File contains a presentation by Lionel Whiteduck, Director, Health and Social Services, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Council. Whiteduck discusses his personal experiences with health delivery across the country, gives a brief historical background to health delivery in traditional society, discusses the need to integrate traditional ideas with modern technologies, discusses some of the social and health issues facing Aboriginal communities such as high suicide rates, the importance of self esteem, funding and juridisdicitonal concerns.

File contains a presentation by Micmac Wallace Libillois. Libillois discusses the history of colonization and his people in Canada, the commonalities between indigenous people across the country in their relationship with the state, residential schooling, proseltization, Aboriginal fishing rights, threats to Aboriginal people's rights, an indigenous view of resource use, the Aboriginal roots of many European democratic concepts, and the importance of Constitutional recognition and inclusion for Aboriginal peoples in Canada.

File contains a presentation by Chief Andrew Kirkness in English and Cree (translation provided in text). Kirkness discusses the historical relationship between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Canadians, land claims, intergovernmental affairs, the Constitution, the status of off reserve First Nations people, Education, nothern conditions, the Indian Act, economic issues, cultural issues, the importance of Elders to First Nations governance, and the situation of Aboriginal youth.

An interview with Rufus Goodstriker, born in 1924 on the Blood Indian Reserve and attended a residential school. He tells of the origins and significance of the transfer of Indian names, especially within his own family. He also talks about Indian medicine and the power of faith; the Indian spiritual way vs. the Western technological way;of herbs, animal spirits, sweat bath in healing etc.

Presenters stressed the need for community involvement to produce mutually beneficial research.

Study examines the potential opportunities and barriers for women living rurally in Rwanda to use their Indigenous knowledge around the production of fermented milk-based beverages as a means of economic empowerment.

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

Book review of Saanich Ethnobotany by Nancy Turner and Richard Hebda. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 214.

Presents overview of several different clown societies. Chapter 13 in book: The Sacred: Ways of Knowledge, Sources of Life by Peggy V. Beck.

Book review of: Sacred Ecology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management by Fikret Berkes.

Pages 301-398 from the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886

Looks at project started to conserve Arctic biodiversity and cultural heritage. Chapter in book: Properties of Culture - Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia edited by Erich Kasten.

Professional Communication Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2011.

Discussion on various aspects of traditional knowledge, including traditional knowledge and the law, comparison of scientific and traditional approaches to knowledge, and tools for maintaining traditional knowledge.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 2008.

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.

Website contains links to articles on the arts, history, spirituality, language, anthropology, etc.

Case study of a northern Ontario community from 1971 to 1982.

Looks at partnership with the University of Manitoba and the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation to help with detailed planning and capacity building for high priority housing.

A description of the origins of different place names, including several adapted from Indigenous language names or their translations to English or French: Nipawin, Kinistino, Saskatoon, Wascana and others. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.

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.

Discussion of the problem of alcohol abuse among native peoples. Raising children: comparison with earlier days. Establishment of the Shesheep, Sakimay and MuscowpetungReserves. Many lectures about their histories and their hopes for the future of their people.

Elders discuss: problems for present day Indians including alcoholism; failure to educate the young in traditional ways; influence of white education.

Explores the problem of neoliberalism and nativist desire, and examines the possible answers to globalized neoliberalism and its reliance on multicultural difference.

Discusses the sacred obligations of the Wixárika people and the importance of artwork to tell stories.

Book review of: The Scalpel and the Silver Bear by Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.

Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2010.

Examines the methodology behind the best practices for delivery of science education to Cree students.

Research indicates teachers' self-awareness, if they are conflicted about science and First Nations knowledge, will improve how they deal with the issue; and students avoiding science in high school and university could not explain why. Creative ways of diminishing instruction barriers are needed.

Book review of: Science and Sustainability by Joy Hendry.

Book review of: Science and Sustainability by Joy Hendry.

Includes guidance for teachers on how to incorporate Indigenous science into the curriculum, thematic science units, and an annotated bibliography. Developed to conform to British Columbia curriculum, but material can be adapted for other contexts.

Presents personal perspective on environmental science research in northwest Canada.

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.

Briefly looks at differences between the Western culture's analytic views of nature and the Indigenous spiritual orientation.

Discusses the exchange of scientific and traditional knowledge on the northern environment to gain a better understanding of the atmospheric and water environments in the Sahtu.

Questions Western science objectivity and examines the connections to Indigenous knowledge.

Discusses how science can be placed inside a cultural fabric.

Presents a model for cooperative research between First Nation harvesters and scientific researchers that builds upon the contributions of both science and local/indigenous knowledge towards multi-functional and biologically diverse landscapes.

Discusses the linguistic evidence of a link between the Athabascan and the Sino-Tibetan people.

Argues that scientific colonialism has led to a distortion of the language and culture used to understand African Indigenous thought.

Looks at how the community at an Ojibwe tribal school in Northern Wisconsin understands and implements culture-based curriculum.

Examines the conflicting ways in which artifacts and cultural heritage of First Nations are understood and how contradictory positions are to be reconciled.

Describes Inuit nutritional models as they relate to their culture, identity and diet selection.

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.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2006.

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.

Argues that with the increase in Aboriginal people with undergraduate degrees there is also increasing pressure, in the academic world, to have Indigenous knowledge both respected and validated.