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Improving Community Housing, An Important Determinant of Health Through Mechanical and Electrical Training Programs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leonard J. S. Tsuji
Guy Iannucci
Anthony Iannucci
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 251-261
Describes a training program that upgraded homes at the Fort Albany First Nation and provided educational and employment opportunities, all on a limited budget.
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Improving Health Outcomes: The Role of Food in Addressing Chronic Diseases

Alternate Title
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; May 2012
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 12-177]
Documents & Presentations
Looks at the food-related risk factors for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. Also assesses how industry, governments, and consumers, are managing dietary risks, and proposes actions that could lead to improvements.
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In the Kitchen with the Laughing Chef

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Margo Pfeiff
Up Here , January/February 2010, pp. 28-31
Short article about Rebecca Veevee, a cooking-show guru, who teaches Inuit to cook and eat better.
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Indian Agriculture, United States Agriculture, and Sustainable Agriculture: Science and Advocacy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David A. Cleveland
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, Special Issues on Reservation Economies, 1998, pp. 13-29
Looks at the sustainability of conventional industrial agriculture in comparison to that of Indigenous or traditional agriculture, as it was practiced before European contact.
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Indian by meat drying structure

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
unknown
A postcard inscribed: Indian drying meat, Loon Lake, Sask. There is a full-length photo of an Aboriginal man by meat drying structure with tent in background. He is dressed in western clothes.
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Indian Maiden Maple Syrup B

Alternate Title
Case Studies in Aboriginal Business
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Janice Esther Tulk
Case Studies in Aboriginal Business
Continuation of business case study describing marketing the product and the subsequent idea of publishing a book of Mi'kmaw stories as told to the entrepreneur by her mother.
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Indian Maiden Maple Syrup C

Alternate Title
Case Studies in Aboriginal Business
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Janice Esther Tulk
Case Studies in Aboriginal Business
Final part of business case study describes development of a children's storybook which could be purchased as a complement to the maple syrup.
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Indians of Canada...and...Prairie Pioneers

E-Books
Author/Creator
C.A. Scarrow
Gibson
Jean
School Aids and Text Book Publishing Company
Limited
Textbook covers subjects such as wandering and settled Aboriginal groups, spirituality, homes, food and food preparation, clothing and methods of transportation. Brief references are included about early European explorers, the fur trade and pioneer agricultural life.
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Indicators of Food and Water Security in an Arctic Health Context: Results From an International Workshop Discussion

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lena Maria Nilsson
James Berner
Alexey A. Dudarev
Gert Mulvad
Jon Øyvind Odland
Alan Parkinson
Arja Rautio
Constantine Tikhonov
Birgitta Evengård
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, 2013, p. article no. 21530
Gathering of representatives from 7 countries finalized 6 indicators of water security, including running water accessibility and waterborne diseases.
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"Indigenizing" Food Sovereignty: Revitalizing Indigenous Food Practices and Ecological Knowledges in Canada and the United States

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charlotte Coté
Humanities, vol. 5, no. 3, Global Indigeneities and the Environment, September 2016, p. article no. 57
Looks at the movement which calls for the right of all peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food and the right to define their own food and agricultural systems.
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Action: The Food Wisdom Repository

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle Johnson-Jennings
Derek Jennings
Meg Little
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing: Te Mauri - Pimatisiwin, vol. 4, no. 1, Data and Digital Sovereignty, July 28, 2019, pp. 26-38
Article describes the development of the online digital repository of wise food practices that is grounded within Indigenous knowledges (IK) and in Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS). Authors stress the need for IDS given the effects it can have on policy creation and the well-being of Indigenous peoples. Done in collaboration with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux community.
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Indigenous Food Safety and Security: Community Adaptations in the Wake of Climate Pressures

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Leela Steiner
Casey Neathway
Examines six safety issues based on measures taken or planned to be taken by communities in their efforts to ensure food security: smokehouse construction, gardening using tires planters, greywater for irrigation purposes, traditional preservation techniques, treated timber planter boxes, and hydroponic growing systems.
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Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Alternate Title
Discussion Paper (Food Secure Canada) ; 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Louise Lyman]
Discusses such topics as food systems, pillars of food sovereignty, access to food, and protection of food sources and production.
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Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Canada: Policy Paper 2019

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Stephen Penner]

Gives overview of the current context, discusses Indigenous responses and areas for policy development, and makes four recommendations about what should be included in the federal government's <i>A Food Policy for Canada</i>.

