Hunting, Fishing, Trapping & Gathering
Beyond Cultural Differences: Interpreting a Treaty Between the Mi'kmaq and British at Belcher's Farm, 1761.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Natasha Powers
Atlantis, vol. 29, no. 2, [Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations], 2005, pp. 47-54
Description
Argues that historic treaty rights must be understood within the context of relationships instead of individual or collective rights.
Bibliography of Sources on Dena’ina and Cook Inlet Anthropology through 2016, Final Version 4.3
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Kari
Alan Boraas
Aaron Leggett
R. Greg Dixon
Description
Extensive list (169 p.) features a wide array of "grey literature" sources from Alaska state and federal agencies, tribal groups, and privately produced publications.
Bidwewidam: Indigenous Masculinities, Identities & Mino-bimaadiziwin
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sylvia Maracle
Magda Smolewski
Katherine Minich
Lance Logan-Keye
Jessica Danforth ... [et al.]
Description
Twelve Elders who participated project were asked questions about men's traditional roles and responsibilities, changes which occurred due to colonization, and what is needed to see men achieve the good life.
Billy Simpson Interview
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Billy Simpson
J. Deranger
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interviewee recounts stories told to him by his father about the signing of Treaty #8;denial of Indian requests for reserve; and traditional lifestyle.
Biological Relationships Between Foragers and Farmers of South-Central North America: Nonmetric Dental Traits
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Taylor
Darrell Creel
American Antiquity, vol. 77, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 99-114
Description
Findings indicate relatively diverse backgrounds with little gene flow between the two groups, each presumably having arisen from relatively distant common ancestry.
The Birpai of the Manning River and Purfleet Station
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Ramsland
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, March 1989, pp. 3-13
Description
Looks at the history of the first people of the Manning River Valley, the Birpai and the establishment of the Purfleet station in 1900.
Bison: The Past, Present, and Future of the Great Plains, an Introduction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth Winkle
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 2001 , pp. 99-100
Description
Briefly outlines the three essays highlighted in this issue of the Great Plains Quarterly chosen from those presented at the Center for Great Plains Studies' 24th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Bison.
The Black Day: Yarsagunbu, the State, and the Struggle for Justice
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tashi Tewa Dolpo
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 2, 2016, pp. 33-44
Description
Looks at the events leading up to a confrontation between government officials and local villagers harvesting communal land, which resulted in death and injury, and the Nepali government's failure to respond to demands for justice.
The Black Hills Bill: Expressions of Doubt as to Its Justification and Constitutionality
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John P. Guhin
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 51-55
Description
Discusses the Bradley Bill as it relates to the Black Hills land dispute between the United States government and the Sioux Nation.
"The Bloody Moose Got up and Took off": Talking Carefully About Food Animals in a Northern Athabaskan Village
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas McIlwraith
Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 50, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 125-147
Description
Presents four stories of moose pursuits to show that care is always required when talking about food animals.
"Blue-Ice": Framing Climate Change and Reframing Climate Change Adaptation from the Indigenous Peoples' Perspective in the Northern Boreal Forest of Ontario, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denise M. Golden
Carol Audet
M. A. Smith
Climate and Development, vol. 7, no. 5, 2015, pp. 401-413
Description
Study by researchers and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) reports on effects of climate change on hunting and fishing and delivery of supplies in community.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jessica Clark
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, CONNECT—New Voices on Canada , June 2012, pp. 289-306
Description
Book review of: Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah & Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions by Charlotte Coté.
[Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Charles A. Bishop
Native Studies Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Native Peoples, Museums, and Heritage Resource Management, 1987, pp. 145-148
Description
Review of: The Fur Trade of the Little North Indians, Peddlers, and Englishmen East of Lake Winnipeg by Victor P. Lytwyn.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William J. Stilwell
E. Peers
Agnes Grant
Lynn Whidden
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1985, pp. 277-282
Description
Book reviews of 4 books:
Treaties on Trial by Fay G. Cohen.
The Canadian Prairies: A History by Gerald Friesen.
New Native American Drama: Three Plays by Hanay Geiogamah. The three plays are entitled Foghorn, 49, and Body Indian.
A Homeland for the Cree by Richard F. Salisbury.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Eleanor M. Blain
Damir Mirkovic
Kenichi Matsui
Rob Nestor
Tom G. Svensson
Michael R. Angel
Joel Martineau
Brian Thom
Christopher Hannibal-Paci
Claire Warrior
Massimiliano Carocci
Kevin Black
Tom G. Svensson
Don Clairmont
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, 2000, pp. 197-229
Description
Book review of:
kwayask-ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik: Their Example Showed Me the Way translated and edited by Freda Ahenakew and H. C. Wolfart.
