Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 2, 2017, pp. 40-51
Description
Author challenges mainstream narratives about the Nenet cultural and historic practice of reindeer herding on the Yamal peninsula; suggests a system of herding based on movement, traditional herd navigation and laws of Nenet-land relationship.
Keeyask Generation Project: Environmental Impact Statement: Response to EIS Guidelines
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Keeyask Hydropower Limited Partnership
Description
Chapter in the report Keeyask Generation Project: Environmental Impact Statement: Response to EIS Guidelines by Keeyask Hydropower Limited Partnership. Looks at the development of principles and processes for the environmental impact statement for the Keeyask Generation Project.
Guide to accompany film, Climate on the Edge: Arctic Mission. Oriented towards senior elementary, secondary school and adult education. Contains discussion questions and activities to raise awareness.
Discusses how Crown and Indigenous governments can engage with each other on the basis of a nation-to-nation relationship to develop regimes for management of resources which ensure mutually beneficial outcomes.
Lists title, location of research, principal investigator, etc. for over ninety projects. Divided by topic area: health related, physical science, social science and traditional knowledge.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 15, no. 8, August 2012, p. 21
Description
Comments on the three day Natural Resources Transfer Act National Summit where delegates discussed ways of sharing resource opportunities with First Nations communities in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba.
Article located by scrolling to page 21.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, Defending Life First, September 2012, p. [?]
Description
Discusses how the government neglected cultural rights by illegally licensing an oil company to do business on traditional lands without community consent.
First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in & Community Gathering
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lee Maracle
Description
Writer/activist looks at the relationships between the land, other living beings and each other and suggests advise to reconnect.
Presents a video lecture, from First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in and Community Gathering, given by a teacher and activist.
Duration: 54:47.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, Water and Indigenous Peoples, 2012, pp. 1-15
Description
Studies the challenges to Indigenous water rights in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru due to hydro-power development, diverted water for mega cities, and large scale irrigation projects.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Sacred Places, Sacred Lifeways, March 2012, p. [?]
Description
Explores an Indigenous perspective on the impact of global climate change through the voices and experiences of the communities represented in the exhibition.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 1-28
Description
Examines Calder’s stop-frame animated feature film in the context of animation, ecocinema, and Indigenous studies; focuses on theme of hybridity and métissage.
Geared toward Grades 7 and 8. Designed to improve literacy and communications skills while learning about Inuit traditional beliefs, shamanism and the traditional relationship with the environment.
Cumulative Impacts to Fort McMurray First Nation #468 Traditional Lands & Lifeways: Shell Jackpine Mine Expansion and Pierre River Mine Report for Regulatory Hearings
FMFN #468 - Shell Hearing
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sherri Labour
Beth Dickson
Description
Existing effects and disturbances analysis prepared for a regulatory hearing for Shell Canada's Jackpine Mine Expansion and Pierre River Mine proposals on Fort McMurray First Nation traditional lands.
Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, vol. 6, no. 1, 2012, pp. 73-89
Description
Offers place-based and inquiry-based approaches to science, technology, engineering and mathematics, enabling students to understand scientific and Native ways of knowing.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 2012, pp. 1-11
Description
Article advocates potential developers to be proactive and involve the community in the consultation process in order to ensure a successful implementation of a project
Journal of Rural and Community Development, vol. 7, no. 1, Human Resources and Remote Indigenous Communities, 2012, pp. 93-109
Description
Looks at the Finnmark Act in 2005, the establishment of Finnmark Estate and contemporary Sami nature practices.
Follows two local women and their families.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, Defending Life First, September 2012, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the community resistance to a hydroelectric project in Guatemala, the death of a community leader, President Molina's response, and military retaliation to the conflict.
Discusses historical and contemporary factors which contribute to high rate of homeless found in the Indigenous population and looks at 12 different dimensions: historic displacement, contemporary geographic separation, spiritual disconnection, mental disruption and imbalance, cultural disintegration and loss, overcrowding, relocation and mobility, nowhere to go, escaping or evading harm, emergency crisis, and climatic refuge,
Pimatziwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, vol. 1, no. 2, Winter, 2003, pp. 163-172
Description
Provides a brief description of the Centre and it's benefits to the Déline community which is located on the west shore of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories.