Geography

Book reviews of 17 books: wanisinwak iskwesisak; awasisasinahikanis/Two Little Girls Lost in the Bush; A Cree Story for Children told by Nehiyaw/Glecia Bear, edited and translated by Freda Ahenakew and H. C. Wolfart. The Geography of the Canadian North by Robert Bone. The Queen's People: A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation Among the Okanagan of Canada by Peter Carstens. Being and Becoming Indian: Biographical Studies of North American Frontiers by James A.

Book reviews of 20 books: Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton. The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right by Jeffery R. Dudas. Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival by Carolyn Smith-Morris. Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music by Lynn Whidden. First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland. Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital and Social Power by Cameron B.

Book review of: Rio del Norte: People of the Upper Rio Grande From Earliest Times to the Pueblo Revolt by Carroll L. Riley.

Book reviews of 22 books: African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizen by Celia E. Naylor. American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle and the Law by Matthew L. M. Fletcher. Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya by Charles S. King. Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660 by Cynthia J.

Review of: The Fur Trade of the Little North Indians, Peddlers, and Englishmen East of Lake Winnipeg by Victor P. Lytwyn.

Book review of: Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times by Olive Patricia Dickason. For this article scroll down to Page 386.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2004.

Looks at death rates from breast cancer and death rates after having breast cancer by comparing data from AI/AN and white women.

Examines information disparities due to remote locations and lack of infrastructure, assesses policies which effect electronic access to information, and discusses the development of First Nations-controlled networks.

Project had three main objectives: access to land tenure and population statistics for U.S. tribal groups, create maps in digital form referenced to the U.S. Geological Survey maps, and to create a printed atlas from information collected.

Looks at reconstructing migration and social contact patterns using language and archaeological, geographical, ethnohistorical and ethnomusical data.

Discusses Constable Robert Brown's encounter at Kitsegukla and the Gitksan perception of and response to the burring of Kitsegukla.

Observations made that would support public investment in infrastructure to support resource development in the north.

Describes Lieut. William Francis Butler’s journey, in the winter of 1870, to distribute small pox medicines and instructions for treatment of the disease to people and communities between the Red River Settlement and the Rockies; includes some details about Cree, Métis, and Blackfoot peoples. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 24.

"Argues that research on Indigenous issues should be carried out in a manner which is respectful and ethically sound from an Indigenous perspective."

Book review of: Canada: A Nation of Regions by Brett McGillivray.

Book review of: Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History by Graeme Wynn.

Travel narrative with a focus on the Westcoast First Nations of British Columbia.

Book review of: Canada's Changing North edited by William C. Wonders.

Looks at the Canadian Rangers, developed as part of the armed forces northern strategy to be the eyes and ears of the Canadian Forces Northern Area (CFNA) in isolated areas.

Discusses a pictograph site on the Churchill River; article includes maps, photos and an entry from Alexander Mackenzie’s journal describing the rock painting and its location. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 30.

Assessment of Arctic shipping potential in Canada, the benefits of potential increases in Arctic shipping and growth in Arctic cruise tourism.

Book review of: The Canadian Indian by Fraser Symington. Scroll down to page 63 to read review.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Guelph, 2001.

Findings indicated a geographical difference in cancer rates between Inuit Nunangat and the rest of Canada.

Uses data from 2004-2005 Canadian Community Health Surveys and 2001 Aboriginal People's Survey for identifying demographic, socio-economic and geographic factors.

Book review of: Caribou and the North by Monte Hummel and Justina C. Ray.

Explores the Inuit society located around Baker Lake, Nunavut and how geography influenced caribou migration and consequently patterns of settlement.

University of California geographer argues for larger historical population numbers.

Examines how practices became centralized through historical exchanges of geographic information between Indigenous people and non-Indians.

Studies how maps have played a role in clarifying and evaluating Native American land tenure.

Summarizes case study of Cree Nation of Mistissini's implementation and ongoing use of GIS.

Project created to understand the Stó:lõ people by mapping and documenting the tunnel stories to produce a holistic view of their connection to sacred and physical geography. Project for Ethnohistory Field School 2009.

Compares cervical cancer and death rates to women of other races.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2007.

Book review of Changing Cold Environments edited by Hugh French and Olav Slaymaker.

Argues poverty must be understood in a geographic and political context rather than attributed to individuals' lack of motivation.

Environment and Geography Thesis (M.Env.)--University of Manitoba, 2015.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 5, (pp293-380).

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 28, (pp1-21).

Nursing Thesis (D.N.P.)--North Dakota State University, 2007.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oregon, 2011.

Forest Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1994.

Geography Thesis collaborated in Environment and Health (M.S.)--University of Toronto, 2008.