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas: 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill. Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik by Susan G. Drummond. The Indian History of British Columbia: The Impact of the Whiteman by Wilson Duff.
Book reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Naomi McIlwraith
Troy Johnson
Stephen Warren
Sandra Faiman-Silva
Stephanie Fitzgerald
Marshall Joseph Becker
Andrew Wiget
Leslie D. Hannah
Jay Hansford C. Vest
Steven R. Evans
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, 2008, pp. 177-231
Description
Book reviews of 18 books:
Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie.
Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900 edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler.
The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians by Michale Leroy Oberg.
How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World by D. L. Birchfield.
I Swallow Turquoise For Courage: Poems by Hershman R. John.
Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians edited by James W.
Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Heather Myers
Helen Fast
Mina Kislalioglu Berkes
Fikret Berkes
Shirley Thompson ... [et al.]]
Description
Plain language version of Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North edited by Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, and Alan Diduck.
Breathing New Life into Treaties: History, Politics, the Law, and Aboriginal Grievances in Canada's Maritime Provinces
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
Agricultural History, vol. 77, no. 2, Spring, 2003, pp. 333-354
Description
Outlines Aboriginal peoples' struggle in the Maritimes for equal rights and their reliance on the land for economic, social, political and cultural survival.
Bridge Between Nations: A History of First Nations in the Fraser River Basin
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The Fraser Basin Council
Description
Discusses history and culture of First Nations groups including the Coast Salish, Nlaka’pamux, Ts'ilhqot'in Secwepemc, Okanagan, Stl’atl’imx, Wet’Suwet’en, Sekani, and Dakelh First Nations.
Bridging Parallel Rows: Epistemic Difference and Relational Accountability in Cross-Cultural Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicole Latulippe
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity, May 2015, pp. 1-17
Description
Comments on the ethics of the extent non-Indigenous researchers can respectfully engage the knowledge of Indigenous peoples.
A Brief Guide to the James Bay Controversy
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Canadian Association in Support of Native Peoples
Description
Concerns about man-made environmental damage with the undertaking of the James Bay Project is the focus of this booklet. Also mentioned is relocation of 7000 Cree persons and flooding of land.
Historical note:
Bringing Home Payahtakenemowin (Peace of Mind): Creating Self-governing Community Services
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joyce Timpson
Douglas Semple
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Inaugural Edition, May 1997, pp. 87-101
Description
Brief historical background of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation; looks at the social and economic change in remote hunting and trapping communities in Northwestern Ontario; and examines how the First Nations have increased the ability to address health and social service problems locally by assuming control of their health services.
British Columbia Indian Cut-off Lands Settlement Act, 1984, c. 2 [Assented to February 23, 1984]
Alternate Title
An Act to provide for the settlement of claims by Indian bands in British Columbia relating to certain lands cut off from their reserves
British Columbia Indian Cut-off Lands Settlement Act, 1984, c. 2, B-8.3
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Statute providing for settlement of land claims relating to property set aside before 1916 and referred to in the McKenna-McBride Agreement.
Brucella Infection at Cardia Pacemaker Site in a Patient Who Had Consumed Raw Caribou Meat in Northern Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jamil N. Kanji
Lynora Saxinger
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 37, September 17, 2018, pp. E1108-E1110
Description
Case study examines the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of a 82-year-old man who developed an infection at the site of a permanent pacemaker implant.
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.
Buffalo River Band, Flying Dust No. 105, Joseph Bighead Band, and Waterhen Lake First Nations - Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Inquiry II - Public Release
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of reports, maps, correspondence/letters, legal documents, submissions, oral transcripts, and the French and English versions of the Final Report. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Building Bridges of Understanding Between Nations: Grade Seven
Alternate Title
First Nations Journeys of Justice: A Curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade Seven
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Anne Goodfellow
Description
Students explore the basis of Aboriginal rights.
Chapter Seven from First Nations Journeys of Justice: A Curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade Seven by Anne Goodfellow.
Bungi (Unidentified)
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Bungi
Margaret Stobie
Indian History Film Project
Description
General account of Bungi's life. It is not clear if Bungi is a first or last name. No date given, probably in the 1970's.