Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
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
Documents & Presentations
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.
The Other Side of the Story: The Danish Public Procurement Policy on Timber and Wood Products
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sille Stidsen
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Logging and Indigenous Peoples, 2006, p. [?]
Description
Looks at guidelines, standards and sustainability implications for forest dwelling communities from an Ingenious point of view.
Other Than the Interpretation of Dreams: The Dane-Zaa Indians and the Vision Quest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Martinez
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 2006, pp. 117-146
Description
Looks at the concept of dreams and the importance of using local Indigenous dreaming customs when analyzing the practices.
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.
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.
The Paleoeconomy of Norse Greenland: Adaptation and Extinction in a Tightly Bounded Ecosystem
Theses
Author/Creator
Thomas Howatt McGovern
Description
Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1979.
Pausing Along the Journey: Learning Landscapes, Environmental Change, and Toponymy Amongst the Sikusilarmiut
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Henshaw
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 43, no. 1, 2006, pp. 52-66
Description
Presents the initial results of a project being conducted on place-names in the Sikusilarmiut land use area of southwest Baffin Island.
Perceptions of Health and Environmental Contamination on the Aamjiwnaang First Nation Reserve
Theses
Author/Creator
Kizzy Bedeau
Description
Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor, 2006.
Post Apocalyptic Vision and Survivance: Nuclear Writings in Native America and Japan
Theses
Author/Creator
Kyoko Matsunaga
Description
Focus on authors: Simon J. Ortiz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilou Awiakta, Gerald Vizenor.
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2006.
The Potential Impact of the Medieval Climatic Anomaly on Human Populations in the Western Mojave Desert
Theses
Author/Creator
Jill Kathleen Gardner
Description
Anthropology and Ethnic Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2006.
Power Lines: Urban Space, Energy Development and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Theses
Author/Creator
Todd Andrew Needham
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2006.
Powerful Parallels: Deep Ecology and the Writings of Vine Deloria, Jr.
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard M. Wheelock
Indigenous Policy Journal of the Indigenous Studies Network, vol. 17, no. 2, Summer, 2006, p. [?]
Description
Examines the similarities between traditional tribal thought as expressed in the writer's work and religious, philosophical and scientific developments in the ecology movement today.
Access through table of contents.
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.
Precontact Utilization of Sandhill Environments During the Pelican Lake and Besant Phases
Theses
Author/Creator
Barbara S. Neal
p. 377
Description
Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2006.
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.
Productivity and Predictibility of Resource Yield: Aboriginal Controlled Burning in the Boreal Forest
Theses
Author/Creator
Theresa A. Ferguson
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Alberta, 1979.
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.
Profits of Bloom: How Indigenous People Can Save the World, and Make Money Doing So
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jonathan Haskett
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1, Bridging the Gap Between Law and Reality, Spring, 2006
Description
Explains how land-use projects can be beneficial to indigenous peoples in developing countries by generating tradeable emission-reduction credits.
Prophet River Ethnobotany: A Report on Traditional Plant Knowledge and Contemporary Concerns of the Prophet River First Nation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kelly Bannister
Description
Summarizes the results of an ethnobotanical study, conducted during 2002-2006, which documented traditional plant knowledge and ecological values of Elders and other knowledgeable community members.
[Recensions/Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Julie Rodrigue
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, Problématiques des Sexes / Gender Issues, 2006, pp. 194-196
Description
Review of Les Inuit de l'Arctique Canadien edited by Pauline Huret.
Review in French.
[Recensions/Books Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Benoit Ethier
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, Problématiques des Sexes / Gender issues, 2006, pp. 187-189
Description
Review of CD-ROM: When the Weather is Uggianaqtuq: Inuit Observations of Environmental Change by Shari Fox.
Review in French.
Records of Times Past: Ethnohistorical Essays on the Culture and Ecology of the New England Tribes.
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sylvia J. Hallam
Aboriginal History, vol. 3, no. 2, 1979, pp. 156-158
Description
Book review of: Records of Times Past edited by Isabel McBryde.
To access review, scroll down to page 156.
Red Earth Cree Nation Close-Knit Community
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, April 21, 2006, p. A11
Description
Comments on the flooding at Red Earth, Saskatchewan and how the media said people were evacuated to Prince Albert and Saskatoon, but many stayed with relatives at the Opaskwayak First Nation at The Pas, or Shoal Lake, Cumberland House and James Smith First Nations.
