The Stott Site. - Report. - 1985.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Historic Resources Branch
Manitoba Culture
Heritage and Recreation
Description
Pamphlet about the Stott site, an important bison kill location for pre-contact Aboriginals located near present-day Brandon, MB.
Historical note:
Strategic Implications and Considerations for Treaty Rights to Sustenance
Alternate Title
Between Keewatin and Tsilhqot'in: Reflections From the Centre of Turtle Island
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Michael Anderson
Description
Presentation by the director of the Natural Resources Secretariat, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, which provides research, policy analysis and negotiation support.
Duration: 37:42.
Struggles, Strengths and Solutions: Exploring Food Security with Young Aboriginal Moms
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cyndy Baskin
Bonnie Guarisco
Ruth Koleszar-Green
Nadya Melanson
Cheryl Osawamick
esurio, vol. 1, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 1-20
Description
Discusses a research project which aimed to determine factors affecting food security of young Aboriginal mothers and offers social policy recommendations, strategies and ideas for research in order to improve their lives.
Students, Volunteers 'Dig' New University Gardens
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Yvonne Abusow
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 6, June 2008, p. 7
Description
Comments on an indigenous vegetable garden, planted near the First Nations University of Canada in partnership with the Street Culture group, designed to engage youth in an activity that would promote healthy lifestyle choices.
Article located by scrolling to page 7.
Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas Deur
Nancy J. Turner
Kim Recalma-Clutesi (OQWILOWGWA)
Adam Dick (KWAXSISTALLA)
Daisy Sewid-Smith (MAYANILTH)
BC Studies, no. 179, Ethnobotany in BC, Autumn, 2013, pp. 13-37
Description
Uses specific example to illustrate the impact of displacement from important resource harvest sites and efforts to eliminate traditional gardening activities.
Subsistence in Northern Communities: Lessons from Alaska
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas F. Thornton
The Northern Review, no. 23, Special Issue: [Northern Communities and the State], Summer, 2001, pp. 82-102
Description
Discusses idea that failure to consider subsistence economies has caused a crisis in Alaska and talks about lessons learned.
Subverting the Local Food Economy Status Quo: The Intrinsic Relationship of Regionalized Ethics to the Practice and Discourse of Food Sovereignty
Alternate Title
Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Social Enterprises, Knowledgeable Economies, and Sustainable Communities
Research Report Series (Centre for the Study of Co-operatives) ; no. 14-08
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Maximilian Aulinger
Description
Literature review and case study of project involving Elders and youth producing a cookbook of traditional recipes.
Success and Sustainability: Understanding Aboriginal Businesses in the Agriculture Sector--Winter 2018
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
Description
Topics include agricultural traditions, characteristics and performance of businesses, and current challenges and future opportunities for growth and development. Results of report based on ten in-depth interviews with business owners.
Sugar Abuse
Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, December 1984, pp. 46-49
Description
Discusses in evolutionary terms, the rapid changes in the diet of Aboriginal Australians and how current individuals can modify their eating habits positively.
Sugar Addiction
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Djagamara
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, June 1980, pp. 25-28
Description
Reports on how changing diets have produced a less healthier modern human. Asks the question whether sugar is an indulgence or an addiction.
Sun Dance: Why & How They Have the Sacrifice Altars
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
Dave Melting Tallow
Joanne Greenwood
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with George First Rider where he tells the story of the origin of the first Holy Lodge. (A continuation from AA.027) He also tells of the modifications to the Holy Lodge ceremony, the origins of the Group Smoking ceremony and gives the story of Po-Po who foresaw the death of a young man at a Holy Lodge.Note: Dave Melting Tallow, interpreter. Joanne Greenwood, transcriber.
Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic: Results
Alternate Title
SLiCA Results
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Birger Poppel
Jack Kruse
Gérard Duhaime
Larissa Abryutina
Description
Summarizes responses from interviews conducted with 7,000 Indigenous residents of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and the Chukotka region of Russia.
Survival Skills from the 1800s
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Patsy Cameron
Phyllis Pitchford
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, December 1985, pp. 7-8
Description
Describes the diet and lifestyle of the inhabitants of the Furneaux Islands, located just north of Tasmania in the Bass Strait.
Sustainability and Vulnerability: Aboriginal Arctic Food Security in a Toxic World
Alternate Title
Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Shirley Thompson
Description
Discusses importance of the impact of environmental change on food security due to widespread poverty, contamination causing toxic impacts, and government policies restricting access to land and resources.
Chapter 3 from Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North edited by Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau, Alan Diduck.
