Theses
Author/Creator
John Alexander Barra MacNeil
Description
Applied Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--Saint Mary's University, 2010.
At the Edge: The North Prince Albert Region of the Saskatchewan Forest Fringe to 1940
Theses
Author/Creator
Merle Mary Muriel McGowan Massie
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2010.
The Atlas of Canada: Aboriginal Population and Forested Areas
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Natural Resources Canada
Description
Shows the distribution of the Aboriginal population (including Indians, Metis and Inuit) in comparison to the location of forests. Data from Atlas of Canada, 6th edition.
Scroll down to choose download option.
The ATS-6 Experiments in Health and Education: An Overview
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert T. Filep
Journal of Communication, vol. 27, no. 4, December 1977, pp. 159-165
Description
Assessment of the success of a program delivered by satellite which involved physicians, teachers, nurses, engineers, government officials, rural and urban residents and school children.
Averting Ethnocide: Indigenous Peoples and Territorial Rights in Crisis in the Face of COVID-19 in Latin America
Alternate Title
Oxfam Briefing Paper
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rocío Ávila
Arantxa Guereña
Barefoot Books Encourage Kids to Embrace Reading
Alternate Title
Arts & Entertainment
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jessica Iron
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 12, December 2010, p. 24
Description
Presents an introduction to childrens books that promote multi-culturalism, and world and environmental issues.
Article found by scrolling to page 24.
Baseline Data for Aboriginal Economic Development: An Informed Approach for Measuring Progress and Success
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Bruce
Patti Doyle-Bedwell
W. Kevin An-Jager
Description
Looks at a variety of indicators measuring economic development to provide the Atlantic Aboriginal community with a tool to measure progress in its economy; and to collect, analyse, and report on indicators of socio-economic progress.
Bearing the Burden: The Effects of Mining on First Nations in British Columbia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard University
Description
Discusses the environmental damage that mining, including exploration, has caused the Takla Lake First Nation. The paper includes an overview of international and domestic Aboriginal rights law; analyzes the problems mining raises for First Nations; and concludes that structural, procedural, and substantive legal reforms are needed.
Bentley Argues Water Safe Although No Standards Set
Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 7, no. 4, April 1977, p. 11
Description
Director of the Saskatchewan Medical Services Branch of the Department of Health and Welfare claims radon level in Red Earth Reserve water is not a hazard.
Best of Two Worlds: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science in Ecosystem-based Management
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Adam Lertzman
BC Journal of Ecosystems and Management, vol. 10, no. 3
Description
Looks at the parallels that exist between structures of traditional Indigenous resource management systems and those based in western science to develop forest practice standards in the coastal temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound.
Best Practices for Completing the Comparative Analysis For a Cultural Landscape such as the Proposed Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Nomination
Theses
Author/Creator
Christin Didora
Description
Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M)--University of Manitoba, 2010.
Best Practices For Completing the Comparative Analysis For a Cultural Landscape Such as the Proposed Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Nomination
Theses
Author/Creator
Christin Didora
Description
Natural Resources Management (M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 2010.
Between the Sands and a Hard Place?: Aboriginal Peoples and the Oil Sands
Alternate Title
Buffett enter for International and Comparative Studies Energy Series ; Working Paper no.10-005
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ian Urquhart
Description
Paper presented at Conference on Canadian-United States Energy Issues After Copenhagen: Oil Sands and Energy Interdependence. Looks at the First Nations relationships to mining development as both critics and supporters.
Bibliography of American Indians and the Environment in Prehistoric Western Oregon
Alternate Title
American Indians and the Environment in Prehistoric Western Oregon
Ethnographic Bibliographies No. 7
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Don Macnaughtan
Description
Annotated bibliography of the Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue Valleys.
Bill S-11: The Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act
Alternate Title
Legislative Summary (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; 40-3-S11-E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nicholas Auclair
Tonina Simeone
Description
Brief description of background and contents of the Bill, which provides for federal regulations relating to provision of drinking water, water quality standards and disposal of waste water.
Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
Northern Review, no. 32, Spring, 2010, pp. 185-187
Description
Book review of, Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing by Karim Aly-Kassam.
Body, Mind and Spirit: Native Cooking of the Americas
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Chuck Hamsa
Whispering Wind, vol. 39, no. 2, Issue 270, May/June 2010, pp. 30-31
Description
Book review of: Body, Mind and Spirit by Beverly Cox, photographs by Martn [Martin] Jacobs.
Scroll down to read review.
Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Brendan Hokowhitu
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 2010, pp. 57-58
Description
Book review of: Bridging National Borders in North America edited by Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill.
Bridging the Gap: A Collaborative Inquiry Into the Experience of Cross-Cultural Environmental Initiatives
Theses
Author/Creator
Jennifer Marie Williams
Description
Environmental Education and Communication Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2010.
Brief on COVID-Response and Recovery Issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Families in Contact with Child Protection Services
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Secretariat of National Aboriginal & Islander Child Care Inc. (SNAICC)
Description
Brief discussion of issues as well as recommendations in seven key areas: access to technology; service workforce and funding arrangements; mental health; family violence; prevention and early intervention; support for kinship carers; and family and cultural contact, reunification and permanent care.
