Indigenous Knowledge

Resources divided under seven topic headings: resolutions, policy and law, protocols, case studies, intellectual property, traditional knowledges and climate change, and ethics and traditional knowledge. To accompany Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives.

Annotated bibliography.

Focuses on the use of Indigenous traditional knowledge in forest management in Canada, but also addresses some issues in parks management and wildlife management outside forest ecosystems.

Covers issues such as social housing, childcare, education, language, and health and reports on initiatives undertaken by the organization.

Reports on Council's structure and activities undertaken during the year.

Briefly reviews recent history, describes geography and current demographics of Nunavut, discusses traditional knowledge and its importance in Inuit society, and makes recommendations for future actions.

Indigenous Language Revitalization Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Victoria, 2016.

Author traces the history and development of “North American Indian Place Names Studies” as a discipline in the field of anthropology; analyzes a successful model of cooperative research on Tlingit place names.

The Sidney W. Mintz Lecture for 2000: Why Anthropologists should Talk about Knowledge rather than Culture.

Explores the historic and contemporary relationship with Aboriginal peoples in child welfare and discusses how social workers can adopt culturally appropriate service models that integrates core Aboriginal values, beliefs, and healing practices.

First Nations Studies (M.A.)--The University of Northern British Columbia, 2008

Reviews relevant literature focused on anxiety and Aboriginal peoples. Includes interventions, preventions and treatment programs.

Presents discussion indicating education is still interfering with Indigenous culture and that education will only succeed when it is culturally relevant.

Transcripts of speeches delivered at two Elders gatherings.

Environmental and Life Science Thesis (M.G.I.S.)--University of Salford, 2004.

Contends that the UNDRIP will impact on the respect for the fundamental rights of indigenous people.

Comments on the application of the model to a topic in for a first year sociology class on crime and deviance.

Examines links between traditional and modern planning perspectives, to provide an approach sensitive to community values that is usable by external consultants and the community itself.

Assesses impact of study on a self-managed education program which attempted to balance traditional culture and language retention with contemporary education models.

Discusses collaboration between researchers and indigenous knowledge holders on a study which explored Indigenous values underlying health stewardship.

Explores 'knowing differently' and how bi-epistemic research challenges the researchers preconceived world views and places them in unfamiliar experience.

Religious Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2012.

Describes how the people have been reclaiming their culture, history and identity.

Describes the benefits of archaeology classes in the Bachelor of Teaching program at Brandon University's Northern Teacher's Education Project.

Anthropology and Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2000.

Article describes an Archaeological field school project for graduate students in which the authors provided instruction on methods and practices; discusses how the project promotes a framework of decolonization through community collaboration and cultural integration.

Uses a case study of an archaeological examination of the Cherokee settlement of Nynynyi to illustrate how the practice of the four Rs (relationships, responsibility, reciprocity, and redistribution) can be used to mitigate both intentional and accidental erasure of Indigenous culture through archaeology and settler colonialism.

Architecture Thesis (M.Arch)--Dalhousie University, 2014.

Book review of: Arctic Dreams & Nightmares by Alootook Ipellie.

Argues that the values, approaches and conclusions grounded in traditional knowledge, should be incorporated into the negotiation and implementation of international agreements and decision-making processes.

Book review of: The Arctic Sky by John MacDonald. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 45.

Social and Economic Development Thesis (B.A.) -- Háskólinn á Akureyri, 2007.

Three men cutting snow blocks Resolute, N.W.T. [NU]

Finished snow houses (igloos) located in Resolute, N.W.T. [NU]

Finished snow house located at Resolute, N.W.T. [NU]

Short entrance and snow house located at Resolute, N.W.T. [NU].

Looks at oral history and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in Nunavut, and the potential role of Indigenous intellectual traditions in literary studies.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massey University, 2008.

Book review of: Around and About Marius Barbeau: Modelling Twentieth-Century Culture edited by Lynda Jessup, Andrew Nurse, and Gordon E. Smith.

Looks at construction, usage and changes to weaponry focusing on the changes to Omushkego bow making due to environmental restrictions.

Introductory article to special themed edition.

[Public Health] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, 2007.

Art Sjolander is a geologist and prospector who has lived in northern Saskatchewan since 1959. He knew Jim Brady and was involved in the search for Brady and Halkett in 1967.

Community Health Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.