Indigenous Knowledge

Confronting Megaprojects: Development Without Our Consent is not Development

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Cultures of Peru (CHIRAPAQ)
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, The Future We Want: Indigenous Women of the World Unite, December 2013, p. [?]
Description
Indigenous women exchanged experiences on how the lack of consultation on mining, forestry, oil and natural gas extraction and hydroelectric projects have affected their communities.
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Conservation Native American Style

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terry L. Anderson
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 37, no. 4, 1997, pp. 769-785
Description
Looks at the myth of the Native American environmental ethic and the use of traditions, rules, laws and habits to look after natural resources.
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Conservation, Traditional Knowledge, and Indigenous Peoples

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ulia Popova
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 58, no. 1, January 2014, pp. 197-214
Description
Author concludes that collaboration between Indigenous groups and external bodies is important for improving indigenous economies and addressing environmental issues. Study looks at several different groups including Sami, Inuit and African and Australian Indigenous populations.
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Considering Perspectives and Supporting Opinions: Balancing Competing Needs in Canada [Unit 1]

Alternate Title
Expeditionary Learning
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
UnboundEd
Description

Uses the book The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations, by Alootook Ipellie with David MacDonald as a starting point to teach about how the Inuit have used the natural resources available to meet the needs of their communities. For use with students in Grade 5.

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Constitutional Reconciliation of Education for Aboriginal Peoples

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marie Battiste
Directions (Canadian Race Relations Foundation), vol. 5, no. 1, 2008, pp. 81-84
Description
Comments on the shared responsibility of the Aboriginal people and the federal and provincial governments to reconcile constitutional rights to education. Scroll to page 81 to read article.
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Constitutional Reform at the White Earth Nation

Alternate Title
Leading Native Nations Interview Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jill Doerfler
Ian Record
Description
Discusses the importance of traditional governance systems, and efforts for revising constitutions to support Indian Nations' sovereignty including changing the criteria for White Earth citizenship. Duration: 55:50. Includes transcript. Requires creation of free account to access materials.
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Constructing Confidence: Rational Skepticism and Systematic Enquiry in Local Ecological Knowledge Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anthony Davis
Kenneth Ruddle
Ecological Applications, vol. 20, no. 3, 2010, pp. 880-894
Description
Discusses problems associated with social research contributions to documenting, representing and interpreting indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK), local ecological knowledge (LEK), and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
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Contentious Art: Disruption and Decolonial Aesthetics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Luam Kidane
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Art, Aesthetics and Decolonial Struggle, 2014, pp. 189-192
Description
Discussion on art connects creativity to political processes and disrupted borders.
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A Conversation: Communities and Cathedrals

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rose Martial
Ann C. Macaulay
William L. Freeman
Pimatziwin: A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 2003, pp. 1-16
Description
Responses from three people on the theme of community health: Rose Martial, a community representative, Ann C. Macaulay, a family physician researching diabetes in Kahawake Territory and William Freeman, a professor at North West Indian College and former director of Research for the Indian Health Service (USA).
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Conversational Method in Indigenous Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Kovach
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 2010, pp. 40-48
Description
Discusses the similarities and contrasts between two research projects within an Indigenous research framework using the conversational method.
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Conversations with the Earth

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Phoebe Farris
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Sacred Places, Sacred Lifeways, March 2012, p. [?]
Description
Explores an Indigenous perspective on the impact of global climate change through the voices and experiences of the communities represented in the exhibition.
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Cooking and Commensality along the Bering Food Bridge

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
Igor Pasternak
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 45, no. 1/2, Chukotka: Understanding the Past, Contemporary Practices, and Perceptions of the Present, 2021, pp. 259-282
Description

Looks at the culinary exchange between American and Russian Indigenous populations across the Bering Strait.

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Cooking Fish Upwanask Style

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Lois Dalby (photographer)
Description
A set of 19 photos of Napthelie McKenzie showing how a fish can be cooked upwanask style over an open fire, without a frying pan, using sticks to hold it. Birchbark can serve as a plate in the bush.
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Cooperative Learning With A Computer in a Native Language Class

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ruth Bennett
Description
Project looks at American Indian elementary school children to see what elements are needed to influence language learning. Shows the importance of teaching in a way that is compatible with the learning style of the home culture.
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Cornus versus dentus et autres modalités d’association des animaux dans l’imaginaire inuit

Alternate Title
Horned versus Teethed and Other Modalities of Animal Association in the Inuit Imagination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vladimir Randa
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 41, no. 1-2, Bestiaire inuit = Inuit Bestiary, 2017, pp. 51-71
Description
Author explores Inuit ontologies or knowledge systems around non-human members of their ecosystem; discuss how Inuit ways of knowing the animals are rooted in social and cultural factors of relationality. Text in French.
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Cosmological Order As a Model For Navajo Philosophy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Trudy Griffin-Pierce
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, 1988, pp. 1-15
Description
Discusses the concept of order in Navajo Creation, identifies the sets of markers for the division of time and explores how these markers influence human thought and conduct.
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Counseling Intervention and American Indian Tradition: An Integrative Approach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Teresa D. LaFromboise
Joseph E. Trimble
Gerald V. Mohatt
The Counseling Psychologist, vol. 18, no. 4, 1990, pp. 628-654
Description
Argues that the training of Aboriginal counseling and community psychologists should move away from conventional counseling to a more culturally sensitive position that includes Aboriginal values.
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Country, Native Title and Ecology

Alternate Title
Aboriginal History Monograph ; 24
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jessica K. Weir
Luke Taylor
Patrick Sullivan
Hanson Boxer
Warford Bujiman ... [et al.]
Aboriginal History Monograph
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