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The Unsustainable Nature of Ignorance: Measuring Knowledge to Effect Social Change First Results of an On-Line Survey of Aboriginal Knowledge at Queen's University

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Godlewska
Jennifer Massey
Jones K. Adjei
Jackie Moore
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013, pp. 65-94
Findings based on over 3000 students argues that unawareness about Aboriginal people in Canada is the biggest problems for Native Education.
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The Use of Traditional Environmental Knowledge To Resolve the Issue of Family-Based Traditional Lands Versus Registered Traplines: The Victor Diamond Mine Comprehensive Environmental Assessment Scoping Process

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Graham S. Whitelaw
Jessica McEachren
Daniel D. McCarthy
Leonard J.S. Tsuji
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, 2012, pp. 141-158
Analyzes the environmental assessment of a diamond mine development that was possibly improperly scoped.
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Use of Traditional Inuit Culture in the Policies and Organization of the Government of Nunavut

Alternate Title
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sarah Bonesteel
Explores how Inuit Qaujimajatiqamgot has been used to implement traditional social and cultural practices as operational policy. Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
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The Use of Traditional Knowledge in Cree Hunting Strategies

Alternate Title
Working Paper (Sustainable Forest Management Network) ; 1999-14
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Cynthia D. Pyc
Working Paper (Sustainable Forest Management Network)
Presents a portion of the traditional ecological knowledge gathered during the 1997 moose harvest survey in Garden River, Alberta.
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Use Your Voice Ta’Kaiya Blaney Speak - and Sing - Her Hope for the Future

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ta’Kaiya Blaney
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, The World on Our Shoulders: Cultivating Indigenous Youth Leadership, September 2013, p. [?]
Young environmentalist discusses her views and her song, Shallow Waters which highlights how an oil spill in the northwest coast could tragically end the traditional way of life for many coastal First Nations and devastate all marine and coastal life and habitat.
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Using Multiple Sources of Knowledge to Investigate Northern Environmental Change: Regional Ecological Impacts of a Storm Surge in the Outer Mackenzie Delta, N.W.T.

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steve V. Kokelj
Trevor C. Lantz
Steve Solomon
Michael F.J. Pisaric
Darren Keith ... [et al.]
Arctic, vol. 65, no. 3, September 2012, pp. 257-272
Uses synthesis of field data, remote sensing, and Inuvialuit knowledge to explore the timing, causes, and implications of weather event that took place in September 1999.
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Using the First Nations Medicine Wheel as an Aid to Ethical Decision Making in Health Care

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annette Schroeter
Nicole Brunton
Kara Kakekagumick
Helen Cromarty
Barbara Linkwich
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2017, pp. 179-191
Study uses thematic and NVivo 10 analysis to review the structured interviews of 30 study participants; most participants found the Medicine Wheel to be a useful framework for health-care decision making.
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Using Traditional Environmental Knowledge and a Geographical Information System to Identify Sites of Potential Environmental Concern in the Traditional Territory of the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eric P. VanSpronsen
Leonard J. S. Tsuji
Harry Manson
Joseph Shecapio-Blacksmith
Tommy Rabbitskin
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, 2007, pp. 189-205
Concerns about the impact of mining, on the environment, brought about a traditional land use study that documented 73 potential sites of concern.
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The Value of First Nations Languages

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick Kelly
BC Studies, no. 89, In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia, Spring, 1991, pp. 141-149
Looks at the importance of using language to create cross cultural understanding as well as a tool to ensure language survival.
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Vern Harper Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Vern Harper
Alex Cywink
Indian History Film Project
Consists of an interview where he tells of life in a foster home and cultural suppression; gives a description of suppression on reserves in the 1950's; and gives a description of native values and philosophy and the role of sweat lodges.
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The Viability of Indian Languages in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John A. Price
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 339-346
Looks at the status of Aboriginal languages in this country and argues that they have a better chance of survival here than elsewhere in the world.
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The Victor Buffalo Case: Cautionary Tale or Radical Hope Vindicated

Alternate Title
Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations Perspectives on Consultation January 17-18, 2009
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter W. Hutchins
Looks at the Federal Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Appeal Judgments in the Samson Cree Nation case and the Victor Buffalo v. Her Majesty the Queen case.
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The Victor Diamond Mine Environmental Assessment and the Mushkegowuk Territory First Nations: Critical Systems Thinking and Social Justice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel B. McCarthy
Graham S. Whitelaw
Leonard Tsuji
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, pp. 83-116
Looks at the experiences of the Fort Albany First Nation during the Environmental Assessment process of the proposed Victor Diamond Mine and reflects on associated social justice issues.
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Views of Traditional Ecological Knowledge [TEK] in Co-Management Bodies in Nunavik, Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Evelyn J. Peters
Polar Record, vol. 39, no. 1, January 2003, pp. 49-60
Results of a survey of members of committees formed pursuant to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement; three elements emerged: complex views of traditional knowledge, role of Inuit in attempting to shape the role of TEK in decision-making and need for financial support to collect TEK.
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The Virtual North: On the Boundaries of Sovereignty

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barret Weber
Rob Shields
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, January 2011, pp. 103-120
Considers the virtualization of sovereignty today in the context of the Arctic debates.
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Visual Memory in Village Eskimo and Urban Caucasian Children

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith Kleinfeld
Arctic, vol. 24, no. 2, June 1971, pp. 132-138
Study shows Eskimo children have significantly higher levels of perceptual skills than Caucasian children. Looks at factors affecting skills.
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The Voice of My Grandmother (Gene Gregoret, 1973)

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gene Gregoret
Documentary about a Cree community in northern Alberta where the children are taught traditional stories and traditional ways by the old people. Duration: 14:32.
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Voices of the Canoe: For Teachers

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Museum of Anthropology [University of British Columbia]

Contains links to lesson plans for various levels under the themes of Indigenous Knowledge, Historical Consciousness, Evidence, Cultural Expressions, Colonialism, Ancient Civilizations, Mapping, Oral Traditions, Origin Stories, Resources, and Primary Sources.

Educators' section of website that focusses on Fijian, Haida and Squamish canoe traditions and their importance in each culture. 

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Volume 5B: Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge: Enbridge Northern Gateway Project

Articles » General
2010
Provides the methodology and results of the Aboriginal traditional knowledge program undertaken by Northern Gateway Pipelines Limited Partnership. The objective of the program is to gain an understanding of and document traditional activities, project effects on traditional lands, and possible mitigation strategies.
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A Voyage Around the World: In a Canoe

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kaimana Barcarse
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, From the Heart of the Earth, March 2014, p. [?]
Results of an experiment to whether the Polynesians in their voyaging canoes were able to intentionally travel from island group to island group in the Pacific using only traditional methods of navigation.
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Vulnerability to Unintentional Injuries Associated With Land-Use Activities and Search and Rescue in Nunavut, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dylan G. Clark
James D. Ford
Tristan Pearce
Lea Berrang-Ford
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 169, November 2016, pp. 18-26
"In this paper, we develop a framework for assessing vulnerability to injury and use it to identify and characterize the determinants of injuries on the land in Nunavut".
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