given by the Director of Economic Development for the Whitecap Dakota Nation and Chief Executive Officer of the Whitecap Development Corporation at the 2010 Growing Saskatchewan Conference.
Three parts. Viewer is automatically sent to next part.
Total Duration: 38:06.
Contends mining companies should act consistently with the principles of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) even in the absence of specific legislative requirements.
Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 19, no. 4, March 2011, pp. 376-384
Description
Examines the changing approaches towards sustainable development undertaken by the Mining Association of Canada within the mineral industry over a period of approximately 20 years.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 8, August 2011, p. 16
Description
Comments on ten Saskatchewan youth who attended the 2011 Native American Youth Entrepreneurship Camp in Arizona and the skills attained from participating.
Article located by scrolling to page 16.
Discusses the University of Manitoba City Planning Department and four Manitoba First Nations' partnership to work on community development and issues. Themes identified were: housing development, commercial activity, natural and traditional preservation areas, recreation, water and waste management transportation, community services and culture.
Argues that the legal framework has not kept up with demographic shifts because it focuses on land-related rights and ignores off-reserve and non-status population. As such, it disproportionately affects women who have been displaced through discriminatory effects of the Indian Act.
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, vol. 29, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 37-47
Description
Examines whether the approved environmental assessment for the Victor Diamond Mine in northern Ontario was properly scoped using criteria identified by the Government of Canada.
Website provides learning materials about the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia before the province was created. Contains links to complete collection of correspondence from 1846 to 1871. One section of teacher material deals with question "Were the Douglas Treaties and the Numbered Treaties Fairly Negotiated?"
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 69-70
Description
Looks at interviews with over 100 people working in the mining sector in the Yukon Territory and their spouses to understand how they manage shift cycles that come with work of this type.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 4, April 2011, p. 21
Description
Comments on an awards gala held to honour the best Aboriginal business achievers, identifying one business and one individual each year.
Article found by scrolling to page 21.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, Tradition Knowledge, Spirituality and Lands, 2011, pp. 1-4
Description
Looks at methods to engage tribes and First Nations in the development of resource management of public lands using their traditional ecological knowledge.
Impact Assessment & Project Appraisal, vol. 29, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 49-58
Description
Presents results from research into the perspectives on environmental assessments of Canadian indigenous peoples, in particular British Columbia’s West Moberly First Nations, the Halfway River First Nation and the Treaty 8 Tribal Association.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, The Interconnectedness of Languages, Rivers, and Forests, December 2011, p. [?]
Description
Discussion on Indigenous governance and territorial autonomy in defence of Indigenous rights and the destruction that the Patuca III dam project would cause.
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 2017, pp. 290-321
Description
Argues that while school officials regarded the practice of placing male students as farm labourers during the summer months as a method of assimilation, many used their employment to serve their own purposes.
Full report on project which looked at the effects of situating camps associated with Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline project close to small and already vulnerable communities.
Brief discussion of project which looked at effects of situating camps associated with Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline project close to small and already vulnerable communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 215-240
Description
Discusses definitions and contemporary significance of subsistence and indigenous economies; explores the relationship between subsistence and wage labor, particularly from the perspective of women; looks at the roles of indigenous women in subsistence activities; and examines the indigenous economic systems and the concept of the social economy as a foundation for contemporary indigenous governance.
Case studies of Marine Plan Partnership for the Pacific North Coast and the Great Bear Initiative and discussion of how principles involved might apply in the New Zealand context.
Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 31, no. 3, April 2011, pp. 216-225
Description
Research conducted with West Moberly First Nations, Halfway First Nation and the Treaty 8 Tribal Association suggests that both the First Nations and resource-based industries involved in environmental assessment struggle with engagement and consultation issues and could benefit from a review of the process.
Brief business case study discusses the background and activities of for-profit organization which promotes economic development in Innu communities located in Newfoundland and Labrador.