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Nunavut Small Craft Harbours Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nunavut Department of Community Development and Transportation
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Findings indicate that seven commercial fishing harbours should be constructed to support Nunavut's emerging commercial fishery.
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Nutrients In Native Foods of Southeastern Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen M. Drury
Journal of Ethnobiology, vol. 5, no. 2, Winter, 1985, pp. 87-100
Comments on the analysis of twenty foods indigenous to southeastern Alaska and reports the high nutritional content found in these foods.
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Nyungar of Southwestern Australia and Flinders: A Dialogue on Using Nyungar Intelligence to Better Understand Coastal Exploration

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Len Collard
Clint Bracknell
David Palmer
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1-16
Authors revisit archival records relating to the exploration of what is now Western Australia, with a focus on drawing out the places where the record shows the role of the Nyungar people in the exploration of the coast, and the Indigenous Knowledge share with explorers.
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Of Ice and Men

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cameron M. Smith
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, Summer, 2008
Discusses the opposition, by the Arctic indigenous peoples, towards the United States government's decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species.
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Oil and Gas and the Inuvialuit People of the Western Arctic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leo-Paul Dana
Aldene Meis-Mason
Robert B. Anderson
Journal of Enterprising Communities, vol. 2, no. 2, 2008, pp. 151-167
Presents a research paper that illustrates how oil and gas activities on Inuvialuit land will transform the lives of the people.
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Oil Pipeline Development and Indigenous Rights in Eastern Siberia

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gail Fondahl
Anna Sirina
Indigenous Affairs, no. 2-3, Arctic Oil and Gas Development, 2006, pp. 58-67
Looks at controversies surrounding the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Pipeline and concerns of the Evenki people. To access this article, scroll down to page 58.
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Oil Spill Recovery in the Media: Missing an Alaska Native Perspective

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Widener
Valerie J. Gunter
Society and Natural Resources, vol. 20, no. 9, 2007, pp. 767-783
Looks at "the collective interpretations of disaster recovery following the Exxon Valdez oil spill as developed in the alternative Alaska Native newspaper, the Tundra Times."
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Ojibwa Fisheries, Commercial Fisheries Development and Fisheries Administration, 1873-1915: An Examination of Conflicting Interest and the Collapse of the Sturgeon Fisheries of the Lake of the Woods

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John J. Van West
Native Studies Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 1990, pp. 31-65
Contends management policies, jurisdictional disputes and uncontrolled development led to the destruction of sturgeon fisheries.
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Ojibway Nature Center Colouring Book

Alternate Title
[Healthy Headwaters Lab Publication ; 3]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mariah Alexander
Ojibway Nature Centre

Each picture is introduced with a story which includes words in the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) language.

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Ojibway: The Man, the Snake and the Fox

Alternate Title
Indian Legends
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tony Snowsill
Basil Johnston
Traditional Ojibwa legend that delivers the moral, do not make promises you cannot keep. Duration: 11:58.
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The Ojibway Understanding of Fishing Rights under Treaty 3: A Comment on Lise C. Hansen, "Treaty Fishing Rights and the Development of Fisheries Legislation in Ontario: A Primer"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leo G. Waisberg
Tim E. Holzkamm
Native Studies Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 1992, pp. 47-55
Authors contend that Hansen's, paper which contends that fishing promises made to the Ojibway in1873 are the same as in Treaty 3, cannot be translated literally in spoken Ojibway.
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Old trading post in village of Mamihk on Red Earth Reserve

Images » Photographs
A photograph of the old trading post in village of Mamihk on Red Earth Reserve, approx. 65 miles east of Nipawin, in Carrot River valley of east central Sask. This was either the Hudson's Bay store or Huttons' store. Sources vary as to whether Bert Hutton bought out the HBC store.
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The Olsen-Chubbuck Site: A Paleo-Indian Bison Kill

