Indigenous Knowledge

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Suggests the intersection of Asian and Canadian interests in the arctic are convergent and makes recommendations for Canada to safeguard its interests to enhance cooperation and sustainable development.

Discusses a pictograph site on the Churchill River; article includes maps, photos and an entry from Alexander Mackenzie’s journal describing the rock painting and its location. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 30.

Representative from the Makivik Corporation discusses geographic, political, economic, environmental, and socio-cultural issues in the north. Paper given at the conference Northern Sovereignty and Political Geography in North America, Washington DC, 2010.

Examines aboriginal participation in resource management in several area: fish and wildlife, protected area planning, integrated coastal zone management, ecosystem health monitoring, contaminants research, environmental assessment, and climate change.

Evaluates the extent to which the Environmental Assessment Expert Panel's review of existing regulatory processes and Canada's response in the form of proposed legislation in Bill C-69 actually addressed its duty to consult. Argues that the examination of documents shows that government's duty has not been fulfilled in either spirit or practice.

Explains the Act, topics it covers, prevention of pollution, waste control, enforcement, and how it applies to First Nations.

Chronicles the relevant historical events leading to contributions to international development assistance programs.

Looks at a study which illustrates the importance of Aboriginal consultation in regards to the appropriateness of their undergraduate forestry training and continuing educational opportunities.

Discusses Indigenous literary nationalism, a philosophy that places Indigenous intellectual and cultural values at the center of analysis by looking at creative and critical endeavors in Canadian contexts.

Outlines trends and challenges of Indigenous governance in Canada.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2001.

Presents interviews with award winners on their strategies concerning economic development.

Discusses how respectful community-based research approaches are metaphorically like going on a canoe journey.

Paper from 5th APEC Research and Development Leaders Forum. Looks at integration of two separate views of science, western scientific criteria and the tenets of Indigenous knowledge.

A group of Inuit dressed in traditional hide clothing gathered outdoors; location unknown. Part of the "Inuit of Keewatin" series (#11).

Natural Resources Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manitoba, 2003.

Reveals communication between Porcupine Caribou Management Board and Gwich'in elders.

A set of 184 photographs recording a trip north to Selwyn Lake by a class from Black Lake School to experience a caribou hunt. The Dene people of northern Saskatchewan have for centuries depended on the vast herds of caribou that migrate north and south through their lands. North in the spring to calve and south in the fall for winter cover inside the tree line. In recent times the people have become more dependent on food from the local store, but they still prefer caribou to any other food, and hunters still go to the traditional hunting grounds or harvest them when the herds come near their communities. The students in this school project were fortunate to go to a winter camp and participate in a traditional learning experience with people who had lived in that way for most of their lives.

Looks at the traditional ecological knowledge of Elders, hunters, and trappers of the Little Red River Cree Nation and the Tallcree First Nation regarding the local critical wildlife habitat for moose, caribou and bison.

Discusses Karsten Heuer's book Being Caribou and how the herd migration undertakes several forms of boundary crossing between countries and species.

Field study based on interviews and information sessions aimed at gathering information about the use of medicinal plants by the Carrier people of northcentral British Columbia.

Overview of the quality of water in Aboriginal communities and interviews Grandmothers about the nature of water, its meaning and the importance of water to Aboriginal women.

Examines the crucial role between media technologies and the process of Māori cultural revitalization, sustainability and development for post-settlement Ngāi Tahu.

Study consisted of a literature review, ten interviews, and four case studies: Tłı̨chǫ All‐season Road Project, Hope Bay Mining Ltd, Offshore Oil and Gas Strategic Environmental Assessment, and Adams Lake Cumulative Effects Land Use and Management Assessment .

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1999.

Discusses the community’s responses to the shootings on the Red Lake Indian Reservation and the strategies used for healing and renewal.

Discusses how digital media storytelling can create new lived historical narratives.

Book review: Cedar by Hilary Stewart. Scroll down to page 59 to read review.

Discussion on the power of family caring and love.

Discusses how the promotion of Alaska Native heritage programs will help preserve, and pass on customary traditions.

Examines the language challenges students face in the classroom and explores how literacies develop and function in local communities.

Mass Communications Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008.

Looks at steps needed to connect services across sectors, professional disciplines and cultures to offer holistic and integrated services for child development.

States researchers need to respect the culture, goals, values, and political orders of Indigenous peoples. Discusses regulation of research protocols.

Discusses a three day workshop designed to introduce a model of a support group for expectant mothers to meet their emotional and physical needs.

Looks at the impact of Indigenous knowledge research projects on collaborative and community-based research in British Columbia.

Examines the sources of resilience and positive health strategies for Indigenous youth in urban settings.

Parents discuss concerns for the health of their children and develop a project to promote mental and physical fitness in the village of Old Crow. Duration: 55:00.

Looks at the case studies of three natural science projects in Nunavut and discusses the challenges that researchers have to incorporate traditional knowledge into their work and to design studies that are relevant to the communities.

Study surveyed 100 households on use of traditional knowledges in production of leather hides for clothing. Identifies opportunities and barriers for sustained poverty reduction, and makes recommendations for both improving the perception, transmission, and use of traditional knowledge and techniques, and for integrating methods.

Author challenges mainstream narratives about the Nenet cultural and historic practice of reindeer herding on the Yamal peninsula; suggests a system of herding based on movement, traditional herd navigation and laws of Nenet-land relationship.

Argues that teaching the history of residential schools in Canada requires an examination of how that history has been recorded and preserved; that this examination reveals an incompatibility between the colonial frameworks in archival institutions and structures of Indigenous knowledges. Discusses the impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Canadian archival practices.

Looks at ways in which indigenous knowledge might be evaluated in relation to science.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2006.

Compares 1983 to 1992 findings which focused questions on the purpose of schooling, community loyalty, ethnic identity and schools.

Discussion about the end of the Oxlajuj B'aq'tun and the start of a new era that should be seen as an opportunity for positive renewal to generate changes in society.