Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Eleven: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
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Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
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Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
The Opinions of Ambulance Personnel Regarding Using a Heated Mattress for Patients Being Cared for in a Cold Climate - An Intervention Study in Ambulance Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonas Aléx
Tom Uppstu
Britt-Inger Saveman
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1379305
Description
Ambulance personnel from northern Sweden rate their experiences as being positive for patient comfort.
Organochlorine Levels in Maternal and Umbilical Cord Blood Plasma in Arctic Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jody Butler Walker
Laura Seddon
Ed McMullen
Jan Houseman
Karen Tofflemire
André Corriveau
Jean-Phillipe Weber
Carole Mills
Samuel Smith
Jay Van Oostdam
The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 302, no. 1-3, January 20, 2003, pp. 27-52
Description
Discussion of the base line for exposure to organochlorine and metal contaminants, and the higher rates of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) for Inuit, Dene and Métis.
Our Identities as Civic Power
Alternate Title
2017 State of Native Youth Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute
[Erik R. Stegman
Amber Richardson
Josie Raphaelito
Aaron Slater
Bettina Gonzalez]
Description
Reports on the results of the Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) Online Roundtable Survey of Native American youth between the ages 18-24. Respondents were asked about their three top priorities, what they are doing to tackle their challenges, and some of the ways they are partnering with their community to build resilience.
Our National Competitiveness and Canada's Territories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Description
Discusses the adaptability of businesses in Canada's territories and the necessity of the federal and territorial governments to do the same.
Our Nationhood
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alanis Obomsawin
Description
Looks at the Listuguj Mi'gmaq people and their determination to manage the natural resources of their traditional lands.
Duration: 1:36:00.
Paddling Together: Co-Governance Models for Regional Cumulative Effects Management
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica Clogg
Gavin Smith
Deborah Carlson
Hannah Askew
Description
Includes case studies of co-management models from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Florida.
Particulate Matter and Gaseous Contaminants in Indoor Environments in an Isolated Northern Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Guggisberg
Patrick A. Hessel
Dennis Michaelchuk
Martin Atiemo
Dip Th
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 62, no. 2, 2003, pp. 120-129
Description
Report recommends that measures should be taken to reduce indoor smoke exposure in order to achieve better health outcomes.
People of the Robin: The Tsimshian of Kitsumkalum: A Resource Book for the Kitsumkalum Education Committee and the Coast Mountain School District 82 (Terrace)
Alternate Title
Solstice Series ; no. 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
James Andrew McDonald
A Perpetual Peace: American Indian Treaties and the Environment
Theses
Author/Creator
M. René Johnson
Description
Rhetoric and Technical Communication (Ph.D)--Michigan Technological University, 2003.
Petropar Camp
Images » Photographs
Description
"Petropar Camp, Maury Point, Weatherall Bay, Melville I. (Dornier plane)", [NU].
Petropar Camp
Images » Photographs
Description
"Petropar Camp, Maury Point, Weatherall Bay, Melville Island", [NU].
Petropar Camp
Images » Photographs
Description
"Petropar Camp, Maury Point, Weatherall Bay, Melville Island", [NU].
Petropar Camp
Images » Photographs
Description
"Petropar Camp, Jameson Bay, Prince Patrick Island", [N.W.T.].
Pinpinayhaytosowin [The Way We Do Things]: A Definition of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in the Context of Mining Development on Lands of the Attawapiskat First Nation and its Effects on the Design of Research for a TEK Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Norbert Witt
Jackie Hookimaw-Witt
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2003, pp. 361-390
Description
Discussion of why TEK studies are needed, how to proceed, and impact of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) regulations on traditional land use.
Practice-Based Interdisciplinary Approach and Environmental Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ranjan Kumar Datta
Environments, vol. 4, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-14
Description
Compares and contrasts scientific and practice-based approaches, discusses why a move from one to the other is important and how the change would impact future research and researchers.
Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the
Northern Rockies
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sarah E. McFarland
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 289-291
Description
Book review of Producing Predators by Michael D. Wise.
Professors' Knowledge of Agriculture and Natural Resource Issues on Hopi and Navajo Lands: A Contributing Factor in Native American Student Recruitment and Retention
Theses
Author/Creator
Melvina Marie Adolf
Description
Agricultural Education Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Arizona, 2003.
Profiling the eNuk Program
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alexandra Sawatzky
Ashlee Cunsolo
Oliver Cook
Dan Gillis
Inez Shiwak ... [et al.]
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, Innovations in Community Health and Wellness, July 2017, pp. 18-22
Description
Looks at Inuit strategy for monitoring and responding to the impacts of environmental change on health and wellbeing in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut.
Protecting the Arctic, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Edmund Searles
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. 540-543
Description
Book review of: Protecting the Arctic by Mark Nuttall.
Psychological Effects of Technological/Human-Caused Environmental Disasters: Examinations of the Navajo and Uranium
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol A. Markstrom
Perry H. Charley
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 11, no. 1, 2003, pp. 19-45
Description
Reviews the history of uranium and discusses efforts for compensation.
[Recensions/Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Louis-Jacques Dorais
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. 535-537
Description
Book review of: [Pt. 2] L'Hiver et le Nord. by Louis-Edmond Hamelin, with the participation of Marie-Claude Lavallé, project supervised by Hélène Cajolet-Laganière and Pierre Martel.
Review in French.
[Recensions/Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean Rousseau
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. [546]-549
Description
Book review of Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador edited by Colin H. Scott.
Review in French.
