Hunting, Fishing, Trapping & Gathering
Daniel Williams Harmon
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John H. Archer
Saskatchewan History, vol. 4, no. 2, Spring, 1951, pp. 62-67
Description
Discusses the journal of Harmon, an employee of the North-West Company (NWC) from 1800 to 1819.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 62.
Danish Greenland: Its People and Products; Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Trevor Lloyd
Arctic, vol. 30, no. 1, March 1977, pp. 65-66
Description
Book reviews of:
Danish Greenland by Henrik Rink with a new introduction by Helge Larsen.
Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo by Henrik Rink with a new introduction by Helge Larsen.
A Death in the Family: The Strategic Importance of Women in Contemporary Northern Ojibwa Society
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Driben
Native Studies Review , vol. 6, no. 1, 1990, pp. 83-110
Description
Analyzes losses from the deaths of four people from Fort Hope and Lansdowne House to determine the economic and social losses of the families and how long the losses will be felt.
Deciphering Compositional Patterning in Plainware Ceramics From Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Sites in the Peninsular Ranges, San Diego County, California
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick S. Quinn
Margie M. Burton
David Broughton
Sophie Van Heymbeeck
American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 4, October 2013, pp. 779-789
Description
Compares previously looked at ceramics and field samples to three distinctive compositional groups and suggests cultural processes that may have contributed.
Decision on Duck Creek: Two Green Bay Reservations and Their Boundaries, 1816-1996
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Oberly
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 3, 2000, pp. 39-76
Description
Investigates a legal dispute and survey error that was finally corrected, thus allowing Aboriginal fishermen to net suckers at Duck Creek, in Brown County, Wisconsin.
Declining Foraging Returns from an Inexhaustible Resource? Abundance Indices and Beluga Whaling in the Western Canadian Arctic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew W. Betts
T. Max Friesen
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, vol. 25, no. 1, March 2006, pp. 59-81
Description
Focuses on the foraging efficiency of two Inuit hunter groups, the Kuukpangmiut and Kittegaryumiut, during the period 1200-1600 AD.
Decolonization in the Arctic? Nature Practices and Land Rights in Sub-arctic Norway
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gro B. Ween
Marianne E. Lien
Journal of Rural and Community Development, vol. 7, no. 1, Human Resources and Remote Indigenous Communities, 2012, pp. 93-109
Description
Looks at the Finnmark Act in 2005, the establishment of Finnmark Estate and contemporary Sami nature practices.
Follows two local women and their families.
Decolonizing the Choctaw Nation: Choctaw Political Economy in the Twentieth Century
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sandra Faiman-Silva
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1993, pp. 43-73
Description
Analysis of the Choctaw, who live in the southeastern Oklahoma timber region, and how they survive in the face of land alienation and economic challenges to their traditional strategies, in order to maintain a livelihood.
Deer Hunting: An Innovative Teaching Paradigm to Educate Indigenous Youth about Physical Literacy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sidney Paul
Gareth Jones
Jennifer Jakobi
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 4, no. 1, Digital and Data Sovereignty, July 28, 2019, pp. 39-48
Description
Study aims to understand the physical activity (PA) involved in deer hunting, and how that activity can be used to help Aboriginal youth learn physical literacy (PL). Results show that deer hunting can easily surpass the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines (CPAG) for maintaining health, and that it creates an opportunity for promoting PL to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit youth.
Deerskins and Domesticates: Creek Subsistence and Economic Strategies in the Historic Period
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman
American Antiquity, vol. 72, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 5-33
Description
Suggests that involvement in the deerskin trade suppressed the adoption of animal husbandry and only after this market collapsed did domestic animals become the main source of meat in the diet of the Creek Indians.
Defining Food Security for Urban Aboriginal People: Final Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jaime Cidro
Evelyn Peters
Jim Sinclair
Description
Using Winnipeg, Manitoba, as a case study, looked at concept of food security, challenges of maintaining access to culturally valued food, and made recommendations concerning policy which would facilitate access. Information gathered through interviews and focus groups.