Alternate Title
American Antiquity; vol. 37, no. 1, pt. 2, 1972
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology; no. 26
E-Books
Author/Creator
Joe Ben Wheat
Harold E. Malde
Estella B. Leopold
Discussion of site dating from around 6500 B.C. which contains a bone-bed of almost 200 bison.
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One Health: A Strategy for Resilience in a Changing Arctic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce A. Ruscio
Michael Brubaker
Joshua Glasser
Will Hueston
Thomas W. Hennessy
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 74, 2015, p. article no. 27913
Comments on the impact of climate change on the health of Arctic inhabitants and looks at ways of assessing the interface between human-animal-environment.
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Opichi

Alternate Title
Maajii-Ojibwemowag = They Begin to Speak Ojibwe
Stories of the Flyers: A Giiwedinong Book
[Maajii-Ojibwemowag = They Begin to Speak Ojibwe: ANA Language Project Teacher/Caregiver Supplemental Document]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Niiyogiizhig (Wesley Ballinger)
Saagijiwegaabowiik (Jennifer Ballinger)

Children's book retells a traditional story about the robin; in Ojibwe and English.

Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.

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The Origin of Public Bison Herds in the United States

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith Hebbring Wood
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 15, no. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 157-182
Looks at both private and public management of buffalo and contends that current day tribal herds represent the best opportunity in maintaining the wild character of buffalo.
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Our Land

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Cuthand
Publication of the Manitoba Metis Lands Commission, with articles on English / French explorers and fur traders, the Pemmican War, the Battle of Seven Oaks, the Manitoba Lands Act, and a questionnaire relating to the study of Metish Lands Claims.
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Our Northern Citizen

Alternate Title
Perspective: Arctic Essay: 3
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
John Howe
Covers three topics: relocation of Aklavik, effects of development and project to introduce reindeer herds to the area. Duration: 30:00.
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Our Sacred Water: Theorizing Kuuyam as a Decolonial Possibility

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Sepulveda
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 40-58
Describes the polluted state of the Santa Ana River in southern California and how it came to be so. Considers traditional perspectives of the Acjachemen and Tongva tribes regarding "guests" as a way to re-center a Indigenous view of the land.
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Pacific Salmon in the Rapidly Changing Arctic: Exploring Local Knowledge and Emerging Fisheries in Utqiaġvik and Nuiqsut, Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Courtney Carothers
Todd L. Sformo
Shelley Cotton
John C. George
Peter A.H. Westley
Arctic, vol. 72, no. 3, September 10, 2019 , pp. 273-288
Authors explore the emergence of new salmon fisheries in the Arctic by examining data collected in interviews with 41 active fishermen and Elders between 2010 and 2013. Findings show discrepancies regarding the abundance, but clear evidence of new fisheries.
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Paddle to the Premier Promises to be a Noisy Affair

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Debora Steel
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 6, September 2010, p. 18

Describes a rally to oppose the construction of Site C dam in Northern British Columbia.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.18.

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Paleoeskimo Demography and Holocene Sea-level History, Gulf of Boothia, Arctic Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Arthur S. Dyke
James M. Savelle
Donald S. Johnson
Arctic, vol. 64, no. 2, June 2011, pp. 151-168
Results of two archaeological and palaeontological surveys of six areas produced evidence of a series of boom-and-bust cycles in population, with an all-time maximum occurring between approximately 3900 and 3600 BP, with subsequent crashes eventually leading to the disappearance of the people.
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Passing the Spring Out

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Reginald Bird Beatty
This chapter of Reginald Beatty's diary relates to fine fur trapping in The Pas, Manitoba area in the spring.

Historical note:

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Peace, War, and Climate Change on the Northern Plains: Bison Hunting in the Neutral Hills during the Mild Winters of 1830–34

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Colpitts
Canadian Journal of History, vol. 50, no. 3, Since Skyscapers: New Histories of Native-Newcomer Relations ..., Winter, 2015, pp. 420-441
Examines how the forced proximity brought about by changes bison migration patterns affected relationships between Niitsitapi (Blackfoot nations), Cree, Nakoda, and Sualteaux.
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