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Chapter 2: Partners' Context, Worldviews and Evaluation Process

Alternate Title
Keeyask Generation Project: Environmental Impact Statement: Response to EIS Guidelines
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Keeyask Hydropower Limited Partnership
Chapter in the report Keeyask Generation Project: Environmental Impact Statement: Response to EIS Guidelines by Keeyask Hydropower Limited Partnership. Looks at the development of principles and processes for the environmental impact statement for the Keeyask Generation Project.
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Characteristics of Rocks, Their Uses and Local Landforms: A Two-Way Science Learning Unit for Qikiqtani Elementary Students

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
University of Manitoba Centre for Research, Youth, Science Teaching and Learning

Topics explored include characteristics of rocks found in Nunavut, how these characteristics determine their uses, how they are classified, what they show about local geological history, and how they are changed by natural processes. 

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Characterization of the Solid Waste Stream of the Tohono O'odham Nation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann Marie A. Wolf
Anna H. Spitz
Gary Olson
Anita Závodská
Mamoun Algharaibeh
Journal of Environmental Health, vol. 65, no. 8, April 2003, pp. 9-18
Study indicated residents generated only one third of the U.S. average of solid waste with far fewer hazardous materials.
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Charlie Chief 2 Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Charlie Chief
Mary Mountain
Indian History Film Project
An interview that describes some boyhood memories. The interviewee also describes two dances, the Give Away and Wolf Feast ceremonies.
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Charting a Course for Culturally Responsive Physical Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel B. Robinson
Lisa Lunney Borden
Ingrid M. Robinson
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 58, no. 4, Winter, 2013, pp. 526-546
Recommends curriculum which supports a learning climate involving teachers critically assessing their own power, privilege, biases, and misconceptions.
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Chief Seattle's Speech Revisited

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arnold Krupat
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring, 2011, pp. 192-214
Analyzes a speech given by Duwamish and Suquamish Indian Chief Sealth or Seattle, along with Henry Smith's account, concerning the concession of native lands to the settlers and a plea for respect of Native American rights and environmental values.
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Children of Change, Not Doom: Indigenous Futurist Heroines in YA

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lynette James
Extrapolation, vol. 57, no. 1-2, 2016, pp. 151-176
Proposes that “Indigenous futurism is a deliberate, intentional, and purpose-driven position that addresses not only inclusion but intersectionality for its protagonists and themes;” and ask the reader to consider it both an aesthetic and a framework for critical theory. Examines different dystopian YA texts in this context.
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Christine Adam: Uranium City's Number One Resident

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Department Of Northern Saskatchewan
Graham Guest
Christine Adam, one of the first residents of Uranium City, reflects on life in the old days. Page one: portrait of Christine Adam. Page Two: portrait of Christine with her mother and friend Adele Whitedeer.
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Classic Salish Twined Robes

Alternate Title
Classic Salish Twined Cloaks
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katharine Dickerson
BC Studies, no. 189, Spring, 2016, pp. 101-127
Discusses Salish Coast classic weavings and unique techniques used by the Salish and design.
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Cleaning up Cosmos: Satellite Debris, Radioactive Risk, and the Politics of Knowledge in Operation Morning Light

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ellen Power
Arn Keeling
Northern Review, no. 48, October 18, 2018, pp. 81-109
Examines the debris recovery efforts surrounding the crash of Soviet nuclear-powered satellite in 1978; notes that a misunderstanding of the North, its climate, its residents and their cultures created many barriers for Canadian and United States military teams.
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Climate Change and the Stories We Tell

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda L. Murphy
Jo-Anne Muise Lawless
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, Special Issue: Finding Common Ground, Spring, 2012, pp. 196-220
Authors contend that climate change is providing an occasion to raise questions about values and priorities.
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Climate Change and Vibrio cholerae in Herring Eggs: The Role of Indigenous Communities in Public Health Outbreak Responses

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paivi Abernethy
Shannon Waters
Tim Kulchyski
Dave Rolston
Helena Swinkels ... [et al.]
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 16, no. 2, Wisdom of the Elders: Honouring Spiritual Laws in Indigenous Knowledge , 2021, pp. 13-35

Using the 2018 Vibrio cholerae outbreak to discuss the need for stronger institutional relationships and partnerships with local Indigenous communities when dealing with the impact of climate change trends. 

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Climate Change in the Pacific: A Matter of Survival

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sonia Smallacombe
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, 2008, pp. 72-78
Adaptation through migration and application of traditional knowledge are some options open to Indigenous people to sustain and manage their environment.
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Close to Home: An Indigenist Project of Story Gathering

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen E. Absolon
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 9, no. 1, Indigenous Research Methodologies, 2020
Author uses the example of collecting stories from her mother over a period of three years to describe an Indigenous methodology for research that is rooted in relationality, seasonal progressions, and wholistic worldviews and that focuses on research through memory and story-telling.
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'Closing the Gap': How Maternity Services Can Contribute to Reducing Poor Maternal Infant Health Outcomes For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
S. Kildea
S. Kruske
L. Barclay
S. Tracy
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 10, no. 3, August 6, 2010, p. article no. 1383
Reviews current services, initiatives & challenges to the delivery of safe maternity services for Aboriginal women in rural and remote areas of Australia.
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Co-location of a Government Child Welfare Unit in a Traditional Aboriginal Agency: A Way Forward in Working in Aboriginal Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda Kreitzer
Jean Lafrance
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 34-44
Discusses family enhancement approaches that combine traditional worldviews and western theories of child and family practice, and the benefits for workers, families, and Aboriginal communities.
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Co-Managed Research: Non-Indigenous Thoughts on an Indigenous Toponymy Project in Northern British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Heikkilä
Gail Fondahl
Journal of Cultural Geography, vol. 29, no. 1, In Between Worlds: Place, Experience, and Research in Indigenous Geography, 2012, pp. 61-86
Looks back at a 2003 study on Dakelh place names and experiences faced while negotiating Indigenous, place-based cultural research.
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Coast Salish - Booklet. - 1966.

Archival » Archival Items
Booklet relating to the coast Salish people of coastal British Columbia, describing various aspects of Coast Salish culture such as daily subsistence, religion, shamanism, family life and legends.
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[Coast Salish Essays]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
N. Alexander Easton
Native Studies Review, vol. 4, no. 1 & 2, 1988, pp. 237-244
Book review of: Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles.
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Coast Salish Essays

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Marjorie Mitchell
BC Studies, no. 82, Summer, 1989, pp. 65-68
Book review of: Coast Salish Essays by Wayne Suttles.
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