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Dreams and Nightmares in First Nations Fiction

Theses
Author/Creator
Lena Ruwoldt
Description
Philosophy Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Greifswald, 2017. Focuses on Robert Arthur Alexie's Porcupines and China Dolls, Cherie Dimaline's Red Rooms, Richard Van Camp's "On the Wings of This Prayer" and Richard Wagamese's Ragged Company.
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"Drifting Away in the Tide": Water Symbolism and Indigenous Environmentalism in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ina Habermann
TransCanadiana, vol. 8, Canadian Sites of Resistance: Solidarity-Struggle-Change(?), 2016, pp. [123]-144
Description
Analyzes how Robinson's novel raises the awareness of Indigenous ways of understanding, living with, and respecting water and the environment. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 123.
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[Drinking Water in Ontario First Nations Communities: Present Challenges and Future Directions for On-Reserve Water Treatment in the Province of Ontario]

Alternate Title
Chiefs of Ontario: Part II Submissions to the Walkerton Inquiry Commission
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jonathon W. Kahn
Allison A. Thornton
Description
Topics include: Aboriginal and Elders' perspectives on water, jurisdiction over water-works, comparison of federal and provincial water treatment regulation, progress report for improving water quality and treatment issues (1995-2001), case studies (Attawapiskat, Beausoleil, and Sandy Lake First Nations and Six Nations of the Grand River Territory), and findings and recommendations. Submission to the Walkerton Inquiry Commission.
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Drinking Water Quality in Indigenous Communities in Canada and Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lori E. A. Bradford
Lalita A. Bharadwaj
Udoka Okpalauwaekew
Cheryl L. Waldner
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 75, 2016, p. article no. 32336
Description
Review indicates there is a need for more research funding and inquiry to inform policy decisions for improvements of water quality and health-related outcomes.
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Drought Great Equalizer on the Prairies

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, August 2, 2002, p. A15
Description
Discusses the social and economic effects of the drought on the agricultural lifestyle of Saskatchewan Aboriginals.
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A Dry Oasis: The Canadian Plains in Late Prehistory

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James Daschuk
Prairie Forum, vol. 34, no. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 1-29
Description
Discusses how two key subsistence strategies, used by First Nations peoples to combat drought, were threatened when the ways of the modern world spread to the Great Plains.
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Duty to Consult Process Will Ensure Input From Aboriginal Communities

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Darla Read
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 6, June 2008, p. 3
Description
Comments on the provincial government, First Nations, and Métis leaders meeting to discuss the duty to consult process with respect to developing on traditional Aboriginal land. Article located by scrolling to page 3.
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Dwellings

Alternate Title
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Linda Hogan
Description
Author explores her lifelong love of the living world and all its inhabitants. Chapter from Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan.
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E.A.G.L.E. Project: Socio-Cultural Pilot Project: Technical Report

Alternate Title
Effects on Aboriginals from the Great Lakes Environment
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations
Chiefs of Ontario
Health Canada
Description
Looks at the effects of environmental contamination in the Great Lakes Basin on the communities of Long Lake No.58, Whitefish River, Six Nations and Akwesasne.
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The EAGLE Project: Re-mapping Canada From An Indigenous Perspective

Alternate Title
The Effects on Aboriginals For The Great Lakes Environment: Re-mapping Canada From An Indigenous Perspective
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Beverly Bird
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, Geomatics: Who Needs It?, Fall/Winter, 1994
Description
Comments on a project involving an environmental health study and risk assessment on 61 Indigenous communities in central Ontario.
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The Early Man Site at Warm Mineral Springs, Florida

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carl J. Clausen
H. K. Brooks
Al B. Wesolowsky
Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 2, no. 3, 1975, pp. 191-213
Description
Excavation reveals 10,000 year-old remains, 13 metres underground, indicative of arid climate during that period.
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Earth, Animals, and Academics: Plateau Indian Communities, Culture, and the Walla Walla Council of 1855

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clifford E. Trafzer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 81-100
Description
Argues that historiography, too often, overlooks traditional beliefs and oral histories, especially those regarding the earth, plants, and animals which significantly influenced the course of Aboriginal history.
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"The Earth Itself Was Sobbing": Madness and the Environment in Novels by Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter G. Beidler
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, 2002, pp. 113-124
Description
Discussion of how two novelists have brought attention to the way Caucasian people have harmed the environment. The article also suggests that Aboriginal peoples are economic and social victims of the scarred earth and its destroyed forests, a fact which has driven some insane.
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The Earth Keepers Solid Waste Management Planning Program: A Collaborative Approach to Utilizing Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge and Western Science in Ontario

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah McGregor
International Journal of Canadian Studies , no. 41, Representations of First Nations and Métis / Les représentations des Premiéres nations et des Métis, 2010, pp. 69-98
Description
Discusses a unique sustainable development program with Aboriginal community partners to address traditional knowledge and capacity building.
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Earth's Egg

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jose A. Kusugak
Inuktitut, no. 99, Winter, 2006, p. 49
Description
Brief description how birds use rocks to trigger egg production and theories about why seals pound the bottom of ice with rocks.
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Ecofeminism and First Nations Peoples in Canada: Linking Culture, Gender and Nature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathi Wilson
Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol. 12, no. 3, September 2005, pp. 333-355
Description
Includes interviews with Anishinabek describing their connections to Mother Earth (nature) and discusses how such narratives may provide a better understanding of gender-nature connections.
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Ecological Complexity, Fuzzy Logic, and Holism in Indigenous Knowledge

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fikret Berkes
Mina Kislalioglu Berkes
Futures, vol. 41, no. 1, Futures of Indigenous Knowledges , February 2009, pp. 6-12
Description
Looks at how indigenous knowledge is able to deal with ecosystems as complex adaptive systems by using simple prescriptions, consistent with fuzzy logic thinking.
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Ecological Ethics in Two Andean Songs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Pigott
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 81-109
Description
Illustrates how two songs from a Indigenous philosophical framework serve as lessons for ethical behaviour. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 81.
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The Ecological Indian: Myth and History

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ted Binnema
BC Studies, no. 130, Science Expedition, 2001, pp. 113-114
Description
Book review of: The Ecological Indian by Shepard Krech III. Scroll down to page 113 to read book review.
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Ecological Memory

Alternate Title
Indigenous Architecture lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Donna House
Description
Landscape designer for the National Museum of the American Indian, speaks about her philosophy during the concept, design and construction stages of building the museum. Duration: 54:19.
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Ecological Restoration as Post-Colonial Ritual of Community in Three Native American Novels

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Norden
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 6, no. 4, Series 2. Critical Approaches, Winter, 1994, pp. 94-106
Description
Examines the ritual-based relationship between human beings and their natural environment. The article also discusses a reconciliation between human cultures and nature. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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