Buffalo Past and Present
Alternate Title
Montana State Parks Lesson Plan
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Education for All, Montana Office of Public Instruction
Description
Uses the Madison Buffalo Jump State Park as a starting point to discuss the buffalo's importance in the economies, cosmologies, social organization, and spiritual life of Indigenous peoples of the plains. Recommended for use with Grade 9-12 students.
Building a Tipi: Video Series
Alternate Title
Gr K-12: The Tipi
Tipi Camp: Virtual Tour
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Miriam Thomas
Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Description
Six videos explain the steps in the construction of the traditional buffalo hide tipi which was created for the First Nations Gallery of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. They are: preparing the hides, tanning the hides, sewing the hides, setting up the tipi, blessing the tipi, and tipi living.
Accompanied by a virtual tour of the tipi camp in the First Nations Gallery.
Building Adaptive Capacity in Tribal Communities of the Missouri River Basin to Manage Drought and Climate Extremes: A Case Study from the Wind River Indian Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Crystal J. Stiles
Natalie A. Umphlett
Mitch Cottenoir
Journal of Indigenous Research
Description
Discusses an Indigenous lead approach in addressing climate change.
Bureaucracy, Democracy and Exclusion: Why Indigenous Knowledge Holders Have a Hard Time Being Taken Seriously
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chantelle Marlor
Qualitative Sociology, vol. 33, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 513-531
Description
Compares two sets of biologists’ and two sets of First Nations’ ways of knowing about clams to explore differences between the two groups’ knowledge practices.
Camp Setup = Dechı̨tah ats’et’ı̨ gha seenı ́ots’ı̨ ́ ɂáh
Alternate Title
Nahe Náhodhe – Our Way of Life
Documents & Presentations
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Dehcho First Nations
Description
Describes setting up a tent and benefits of spruce matting.
Campbell Clan Credits Sports for Success in Life
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Star-Phoenix, April 23, 2010, p. A15
Description
Comments on three difference themes: the relevance of sport for future success; adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; opposition to the series of dams on the Peace River in British Columbia.
Canada’s North: What’s the Plan?
Alternate Title
The 2010 CIBC Scholar-in-Residence Lecture
[Conference Board of Canada Publication]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Thomas Berger
Steven A. Kennett
Hayden King
Canada's Sovereignty in the Arctic: An Inuit Perspective
Alternate Title
Northern Sovereignty and Political Geography in North America
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean-François Arteau
Description
Representative from the Makivik Corporation discusses geographic, political, economic, environmental, and socio-cultural issues in the north.
Paper given at the conference Northern Sovereignty and Political Geography in North America, Washington DC, 2010.
Canadian Aboriginal Concerns With Oil Sands: A Compilation of Key Issues, Resolutions and Legal Activities
Alternate Title
Briefing Note [Pembina Institute]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Danielle Droitsch
Terra Simieritsch
Description
Discusses the negative effects on people and the environment due to oil sands mining operations.
Caribou Leadership: A Study of Traditional Knowledge, Animal Behavior, and Policy
Theses
Author/Creator
Elisabeth Sarah Robins Padilla
Description
Wildlife Biology Thesis (M.S.)--The University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010.
A Case Study of Accommodating Indigenous Cultural Values in Water Resource Management: Privatization and Co-Management
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alex Steenstra
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, Proceedings of the 2010 Western Social Science Association American Indian Studies Section, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-12
Description
Contends that economics plays an integral part in the management of water resources.
Cathedral Grove
Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Karen Wonders
Description
Website contains information on the destruction of Aboriginal heritage trees by industrial logging and it impact on First Nations identity and culture. Includes links to resources on totem poles and European trees,and related stories, digital media, and galleries.
Cattle and Sovereignty in the Work of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathryn Cornell Dolan
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter, 2020, pp. [86]-114
Description
An examination of the author's writings about the loss of land and access to food due to the encroachments of cattle ranchers and the impact it had on the Paiute people.
The Cedar Project - Mobile Phone Use and Acceptability of Mobile Health Among Young Indigenous People Who Have Used Drugs in British Columbia, Canada: Mixed Methods Exploratory Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kate Jongbloed
Margo E Pearce
Vicky Thomas
Richa Sharma1
Sherri Pooyak ... [et al.]
JMIR Serious Games, vol. 8, no. 7, 2020, pp. [1-14]
Description
Examines the use of mobile devices by Indigenous youth as means to obtain health support for HIV contracted due to substance abuse.
Ceh'e3teekuu!- Listen- This is Arapaho Land
Alternate Title
Ceh'e3teekuu!--Listen-- This is Arapaho Land
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Phineas Arthur Kelly
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 4, Fall, 2020, pp. [415]-433
Description
An examination of the creation of the augmented reality (AR) mobile place-based learning game Vision Quest developed at the University of Wyoming that teaches Arapaho language and culture developed. The author further discusses the adaptability of Indigenous people to combat colonization through the app.
