Hunting, Fishing, Trapping & Gathering

Briefly discusses the relationship of reindeer herders within Sami society and the looming threat to their livelihood.

Looks at the past and present reindeer pastoralists from 1960's to present day.

Nine elders in discussion at Saddle Lake Reserve. They talk about aspects of life before contact with whites, Treaty #6, the history of amalgamations and land sales, and a traditional story of a boy raised by buffalo.

Undertaken to identify food safety issues and assess effectiveness of programs aimed at decreasing the number of food-borne illnesses associated with traditional foods.

Explanation of Aleut techniques and weapons used for bird hunting.

Signed at Fort Norman, Northwest Territories, on September 6, 1993. Volume II. Land Selection Descriptions, Schedule 1 (Appendix E to the Agreement).

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2013.

Looks at the provincial Leggatt Inquiry, the legal and political context surrounding it, and the intrusion into First Nations territory and ways of life and peoples effected.

Documentary looks at jeopardizing the harvest of salmon in both ancient myth and modern reality. Duration: 24:43.

Analyzes four different scientific mapping processes connected to fishing grounds in the Lyngen fjord in northern Norway. Results show mapping tells little about Sami culture.

Overview of Sámi fishing practices in different regions from the Middle Ages to modern times.

Economics and Social Sciences Thesis (D.Sc.)--Agricultural University of Norway, 2000.

Findings from analysis of bark-peelings in a nature reserve in Sweden, suggest inner-bark was used by the Native Sami people to supplement their diet in the spring.

Looks at the contemporary Sami movement and policy by examining historical conflict and challenges.

Examines effects of colonization on a community of San in eastern Namibia and how gender relations have been altered. To access this article, scroll down to page 9.

Discusses problems of non-status Indians and Sandy Jacobs' life as a trapper.

File contains reports from the Department of Natural Resources for the province of Saskatchewan, one of which discusses domestic and free indigenous fishing.

A wide range of topics such as clothing, bison, decoration, tools, etc. Developed for Grade 4 Social Studies. Updated version. Student Handouts.

This file contains a promotional brochure that outlines the philosophy, objectives and training opportunities available at Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College in 1973.

Determined by Constitution Act (1982), the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement (1930) and associated court cases.

Activities and information on five-week treaty simulation, fur trade simulation, Buffalo and the Buffalo jump, pipe ceremony, and creation stories.

Discusses the changes Inuit hunters in the Igloolik region experienced by using a Global Positioning System (GPS).

Elders discuss: loss of respect for elders; loss of traditions; problems with younger generation; alcohol-related problems; traditional hunting and trapping lifestyle.Story of woman who feigned pregnancy in order to get more money.

Looks at a sustainable system of salmon fishing based on property rights to fishing sites.

Report conducted to support First Nations fisheries in the Atlantic region and provide information to potential students by identifying support services, college programming, research centres, reports and projects.

Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2014.

Interviews local leaders of the anti-dam movement, leaders of the Sami community, political journalists, and science researchers to look at Alta Dam's exclusionary practices and how state officials ignored residents' perspective.

Discusses the trend of later freezing of sea ice and the risk this imposes on caribou herds migrating between Victoria Island and the Canadian Arctic mainland.

Looks at two different types of maritime activity, one past and one current.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 1997.

A man posing with a drying seal skin. Sachs Harbour, N.W.T.

"Rankin, Seal Skins Drying on Side of Eskimo House" Rankin Inlet, [NU].

Author discusses the violent social media response Tanya Tagaq received after having posted a photo of her daughter next to a harvested seal; uses the incident to illustrate how colonial violence disproportionately targets Aboriginal women.

Descriptions of Inuit social life and customs, circa. 1866. Volume covers January to June, 1866.

Looks at reasons for the population's poor health and difficulties encountered when a tribes try to control production, quality and distribution of food. Some of the issues include definition of "traditional food", access, environmental degradation, poaching and invasive species.

Provides data on mammals, fish, birds and berries harvested in the six seasons starting July 1980 to June of 1981.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University, 2006.

Examines adaptive capacity in relation to long term landscape changes produced by coastal uplift processes.

Comments on the role of law in measures that secure the legal scope of governance in the Arctic to deal with security challenges. Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.

Explains that despite surface erosion, the Security Cove site in southwestern Alaska provides data on the activities of the site occupants.

Analyzes 30 stories and conversations with community members to articulate the First Nation's legal principles with respect to: territorial and harvesting protocols and practices; establishing and maintaining agreements and conflict resolution; decision making; relationships, responsibilities and rights; and consequences, enforcement and teaching. Uses individual traditional stories as a foundation for case briefings.

Looks at how colonization impacted traditional foodways, the importance of access to traditional seeds, and the need to repatriate them from seed banks.

Book review of: French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest by Jean Barman.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2000.

Focuses on governance, member participation, learning and cultural revitalization, and representation in negotiations. Concludes with recommendations to strengthen internal and external legitimacy.