Dene Hunting Organization in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories: “Ways We Help Each Other and Share What We Can”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roger McMillan
Brenda Parlee
Arctic, vol. 66, no. 4, December 2013, pp. 435-447
Description
Looks at how meat distribution patterns such "demand sharing" and harvester "giving", vary with respect to game acquired during a community hunt, as opposed to a household-organized hunt.
Denning Ecology of Wolves in East-Central Alaska, 1993–2017
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kyle Joly
Mathew S. Sorum
Matthew D. Cameron
Arctic, vol. 71, no. 4, December 19, 2018, pp. 444-455
Description
Researchers examine the sites that central-Alaskan wolves select for dens and compile a list of features that wolves seem to prefer when making a selection.
Dentine-Lead Levels and Dental Caries in First Nation Children From the Western James Bay Region of Northern Ontario, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
L.J.S. Tsuji
J. D. Karagatzides
R. M. Hanning
B. Katapatuk
J. Young
E. Nieboer
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol. 70, no. 3, March 2003, p. 409–414
Description
Looks for links between dentine-lead levels in extracted and exfoliated teeth and dental caries.
"Determined To Burn Off The Entire Country": Prospectors, Caribou, and the Denesuliné in Northern Saskatchewan, 1900-1940
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anthony G. Gulig
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, 2002, pp. 335-359
Description
Explains how the influx of traders and settlers in search of furs and gold altered the ecological balance of the region.
The DEW Line and Canada's Arctic Waste: Legacy and Futurity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Myra J. Hird
The Northern Review, no. 42, Northern Inequalities - Global Processes, Local Legacies, 2016, pp. 23-45
Description
Looks at the history of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line and remediation projects to uncover contamination left behind in the abandoned sites.
DFO Makes the Worst of a Good Situation
Alternate Title
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Makes the Worst of a Good Situation
Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 6, September, 2010, p. 5
Description
Discusses the problems caused by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans incorrectly estimating several fish runs.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.
Diabetes, the Ice Free Corridor, and the Paleoindian Settlement of North America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael Wendorf
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 79, no. 4, August 1989, pp. 503-520
Description
Study examines the relationship between obesity and adult-onset diabetes and proposes that this occurs due to the interaction of susceptible genotypes and a low fiber diet.
Did I Hear That Right? One Anthropologist's Reaction to Colleague's Testimony in a Court Case Involving Alaska Native Aboriginal Hunting and Fishing Rights on the Outer Continental Shelf
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rita A. Miraglia
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue of Indigenous Policy: Anthropology, Archaeology and Litigation - Alaska Style, Spring, 2012, pp. 1-19
Description
Comments on opinions presented as fact in a court case and questions if guidelines need to be established for the use of anthropological and archaeological data in court testimony.
The Dispersal of the Métis
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[David Morin]
Description
Briefly explains reasons for the out-migration from Manitoba after the Red River Resistance and the 1885 Resistance, including disappearance of the bison-hunting economy, failure of agriculture, influx of settlers, racism, changes to legislation, and flaws in the Scrip system.
Diversifying Identity, Diversifying Strategy: Revisiting the Sami of Sweden
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Elaine Wang
Description
Reviews strategies used by the Sami to improve their socio-economic position. Updates assessment found in Indigenous Peoples & Poverty: An International Perspective edited by John-Andrew McNeish, Alberto D. Cimadamore and Robyn Eversole.
Diversity of Saami Terminology for Reindeer, Snow, and Ice
Alternate Title
Diversity of Sami Terminology for Reindeer, Snow, and Ice
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ole Henrik Magga
International Social Science Journal, vol. 58, no. 187, March 2006, pp. 25-34
Description
Explains large vocabulary that the Sami use to express themselves regarding their physical environment .
'Divided Loyalties' Hamper Wild Fisheries Protection: Justice Cohen
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David P. Ball
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 9, December 2012, p. 9,24
Description
Looks at a report, on the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye salmon fishery, which was received with mixed reviews by First Nations and environmentalists.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.