Overview of the changes regarding involvement of local people in the process of incorporating indigenous knowledge into resource management decision making.
Recovering From Colonization: Perspectives of Community Members on Protection and Repatriation of Kw KW Akw Aka'Wakw Cultural Heritage (January 2005 Draft)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Catherine Bell
Heather Raven
Heather McCuaig
Description
Examines community efforts to revive cultural practices, reclaim knowledge, and get back cultural objects, specifically involving the potlatch system. Scroll to page 51
Advocates increased funding to reduce poverty and improve aboriginal conditions, allowing Canada to maintain high rankings given by the UN human development index.
Discusses the allocation and management of lands and resources as it affects Aboriginal peoples and as seen in the case law that deals with Aboriginal rights.
Provides information about sustainable initiatives in various First Nations communities throughout Canada. The initiatives focus on economic, environmental, and social sustainability.
Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Shirley Thompson
Description
Discusses importance of the impact of environmental change on food security due to widespread poverty, contamination causing toxic impacts, and government policies restricting access to land and resources.
Chapter 3 from Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North edited by Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, Alan Diduck.
Discussion of the Okanagan Nation Transition Emergency House (ONTEH) which provides women and children access to healing, counselling and employment programs.
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
Description
Summarizes some of the issues impacting the well-being of First Nations children living on reserve including jurisdictional disputes, inequitable funding, lack of respect for Indigenous laws and ways and using the Indian Act to clarify the rights of children and their families. Concludes with recommendations.
Paper presented to the Ipperwash Inquiry includes a general discussion of relations between Aboriginals and Euro-Canadians and specific issues and incidents involving fishing and resource rights, and sacred burial grounds.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 759-761
Description
Argues that the United States has a legal and moral obligation to meet quality health services, and for many low income Aboriginal Americans the Indian Health Service (IHS) is the only source of coverage.
Report divided into two parts: Part one: Voices of Front-line AECD (Aboriginal Early Childhood Development) Workers in BC; Part 2: Communities Working Together for a Common Goal: Integration and Coordination of AECD Programs .
Argues that the proposed program is an off-loading, cost saving exercise for the Department of Indian Affairs and will hurt already underfunded reserve schools.
Looks at the background and history of Aboriginal Early Childhood Development including the development of government policies and funding initiatives.