Geography

Listed alphabetically.

Analyzes the features of the land and sea routes used by generations of Inuit.

This file contains a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This portion includes a presentation of the Society of Native Indian Fire Fighters of British Columbia by Clifford Azak concerning the issue of fire and safety programs in British Columbia. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow the presentation.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2014

Includes overview of the people, their languages, dwellings and way of life, the flora and fauna and the geographic features of the Alaskan area. Extract of pages from volume 5(17) pages 254 to 263

Looks at the DNA link between Sami of Scandinavia and the Berbers of North Africa.

Analyzes four different scientific mapping processes connected to fishing grounds in the Lyngen fjord in northern Norway. Results show mapping tells little about Sami culture.

[Health Sciences] Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Arctic University of Norway, 2014.

A description of the origins of different place names, including several adapted from Indigenous language names or their translations to English or French: Nipawin, Kinistino, Saskatoon, Wascana and others. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.

Evidence indicates six sites in the River valley have been used continuously as gathering places by Indigenous peoples from early to contemporary times.

Discusses the changes Inuit hunters in the Igloolik region experienced by using a Global Positioning System (GPS).

Looks at Aboriginal title and rights regarding the Northgate Miners' Kemess North Expansion Project.

Interviews local leaders of the anti-dam movement, leaders of the Sami community, political journalists, and science researchers to look at Alta Dam's exclusionary practices and how state officials ignored residents' perspective.

Discusses the linguistic evidence of a link between the Athabascan and the Sino-Tibetan people.

Gives a summary of magnetic observations and reports the north magnetic pole is in northwestern Prince of Wales Island.

Canadian Heritage and Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1999.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2000.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado, 2003.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 1997.

Law Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2012.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Oklahoma, 2000.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 1998.

Overview of an initiative to document and map Inuit sea ice use in Nunavut and Nunavik communities, with a discussion of how Inuit knowledge of sea ice is important to the climatic changes and the cultural and social changes in the Arctic regions.

Examines health status of the Inuit population within the changing contexts of population and socio-economic factors.

Book review of: The Sierra Nevada Before History by Louise A. Jackson. Review located by scrolling to page 229.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2013.

Island Studies Thesis (MAIS)--University of Prince Edward Island, 2009.

Book review of: Since the Time of the Transfomers by Alan D. McMillan. Scroll down to page 102 to read review.

Geography & Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Louisana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2013.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2003.

Discussion, based on interviews with 50 Inupiat from northern Alaska, of how incidence of disorientation has increased in recent decades despite modern navigating tools.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1979.

Examines the current scholarship of colonialism by looking at three aspects of Northwest coast history: geopolitical recording and transposition of information, the introduction and distribution of disease, and the profits of fur trade.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2007.

Uses 2011 Census data for comparison.

Results based on data from The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) and the National Health Survey (NHS).

Discusses the possibility of using contemporary GPS technology and satellite imaging as a means of connecting people to global heritage sites that might otherwise be inaccessible; uses the Arvia’juaq National Historic site near Arviat as an example.

Discusses how white settler attitudes towards Native American place names evolved from ignorance and elimination to acceptance and fascination.

Brief survey of the region's history and geographical highlights.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 1980.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 1988.

Looks at the proof of sovereignty in the United States and Canada and the misinterpretation of court decisions.

Findings from the 1996 Census revealed that while Aboriginal peoples are not segregated, they do occupy poorer quality neighbourhoods at a higher rate than non-Aboriginal people in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area

Geography Thesis (M.E.S.)--Wilfrid Laurier University, 1997.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Western Ontario, 1978

Geography Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Waterloo, 2012.