[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.
Opportunities for Standards to Contribute to Health, Safety, Resiliency, and Environmental Protection in Canada’s North
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Steenhof
Northern Review, no. 48, October 18, 2018, pp. 33-50
Description
Author draws on a white paper published by CSA Group (2017) to focus on four topic areas: provision of clean and accessible water, provision of emergency response, safe and resilient buildings, and environmental protection and management. Identifies 14 different opportunities for standards in those areas.
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 Sacred Water: Theorizing Kuuyam as a Decolonial Possibility
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Sepulveda
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 40-58
Description
Describes the polluted state of the Santa Ana River in southern California and how it came to be so. Considers traditional perspectives of the Acjachemen and Tongva tribes regarding "guests" as a way to re-center a Indigenous view of the land.
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.
Pedagogies of Remembrance and "Doing Critical Heritage" in the Teaching of History: Countermemorializing Canada 150 with Future Teachers
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Karen Taylor
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 217-248
Description
Uses two examples of critical heritage discourses—social media debate surrounding Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, and an undergraduate history education course which focused on the production of counter histories—to illustrate how critical heritage studies can expand the discussion and challenge traditional thinking around national memory and settler-colonial narratives.
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.
La perception du carcajou/glouton par les Inuit du Nord canadien: Du passé au present
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frédéric Laugrand
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 243-263
Description
Author describes the different perceptions of the wolverine in Dené and Gwich’in culture both as a presence that people must be wary of in the bush and status as a powerful tuurngaq (totem or spirit guide).
Text in French.
Performing Archive: Curtis + "the vanishing race"
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Jacqueline Wernimont
Stephan Schoberg
Amy Borsuk
Beatrice Schuster
Heather Blackmore
Ulia Gosart (Popova)
Description
Website contains aggregation of visual, material and sonic collections based on the work Edward S. Curtis, the early 20th century photographer and amateur ethnographer who created the monumental 20 volume The North American Indian. The 25,000 media assets are accompanied by scholarly and contextual materials.
The Personal Genome Project Canada: Findings From Whole Genome Sequences of the Inaugural 56 Participants
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Miriam S. Reuter
Susan Walker
Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram
Joe Whitney
Iris Cohn ... [et al.]
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 5, February 2018, pp. e126-e136
Description
Study findings identified a spectrum of genetic variants with potential health impact in 25% of the participants.
Plants and Connection to Place
Alternate Title
Yukon Grade 8 Cross-Curricular Unit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alyce Johnson
Liz Woods
Description
Focuses on Yukon First Nations Traditional Knowledge.
Plants & Connection to Place
Alternate Title
Plants and Connection to Place
Yukon Grade 8 Cross-Curricular Unit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Yukon First Nations Curriculum Working Group
Alyce Johnson
Liz Woods
Description
Teacher's guide.
A Political History of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth People: A Case Study of the Mowachaht and Muchalaht Tribes
Theses
Author/Creator
Yvonne May Marshall
Description
Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 1993.
Population Relationships of Lapps as Reflected by Quantitative Dermatoglyphics
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. L. Jantz
A. W. Eriksson
H. Brehme
Human Biology, vol. 65, no. 5, October 1993, pp. 711-730
Description
Analyzes finger and palm ridge counts from five Lapp samples and other Uralic speakers confirming European origin for the Lapps (Sámi people).
Practice-Based Interdisciplinary Approach and Environmental Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ranjan Kumar Datta
Environments, vol. 4, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-14
Description
Compares and contrasts scientific and practice-based approaches, discusses why a move from one to the other is important and how the change would impact future research and researchers.
Priest Convicted of Contempt
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Anglican Journal, vol. 119, no. 10, December 1993, p. 11
Description
Discussion of the contempt of court charge against Rev. Graeme Brownlee, an Anglican priest, and 23 others who protested against logging in the Clayoquot Sound area of British Columbia.
Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the
Northern Rockies
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sarah E. McFarland
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3, Summer, 2017, pp. 289-291
Description
Book review of Producing Predators by Michael D. Wise.