Resilience and Rebellious Memory Loops: Further Musings of an American Indian Ethnoecologist
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Enrique Salmón
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 127-132
Description
Author of Eating the Landscape discusses how resilience theory can explain the relationship between traditional knowledge and adaptive change to ecological circumstances.
Righting Past Wrongs: The Case For a Federal Role in Decommissioning and Reclaiming Abandoned Uranium Mines in Northern Saskatchewan
Alternate Title
Public Policy Paper (Saskatchewan Institute for Public Policy) ; no. 21
SIPP Public Policy Paper ; 21
E-Books
Author/Creator
Ian Peach
Don Hovdebo
Rights to Land: The Case of the Maasai of Tanzania
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Benedict Ole Nangoro
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Indigenous Peoples in Africa, 2003, pp. 38-46
Description
Historical overview of land management, ownership and programs for villages and discusses new opportunities for pastoral communities arising from land policy and legislation.
To access this article, scroll down to page 38.
Risks and Impacts to First Nation Health and the Mount Polley Mine Tailings Dam Failure
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janis Shandro
Laura Jokinen
Alison Stockwell
Francesco Mazzei
Mirko S. Winkler
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 12, no. 2, 2017, pp. 84-102
Description
Describes findings from the Mount Polley Mine Health Impact Assessment including which communities were impacted by the breached dam.
Rivers, Fish and the People: Tradition, Science, and Historical Ecology of Fisheries in the American West
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Joshua L. Reid
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 136-137
Description
Book review of: Rivers, Fish and the People by Pei-Lin Yu.
Salmon Farming and Salmon People: Identity and Environment in the Leggatt Inquiry
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothee Schreiber
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 4, 2003, pp. 79-103
Description
Looks at the provincial Leggatt Inquiry, the legal and political context surrounding it, and the intrusion into First Nations territory and ways of life and peoples effected.
Saving Salmon the American Indian Way
Alternate Title
PERC Policy Series ; 29
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Manuel Nikel-Zueger
Description
Looks at a sustainable system of salmon fishing based on property rights to fishing sites.
Seasonal Circles
Alternate Title
Yukon Grade 7 Cross-Curircular Unit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Trine Dennis
Description
Contains material that can be used for mathematics, physical health and education, English language arts and science classes.
Seeds as Ancestors, Seeds as Archives: Seed Sovereignty and the Politics of Repatriation to Native Peoples
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christina Gish Hill
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 93-112
Description
Looks at how colonization impacted traditional foodways, the importance of access to traditional seeds, and the need to repatriate them from seed banks.
Serotonergic Brainstem Abnormalities in Northern Plains Indians with the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hannah C. Kinney
Leslie L. Randall
Lynn A. Sleeper
Marian Willinger
Richard A. Belliveay ... [et al.]
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, vol. 62, no. 11, November 2003, pp. 1178-1191
Description
Study tested the hypothesis that receptor binding abnormalities to the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT) was a factor in the high rate of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
'Seven Fortunes vs. Seven Calamities': Cultural Poverty From An Indigenous People's Perspective
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Bamba
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Indigenous Poverty: An Issue of Rights and Needs, 2003, pp. 26-35
Description
Discusses the moral and ethical ideals of poverty in Kalimantan, Borneo.
To access this article scroll down to page 26.
Shore/lines
Alternate Title
Shorelines
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Terrence Heath
Border Crossings, vol. 22, no. 4, November 2003, pp. 97-100
Description
Review of Shore/lines an exhibit at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario featuring Aboriginal artists and other international, national, regional contributions.
Soil, Water, and Man in the Desert Habitat of the Hohokam Culture: An Experimental Study in Environmental Anthropology
Theses
Author/Creator
Arieh El-Zur
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1965.
Some Notes on Native American Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carter Revard
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 15, no. 1, Series 2; [Special Issue in Honor of Carter Revard], Spring, 2003, pp. [1]-15
Description
Speech delivered by Carter Revard at the Mystic Lake Symposium on Native American Literature, Prior Lake, Minnesota, April 11, 2002.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
"Stone Monument of Eskimo Man"
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Description
A stone monument at Cape Dorset, N.W.T. [NU].
"Straight from the Heavens into Your Bucket": Domestic Rainwater Harvesting as a Measure to Improve Water Security in a Subarctic Indigenous Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicholas Mercer
Maura Hanrahan
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1312223
Description
Discusses project to improve water access for the Inuit community of Black Tickle-Domino, Labrador.
Talking Rocks: Geology and 10,000 Years of Native American Tradition in the Lake Superior Region
E-Books
Author/Creator
Ron Morton
Carl Gawboy
Task-dependent Cold Stress During Expeditions in Antarctic Environments
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Drew M. Morris
June J. Pilcher
Robert B. Power
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, pp. 1-7
Description
Looks at health and safety risks in the polar tourism industry in the Antarctic.
"The Tay River Watershed is Our Responsibility": The Ardoch Algonquins and the 2000--2002 Environmental Review Tribunal Hearings
Theses
Author/Creator
Bettina Koschade
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2003.
Territorial Parks, Coastal Guardians and Other Concepts for First Nations Involvement in the Great Lakes Heritage Coast
Alternate Title
2003 – PRFO Workshop on Social Science and Protected Areas
Algonquin Research Symposium ; 2003
Social Science Research in Parks and Protected Areas
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mike Robbins
Description
Looks at some of the key findings and recommendations regarding First Nations involvement in coastal protection including cultural and environmental issues.