Alternate Title
Manuscript 1338
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert J. Patrick
Laura Machial
Kendra Quinney
Len Quinney
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples-Part 1, April 2017, pp. 1-17
Description
Looks at a community project to get safe drinking water through source water protection and water management.
Letter from the Editors: [Food (In)security in the North]
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andrew Spring
Deborah Simmons
Joshua Gladstone
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, p. 8
Description
Introduction to articles in journal issue on food security from the perspectives of community members, researchers, and policy analysts.
Linking Social Values of Wild Reindeer to Planning and Management Options in Southern Norway
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bjørn P. Kaltenborn
Mehmet Mehmetoglu
Vegard Gundersen
Arctic, vol. 70, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 129-140
Description
Examines responses of 1000 respondents to 39 statements of attitudes and values associated reindeer presence and management in two regions.
Louis Boucher Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Louis Boucher
Richard Lightning
Indian History Film Project
Description
An interview which discusses the signing of Treaty 8: understanding of promises made, the establishment of Wood Buffalo Natural Park, and the need for a reserve at Fort Chipewyan for trapping and hunting.
Making a Fish Scoop
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Lois Dalby (photographer)
Description
A set of 7 photographs of Napthelie McKenzie showing the making of a fish scoop used to lift pieces of fish from hot cooking water.
Making Snowshoes
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Nick Bordeaux
Description
A set of 85 photographs of Angus Tremblay making snowshoes in 1974. Travelling on the loose soft snow of the boreal forest would have been almost impossible without the development of snowshoes.
Man and Moose
Images » Photographs
Description
Pictographs at Kipahigan Lake, Manitoba.
Marie Osecap 2 Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Marie Osecap
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview includes a description of life on the reserve that describes milking, sheep-shearing and fishing weirs. It also consists of stories about a woman whose husband turned into a lizard; a story of Wisakedjak; and how Thunder Blanket killed his wife and then himself.
Marie Osecap 3 Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Marie Osecap
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview consists of childhood hunting expeditions for rabbit, gophers and duck. Also included is a description of the police stopping a Sundance.
Marion Carter Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Marion Carter
Mary Mountain
Indian History Film Project
Description
Mrs. Carter tells a story of her life. She talks of the traditional way of living; residential schools and tells how she was given her name. During the interview she also relates a tale from her grandfather about the Cree raiding Blackfoot camps.
Married Couples Workshop 3
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Ed Thunderchild
Ed Laliberte
Jonas Lariviere
Felix Sugar
Alex Poorman
Morris Lewis
J. B. Stanley
James George Crooked
Joe Machiskenie
Bill Wapass
Pete Wapass
Marius Nahnepawish
Emile Piapot
Indian History Film Project
Description
Discussion on problems of the younger generation, including alcoholism. Also discussed ways in which parents and elders can help by instructing children and young people and by maintaining the Indian religion.
Mavis J. Adams Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Mavis J. Adams
Mick Burrs
Indian History Film Project
Description
Mrs. Adams is a retired white schoolteacher and was 69 years old at the time of the interview. She tells of her induction as an honorary chief of the Blackfoot reserve and shares her experiences among the Blackfoot.
Mechanisms of Indigenous Exclusion in British Columbia's Environmental Assessment Process
Theses
Author/Creator
Hollis Katherine Andrews
Description
Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.
Mistusenni Rock
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
CFQC staff
Description
Three images of Mistusenni rock, now under water at Diefenbaker Lake. Mistusenni, a 400 ton glacial erratic, 14 feet high, 79 feet in circumference, was sacred to the Cree and Plains Indians. Attempts to remove the rock failed. Fragments were used to construct a monument for historic site marker near Elbow. QC 3692 2 shows Zenon Pohorecki on left, QC 3692 3 shows Zenon Pohorecki on left, Wally Stambuck, third from left and other men.
Modern Rock Painting
Images » Photographs
Description
An example of a modern rock painting at an Indian Reserve at Southend, Saskatchewan.
Mrs. Edward Joyce Interview #1
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Edward Joyce
Imbert Orchard
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview where she gives general reminiscences of her life. She also describes the Hamatsa dance ceremony.
Mrs. Rachel Shawkence
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Rachel Shawkence
Indian History Film Project
Description
An interview with Mrs. Rachel Shawkence giving an account of her life. Name of interpreter/interviewer is missing. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood.
Muslims, Navajos, and Peaches
Articles » General
Author/Creator
George H. Junne
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Looks at how an Asian fruit was cultivated by Navajo Indians in the Chelly Canyon.
"Native" Advertising: An Evaluation of Nike's N7 Social Media Campaign
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W. Scott Sanders
Selene G. Phillips
Cecelia Alexander
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 43-63
Description
Evaluates the success of the campaign in the context of targeted marketing to ethnic minorities and representation of Native Americans in advertisements, and presents two case studies which assess whether the company successfully engaged with youth via Twitter.
Native Minorities and Ethnic Conflict in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jean Leonard Elliott.
Current History, vol. 66, no. 392, 1974, pp. 177-181
Description
This article places the issue of the James Bay Project for the development of hydroelectric power into a historical and political perspective and discusses its effects upon the Aboriginals of Quebec.
Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism
Alternate Title
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Natchee Blu Bard
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series
Negotiating Life Within the City: Social Geographies and Lived Experiences of Urban Metis Peoples in Ottawa
Theses
Author/Creator
Daniel Dumas
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.
Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country
Alternate Title
Indigenous Confluences
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marisa Elena Duarte
Never Alone: (Re)Coding the Comic Holotrope of Survivance
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michelle Lee Brown
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 22-44
Description
Article examines the use of gaming and other communication technologies as strategies for resistance, survivance and cultural resurgence; discusses practices of re/mapping, kinship-making and relationality.
Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story
Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
Description
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
Duration: 50:01.
A New Shared Arctic Leadership Model
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mary Simon
Nilliajut 2: Inuit Perspectives on the Northwest Passage Shipping and Marine Issues
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
[Aqqaluk Lynge
Robert Comeau
Mary Simon
Nancy Karetak-Lindell
Alfred E.R. Jakobsen … [et al.]]
Description
Essays by authors from across Inuit Nunangat and Greenland discuss the possible impacts of the opening of the Passage due to climate change.
No Takebacks
Alternate Title
No take backs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen Graham Jones
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 139-169
Description
Short fiction piece. When two friends develop an app for mobile devices the results are much different than they expect.
Non-Timber Forest Products: Indigenous Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Livelihood Security in West Suriname
Theses
Author/Creator
Tim van den Boog
Description
Forestry Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.
Not Your Grandfather's Horse: Automobiles Performing the Trickster in Modern and Contemporary Work by Artists from Plains Cultures
Theses
Author/Creator
Aaron Moses
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Oklahoma State University, 2017
Refers to the works of Horace Poolaw, Dallin Maybee, Arthur Amiotte, Jay Polite Labor, and Wendy Red Star
Nutrition North Canada: Real Change is Yet to Come
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michael Fitzgerald
Fred Hill
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 44-48
Description
Examines what the Liberal government has done since coming into power, in October 2015, for the Nutrition North Canada program.
Nyungar of Southwestern Australia and Flinders: A Dialogue on Using Nyungar Intelligence to Better Understand Coastal Exploration
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Len Collard
Clint Bracknell
David Palmer
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-16
Description
Authors revisit archival records relating to the exploration of what is now Western Australia, with a focus on drawing out the places where the record shows the role of the Nyungar people in the exploration of the coast, and the Indigenous Knowledge share with explorers.
Oil and the Iñupiaq: Linking Industry and Education at Iļisaġvik College
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pearl Kiyawn Brower
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 4, Oil and Indian Country, Summer, 2017, p. [?]
Description
Comments on college programming designed to support industry jobs.
Old Log Houses
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Institute for Northern Studies
Description
Housing in Fort McPherson, N.W.T.
[Old Mission and New Church]
Images » Photographs
Description
Structures located at Chesterfield Inlet, N.W.T. [NU].
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ezekiel Gow
BC Studies, no. 195, Autumn, 2017, pp. 174-175
Description
Book review of Once They Were Hats by Frances Backhouse.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 174.
One Flea-Bitten Gray Horse: Women, Horses, and Economy on the Yakama Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifford E. Trafzer
T. Robert Przeklasa
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 5-29
Description
Authors use bills of sale for horses from 1909-12 as primary documents to explore the roles women on the Yakima reservation played in their nation’s economy and their resistance to conforming to Western or Christian gender roles.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Eleven: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
The Opinions of Ambulance Personnel Regarding Using a Heated Mattress for Patients Being Cared for in a Cold Climate - An Intervention Study in Ambulance Care
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jonas Aléx
Tom Uppstu
Britt-Inger Saveman
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1379305
Description
Ambulance personnel from northern Sweden rate their experiences as being positive for patient comfort.
Our Identities as Civic Power
Alternate Title
2017 State of Native Youth Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute
[Erik R. Stegman
Amber Richardson
Josie Raphaelito
Aaron Slater
Bettina Gonzalez]
Description
Reports on the results of the Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) Online Roundtable Survey of Native American youth between the ages 18-24. Respondents were asked about their three top priorities, what they are doing to tackle their challenges, and some of the ways they are partnering with their community to build resilience.
Our National Competitiveness and Canada's Territories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Description
Discusses the adaptability of businesses in Canada's territories and the necessity of the federal and territorial governments to do the same.
Our Native Land: American Indian Movement Shakes Up Canada
Alternate Title
Our Native Land ; June 8, 1974
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Stephen Banker
Phil Stone
Vern Belcourt
Carla Blakey
LaDonna Harris
Lonnie Hindle ... [et al.]
Description
Discusses the American Indian Movement in Canada and its U.S. origins. The broadcast also discusses housing in BC, people against the expansion of Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, and criticism over the Mackenzie Valley pipeline.
Includes synopsis.
Duration: 43:33 (this topic begins at 19:00)
Paddling Together: Co-Governance Models for Regional Cumulative Effects Management
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica Clogg
Gavin Smith
Deborah Carlson
Hannah Askew
Description
Includes case studies of co-management models from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Florida.
Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Scott P. Stephen
BC Studies, no. 194, Summer, 2017, pp. 202-204
Description
Book review of Pemmican Empire by George Colpitts.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 202.