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Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
[Aqqaluk Lynge
Robert Comeau
Mary Simon
Nancy Karetak-Lindell
Alfred E.R. Jakobsen … [et al.]]
Description
Essays by authors from across Inuit Nunangat and Greenland discuss the possible impacts of the opening of the Passage due to climate change.
Non-Timber Forest Products: Indigenous Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Livelihood Security in West Suriname
Theses
Author/Creator
Tim van den Boog
Description
Forestry Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.
Northern Communities Working Together: The Social Economy of Canada's North
E-Books
Author/Creator
Chris Southcott
Valoree Walker
Brenda Parlee
Frances Abele
Thierry Rodon ... [et al.]
Nutrient Composition of Selected Traditional United States Northern Plains Native American Plant Foods
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine M. Phillips
Pamela R. Pehrsson
Wanda W. Agnew
Angela J. Scheett
Jennifer R. Follett ... [et al.]
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, vol. 34, 2014, pp. 136-152
Description
Analyzed ten wild plants ((cattail broad leaf shoots, chokecherries, beaked hazelnuts, lambsquarters, plains prickly pear, prairie turnips, stinging nettles, wild plums, raspberries, and rose hips) from three reservations in North Dakota.
The Oceanic Imagination: Canadian and Australian Contributions to a Trans-Indigenous Methodology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Birgit Däwes
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2014, pp. 65-84
Description
Looks at significance of seascapes through representations found in Rebecca Belmore's Fountain, Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach and Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance.
Oil and the Iñupiaq: Linking Industry and Education at Iļisaġvik College
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pearl Kiyawn Brower
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 4, Oil and Indian Country, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Comments on college programming designed to support industry jobs.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Eleven: Introduction
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.
Our Ice Is Vanishing = Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 75
E-Books
Author/Creator
Shelly Wright
Our Ice, Snow and Winds: Indigenous and Academic Knowledge on Ice-Scapes and Climate of Eastern Chukotka
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Irina S. Trukhanova
Arctic, vol. 67, no. 2, June 2014, pp. 262-263
Description
Book review of Our Ice, Snow and Winds edited and compiled by Lyudmila S. Bogoslovskaya and Igor Krupnik.
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.
Pay Attention! We Live Here!
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Agresta
Research Magazine (Michigan Technological University), January 1, 2014, pp. 30-32
Description
Author visits northern Sweden to see the impact of a proposed open-pit mine on the Sámi's traditional pastoral way of life.
Perceptions of Landscape and the Interplay Between Rainfall and Vegetation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Boland
AlterNative, vol. 10, no. 5, 2014, pp. 462-477
Description
Comments on how climate change is altering views on what can be produced from the land.
Persistent Organic Pollutants: A Risk Assessment of Vancouver Island First Nations Traditional Seafoods
Alternate Title
Risk Assessment of Traditional Seafoods
Theses
Author/Creator
Amelia Anne Porter
Description
Environment and Management Thesis (M.Sc.)--Royal Roads University, 2014.
Peyote and Native American Church
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alice Kulhánková
Description
Comments on peyote connection with Native American Church ceremonies and presents general information and description of Native American Church.
Bachelor's Thesis towards undergraduate degree in [English Language and Literature]--University of West Bohemia, 2014.
PILIRIQATIGIINNIQ 'Working in a Collaborative Way for the Common Good': A Perspective on the Space Where Health Research Methodology and Inuit Epistemology Come Together
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwen Healey
Andrew Tagak
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2014, pp. 1-14
Description
Comments on Inuit perspectives on health-related research that may inform health researchers with an interest in Arctic health.
Pipelines, Permits, and Protests: Carrier Sekani Encounters with the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tyler A. McCreary
Richard A. Milligan
Cultural Geographies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2014, pp. 115-129
Description
Comments on the ontological politics at work in permitting a tar sands pipeline through Indigenous territories.
Place, Race and Capital: A Political Ecology of Oil and Gas Expansion in Kitimat, British Columbia
Theses
Author/Creator
Victoria Hodson
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2014.
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.
[Prayer and the Spiritual in Health Ways]
Alternate Title
[Patterns of Health and Wellbeing: An Intercultural Symposium ; 04]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tom Belt
Description
Webcast of a presentation at the Health and Wellbeing Symposium by a teacher of Cherokee grammar.
Duration: 34:48.
Principles of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Deborah C. Poff
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, 2014, pp. 201-203
Description
Book review of Principles of Tsawalk by Umeek (E. Richard Atleo).
Proceedings at Hearing: Topic-Specific Session: Asserted or Established Aboriginal Rights and Treaty Rights, January 17, 2014, Volume 23
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canada Environmental Assessment Agency
British Columbia Environmental Assessment Agency
Description
In the Matter of the Joint Review Panel ("Joint Panel" ) Established to Review the Site C Clean Energy Project ("Project") Proposed by British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority ("BC Hydro").
