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SIFERP series ; 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeanette Armstrong
Dick Cannings
Fred Fortier
Lauretta Prince
Ken Lertzman ... [et al.]
Description
Discusses perspectives regarding natural resources and working toward common principles of sustainability based on Indigenous and western approaches.
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.
Living Traditions: Museums Honour the North American Indigenous Games
Web Sites » Virtual Exhibits
Author/Creator
Canadian Canoe Museum
Elliott Avedon Museum
Musée des Abénakis
Wabanaki Confederacy
University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
National Museum of the American Indian
St. Boniface Museum
Sport Canada
Woodland Cultural Centre
Description
Site explores “traditions and histories of sporting events and games of yesterday and today.” Featured are 2002 North American Indigenous Games, the “Sacred Run,” lacrosse, canoe, kayak, Métis, Inuit and Woodland games and sports, archery, and Coast Salish canoe racing. Includes link to teacher resources.
Low levels of STRP Variability Are Not Universal in American Indians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mara H. Hutz
Sidia M. Callegari-Jacques
Sabrina E. M. Almeida ... et al.
Human Biology, vol. 74, no. 6, December 2002, pp. 791-806
Description
Study confirms that short tandem repeat polymorphisms (STRP) are good markers for the distinction of continental groups.
Mars Project Brings Space Program to Nunavut Youth
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker, vol. 20, no. 5, September 2002, pp. 30-31
Description
Reports on the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS), which simulates a mission to Mars on Devon Island.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.16.
Maya Medicine in the Biological Gaze: Bioprospecting Research as Herbal Fetishism
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ronald Nigh
Current Anthropology, vol. 43, no. 3, June 2002, pp. 451-478
Description
Commentary on using Mayan knowledge of plants when screening for potential pharmaceuticals.
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.
The Melting Ice Cellar: What Native Traditional Knowledge is Teaching Us About Global Warming and Environmental Change
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Longley Cochran
Alyson L. Geller
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 92, no. 9, September 2002, pp. 1404-1409
Description
Argues that environmental problems have often been observed by Alaska native communities decades before they have been confirmed by scientific research.
Mine Site Reclamation Policy for Nunavut: A Policy for the Protection of the Environment and the Disposition of Liability Relating to Mine Closures in Nunavut
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Document outlines policy to manage mineral resources while ensuring environmental and human health impacts are minimized.
Mine Site Reclamation Policy for the Northwest Territories
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)
p. 18
Description
Outlines the policy for environmental protection and any liability issues relating to mine closures located in the Northwest Territories.
A Missense Mutation (R565W) in Cirhin (FLJ14728) in North American Indian Childhood Cirrhosis
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pierre Chagnon
Jacques Michaud
Grant Mitchell
Jocelyne Mercier
Marion Jean-Francois
et al.
American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 71, no. 6, December 2002, pp. 1443-1449
Description
Study concludes that a single gene mutation causes North American Indian Childhood Cirrhosis, a distinct and severe form of familial cholestasis, which occurs in aboriginal children in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec.
Mitochondrial Genome Diversity of Native Americans Supports a Single Early Entry of Founder Populations into America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wilson A. Silva
Sandro L. Bonatto
Adriano J. Holanda
Andrea K. Ribeiro-dos-Santos
Beatriz M. Paixão
et al.
American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 71, no. 1, July 2002, pp. 187-192
Description
Argues that through their research they have determined there is a common origin among peoples who migrated to the Americas.
The Moral Epistemology of First Nations Stories
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jim Cheney
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 7, no. 2, [Telling Our Stories], 2002, pp. 88-100
Description
Comments on several storytellers (Carol Geddes, Louise Profeit-Leblanc, Vine Deloria, Lee Hester) to show that storytelling should be part of environmental education, ethics and practice.
Moving Toward the Circle of Prosperity: the Cyber-Journey
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carrie L. Billy
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 14, no. 2, American Indian Higher Education Consortium 30th Anniversary, Winter, 2002
Description
Discusses the use of new technology, in Colleges, to grow, serve, and preserve the languages, stories and songs of the surrounding communities.
Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
G. Hattersley-Smith
Arctic, vol. 55, no. 3, September 2002, pp. 302-3
Description
Book review of: Muskox Land by Lyle Dick.
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 American Issues in Early Childhood Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Guy W. Jones
Sally Moomaw
Description
Chapter one in book: Lessons From Turtle Island: Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms by Guy W. Jones, Sally Moomaw.
Native Lands and Livelihoods in British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cole Harris
Historical Geography, vol. 30, Indigenous Peoples: Contested Lands, Contested Identities, 2002, pp. [15]-32
Description
Discusses the variety of reasons for many small reserves rather than a few larger ones.
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
Native Studies 10
E-Books
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Learning
Description
Saskatchewan Learning Curriculum Guide.
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.
Negotiating Space: Geographies of the British Columbia Treaty Process
Theses
Author/Creator
Marian Hyndman
Description
Geography Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2002.
Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country
Alternate Title
Indigenous Confluences
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marisa Elena Duarte
Neurobehavioral Performance of Inuit Children with Increased Prenatal Exposure to Methylmercury
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Pál Weihe
Jens C. Hansen
Katsuyuki Murata
Frodi Debes
Poul J. Jørgensen
et al.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 61, no. 1, 2002, pp. 41-49
Description
Reports that prenatal or early postnatal exposure to methylmercury causes subtle neurobehavioral problems.
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.
New Media Cultures: Protocols for Producing Indigenous Australian New Media
E-Books
Author/Creator
Terri Janke
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
La Nuit Inuit: Éléments de Réflexion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Guy Bordin
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, Inuit and Qallunaaq Perspectives: Interacting points of view, 2002, pp. [45]-70
Description
Compares historical writings about the Inuit and the effect of the long periods of darkness and the actual Inuit attitudes and perceptions.
Text in French.
Nutrient Content of School Meals in Elementary Schools on American Indian Reservations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Story
Patricia Snyder
Jean Anliker
Leslie Cunningham-Sabo
Judith L. Weber
Kim Ring
Harrison Platero
Elaine J. Stone
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 102, no. 2, February 2002, pp. 253-256
Description
Study examines foods provided in school to see if they meet the standards of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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.
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.
One Mother Earth, One Doctor Water: A Story About Environmental Justice in the Age of Nuclearism. A Native American View
Theses
Author/Creator
Annie Grace Ross
Description
Native American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2002.
[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.
Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type VII Maps to the Short Arm of Chromosome 3
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
M. Labuda
J. Morrisette
L. M. Ward
F. Rauch
L. Lalic
P. J. Roughley
F. H. Glorieux
Bone, vol. 31, no. 1, July 2002, pp. 19-25
Description
Report on research to identify the gene responsible for a novel form of this debilitating condition in a small First Nations community in Quebec.