Profiling the eNuk Program
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alexandra Sawatzky
Ashlee Cunsolo
Oliver Cook
Dan Gillis
Inez Shiwak ... [et al.]
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 2, Innovations in Community Health and Wellness, July 2017, pp. 18-22
Description
Looks at Inuit strategy for monitoring and responding to the impacts of environmental change on health and wellbeing in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut.
Project Caribou: An Educator’s Guide to Wild Caribou of North America
E-Books
Author/Creator
Kirsten Madsen
Promoting or Protecting Traditional Knowledges? Tensions in the Resurgence of Indigenous Food Practices on Vancouver Island
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Megan K. Muller
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, October 2018, p. Article 4
Description
Discusses food sovereignty and Indigenous ways of knowing with an eye to the conflict between promoting knowledge for the sake of resurgence and running the risk of subjecting knowledges, resources and communities to exploitation, criminalization and over-harvesting.
Protecting Water Our Way: First Nations Freshwater Governance in British Columbia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Fisheries Council (FNFC)
Description
Examines how First Nations may manage aquatic resources in their traditional territories by looking at case studies involving the Yinka Dene, the Syilx Nation, water monitoring practices, the Tla'amin Nation and the Cowichan tribes.
Proto-Algonquian Residence
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Proulx
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, vol. 3, no. 2, December 1993, pp. 217-245
Description
Linguistic study that provides an understanding of Algonkian society and how it evolved as different groups dispersed geographically.
Qaqamiigux "to hunt for food and collect plants; subsistence": Head Start Traditional Foods Preschool Curriculum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Moses Dirks
Julia Sargent
Tracy Stewart
Suanne Unger
Description
Provides series of lessons and activities to teach nutritional value of local, traditional foods. Structured into six units according to animals and plants found in the region.
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Food and Physical Activity
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Lifestyle Habits and Behaviors
Lifestyle Habits and Behaviours
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Nicolas Couët]
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Housing
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Physical and Social Environment
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Matthieu Gill-Bougie]
Quebec First Nations Regional Health Survey [2015]: Language and Culture
Alternate Title
First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS): Phase 3
Sociodemographic and Socioeconomic Conditions
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Mathieu-Olivier Côté]
The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians: The Impact of the Atchison Topeka, and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880-1930
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
John R. Gram
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 108-109
Description
Book review of: The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians by Richard H. Frost.
Rapid City Native American Population Needs Assessment
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Abdollah Farrokhi
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1993, pp. 153-173
Description
Investigates the attitudes of Native Americans living in Rapid City, South Dakota regarding issues on the economy, educational services, housing, transportation, recreation and employment.
(Re)Making Indigenous Water Worlds: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, and Hydrosocial Relations in the Settler Nation State
Theses
Author/Creator
Shaun A. Stevenson
Description
English Language and Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2018.
Re/making the 'Meeting Place' - Transforming Toronto's Public Spaces Through Creative Placemaking, Indigenous Story And Planning
Theses
Author/Creator
Nelly Volpert Knizhnik
Description
Environmental Studies Major Paper (MES)--York University 2017.
Reading between the Crimes: Online Media’s Representation
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s Interaction
with the Criminal Justice System in Post-Apology Australia
Theses
Author/Creator
Jonathan Cannon
Description
Criminal Justice Thesis (M.A.)--Edith Cowan University, 2018.
Recent Archaeological Research on the Northern Coast
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gary Coupland
BC Studies, no. 99, Changing Times: British Columbia Archeology in the 1980s, Autumn, 1993, pp. 53-75
Description
Review of research from recent field investigations in the lower Skeena, Prince Rupert area, lower Nass River, Queen Charlotte Islands and southern Alaska and discussion of themes emerging over the past ten years.
A Recipe for Change: Reclamation of Indigenous Food Sovereignty in O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation
Theses
Author/Creator
Asfia Gulrukh Kamal
Description
[Environment and Geography?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2018.
