Fish & Wildlife
Bibliography of Sources on Dena’ina and Cook Inlet Anthropology through 2016, Final Version 4.3
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Kari
Alan Boraas
Aaron Leggett
R. Greg Dixon
Description
Extensive list (169 p.) features a wide array of "grey literature" sources from Alaska state and federal agencies, tribal groups, and privately produced publications.
Biological Monitoring for Mercury within a Community with Soil and Fish Contamination
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Martha Harnly
Sharon Seidel
Primitivo Rojas
Raymond Fornes
Peter Flessel
Daniel Smith
Richard Kreutzer
Lynn Goldman
Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 105, no. 4, April 1997, pp. 424-429
Description
Study monitoring residents living next to an inactive mercury mine in Clear Lake, California found results consistent with other studies; also considers protective public health measures.
A Biologists’ Perspective on Amalgamating Traditional
Environmental Knowledge and Resource Management
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Alex W. L. Hawley
Erin E. Sherry
Chris J. Johnson
BC Journal of Ecosystems and Management, vol. 5, no. 1, 2004, p. 36–50
Description
Examines barriers between science-based and traditional Aboriginal world views and efforts to amalgamate these perspectives in resource management.
Bird Use of Northern Alaska Oilfield Rehabilitation Sites.
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joe Liebezeit
Martin Robards
Bill Streever
Samantha Strindberg
Steve Zack
Arctic, vol. 71, no. 4, December 19, 2018, pp. 422-430
Description
Study compares bird use of rehabilitated oil extraction sites with that of nearby reference sites; finding demonstrate that sites studied 3 to 10 years post-site rehabilitation are not comparable to nearby reference site in regards to shorebird and passerine habitat (nesting/breeding), but they do seem to support waterfowl. Additional shorebirds and passerines are using these sites for foraging and resting.
Bison: The Past, Present, and Future of the Great Plains, an Introduction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth Winkle
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, Spring, 2001 , pp. 99-100
Description
Briefly outlines the three essays highlighted in this issue of the Great Plains Quarterly chosen from those presented at the Center for Great Plains Studies' 24th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Bison.
Blood Lead Concentrations and Iron Deficiency in Canadian Aboriginal Infants
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Noreen D. Willows
Katherine Gray-Donald
The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 289, no. 1-3, April 22, 2002, pp. 255-260
Description
Contends that improved iron nutrition in aboriginal babies is necessary considering the potential for higher blood lead levels in infants with iron-deficiency anemia.
"The Bloody Moose Got up and Took off": Talking Carefully About Food Animals in a Northern Athabaskan Village
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas McIlwraith
Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 50, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 125-147
Description
Presents four stories of moose pursuits to show that care is always required when talking about food animals.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Patricia A. McCormack
Ken Hanly
Guy Lanoue
Ron Nestor
David J. Norton
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 395-434
Description
Book review of 14 books:
Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History by Kerry Abel.
Names, Numbers, and Northern Policy by Valerie Alia.
Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree by Leonard Bloomfield.
Guide to Oral History Collections in Canada/Guide des fonds d'histoire orale au Canada by Normand Fortier.
The Mohicans of Stockbridge by Patrick Frazier.
500 Jahre danach: Zur heutigen Lage der indigenen Volker beider Amerika (500 Years Thereafter: The Present Day Situation of the Indigenous Peoples of Both Americas) edited by Peter R.
Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Heather Myers
Helen Fast
Mina Kislalioglu Berkes
Fikret Berkes
Shirley Thompson ... [et al.]]
Description
Plain language version of Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North edited by Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, and Alan Diduck.
A Brief Guide to the James Bay Controversy
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Canadian Association in Support of Native Peoples
Description
Concerns about man-made environmental damage with the undertaking of the James Bay Project is the focus of this booklet. Also mentioned is relocation of 7000 Cree persons and flooding of land.
Historical note:
Brucella Infection at Cardia Pacemaker Site in a Patient Who Had Consumed Raw Caribou Meat in Northern Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jamil N. Kanji
Lynora Saxinger
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 37, September 17, 2018, pp. E1108-E1110
Description
Case study examines the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of a 82-year-old man who developed an infection at the site of a permanent pacemaker implant.
Buffalo Past and Present
Alternate Title
Montana State Parks Lesson Plan
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Education for All, Montana Office of Public Instruction
Description
Uses the Madison Buffalo Jump State Park as a starting point to discuss the buffalo's importance in the economies, cosmologies, social organization, and spiritual life of Indigenous peoples of the plains. Recommended for use with Grade 9-12 students.
Building the Opaskwayak Cree Nation Economy: A Case Study in Resilience
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Yale D. Belanger
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 4, no. 2, Special Edition: The State of the Aboriginal Economy: 10 Years After RCAP, Fall, 2005, pp. 71-83
Description
Looks at the business and community economic initiatives of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.
Bureaucracy, Democracy and Exclusion: Why Indigenous Knowledge Holders Have a Hard Time Being Taken Seriously
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chantelle Marlor
Qualitative Sociology, vol. 33, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 513-531
Description
Compares two sets of biologists’ and two sets of First Nations’ ways of knowing about clams to explore differences between the two groups’ knowledge practices.
The Bush Harvest in Pinehouse, Saskatchewan, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terry N.Tobias
James J. Kay
Arctic, vol. 47, no. 3, September 1994, p. 207–221
Description
Reports the findings of a harvest survey on the quantities of bush resources harvested by villagers, over a one-year period, from April 1983 through March 1984.
Canada's Sovereignty in the Arctic: An Inuit Perspective
Alternate Title
Northern Sovereignty and Political Geography in North America
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean-François Arteau
Description
Representative from the Makivik Corporation discusses geographic, political, economic, environmental, and socio-cultural issues in the north.
Paper given at the conference Northern Sovereignty and Political Geography in North America, Washington DC, 2010.
The Canadian Arctic and the Oceans Act: The Development of Participatory Environment Research and Management
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fikret Berkes
Jack Mathias
Mina Kislalioglu
Helen Fast
Ocean & Coastal Management, vol. 44, no. 7-8, 2001, pp. 451-469
Description
Examines aboriginal participation in resource management in several area: fish and wildlife, protected area planning, integrated coastal zone management, ecosystem health monitoring, contaminants research, environmental assessment, and climate change.
Cardiac Autonomic Activity and Blood Pressure Among Nunavik Inuit Adults Exposed to Environmental Mercury: A Cross-Sectional Study
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beatriz Valera
Eric Dewailly
Paul Poirier
Environmental Health, vol. 7, no. 29, 2008, pp. 1-33
Description
Assess the impact of methylmercury (MeHg) levels on heart rate variability and blood pressure in Inuit adults from Nunavik.
The Career of Henry Kelsey - 1929.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Burpee
Lawrence J.
James P. Kenney
Description
Typed copy of a well-referenced paper presented to the Royal Society of Canada by Lawrence J. Burpee and printed in the Society's Transactions, Section 2, 1929. It discusses Kelsey's career with the Hudson's Bay Company and contains a number of brief mentions of encounters and trade with Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Cree, Athapaskan, Chipewyans and [Dogribs].