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Watt-Cloutier Awarded Prestigious Prize

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rosa Harris-Adler
Inuktitut, no. 97, Summer, 2005, pp. 8-9
Description
Longtime Inuk activist and head of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference receives the Sophie Award honouring her work on climate change.
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The Way Forward: How Indigenous Philanthropy Can Change the World

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Author/Creator
Evelyn Arce
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, The Seventh Generation: Spotlight on Indigenous Youth, June 2013, p. [?]
Description
Describes effective grant-making strategies to support sustainable and culturally appropriate development projects, planned and implemented by and for Indigenous communities.
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A Way of Life Lost: The Legacy of Residential Schools

Alternate Title
Nation2Nation Speaker Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Description
Speaker talks about social life and customs of the Mik'maq and how residential schools interrupted their way of life. Duration: 51:20.
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We Are All Crees

Alternate Title
cs canada 17.2
Articles » General
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, Behind the Headlines, Summer, 1993
Description
Highlights an excerpt from a testimony to the Massachusetts legislature given by Grand Chief MathrewCoon Come of the Grand Council of the Cree regarding hydroelectric developments in Quebec.
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We Are All Related

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Daniel Wildcat
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 2, Native Green, Summer, 2008
Description
Describes the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group, formed by tribal colleges and universities, which brought together leading scientists and elders to address climate-related problems.
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"We Are Fighting For Ourselves": First Nations' Evaluation of British Columbia and Canadian Environmental Assessment Processes

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annie Booth
Norm W. Skelton
Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management , vol. 13, no. 3, September 2011, pp. 367-404
Description
Comments on the consequences of the exploitation of natural resources and makes recommendations for the revision of assessment processes.
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We Have Stories: Five Generations of Indigenous Women in Water

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rosemary Georgeson
Jessica Hallenbeck
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 20-38
Description
Traces one family's relationship with water and fish and how colonial practices and policies impacted it.
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“We Need New Stories”: Trauma, Storytelling, and the Mapping of Environmental Injustice in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and Standing Rock

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Summer Harrison
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter , 2019, pp. 1-35
Description
Literary criticism essay that uses Hogan’s novel Solar Storms and the incidents Standing Rock, ND to illustrate a connection between the violence enacted on Indigenous bodies and the social discourses surrounding extractive resource practices. Argues that conscious storytelling could help to reshape the discourse surrounding trauma, the more than human community and environmental/climate justice.
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“We’re not going to sit idly by:” 45 Years of Asserting Native Sovereignty along the Missouri River in Nebraska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angel M. Hinzo
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 200-214
Description
Focuses on Standing Rock Sioux Water Protectors' fight against construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, United States v. Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska’s defense of Blackbird Bend.
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Weathering Changes: Cultivating Local and Traditional Knowledge of Environmental Change in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shirley Roburn
Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Heritage Department
Arctic, vol. 65, no. 4, December 2012, pp. 439-455
Description
Describes the partnership between the First Nation's Heritage Department, academics and government funders working on the project Documenting Traditional Knowledge in Relation to Climate Change and makes recommendations based on this experience.
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Weaving the History of Despair, Resistance, and Hope: Acoma Poet Simon Ortiz Writes Environmental Justice

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Native American Symposium ; 3rd, 1999
Native American Symposium ; 4th, 2001
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine
Description
Examines the link between environmental injustice, racism and cultural genocide; and discusses the importance of creating a nature based culture that is both environmentally sustainable and socially just.
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[Week 5: It's All About the Land]

Alternate Title
MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Clifford Paul
Description
Guest speaker Clifford Paul discusses using a two-eyed seeing approach to moose management. Question and answer period about the land. Lecture begins at 22:03. Duration: 2:45:21.
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Welcome News as Mike Holmes Weighs in to Housing Issue

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Isha Thompson
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 6, September 2010, p. 11
Description

Describes the partnering of celebrity contractor Mike Holmes with First Nations communities to build new schools and homes using green technology.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.

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What Do Indigenous Knowledges Do for Indigenous Peoples?

Alternate Title
Keepers of the Green World: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainability
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kyle Powys Whyte
Description
Essay from forthcoming book Keepers of the Green World: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainability edited by Melissa K. Nelson and Dan Shilling.
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What is CACAR-II?

Articles » General
Inuktitut, no. 94, 2004, p. Insert
Description
Outline explains the role of the Canadian Arctic Contaminants Assessment Report II (CACAR-II) to Inuit residents.
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What is the NRTA?

Alternate Title
Comment
What is the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement Act?
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Chartrand
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 7, July 2011, p. 6
Description
Comments on the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement Act and its uniqueness in being both an Act and part of the Consitution of Canada. Article located by scrolling to page 6.
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What is Traditional Knowledge?

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alaska Native Science Commission
Description
Includes a definition of traditional knowledge, comparisions between indigenous and scientific knowledge, explanation of the structure of Native knowledge, guidelines for research and issues.
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What's Happening at Colomac?

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Contaminant and Remediation Directorate Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Update on remediation activities at Colomac mine site: hydrocarbon remediation, site clean-up, water quality, health and safety, and public safety.
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What's Happening in the ISR?

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Contaminants & Remediation Directorate
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Description
Updates on management of contaminants at five sites in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
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What's in the Pipeline For the Bagyéli of Cameroon?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
The Forest Peoples Programme
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Indigenous Women, July/August/September 2000, pp. 58-63
Description
Reports on the potential impacts that the Chad-Cameroon pipeline will have on the Bagyéli Indigenous communities. To access this article scroll down to page 58.
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What's Killing the Reindeer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eli Kintisch
Science, vol. 346, no. 6210, November 7, 2014, p. 685
Description
Presents brief background on ecological data that could help with a new compensation system for Sami Reindeer herders.
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What's to Eat?: Improving Food Literacy in Canada

Alternate Title
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; October 2013
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 14-091]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alison Howard
Jessica Brichta
Description
Examines why food literacy matters, the state of food literacy in Canada, current efforts to develop food literacy, and recommends strategies to further improve Canadian household attitudes, skills, and knowledge about food.
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