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.
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.
Quantifying Landscape Spatial Patterns: A Collaborative Forest Management Framework for Tribal and Federal Lands
Theses
Author/Creator
Tmth-Spusmen Wilder
Description
Environmental and Forest Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Washington, 2014.
Re: Mindings: Co-constituting Indigenous / Academic / Artistic Knowledges
Alternate Title
Uppsala Multiethnic Papers ; 55
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Kaori Arai
Jorge Calbucura
Gunilla Larsson
Eva J:son Lönn
Hiroshi Maruyama ... [et al.]
Realizing The Potential: Global Perspectives on Indigenous Economic Development
E-Books
Author/Creator
Public Policy Forum
Reconciliation Here on Earth: Shared Responsibilities
Alternate Title
Environment, Sustainability and Society Lecture Series
MacKay Lecture Series
Reconciliation: Responsibility for Shared Futures
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
James Tully
Description
Discusses the how reconciliation between settlers and Indigenous peoples is linked to environmental sustainability.
Duration: 1:37:16.
Remember the Promise in the Dialect of K’ásho Got'ı̨nę: Based on Stories Told by Sahtú Elders
E-Books
Author/Creator
Betty Harnum
Deborah Simmons
Description
Mixes Dene terms into a English language story relating to species at risk.
Report on: 360 Degrees of Mining Workshop at Minerals North 2014
Alternate Title
Let's Talk Mining
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jerry Asp
Dave Lefebure
Description
Comments on the "Let's Talk Mining" workshop at the conference in Vanderhoof, May 21, 2014, sponsored by the Mining Association of British Columbia. Workshop included information on community sustainability and mine development impacts and benefits.
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.
Resilient Communities? Collapse and Recovery of a Social-Ecological System in Arctic Norway
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Else Grete Broaderstad
Einar Eythórsson
Ecology and Society, vol. 19, no. 3, Rebuilding Fisheries and Threatened Communities: The Social-Ecology of a Particular Wicked Problem, September 2014, pp. 39-48
Description
Examines the history of two fjords and the fisheries-dependent Sámi coastal settlements facing a decline in local fish stocks.
Resource Development in Canada: A Case Study on the Ring of Fire
Alternate Title
Background Paper (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ;
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jed Chong
Description
Looks at the location, size and geology of the area, federal jurisdiction, economic benefits of mining development, ecosystem sensitivity and infrastructure, and initiatives by the federal and provincial governments.
"Revised 29 May 2014."
Resource Sovereignty: The Indigenous Value of Mount Rainier Within Activities of Traditional Resource Harvesting
Theses
Author/Creator
Samantha J. Nemecek
Description
Social Sciences Thesis (M.A.)--University of Denver, 2014.
The Right to Be Free of Fear: Indigeneity and the United Nations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Doreen E. Martinez
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 29, no. 2, Fall, 2014, pp. 63-87
Description
Looks at the value of indigenous knowledge and climate change.
Rising Waters, Rising Threats: The Human Trafficking of Indigenous Women in the Circumpolar Region of the United States and Canada
Alternate Title
Michigan State University College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series ; no. 12-01
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Victoria Sweet
Description
Discusses increased risk factors for women due to an increase in economic development and greater accessibility to the Arctic.
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.
Sami Resource Utilization and Site Selection: Historical Harvesting of Inner Bark in Northern Sweden
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anna-Maria Rautio
Torbjörn Josefsson
Lars Östlund
Human Ecology, vol. 42, no. 1, February 2014, pp. 137-146
Description
Findings from analysis of bark-peelings in a nature reserve in Sweden, suggest inner-bark was used by the Native Sami people to supplement their diet in the spring.
Sampling Criteria for Identifying Human Biomonitoring Chemical Differences in the Canadian Arctic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Meredith S. Curren
Karelyn Davis
Jay Van Oostdam
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 73, 2014, p. article no. 23467
Description
Looks at measuring significant changes in maternal blood concentrations for PCB153 and total mercury.
Saskatchewan First Nations and the Province's Resource Future: The Path to Economic Certainty
Alternate Title
Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy Public Lecture
JSGS Public Lecture
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Perry Bellegarde
Description
Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations outlines Canadian First Nations governance structure and highlights major events, legislation, and court decisions which form the framework for future negotiations.
Duration: 1:31:59.
Presentation Slides
Scenarios For Coastal First Nations' Fisheries Under Climate Change: Impacts, Resilience and Adaptation Potential
Theses
Author/Creator
Lauren Vanessa Weatherdon
Description
Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2014.