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Indigenous Food Systems Network

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Indigenous Food Systems Network
Website contains links to stories and legends, recipes, resources, and strategies related to protecting, conserving and restoring the health and community develeopment of Indigenous food based cultures across Canada.
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Indigenous Knowledge of Ecological Variability and Commons Management: A Case Study on Berry Harvesting From Northern Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brenda Parlee
Fikret Berkes
Teetl'it Gwich'in Renewable Resources Council
Human Ecology, vol. 34, no. 4, August 2006, pp. 515-528
Discusses ongoing knowledge about seasonal ecological conditions and how Gwich'in harvesters check the land, interpret change of species and landscapes and how the berry resources are shared.
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Indigenous Nutrition: Using Traditional Food Knowledge to Solve Contemporary Health Problems

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael P. Milburn
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3/4, The Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge, Summer/Autumn, June 1, 2004, pp. 411-434
Explains the relationship between nutrition and geographic distribution of diseases, increase in obesity rates and diet-related diseases and impact of physical activity on obesity prevention.
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Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems for Health: Finding Interventions That Work

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Harriet Kuhnlein
Bill Erasmus
Hilary Creed-Kanashiro
Lois Englberger
Chinwe Okeke ... [et al.]
Public Health Nutrition, vol. 9, no. 8, 2006, pp. [1013]-1019
Describes how Indigenous peoples in 12 rural regions and their academic partners have approached protecting, using , developing and sustaining local food system knowledge for community health and well-being.
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Indigenous Peoples, Land, and Resources

Alternate Title
Climate Change Impacts in the United States: U.S. National Climate Assessment
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
T. M. Bull Bennett
Nancy G. Maynard
Patricia Cochran
Robert Gough
Kathy Lynn ... [et al.]
Looks at effects of climate change on food, water, hunting conditions, health and forced relocations. Chapter 12 from book: Climate Change Impacts in the United States edited by J. M. Melillo. Terese (T. C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe.
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Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition - The Project

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE)
Links to videos, which present highlights from indigenous communities in nine countries, aimed at contributing to the evidence base used to make global policies to protect Indigenous Peoples' food resources and promote good health.
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Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition Transition in a Right to Food Perspective

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Siri Damman
Wenche Barth Eide
Harriet V. Kuhnlein
Food Policy, vol. 33, no. 2, April 2008, pp. 135-155
Argues that government policies are actually speeding the move away from traditional foods and contributing to the subsequent increase in chronic disease.
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Indigenous Vegetable Production and the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women in Africa: Reality, Prospects, and Challenges in Rwanda

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu
Nathan Kanuma Taremwa
Djamali Nambajimana
Olivier Mugwaneza
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 4, 2018, pp. 133-156
Study explores the role of rural women in the farming and gathering of indigenous vegetables, and the impact of the shift to consumption of modern, less nutritious varieties. Research examines benefits of cultivating and consuming traditional vegetables, and identifies barriers to increased production.
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Indigenous Voices Indigenous Places, 2008

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium Journal, Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Places, 2008
2008 Edition contains: The Marae in New Zealand - the Resource Centre of the Māori World by Turoa Royal. Our Playground: The Waitohu Stream by Rachael Selby. Guardian of the Waitohu Stream: An Interview with George Gray by Pātaka Moore. Tracing of Old Settlements and Place Names in a Sea Sámi Region by Marit B.
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Indigi-Genuis

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lee Francis
Anthony Rodriguez
Kevin McDonald
Vision Maker Media
New Mexico PBS

Series of 13 videos (each approximately 5 minutes long), geared toward children, explore how Indigenous knowledge and traditions have contributed to the modern world.

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