Recognizing Indigenous Legal Orders: Their Content, Embeddedness in Distinct Indigenous Cultures, and Implications for Reconciliation
Alternate Title
Indigenous Legal Orders in Canada: A Literature Review
Law Publications (Western University) ; 92
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael Coyle
Description
Literature review primarily uses book chapters, journal articles, and internet sources.
REEES: Quebec First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey: Basic Skills
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Isabel Rojas Martel]
Reflection, Acknowledgement, and Justice: A Framework for Indigenous-Protected Area Reconciliation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chance Finegan
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, Special Issue: Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, and Environmental Stewardship, July 2018, p. Article 3
Description
Examines the historical relationship between protected areas or national parks and Indigenous nations in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Argues that for successful reconciliation with Aboriginal peoples, protected areas must move past incorporating Indigeneity and into “an Indigenous-centered project of truth telling, acknowledging harm, and providing for justice.” Author makes three assertions: need for reconciliation, importance of difficult conversations, and the need for system-wide change.
Refracting the State through Human-Fish Relations: Fishing, Indigenous Legal Orders and Colonialism in North/Western Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Zoe Todd
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 60-75
Description
Considers Aboriginal worldviews around the relationships humans have with, and the responsibilities they have to non- or more-than-human entities as a framework for environmental activism, opposition to resource extraction, and government regulation. Asserts that a re-examination of the way that humans connect to our non-human relations is necessary for survivance.
The Regenerated Chacra of the Kichwa-Lamistas: An Alternative to Permaculture?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeremy L. Caradonna
Frederique Apffel-Marglin
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 13-24
Description
Compares Western permaculture theory and methods to the agroforestry-based food cultivation practices of the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Upper Amazon.
Regional-scale Food Security Governance in Inuit Settlement Areas: Opportunities and Challenges in Northern Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Nicholas Girard
Description
Geography, Environment and Geomatics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.
Relationships, Not Records: Digital Heritage and the Ethics of Sharing Indigenous Knowledge Online
Alternate Title
The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Kim Christen
Description
Author examines historical and contemporary issues that arise in when Indigenous knowledges are digitized and shared; articulates a framework for relational practices for institutions engaging with Indigenous communities.
Excerpt from The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities
Remote Presence Robotic Technology Reduces Need for Pediatric Interfacility Transportation from an Isolated Northern Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tanya Holt
Nazmi Sari
Gregory Hansen
Matthew Bradshaw
Michael Prodanuk ... Veronica McKinney ... Ivar Mendez ... [et al.]
Telemedicine and e-Health , vol. 24, no. 11, 2018, pp. 927-933
Description
Looks at the impact of Remote Presence Robotic Technology in expediting treatment and reducing the need for transport for Indigenous youth in remote communities.
Representation of the Sámi Culture in Tourism in Sweden:: A Thematic Analysis of Marketing Websites from Swedish Lapland
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gynn Heissy Ticao Hernaez
Lukas Mavromatis Klempin
Description
Factors discussed include language used when referring to Sámi, and adjectives used to describe landscape, food and people.
Research Priorities for Quebec First Nations
E-Books
Author/Creator
First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC)
A Research Study to Determine Effective Marketing Communication Strategies for Businesses Located in Nunavut, Canada, 2018: Prepared for Nunavut Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Economic Development Professionals, and Business Decision Makers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jason C. Little
Description
Presents data on the current context and discusses areas for improvement and the results of a series of in-depth face-to-face interviews involving 11 business professionals Serves as a snapshot of considerations decision-makers face when deciding on future actions.
Reset and Redefine: Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and the Rise of Indigenous Games
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maize Longboat
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 170-179
Description
Author critically engages the format and storytelling devices within the videogame Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) and discusses how this and other digital platforms can be used to build understanding and counter stereotypes and misinformation about Indigenous peoples.
Resilience and Rebellious Memory Loops: Further Musings of an American Indian Ethnoecologist
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Enrique Salmón
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 127-132
Description
Author of Eating the Landscape discusses how resilience theory can explain the relationship between traditional knowledge and adaptive change to ecological circumstances.