Champions of Change: Exploring the Outcomes of the Youth ICT Employment and Training Program in Ontario First Nations Communities
Theses
Author/Creator
Kristy Tomkinson
Description
Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Guelph, 2010.
Changing the Culture of Forestry in Canada: Building Effective Institutions for Aboriginal Engagement in Sustainable Forest Management
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ryan Bowie
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 2, 2010, pp. 157-159
Description
Book review of: Changing the Culture of Forestry in Canada: Building Effective Institutions for Aboriginal Engagement in Sustainable Forest Management edited by Marc Stevenson and David Natcher.
Chipmunk Meets Old Witch (At-At-A'Tia)
Alternate Title
The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest ; Level 1, Book 12
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Warm Springs Reservation Committee
Description
Children's book retells a traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-2.
Related material: Lesson Plan.
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Guidebooks for Indigenous Communities: Guidebook 1: Starting the Planning Process
Alternate Title
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Guidebooks for Indigenous Communities
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Guidebooks for Indigenous Communities:Annexes
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities
Guidebook 2: Climate Change Impacts in the Community
Guidebook 3: Identifying Community Sustainability and Climate Change Vulnerabilities
Guidebook 4: Identifying Solutions
Guidebook 5: Taking Adaptive Action
Guidebook 6: Monitoring Progress and Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Description
Forms part of the Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities. Guidebook 2: Climate Change Impacts in the Community.
Guidebook 3: Identifying Community Sustainability and Climate Change Vulnerabilities.
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities: Introduction
Alternate Title
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities: Guidance Book
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities: Guidance Book Appendices
Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities: [Guidebook] Annexes
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)
Description
Discusses the various components of the toolkit: Anishinaabemowin Climate Change Glossary, Ininímowin Climate Change Glossary, Indigenous Languages Glossary Workbook, guidance book, and six guidebooks.
[Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development: Scientific, Social, Cultural and Educational Challenges]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
A. Nicole Stuckenberger
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, Les Inuit et le Changement Climatique / The Inuit and Climate Change, 2010, pp. 180-182
Description
Book Review of: Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development by UNESCO.
Climate Change and Food Security in the North: A Literature Review
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Katelyn Friendship
Description
Brief review looks at publications from 2005-2010.
Climate Change and Human Rights: A Case Study of the Canadian Inuit and Global Warming in the Canadian Arctic
Theses
Author/Creator
Meghan Elisabeth Clarke
Description
Law Thesis (LLM)--University of Toronto, 2010.
Climate Change, Oil and Gas Development, and Inupiat Whaling in Northwest Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nobuhiro Kishigami
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, Les Inuit et le Changement Climatique / The Inuit and Climate Change, 2010, pp. 91-107
Description
Article describes the changes that threaten the continuation of this lifestyle.
Climate Change Policy Response for Canada's Inuit Population: The Importance of and Opportunities for Adaptation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James D. Ford
Tristan Pearce
Frank Duerden
Chris Furgal
Barry Smit
Global Environmental Change, vol. 20, no. 1, February 2010, pp. 177-191
Description
Argues that policy intervention should focus on: transmission of environmental knowledge, emergency management capability, flexibility of resource management regimes, economic support to facilitate adaptation, increase research effort to identify risk factors and response options, protection of infrastructure, and promote awareness of climate change impacts
Climate Change, Wellbeing and Resilience in the Weenusk First Nation at Peawanuck: The Moccasin Telegraph Goes Global
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
H. Lemelin
D. Matthews
N. McIntyre
M. Johnston
R. Koster
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 10, no. 2, Human Health at the Ends of the Earth, 2010, pp. 1-18
Description
Analysis of 22 interviews conducted with members of the First Nation indicated that residents are concerned with a variety of changes in the environment and their ability to use the land.
Co-Management Institutions, Knowledge and Learning: Adapting to Change in the Arctic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fikret Berkes
Derek Armitage
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, Les Inuit et le Changement Climatique / The Inuit and Climate Change, 2010, pp. 109-131
Description
Explores Inuit capacity for change, which has not been sufficiently examined in recent investigative documents.
Cognitive Appraisals, Stress and Emotion About Environmental Contamination in the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation
Theses
Author/Creator
Christina A. Papadopoulos-Lane
Description
Criminal Justice Thesis (Ph.D.)--University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), 2010.
Combining the Views of "Both Worlds": Science Education in Nunavut Piqusiit Tamainik Katisugit
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Lewthwaite
Barbara McMillan
Robert Renaud
Rebecca Hainnu
Carolyn MacDonald
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 98, Jnauary 11, 2010, pp. [1]-71
Description
Looks at cases at three Inuit school communities that combine contemporary western science and traditional Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (knowledge).
Commercial Fishing
Media » Film and Video
Description
The 18-minute video, titled 'Commercial Fishing', records the activities of the industry on Lac La Ronge in the 1970s, including interviews with commercial fishers Sam and Jane McKenzie, George Bird, and Matthew Charles. The commentary is by James Halkett, who produced the program with Robert Halkett, John Halkett, and Maureen Matthews.
Historical note:
A video made by the La Ronge Communications Society for La Ronge Community Television about commercial fishing on Lac La Ronge in the 1970s.