Global Environmental Change. A, Human and Policy Dimensions, vol. 19, no. 2, Traditional Peoples and Climate Change , May 2009, pp. 180-190
Description
Paper focuses the experiences, knowledge and observations of members of Gitga’at communities over the course of eight years in terms of environments and indigenous knowledge.
Contemporary Literature, vol. 50, no. 4, Winter, 2009, pp. 775-810
Description
Discusses the fantasy of indigenization in Solomon Gursky Was Here and The Yiddish Policemen's Union; and looks at how Mordecai Richler is able to realize the dream of indigenization, where Michael Chabon's Alaskan Jews ultimately are forced to confront the failure of that dream.
Examines the self-determination, governance, and development issues facing Indian Country, including building effective governments, developing strong economies, solving difficult social problems, and balancing cultural integrity and change.
Duration: 1:02:39. Includes textual transcript.
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Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall, 2009, pp. 69-100, 245
Description
Looks at how traditional knowledge can be used in resource and environmental management and discusses case studies involving the incorporation of traditional knowledge into environmental management.
Looks at the mainstreaming of Indigeneity along indigenous policymaking lines in New Zealand and Canada by examining self determining autonomy models and state determination governance models.
Reports on the course, Sustainability of Ecosystems taught at Brightsands Science and Environment Centre with a Traditional Knowledge Keeper in a tipi or on the open prairie.
Discusses databases installed in fourteen sites in the Northern Territory, Australia, which form a component of the "Libraries and Knowledge Centres" program designed to bring information to remote Aboriginal communities.
International Conference on the Cultural & Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples ; 1st, 1993
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First International Conference on the Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Description
Conference held to discuss significant issues including Indigenous knowledge, biodiversity, biotechnology, environmental management, arts, music, language, and spiritual and cultural issues.
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Richard Knecht
Theresa Arevgaq John
Description
Looks at a distance-learning program that gives students an opportunity to earn a college degree while living in their home villages.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Relationship between childhood and the sacred varies between Indigenous communities in North America.
Chapter in book: The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion edited by Thomas R. Bidell, Anne C. Dailey, Suzanne D. Dixon, Peggy J.Miller, and John Modell.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 12, December 2009, p. 16
Description
Highlights a book of First Nations protocols useful for ceremonies and traditional gatherings as well as for passing information to younger generations.
Article located by scrolling to page 16.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009, pp. 57-65
Description
Looks at a personal narrative about a community-based project that explores perceptions, beliefs and experiences regarding mental health and healing from an Indigenous perspective.
Compilation of resources about improving oral health in children from various organizations and perspectives. Reports that a shocking number of children still suffer extensive tooth decay in both urban and remote First Nations and Inuit communities.
Looks at data from a participatory action research project to identify and analyze current and future ethical needs associated with conducting psychological research with Aboriginal youth.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 1993, pp. 43-68
Description
Examines the viability of participatory action research (PAR) as a tool for collecting Indigenous knowledge evidence for use in negotiation and litigation of land claims and related issues.
Looks at EALÁT, a Reindeer Herders Vulnerability Network Study and project examining reindeer pastoralism of the Sami and climate change.
Duration: 35:34.