Food

Book review of: Plants of Haida Gwaii by Nancy J. Turner. To access this review, scroll to page 299.

Examines relationship between physical environment and humans from a ethnoecological perspective.

Studies the antidiabetic potential of Cree traditional medicine using an ethnobotanical approach.

Discusses risks and benefits of contaminated food and environmental health risk communication strategies.

Study examined local meanings of health in reference to seafood where contamination of their aquatic natural resources has been found.

Looks at the contested assertion that traditional Tasmanian Aboriginals ate fish with scales.

Argues against a controversial assertion made by Rhys Jones regarding Indigenous Tasmanians.

Findings from a study of 118 women aged 49-64 years of age suggest that PUFA consumption appears to be beneficial to bone strength.

A postcard inscribed: Indian woman making bannock, Loon Lake, Saskatchewan. A photograph of an Aboriginal woman squatted in a camp surrounded by pots and pans. Two frying pans of bannock are propped up next to a fire that has a pot on it.

Argues the importance of understanding current contaminant levels in the Arctic environment, as well as spatial and temporal trends.

Need to return to traditional format of Indian ceremonies is discussed.

Butchering practices are revealed from seal skeletons.

Study of two Beothuk individuals found a possible gen flow, or a common ancestral link, between Beothuck, who became extinct in the 1820s, and the current Mikmaq population. Data from one individual were also found to not support the belief that the Beothuk were of European-Native American descent.

Community Health Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 2003.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2015.

Home Economics Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Arizona, 1944.

Evaluation of book which contains narratives from corn farmers regarding their co-existence with Western concepts of scientific knowledge.

Health Studies and Gerontology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waterloo, 2013.

Uses data from the Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.2. Nutrition (CCHS 2.2) to compare characteristics of off-reserve Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal households.

Studies food security in Greenland by means of surveys and interviews.

Findings from study suggests a higher prevalence of milk intolerance in the Sami population.

General discussion of her life.

Six programs are discussed: Take a Kid Trapping & Harvesting; Kugluktuk High School, School Cooking Club; Harvester Support Program; Project Nunavut and the Country Food Market; Kuujjuaq Greenhouse Project; and Personal Gardening. Includes description, date program began, benefits and challenges for each initiative.

Rural and Northern Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--Laurentian University, 2015.

Curriculum Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2008.

Discusses food sovereignty and Indigenous ways of knowing with an eye to the conflict between promoting knowledge for the sake of resurgence and running the risk of subjecting knowledges, resources and communities to exploitation, criminalization and over-harvesting.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1997.

One non-indigenous man in between two indigenous boys in a bakery. Large oven and loaves of bread visible in the foreground.

Entitled: "Rations at Sundance". Line-up for food under a shelter.

Interdisciplinary Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 1998.

Provides series of lessons and activities to teach nutritional value of local, traditional foods. Structured into six units according to animals and plants found in the region.

Summary of survey on health standing and living conditions of preschool Inuit children living in sixteen communities in Nunavut.

Data collected between September 2008 and February 2010 in 21 communities. Most responses divided by age group; some by geographic zone.

Discusses the importance of potatoes and how Indigenous farmers strengthen local economies and wellbeing based on cultural traditions and biological diversity.

Looks at important areas that will improve the coordination of food and nutritional activities in communities.

Looks at changes in hunting, fishing and gathering patterns and speculates about the future of this way of life while there are also significant weather, technology, nutrition and dietary changes occurring.

Study measured current levels as a benchmark for future levels of contaminants caused by the mining industry.

Discusses the climate changes between 11,000 and 3,000 B.C. that may have forced people to rely on nonmarine resources.

Examines the trends in mercury, lead and cadmium exposure from 1992 to 2004 using the data obtained from two health surveys and identifies sources of exposure in 2004.

Research suggests that an over reliance on market-based food sources is not wise and that local and regional food sources are best to achieve better overall outcomes.

Discusses the current collaborative community-based efforts in ecological restoration, economic redevelopment and cultural revitalization.

[Environment and Geography?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2018.

Discusses community's efforts to revitalize their heritage and health by creating a year-round land base food harvesting training program called Ithinto Mechisowin.

Makes general and specific recommendations about the Federal program, as well as broader issues related to health, nutritional status and household food insecurity of people living in isolated northern communities.

Makes recommendations under four themes: traditional foods, local food production, Federal subsidy and support programs, and project funding coordination and promotion.

Study on Dog Island-Oakes Bay shows remains found were identified as imported cereals, local berries, and medicinal and tea plants.