Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 9, October 2011, p. 9
Description
Looks at the second annual multi-racial event that promotes understanding of First Nations and Métis culture and history.
Article located by scrolling to page 9.
American Anthropologist, vol. 113, no. 2, June 2011, pp. 262-276
Description
Looks at landscape anthropology and how anti-clearcutting activism at the Grassy Narrows First Nation has changed the vantage point from which activists conceive their experiences with the landscape.
Ecological Applications, vol. 20, no. 3, 2010, pp. 880-894
Description
Discusses problems associated with social research contributions to documenting, representing and interpreting indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK), local ecological knowledge (LEK), and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Looks at projects by architects John Paul Jones, Douglas Cardinal, Dennis Sun Rhodes, David Sloan, Robert Altman and others. Explains how values and identity are expressed within the designs and defined by existence to the landscape.
Duration: 55:18.
University of Victoria Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
Description
Documentary takes a critical look at the environmental public health challenge as expressed by First Nations peoples living in Canada.
Duration: 30:15.
Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program, AAEDIRP
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tom Cooper
Terry Hickey
Leon Sock
Gerald Hare
Description
Purpose of study is to help guide First Nations communities in developing policies, procedures and controls that will ensure effective fisheries management.
Guide to accompany film, Crude Sacrifice. Target audience ages 13 to 17. Contains questions, fun facts and eleven activities to help students develop a deeper understanding of the issues.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1, Winter, 2010, pp. 33-60
Description
Discusses a blockade by members of Grassy Narrows First Nation, which began in 2002 at Slant Lake in northwestern Ontario, to protest industrial clear-cutting.
Highlights the National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (NNADAP).
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Provides analysis of the current challenges that forest governance systems face, and articulates options that might improve the systems and help them respond to current and future challenges facing the forest sector.
Article concludes that it is important to publish failures as well as successes based on a case of conflict between environmental institutions and reindeer owners of the development of a national park.
International Journal of Canadian Studies , no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis / Les représentations des Premiéres nations et des Métis, 2010, pp. 69-98
Description
Discusses a unique sustainable development program with Aboriginal community partners to address traditional knowledge and capacity building.
Landscape designer for the National Museum of the American Indian, speaks about her philosophy during the concept, design and construction stages of building the museum.
Duration: 54:19.
Study found that patterns of sharing of country foods varied between hunters and wage earners; hunters tended to favour associations with distant and collateral relatives, while wage earners focused on parents and siblings. Discusses how these affiliations can affect vulnerability to environmental change.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 32–35
Description
Overview of an interview conducted by Paul Irngaut with an experienced hunter about Inuit knowledge of sea ice and the difficulties documenting and recording this knowledge.
Looks at identifying the effects and consequences of climate warming on traditional territory and discusses the success of a community-researcher partnership.
Journal of Indigenous Research, vol. 1, no. 1, Special Issue, 2011, pp. 1-3
Description
Study found that levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and chlorinated pesticides were attributable to atmospheric transport from industrial areas in temperate climates and their subsequent accumulation in traditional foods.