Makes recommendations for each of five key messages about digital language resources: a "whole community approach is required, the community or nation should own and control resources and technology, Elders should guide development, and policies should be guided by UNDRIP and TRC Calls for Action.
Photograph. On information card: Ten year old log cabin with extended tent porch in Chipewyan trappers camp. Dungevan Lake Camp, Mackenzie District, N.W.T.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 4, no. 1, Reshaping the Northern Imaginary, February 2016, pp. [23-25]
Description
Discusses the Toxic Legacies research project focusing on community concerns around understanding remediation and its regulation and continuing care for the Giant mine site.
Brief animated video outlines traditional use in Alberta's Indigenous cultures and talks about misuse of commercial tobacco products. Classroom resource.
Duration: 5:30.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 281-308
Description
Presents history of the Garrison Dam and the resulting reservoir, Lake Sakakawea named after a Shoshone women that was a translator for Lewis and Clarke expedition.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, 2016, p. [?]
Description
Discusses impact of president-elect Donald Trumps decision to withdraw from the UN Climate Change talks and Paris agreement and instead commit to more fossil fuel extraction.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 5, no. 1, 2016, pp. 18-37
Description
Discusses the context and concerns of the Indigenous food sovereignty (IFS) movement arising from research conducted by the authors; focuses on the creation and implementation of an Aboriginal research framework.
Sketch subtitle: White inhabitants of the Saskatchewan region leaving a settlement after an Indian raid. Two males and one female, all wearing snowshoes and heavy coats, walking through the snow. The woman is carrying a small child.
Includes toolkit to help with workshop templates for environmental violence teach-ins, resources for healing and traditional land-based medicines, and community health assessments.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 169, November 2016, pp. 18-26
Description
"In this paper, we develop a framework for assessing vulnerability to injury and use it to identify and characterize the determinants of injuries on the land in Nunavut".
MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Clifford Paul
Description
Guest speaker Clifford Paul discusses using a two-eyed seeing approach to moose management. Question and answer period about the land.
Lecture begins at 22:03.
Duration: 2:45:21.
Recommendations include: expansion of information on food costs and their drivers, support for consumption of traditional foods, improving Nutrition North Canada subsidy, and replacement of social assistance with basic income administered through the tax system.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 4, no. 2, The Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent, May 2016, pp. 42-49
Description
Looks at two examples of free, prior and informed consent evolving in Canadian law: the Saugeen Ojibway Nation in Ontario, and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta.
Comparative investigation reveals that declines have been recorded in total volume and per capita availability of wild foods in most settlements compared to the early 1980s.