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.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 520-532
Description
Article examines non-fiction texts about the search for the Northwest Passage to illustrate the contributions of Inuit people and communities to Arctic exploration.
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.
Protocol is comprised of six key principles: self-determination and inclusion in all stages of the research process; acting in good faith; understanding determinants of health; recognition of culture and vision and culturally-grounded research and solutions; respect for local peoples and their ways of knowing, Elders and ancestral understandings; and incorporating Two-Eyed Seeing into process.
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Special Issue, 1999, p. 63–94
Description
The author examines her own intellectual and personal colonization and the continued oppression of First Nations people and discusses how Aboriginal women need to be involved in restorative justice.
Pimatziwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 2003, pp. 1-16
Description
Responses from three people on the theme of community health: Rose Martial, a community representative, Ann C. Macaulay, a family physician researching diabetes in Kahawake Territory and William Freeman, a professor at North West Indian College and former director of Research for the Indian Health Service (USA).
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 39, no. 1, Special Issue 2, Fall, 1999, pp. [52-64]
Description
Transcript of framework on education rights originally submitted to the 1993 World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Education; refinement of the document was antidipated from conference delegates.
Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vladimir Randa
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 51-71
Description
Author explores Inuit ontologies or knowledge systems around non-human members of their ecosystem; discuss how Inuit ways of knowing the animals are rooted in social and cultural factors of relationality.
Text in French.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 18, no. 2, Autumn, 2003, pp. 127-134
Description
Highlights the importance of incorporating the Ojibwa's cultural history in the analysis of their sacred stories and explores the variety and many versions of stories regarding Anishinaabe myth.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 59-64
Description
Looks at Indigenous education in Alaska, and discusses the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative (AKRSI), which focuses on the connection between Indigenous Knowledge systems and formal education systems.
Canadian Heritage and Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1999.
Examines transition of a culturally integrated traditional Ojibwa community in southeastern Ontario to contemporary Ojibwa First Nation of Alderville.
Research Ethics, vol. 14, no. 2, September 28, 2017, pp. 1-24
Description
Looks at ways of valuing and using Indigenous knowledge on an equal footing with Western methods, and integrating the two when appropriate. Explores issues such as disconnection from practice, unclear researcher responsibility, forms of neutrality, and overlooking participants cultural protocols.
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.
Gathering held to help build and enhance policies, programs and services that are relevant to, and supportive of the needs of Aboriginal peoples. Held in Whistler, British Columbia, December 1-3, 2003.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-4
Description
Book review of: Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Canada edited by Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay and Charlotte Reading.
Discusses differences between Western and Indigenous understandings of what maps are, how they are made, how they look and what they do using two examples: one a drawing of north-eastern Siberia by a Chukchi man, the other by Sami of Lapland using marks on a drum in conjunction with Shamanistic performances as a means of mapping physical, spiritual and temporal elements of the environment.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 113-125
Description
Discusses how colonization has disrupted communities' relationship with the land, efforts to restore the connection on the reservation, and how ideas about tradition and sustainability are linked to food sovereignty.
Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 32, 2003, pp. 85-100
Description
Discusses improvements made in the field of Indigenous education over the last 30 years, two alternative Indigenous education programs, and challenges still ahead.
Provincial Aboriginal Women's Environmental Health Conference, Thunder Bay, August 15, 2003
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Theresa McClenaghan
Description
Discusses reasons to exercise governance over environmental issues to protect the environment and natural resources that are integral to Aboriginal peoples’ culture.