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in the Circumpolar North: Proceedings of the 8th Circumpolar Agricultural Conference & University of the Arctic Inaugural Food Summit
Alternate Title
Circumpolar Agricultural Conference ; 8th, 2013
Miscellaneous Publication (Alaska Agricultural & Forestry Experimental Station) ; MP 2014-16
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[M.P. Shipka
J.E. Rowell
S.C. Gerlach
J. Greenberg
T. Paragi ... Tom Allen ... [et al.]]
Description
Abstracts and selected papers. Topics were grouped in four areas: global food policy and food safety issues; food production and economic development; food production and sustainable practices; and global perspectives in advancing food security in the Circumpolar world.
Sustainable Agriculture for Alaska and the Circumpolar North: Part I. Development and Status of Northern Agriculture and Food Security
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kalb T. Stevenson
Lilian Alessa
Andrew D. Kliskey
Heidi B. Rader
Alberto Pantoja
Mark Clark
Arctic, vol. 67, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 271-295
Description
Concludes that reliance on imported foods is due to historical events and developmental processes which are continually influenced by environmental and socioeconomic factors.
Sustainable Agriculture for Alaska and the Circumpolar North: Part II. Environmental, Geophysical, Biological and Socioeconomic Challenges
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kalb T. Stevenson
Heidi B. Rader
Lilian Alessa
Andrew D. Kliskey
Alberto Pantoja ... [et al.]
Arctic, vol. 67, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 296-319
Description
Found that while physical factors were important, the strongest deterrents to engaging in agricultural production were socioeconomic.
Sustainable Agriculture for Alaska and the Circumpolar North: Part III. Meeting the Challenges of High-Latitude Farming
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kalb T. Stevenson
Heidi B. Rader
Lilian Alessa
Andrew D. Kliskey
Alberto Pantoja ... [et al.]
Arctic, vol. 67, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 320-339
Description
Overview of field-based, policy and social solutions which are being proposed or have been put into place.
A Synthesis of the Impacts of Climate Change on the First Nations and Inuit of Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ashleigh Downing
Alain Cuerrier
Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, vol. 10, no. 1, January 2011, pp. 57-70
Description
Discusses why Canadian indigenous communities, as well as those around the world, are more vulnerable to the risks associated with climate change and global warming.
T.A.R.R. Workshop -- Louis Rain Oral Report
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Louis Rain
Indian History Film Project
Description
This paper, based on his many field interviews, represents Mr. Rain's views on why the Indians in the Treaty 6 area wereanxious to sign treaty, the problems of language, and therefore of their understanding of the terms.
T'ekilakw and Wuxwuthin: Or, How We Got the Northwest Coast's "Wilderness" So Wrong
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Coll Thrush
BC Studies, no. 152, Past Emergent, Winter, 2006/2007, pp. 105-110
Description
Book reviews of:
Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America edited by Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner.
Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada's West Coast by Judith Williams.
Table 577-0009: Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Food Security, by Aboriginal Identity, Age Group, Sex and Number of Persons in Household, Population Aged 6 Years and Over, Canada, Provinces and Territories: Occasional
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples Survey, 2012
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
Table 577-0010: Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Food Security, by Age Group, Sex and Number of Persons in Household, Inuit Population Aged 6 Years and Over, Canada and Inuit Nunangat: Occasional
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2012
Data » Tables
Author/Creator
Statistics Canada
Description
From Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM). Data can be added / removed and manipulated to customize table.
Tackling Food Security Issues in Indigenous Communities in Canada: The Manitoba Experience
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Fieldhouse
Shirley Thompson
Nutrition & Dietetics, vol. 69, no. 3, 2012, pp. 217-221
Description
Narrative review draws on international literature and Canadian research and practice. Concludes that community-based action combined with structural changes and supportive policies are needed to facilitate healthy living and chronic disease prevention.
Tanning Methods & Tools
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview on making tools for working on hides; the making of bows and arrows; some specialized arrows; the uses of various pelts.
Teaching with Indian Givers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ruth Norton
Craig Charbonneau Fontaine
Description
Explores the many contributions made by Indigenous peoples to North and South American societies and the long history of settler exploitation of the land, resources, and people of the two continents.
The Technology Imperative of the Cree: Examining Adaptability and Livelihood in Northern Ontario, Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raynald Harvey Lemelin
Michel S. Beaulieu
Journal of Northern Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2013, pp. 31-47
Description
Looks at how technologies such as outboard motors and snowmobiles have impacted traditional livelihood and food security.
Thinking Food Security "Outside the Box"
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Johanna Tuglavina
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Food (In)security in Northern Canada, April 2017, pp. 42-43
Description
Comments on locals needing the same good quality food as the employees living and working at the mine site.
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
Documents & Presentations
Description
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."