Fish & Wildlife

Overview of project which gathered information from traditional knowledge holders to identify concepts and information needed to define Inuit food security and overarching drivers of security and insecurity.

Authors examine how traditional Indigenous knowledge might be integrated into knowledge-production and governance structures in the Norwegian and Finish Atlantic Salmon fisheries. Article advocates for using the Näätämö co-management project as an example of best practice in Arctic Environmental governance.

Natural Resource Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, 2010.

Consists of an interview where he briefly mentions "bear-walking" (curse by an evil medicine man).

Looks at the concept of one medicine, the relationship between the doctor and horse in the Cheyenne, and the intimacy between people and their horses in the Navajo or Apache.

The author, a member of the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, acknowledges serious violations of the human rights of Canada's Aboriginal and Inuit peoples and hopes the proposed Canadian Government's Indian Claims legislation will improve their quality of life.

A photo of a hunter taken by Christina Bateman and Annie McKay in Central (geographic) Saskatchewan, during their journey from Prince Albert to La Ronge, 1919.

Book review of: Hunters at the Margin by John Sandlos.

Book review of: Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories by John Sandlos.

Book review of: Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories by John Sandlos.

Book review of: Hunters, Predators and Prey by Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten.

Looks at the future of the animals in the Porcupine Caribou Herd in northwestern Canada. 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.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1970.

Hunter, with two large walruses; child visible in background.

A group of hunters surrounding a large walrus at the Hudson's Bay Mission.

Discusses one dramatic environmental side effect of the James Bay project.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 1980

Examines how intensified hunting of seals for their skins and oil in order to trade with the Alaska Commercial Company altered northern societies' relationship with their natural environment.

For use with website featuring a collection of online explorations based on travel routes of Northwest Territories' Aboriginal peoples.

Presents a study, using lead isotope ratios, to determine whether lead shotshell constitutes a source of lead exposure.

Environment and Sustainability Thesis (M.E.S.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2012.

Scoping literature review investigates current state of knowledge, gaps in knowledge/understanding, existing baseline data and methodologies of interest.

Looks at the effects of the reintroduction of Bison into Yukon. This study examines bison-human conflicts, impact on trapping, and changes to wildlife habitats and ethnobotany.

Looks at institutional arrangements created by the Agreement and how they affect harvesting rights, management of wildlife and habitat, wildlife research, and assessment of environmental impacts of development. Gives special attention to wildlife co-management mechanisms which represent interests of both government and the Inuvialuit.

Results of analysis of remains from an archaeological site dated between 7500-4100 ca. B.P.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.

Includes brief answers to questions often posed by teachers, activity snapshots, and classroom units. Revised version of the original published in 2012.

Film chronicles a search for the bowhead whale as well as a history of commercial whaling. Duration: 49:25.

Book review of: In the Bear's House by N. Scott Momaday.

Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Issue presents the diary of a bush trip taken by William F. Stiles, Curator of Collections at the Museum.

An image of a boardwalk in a small village. Totem poles are visible along the wooden walkway at the front of several buildings. There is a small boat on the walkway which indicates it may be a wharf in a fishing community.

Indian trappers taking a noon break, boiling muskrat for lunch.

Two trappers, with their dogs, in a canoe, bringing in furs that were trapped during the spring.

Subtitle: The fourth of a series of ten radio talks on the natural resources of Canada, given by the Honourable T.A. Crerar, Minister of Mines and Resources, over the national network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at 10.30 E.S.T., February 9, 1937.

Looks at the similarities and differences between the Inuit in Nunavut and the Torres Strait Islanders in Queensland.

An account and analysis of the scope, content and depth of Indigenous communities’ involvement with Global Environment Facility (GEF) projects.

Comments on how Indigenous peoples are key to the restoration and conservation of the caribou in Canada's Boreal.

Examines how the Pebble partnership and government regulatory regimes are addressing the environmental health and justice concerns that include potential impacts of mining operations on air and water quality, water supply, aquatic life and the welfare of the Indigenous people.

Discusses such topics as food systems, pillars of food sovereignty, access to food, and protection of food sources and production.

Website includes information and resources on the history, culture, identity, rights, and politics of Aboriginal peoples.

Author highlights the ways in which Indigenous knowledges of land and the environment align with contemporary environmental issues and policies.

Looks at cooperation between Indigenous peoples and organizations to preserve biodiversity and wildlife habitats for the future. Includes case studies.