Business & Economic Development

Overview of three sectors: traditional, market and transfer economies and the role of each in sustainable development. Includes two transfer case studies: North Slope Borough in Alaska and Chukotka region in Russia from 1950s through to 1990s. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.

Business Thesis (Ph.D.)--RMIT University, 2014.

Introductory article to themed issue on economic development in Indigenous communities.

Study looks at understanding and incorporating different cultural domains and knowledge systems into management education.

Discussion of trapping and the fur trade. No date given, probably in the 1970's.

General account of his working life. No date given, probably in the 1970's.

Mrs. Nicolas, nee Fleury, was born in Duck Lake in 1887. After a brief period in the U.S. where she attended school she returned to the Duck Lake area where she has lived ever since. She shares her experiences of raising her family of ten plus three foster children, her childhood, schooling and life on a mixed farm including the Depression years. She also gives an account of the Frog Lake Massacre as told by her grandfather, and of relatives who fought in WWI, WWII and the Korean war.

Consists of an interview where there is discussion of traditional Indian values. There is also mention of a flood legend.

An interview that includes stories of hunting, trading and food gathering. Also included are stories about the Frog Lake massacre and Wihtiko (cannibal monster)

She gives a brief account of her childhood living in the bush while her father trapped for a living.

Consists of an interview with Mary Jacobson, the daughter of a Hudson's Bay manager. She talks about job discrimination against Indian and Metis, how welfare payments have destroyed the old way of life and tells a story of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 that her mother told her.

Consists of an interview where she tells of an encounter between James Douglas and the Indians. She also discusses various early missionaries who came to her people.

Discusses the ceremonies and customs connected with potlatches.

Muriel Ross shares her experiences of her childhood in the bush and at the residential school.

Discusses how cultural workforce perspectives based on kinship, disadvantage Aboriginal residents in the non-Indigenous workforce which is based on employment as identity.

Interviews community residents about impacts and changes of mining experience: changes to skills and experience; changes to family wages and household economy; new opportunities; employment; alcohol; traditional economy, and infrastructure and services.

Demonstrates the use of the concept of social class for understanding of reservation politics and argues why most theoretical models for class analysis are inadequate.

Reports research and shares stories to try to give direction to more effective asset-building.

Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2015.

Examines the issues involved when development threatens sacred sites.

Effect of the fishing industry on culture ranges from loss of control of the industry to participation in fishing labour disputes.

Website contains links to: publications, curricula resources, videos, and Joint Occasional Papers produced by the Institute and The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.

Reviews land use disputes in Stein River Valley, British Columbia and offers an assessment of some of the larger lessons to be learned from this forestry/wilderness conflict.

Discusses Indigenous rights in northern Canada in a historical context dating back to the Spanish Conquest.

Saskatchewan Learning Curriculum Guide.

Supplemental and alternative material to enhance delivery of Grade 11 curriculum. Can be used in conjunction with Native Studies 20: Student Resource Guide.

Compilation of readings from various sources. Can be used in conjunction with Native Studies 20: Case Studies and Readings Package.

Covers historical bases for current issues, philosophies which form foundations of culture and development, and implementation of action plans for social change.

Examines the native labour history of Aboriginal peoples participation in the emerging capitalist economy after the post fur-trade era.

Looks at opportunities provided by gambling for education, health, employment and political power.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2000.

Discusses the viability of decentralized political structures within the Navajo Nation in terms of efficiency, transparency, culturally appropriate governance and improved service delivery.

Looks at the primary reasons for returning back to the reservation to live and work: family support, community, cultural identity, the simple life, reservation economy, and commitment to the reservation.

Discussion of an allotment of $7.2 million US annually for the next 20 years to be given to Diné College, the Crownpoint Institute of Technology, and the Office of Navajo Nation Scholarship and Financial Assistance.

Looks at the history and the importance of pawn to Navajo culture.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 1981.

Publishing Project (M.Pub)--Simon Fraser University, 2006.

Financial institution owned by Alberta's Samson Cree Nation opens on the Asimakaneesikan Askiy Reserve in Saskatoon.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce opens bank on the La Ronge Reserve in Saskatchewan.

Book review of: The New Extractivism edited by Henry Veltmeyer, James Petras.

Provides brief overview of new policy and poses a series of questions dealing with its design and implementation.

Book review of: The New People by Edith Iglauer.

Agreement to improved government relations with Aboriginal communities regarding decisions about land use, resource use and revenue-sharing in British Columbia.

Looks at progress in communities affected by the Transformative Change Accord and the Métis Nation Relationship Accord in five keys areas: improving Crown - Aboriginal relationships, education, housing and infrastructure, health and economic opportunities.

Examines Sanaugait introduced by the Government of Nunavut. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 6.