Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
Description
Contains data on general economic conditions, national maps showing regional variations in unemployment rates and employment gains, regional employment profiles, and brief feature articles.
Summarizes key decisions relevant to industry and project proponents and discusses how they effect carrying out the duty to consult with Indigenous peoples.
"This report provides a preliminary review of the historical and ethnographic record as it pertains to First Nations use and occupation of Lelu Island ... and the marine area surrounding Lelu Island".
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 106-114
Description
Ortiz’s address to the AISA calls on Indigenous people to recognize the damage done to them by colonization and to find in that recognition the strength and will to participate in contemporary resistance to neocolonial projects rooted in consumer capitalist and extractive resource regimes.
BC Studies, no. 196, Perspectives on the Gold Rush, Winter, 2017/2018, pp. 67-87
Description
Brief overview of Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Applied Archaelogy Project at four sites that were significant in hostilities between American miners and the Nlaka'pamux.
BC Studies, no. 179, Ethnobotany in BC, Autumn, 2013, pp. 231-232
Description
Book review of Asserting Native Resilience edited by Zoltan Grossman and Alan Parker.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 231.
Teacher's guide to accompany documentary by Jeff Bear and Marianne Jones about the decision by Haida Elders to occupy the front lines in a logging blockade which took place in the winter of 1985-1986. Highlights the Haida's relationship with the land, and respect for Elders and their roles in Indigenous society.
Guide outlines general considerations, practices and procedures, and provides step-by-step instructions for community engagement sessions. Topics include establishing and earning community support, engagement and consultation activities, communicating with the media, presentation skills, and addressing opposition effectively and respectfully.
Discusses the origins of the movement, reviews its philosophy, and explains historical factors which contributed to the almost universal support it received.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 1, Special Issue: Pathways to Prosperity: The Northern Governance and Economy Conference, 2013, pp. [38-42]
Description
Reports on three challenges to economic planning: the boom and bust cycle, carrying capacity, the distribution of wealth generated by resource development.
Focuses on the political climate leading up to the Russian government's suspension and subsequent reinstatement of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North.
Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Cultures of Peru (CHIRAPAQ)
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, The Future We Want: Indigenous Women of the World Unite, December 2013, p. [?]
Description
Indigenous women exchanged experiences on how the lack of consultation on mining, forestry, oil and natural gas extraction and hydroelectric projects have affected their communities.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, Destabilizing Canada / Le Canada déstabilisé, Winter, 2017, pp. 153-185
Description
General discussion of consultation and consent, and analysis of recent legal cases which illustrate how Indigenous peoples in Alberta have been excluded from decision-making involving the oil industry.
Includes sections on historiography and colonialism in the context of Africa, South and East Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Central Steppes, and North America.
Resources and Sustainable Development n the Arctic (ReSDA) Gap Analysis Report ; no.4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lee Huskey
Chris Southcott
Description
Looks at the intuitive belief that resource development results in wealth and well-being for region when in fact it often leads to a decrease and other problems (resource curse).