The Northwest Passage and the Construction of Inuit Pan-Arctic Identities
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Author/Creator
Claudio Aporta
Michael Bravo
Fraser Taylor
Description
Atlas focuses on Eastern and Central Canadian Arctic and provides synoptic view of "Inuit mobility and occupancy of Arctic waters, coasts and lands, including its icescapes, as documented in written historical records (maps of trails and place names)".
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, October 2018, p. Article 4
Description
Discusses food sovereignty and Indigenous ways of knowing with an eye to the conflict between promoting knowledge for the sake of resurgence and running the risk of subjecting knowledges, resources and communities to exploitation, criminalization and over-harvesting.
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, vol. 4, no. 3, Spring, 2014, pp. 177-192
Description
Discusses participatory community research project involving the Island Lake Opakitawek Cooperative. In addition to needs assessments, team undertook strategic business analysis and development of business plan.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 109, no. 5-6, December 2018, pp. 684-691
Description
Used red blood cell folate (RBCF) levels in sample of 249 non-pregnant women from the Inuit Health Survey, 2007-2008; results suggest a need for initiatives which will improve food security, culturally relevant education on folate-rich traditional foods, access to vitamin supplements, and smoking cessation.
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 60-75
Description
Considers Aboriginal worldviews around the relationships humans have with, and the responsibilities they have to non- or more-than-human entities as a framework for environmental activism, opposition to resource extraction, and government regulation. Asserts that a re-examination of the way that humans connect to our non-human relations is necessary for survivance.
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.
An interview with Rufus Goodstriker, born in 1924 on the Blood Indian Reserve and attended a residential school. He tells of the origins and significance of the transfer of Indian names, especially within his own family. He also talks about Indian medicine and the power of faith; the Indian spiritual way vs. the Western technological way;of herbs, animal spirits, sweat bath in healing etc.
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.
American Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, December 2018, pp. 741-754
Description
Author discusses the violent social media response Tanya Tagaq received after having posted a photo of her daughter next to a harvested seal; uses the incident to illustrate how colonial violence disproportionately targets Aboriginal women.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 9-30
Description
Looks at reasons for the population's poor health and difficulties encountered when a tribes try to control production, quality and distribution of food. Some of the issues include definition of "traditional food", access, environmental degradation, poaching and invasive species.
Analyzes 30 stories and conversations with community members to articulate the First Nation's legal principles with respect to: territorial and harvesting protocols and practices; establishing and maintaining agreements and conflict resolution; decision making; relationships, responsibilities and rights; and consequences, enforcement and teaching. Uses individual traditional stories as a foundation for case briefings.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 93-112
Description
Looks at how colonization impacted traditional foodways, the importance of access to traditional seeds, and the need to repatriate them from seed banks.
Les désignations des oiseaux en yupik sibérien : Que peuvent nous dire les noms d’oiseaux sur les transitions linguistiques et cognitives ?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Igor Krupnik
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, 2017, pp. 179-213
Description
Author examines recorded names for birds in the language of the Yupik; finds a strong correlation between the imposition of Russian language and schooling and the loss of Yupik bird names and the traditional knowledge contained therein.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 1, 2017, pp. 110-119
Description
Study looked at how kinship and demography influence locations of camps and individual households. Found that group and herd size did not impact camp spacing, and that distribution of camps and dwellings correlate to relatedness.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 71-91
Description
Looks at how works by writers such as Jim Northrup, Heid Erdrich, Linda LeGarde Grover, and Gerald Vizenor illustrate the connection between story, culture, and knowledge.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 2, 2018, pp. 117-133
Description
Discusses the resilience of reciprocity rites practiced by the Chukotka people in Russia; describes how the people continued to practice these rites, which honour their relationships with the reindeer and the salmon on which they subsisted, even as the Soviet state reordered the social and economic structures in their region.
Reviews legal events from the January 1980 - Fall 1982 period, including the failure of Aboriginal efforts to prevent the passage of the Canada Act in English Courts.
Arctic, vol. 67, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 271-295
Description
Concludes that reliance on imported foods is due to historical events and developmental processes which are continually influenced by environmental and socioeconomic factors.