Renal Disease: Environment, Race or Genes?
Alternate Title
Original Reports: Pathophysiology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sharon Adler
Ethnicity & Disease, vol. 16, no. 2, Supplement 2, Spring, 2006, pp. S235-S239
Description
Contends that factors such as socioeconomic status and disparities in the health care system are of greater importance than genetics.
Report 1: An Introduction to the Science of Climate Change
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
March 2006
Description
Presents an introduction on how climate change will significantly impact First Nations people due to their locations, reliance on the environment, and limited adaptation strategies.
Report 2: How Climate Change Uniquely Impacts the Physical, Social and Cultural Aspects of First Nations
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
March 2006
Description
Discusses various effects that climate change will have on First Nations communities such as transportation, water quality, infrastructure, housing, and many more.
Report 3: Impacts of Climate Change on First Nation Economies
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
March 2006
Description
Examines the unique economic impacts of climate change on First Nations subsistence and income-generating economies.
Report 4: First Nations' Governance and Climate Change: Key Issues
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
March 2006
Description
Provides insight into the challenges facing First Nations people and the ability to demonstrate effective governance that would lead to responses and decisions that could minimize climate change impacts.
Report 5: Climate Change and First Nations: Recommendations for Action
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
Description
Presents recommendations for climate change-related action, taking into account issues relating to First Nations peoples impact, adaptation and mitigation measures.
Report 6: Legal Review of First Nations' Rights to Carbon Credits
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Description
Looks at the legal rights First Nations people have in Canada to be able to assert to own and to use carbon in trees, and focuses on how Aboriginal, treaty, and land title rights might be exercised so that they can sell credits to industry or government.
Report on the Sencot'en Alliance's Participation in the Planning and Management of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Carly Chunick
Description
Describes the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve and sets out the legal framework for the Sencot'en Alliance First Nations' involvement in the planning and management of the park.
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.
A Review of the Northern Ecosystem Initiative in Arctic Canada: Facilitating Arctic Ecosystem Research Through Traditional and Novel Approaches
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark L. Mallory
Carey Ogilvie
H. Grant Gilchrist
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, vol. 113, no. 1-3, 2006, pp. 19-29
Description
An evaluation of the Northern Ecosystem Initiative that supports partnership-based approaches important to the conservation, protection, and restoration of northern ecosystems and sustainability of northern communities.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dawn Karima Pettigrew
J. Anthony Paredes
Steven Ross Evans
Andrew Gulliford
Peter d'Errico
Robert E. Ackerman
Lindsey Claire Smith
James S. Frideres
Stephanie Norton Joynes
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Victoria Smith
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, 2006, pp. 131-181
Description
Book reviews of:
Another Attempt at Rescue by M. L. Smoker.
Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment by Renée Ann Cramer.
Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf, and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest by Robert R. McCoy.
Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers edited by Jesus F. de la Teja and Ross Frank.
Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous People of Their Land by Lindsay G.
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.
Say 'No" to the Total Destruction of Amazay Lake
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Summit Task Group
Description
Looks at Aboriginal title and rights regarding the Northgate Miners' Kemess North Expansion Project.
Science, Local Knowledge and Exclusionary Practices: Lessons From the Alta Dam Case
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chad M. Briggs
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift / Norwegian Journal of Geography, vol. 60, no. 2, 2006, pp. 149-160
Description
Interviews local leaders of the anti-dam movement, leaders of the Sami community, political journalists, and science researchers to look at Alta Dam's exclusionary practices and how state officials ignored residents' perspective.
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.
Shared and Shifting Land(scapes): Making Memoir and Personal Ecology in the Pajarito Journals of Peggy Pond Church
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shelley Armitage
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 27, no. 3, 2006, pp. 111-139
Description
Looks at the interplay of observation, memory, dream, imagination, metaphor-making, and the spiritual and psychological responses to the landscape in the Pajarito Journals of Peggy Pond Church.
Sharing in the Benefits of Resource Developments: A Study of First Nations-Industry Impact Benefits Agreement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gordon Shanks
Description
Describes and analyzes the role of the agreement and makes recommendations based on the findings.
Sharing One Skin
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jeanette Armstrong
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 4, Land & Resources in the Americas, Winter, 2006
Description
Comments on the essential responsibility of the Okanagan people to bond with the land.