Documentary investigates the resource boom's effects on the Indigenous people of Peru.
Episode of The Nature of Things which aired July 7, 2011.
Duration: 1:22:47.
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.
Looks at the ethnographic study which evaluated impact of construction of pipeline to move water from Lake Powell to Utah communities.
Towards Anthropology Thesis (B.A.)--University of Arizona, 2011.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall, 2011, pp. 78-89
Description
Looks at inclusion of local values and visions in the forest governance, ecosystems and development shared between First Nations and partner municipalities.
Presentations and roundtable discussion by several different professionals including architects and interior designers; Beverly J. Diddy, Paul Fragua, Tamara Gay, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Duration: 58:26.
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis / Les représentations des Premiéres Nations et des Métis, 2010, pp. 99-135
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Looks at strategies Indigenous peoples use to deal with state power and suggests an alternative way.
Scopes main barriers and opportunities with regard to First Nations and the management and state of their waters, and discusses the role that philanthropy might play in building resilience, sustainability and capacity. Topics include context of water use in Canada, water challenges facing First Nations, and possible program and project development initiatives.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 4, Honoring Student Success, Summer, 2011
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Looks at a research program, the Environmental Science Program, that requires students to conduct and defend a full research project in order to graduate.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 119-185
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Book reviews of:
2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick.
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie.
Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer.
Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 183-246
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Book reviews of:
An Aleutian Ethnography by Lucien M. Turner ; edited by Raymond L. Hudson.
The Arapaho Language by Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr.
Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and Plains Cree, 1868–1885 by Jill St. Germain.
Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows.
Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson edited by David H. Dye.
Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored by Robert J.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Indigenous Peoples in Africa, 2003, pp. 38-46
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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.
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.
American Anthropologist, vol. 113, no. 4, December 2011, pp. 606-618
Description
Looks at the feeling of displacement the residents of Anishinaabek First Nations community in Ontario experience on their ancestral landscape due to extraordinary levels of pollution.
Arctic, vol. 63, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 414-428
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Discusses the trend of later freezing of sea ice and the risk this imposes on caribou herds migrating between Victoria Island and the Canadian Arctic mainland.
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; November 2010
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 11-120]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bjorn Rutten
Description
Examines security challenges of Arctic including consequences of climate change, natural and man-made disasters, sovereignty-related issues, and sustainability and resiliency of communities.
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, vol. 62, no. 11, November 2003, pp. 1178-1191
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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).
Presents stories from various First Nations in hopes that they will inspire change in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities across the country to take action on climate change and energy issues.
"This report is intended to provide BC First Nations with some insight into the approach and models that can be considered to implement these rights with respect to specific projects in traditional lands".
Natural Resources Forum, vol. 34, no. 2, May 2010, pp. 106-123
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Identifies perceptions of the risks and benefits of the shellfish aquaculture tenuring system, and presents the results of 56 interviews conducted with individuals involved
in shellfish production in BC.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 6–19
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Overview of an initiative to document and map Inuit sea ice use in Nunavut and Nunavik communities, with a discussion of how Inuit knowledge of sea ice is important to the climatic changes and the cultural and social changes in the Arctic regions.
Border Crossings, vol. 22, no. 4, November 2003, pp. 97-100
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Review of Shore/lines an exhibit at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario featuring Aboriginal artists and other international, national, regional contributions.
Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 35, no. 1-2, Propiété Intellectuelle et Éthique / Intellectual Property and Ethics, 2011, pp. 302-304
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Book review of: SIKU: Knowing Our Ice. Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use by Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Gita J. Laidler, Lene Kielsen.
Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program, AAEDIRP
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeff Orr
Monica Diochon
Clare Fawcett
Behrang Foroughi
Alison Mathie
Leslie Jane McMillan
Description
Looked at the communities of Millbrook First Nation (Nova Scotia), Miawpukek Mi'kmawey Mawio'mi Conne River First Nation (Newfoundland and Labrador), and Tobique Mailiseet Nation (New Brunswick).
Solar Energy Development Programmatic EIS: Information Centre
Web Sites » Governmental
Description
Website focuses on identifying the locations most suitable for utility-scale solar energy development, and evaluating potential environmental, social, and economic effects.