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Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean Rousseau
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Architecture Paléoesquimaude / Palaeoeskimo Architecture, 2003, pp. [546]-549
Description
Book review of Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador edited by Colin H. Scott. Review in French.
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Recent Archaeological Research on the Northern Coast

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gary Coupland
BC Studies, no. 99, Changing Times: British Columbia Archeology in the 1980s, Autumn, 1993, pp. 53-75
Description
Review of research from recent field investigations in the lower Skeena, Prince Rupert area, lower Nass River, Queen Charlotte Islands and southern Alaska and discussion of themes emerging over the past ten years.
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Recent Geographical Research on Indians and Inuit in the United States and Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Rundstrom
Douglas Deur
Kate Berry
Dick Winchell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 85-110
Description
Comments on complexity of issues related to geographical studies concerning Indigenous communities in Canada and the United States, and the constant need to revise understandings of the environment.
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Reclaiming Indigenous Languages: A Reconsideration of the Roles and Responsibilities of Schools

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Teresa L. McCarty
Sheilah E. Nicholas
Review of Research in Education, vol. 38, no. 1, March 2014, pp. 106-136
Description
Looks at the link between linguistic and cultural diversity and Indigenous languages to knowledge systems of the Mohawk in Canada and the United States, the Hawaiian in the Pacific, and the Hopi and Navajo in the U. S. Southwest.
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The Regional Geography of Canada

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David A. Rossiter
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, Summer, 2008, pp. 254-256
Description
Book review of: The Regional Geography of Canada by Robert M. Bone.
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Regulating Multilingualism in the North Calotte: The Case of Kven, Meänkieli and Sámi Languages

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sari Pietikäinen
Leena Huss
Sirkka Laihiala-Kankainen
Ulla Aikio-Puoskari
Pia Lane
Acta Borealis, vol. 27, no. 1, June 2010, pp. 1-23
Description
Studies language relations by looking at the historical, ideological, and political process used in language revitalization focusing on political and legal instruments of change.
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Resource Development in Canada: A Case Study on the Ring of Fire

Alternate Title
Background Paper (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ;
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jed Chong
Description
Looks at the location, size and geology of the area, federal jurisdiction, economic benefits of mining development, ecosystem sensitivity and infrastructure, and initiatives by the federal and provincial governments. "Revised 29 May 2014."
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Respect the Water #1

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Suzanne Methot]
Description
Teacher resource for Grades 5 and 8 utilizes the poem Water/El Agua by Jorge Argueta, video The Story of Bottled Water, and article No Running Water by Helen Fallding to explore issues surrounding the environment, the impact of human behaviour, and how we can maintain healthy and sustainable ecosystems.
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Rethinking the Paratext: Digital Story-Mapping E. Pauline Johnson’s and Chief Joe & Mary Capilano’s Legends of Vancouver (1911)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alix Shield
BC Studies, no. 197, Spring, April 24, 2018, pp. 107-121
Description
Discusses the text and its critical framework—title page, introduction, and other framing elements. Considers the roles of Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Chief Joe and his wife Mary Capilano as co-authors, and the decolonization of the text by reconnecting it to unceded Coast Salish lands using platform called ArcGIS Story-Map Journals,
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A Review of the Northern Ecosystem Initiative in Arctic Canada: Facilitating Arctic Ecosystem Research Through Traditional and Novel Approaches

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark L. Mallory
Carey Ogilvie
H. Grant Gilchrist
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, vol. 113, no. 1-3, 2006, pp. 19-29
Description
An evaluation of the Northern Ecosystem Initiative that supports partnership-based approaches important to the conservation, protection, and restoration of northern ecosystems and sustainability of northern communities.
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A Review of Tourism Research in the Polar Regions

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
E. J. Stewart
D. Draper
M .E. Johnston
Arctic, vol. 58, no. 4, December 2005, pp. 383-394
Description
Reviews the tourism issues that are common to the Arctic and Antarctic regions such as; tourism patterns, impacts, policy and development.
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Reviews

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Douglas W. Veltre
Jeffrey D. Anderson
David Reed Miller
Katherine Beaty Chiste
Sean M. Rafferty
Carol Miller
Caskey Russell
Thomas W. Cowger
Hugh Shewell
Alfred Young Man
Michael A. Glassow
Karen J. Travers
Stephen Warren
Ken Coates
et.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 183-246
Description
Book reviews of: An Aleutian Ethnography by Lucien M. Turner ; edited by Raymond L. Hudson. The Arapaho Language by Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and Plains Cree, 1868–1885 by Jill St. Germain. Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows. Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson edited by David H. Dye. Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored by Robert J.
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Rock Formations, Inukshuk

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Department of Physics fonds
University of Saskatchewan
Description
Photograph of rock formations, or Inushuk.
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Rock Formations, Inukshuk

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Department of Physics fonds
University of Saskatchewan
Description
Photograph of Inuit rock formations, or Inukshuk.
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Rock Formations, Inukshuk

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Department of Physics fonds
University of Saskatchewan
Description
Inuit rock formations or inukshuk are depicted in this photograph.
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Rock Formations, Inukshuk

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Department of Physics fonds
University of Saskatchewan
Description
Photograph of rocks situated along the shore.
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The Role of Cultural Models in Local Perceptions of SFM - Differences and Similarities of Interest Groups From Three Boreal Regions

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kati Berninger
Daniel Kneeshaw
Christian Messier
Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 90, no. 2, February 2009, pp. 740-751
Description
Study hypothesized that peoples’ perceptions would be influenced by their cultural models about forests and would vary amongst regions with different forest use histories and among different cultural groups. The study found that the social dimension was rated low overall, except for with the Métis and Innu of Labrador.
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