Environmental Research, vol. 80, no. 2, February 1999, pp. S213-S222
Description
Discusses a 1996-1997 study to research the health risks of contaminant exposure and the correlation to freshwater fish consumption in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake.
Report includes inquiries and responses regarding: Gamblers First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Inquiry; Nekaneet First Nation Agricultural and Other Benefit Under Treaty 4 Inquiry; Moose Deer Point First Nation, Pottawatomi Rights Inquiry. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P. E. James Prentice, Roger J. Augustine, Carole T. Corcoran, Elijah Harper, and Sheila G. Purdy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Social and Economic Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Douglas Nakashima
Marie Roué
Description
Chapter in book: Social and Economic Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Volume 5 edited by Peter Timmerman.
Part of Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change edited by Ted Munn.
Broadcast discusses after-effects of ruling in the Donald Marshall, Jr. case and concerns about aggressive lobster fishing. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section.
Duration: 7:30.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, 2002, pp. 479-490
Description
Article examines the phenomenon in which toxins are concentrated in the fat of mammals and how this especially affects Inuit people because marine mammals make up such a large percentage of their diet.
Arctic, vol. 55, no. 2, Supplement, June 2002, pp. 18-[?]
Description
Thirty year comparative study of commercial and subsistence harvesting, area hunted and population, showed little change in wildlife levels despite changes in travel mode, population, and oil and gas exploration in Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, vol. 4, no. 2, 1999, p. 16
Description
Discusses how Indigenous people in Washington State have established a new ethos in environmental management of collaborating with industry, government and environmental groups to solve their concerns.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, Summer, 2002, pp. 360-377
Description
Author speaks to both commercial and food fishers from the Ahousaht and Namgis First Nations to learn about their experience of the effect of the salmon farming industry.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 169-192
Description
Looks at changes in hunting, fishing and gathering patterns and speculates about the future of this way of life while there are also significant weather, technology, nutrition and dietary changes occurring.
Professional Geographer, vol. 54, no. 2, May 2002, pp. 140-157
Description
Argues that although portrayed as exclusively "hunter-fisher-gatherers", there is ample evidence that the peoples of this region also created gardens of edible plants using sophisticated methods. Author further argues that this portrayal was used to rationalize dispossession of traditional territories.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, 1999, pp. 159-173
Description
Examines the US Federal Court Case to determine the Aboriginal treaty rights, in Washington State, to take Shellfish (in the law case shellfish were termed all marine life other than fin fish).
Provides an exposure scenario that may help improve the risk assessment of tribal communities whom practice a traditional subsistence lifestyle and diet.
Presents a study that examines the unique problems and issues that effect the sustainability of nine communities that are timber-dependent, tourist dependent, subsistence dependent, and forest dependent.
Analysis of situation in Russia, Norway, Finland, Alaska, and Sweden for Sami herders in terms of management systems, economic efficiency, external conditions, and legislation.
Summary Report.
Arctic, vol. 55, no. 4, December 2002, pp. 395-397
Description
Book review of: Thunder on the Tundra by Natasha Thorpe, Naikak Hakongak, Sandra Eyegetok and The Kitikmeot Elders. Presents findings from the Tuktu and Nogak Project, 2001.