Hunting, Fishing, Trapping & Gathering

Author explores Inuit ontologies or knowledge systems around non-human members of their ecosystem; discuss how Inuit ways of knowing the animals are rooted in social and cultural factors of relationality. Text in French.

This article details how Aboriginals and Metis were an essential part of the early historic period of Canada, serving as suppliers of furs and as explorers for the Europeans. After the mid-19th century, when the economy changed to industrialization and farming, aboriginals and Metis were no longer necessary. Adams foresees decolonization being achieved by building a power base through political and psychological struggle.

Historical note:

A Cree hunter firing a trade gun, dressed in HBC clothing. Likely 19th century.

Assesses levels of concurrence in understanding regarding the salmon fishery among the Ahtna, an Alaska Native people, commercial fishers, and fishery biologists.

Study aims to understand the physical activity (PA) involved in deer hunting, and how that activity can be used to help Aboriginal youth learn physical literacy (PL). Results show that deer hunting can easily surpass the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines (CPAG) for maintaining health, and that it creates an opportunity for promoting PL to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit youth.

Looks at Fort Severn Cree Nation's co-management strategy for managing Hudson Bay polar bear subpopulation in their territory.

Looks at the changes to traditional food systems of Indigenous people worldwide and the consequences of these changes. Scroll down to read article.

A diorama showing buffalo being chased over a cliff. A group of teepees can be seen on a hillside in the background.

An account by Earl Bressette comparing life in the present with his life as a child. Transcribed by Joanne Greenwood.

Book review of: Eastern Cherokee Fishing by Heidi M. Altman.

Examines the collaborative approach of using traditional Indigenous knowledge and western science to better understand the spawning and migration patterns of fish populations.

Study presents traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) gathered from 40 subsistence hunters and fishers in an Inupiat village on the Alaska North Slope; includes observations of the physical environment and the condition/wellbeing of the animals harvested.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2000.

Consists of an interview where she tells of a frightening trip through the woods as a child.

Consists of an interview with a general discussion on superstitions, the use of nature to forecast weather and other general reminiscences of her life.

Explores the crisis in community health by examining the biological and environmental reasons for the transition from nomadic to sedentary village life style.

Consists of an interview where she gives a lengthy discourse on Indian medicines. She also gives a description of basket making and an account of being lost in the woods.

Document investigates how gender roles in fishing derbies are not necessarily divided as they are for other tasks.

[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 1980.

Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Thesis (M.N.R.E.S.)--The University of Northern British Columbia, 2009.

Book review of: Factors Influencing Kamik Production in Arctic Bay Northwest Territories by Jill E. Oakes.

Marine Affairs Program Thesis (M.M.M.)--Dalhousie University, 2011

Study looked at variables such as food affordability, budgeting, declining hunting activity, food knowledge and quality, and cost of harvesting in the context of changing livelihoods and climate change.

Photograph of a wolf skin draped over boxes of field provisions. [Devon Island, NU]

Consists of an interview that gives a general account of traditional lifestyle.

Consists of an interview with Fine Day where he lists various articles used in connection with the Sundance. He also gives the reasons for having a Sundance.

Consists of an interview that briefly discusses tribal rivalries and the care and uses of dogs. He also describes various games of the Cree.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2008.

Looks at strategies used by families to handle chronic shortages of shelter, food, and economic income in the Gitxaała Nation.

Plant Ecology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1977.

A set of 27 photographs showing Cree fishermen catching fish for their families through the ice in the 1970s using the jigger system.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2006.

Related Material: Summary and Recommendations Report.

Interdisciplinary Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University, 2009.

Natural Resources Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2015.

Booklet of stories of exploration by the Jesuits in New France. Chapter titles are: Of the Capture of the Villages of the Mission of St. Ignace, in the Month of March of the Year 1649; Letter from Fort Sainte Marie, Ontario to Father General; Of the Removal of the House of Sainte Marie to the Island of St. Joseph; Of the Mission of Saint Joseph; and Of the Devastation of the Country of the Hurons, in the Spring of the Year 1650;

Critical examination of the arguments of Environmentalists and Animal liberationists regarding the consumption of animals and a look at how Indigenous cultures get pulled into these arguments.

Explains the history of berry picking as an example of how the Lake Superior Ojibwe adapted to economic change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Discusses the emergence of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) as a guiding principle that may influence wildlife management policy in the Territory of Nunavut.

Looks at the role of women in resource development and community governance from an economic, socio-cultural and political point of view.

Describes his career as a hunting and fishing guide.

Concerns over suicide in youth and the lack of access to outings on the land to learn traditional skills led to the pilot outreach program for youths 14 to 21.

Resource for parents. Looks at physical activity and eating traditional and healthy foods on a budget.

Marine Management Thesis (M.M.M.)--Dalhousie University, 2013.

Gwen Beck is a long time resident of La Ronge who has taken a keen interest in local, social and political affairs.

Booklet relating to the Haida people of northern coastal BC, describing various aspects of Haida culture such as daily subsistence, spirituality, shamanism, family life and legends.

Discusses the cultural practices and regulation laws that are contributing to the conservation of fisheries and wildlife resources.

Identifies 5 key steps: formulating question, designing program, determining roles for field work, conducting field work, and analyzing data and reporting results.