Extractive Industries

Looks at mining economies encountered in Rankling Inlet.

Comments on locals needing the same good quality food as the employees living and working at the mine site.

Comments on some of the challenges and barriers that had to be overcome to hire locally.

Discusses the three most significant aspects of the SGA: the right to mineral resources, the recognition of Greenlanders as people in international law, and the prospect of independence.

Looks at how an Aboriginal community confronted Century Zinc Mine in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria when they didn't live up to a previously signed agreement.

Assesses the strengths of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board and the Environmental Assessment process to determine the weaknesses of the Environmental Assessment process, especially in the context of resource developments affecting Aboriginal peoples.

Discusses the Toxic Legacies research project focusing on community concerns around understanding remediation and its regulation and continuing care for the Giant mine site.

Looks at the history of arsenic pollution from the mine and the present and future danger to Yellowknife's Dene First Nation.

Authors review history, ethnography, and archaeology literatures and conduct interviews with Elders from the Canadian prairies; use Indigenous languages and oral tradition to present Indigenous knowledge and values around mineral extraction, use and trade.

Comments on the economic and tourism opportunites for Aboriginal people working in conjunction with the potash industry. Article located by scrolling to page 18.

Social and Preventive Medicine Thesis (M.Sc.)--Université Laval, 2001.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2009.

Discusses the growing global, political, and economic interest in the north.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1938.

Public Policy Thesis (MPP)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

Discusses impact of president-elect Donald Trumps decision to withdraw from the UN Climate Change talks and Paris agreement and instead commit to more fossil fuel extraction.

Designed to help communities and their leaders: understand the environmental assessment process, how First Nations can be effectively involved, regimes under agreements and acts, and regulatory processes. Some information is specific to the British Columbia context.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2005.

Discusses the resource revenue sharing policy that will provide a process where one or more Aboriginal groups will receive a negotiated share of the mineral tax revenue from certain new mining projects.

Looks at how the Salluit and Kangiqsujuaq (Nanavik) and Raglan nickel mine and Qamani'tuaq (Baker Lake, Nunavut) and Meadowbank gold mine have impacted Inuit communities.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2005.

Discusses the Stellat'en First Nations' position about the expansion of the Endako mine.

Film questions the validity of continued mining practices which are associated with environmental concerns and health hazards for Canada's Native populations. Accompanying material: Uranium: A Discussion Guide. Duration: 47:59.

Guide to accompany film, Uranium.

Comments on the destruction made by exploration, mining, milling and the contamination to water, soil, plants, animals and people.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2011.

Analyzes the environmental assessment of a diamond mine development that was possibly improperly scoped.

Concerns about the impact of mining, on the environment, brought about a traditional land use study that documented 73 potential sites of concern.

Looks at the experiences of the Fort Albany First Nation during the Environmental Assessment process of the proposed Victor Diamond Mine and reflects on associated social justice issues.

Examines whether the restrictive scoping applied in this process which led to the approval of a mine addressed the needs of First Nations located southeast of the mine.

Examines the Mineral Resources Development Act 1990 and how it affects archaeological protection issues.

Includes toolkit to help with workshop templates for environmental violence teach-ins, resources for healing and traditional land-based medicines, and community health assessments.

Examines the structure and mandate of the Windigo Interim Planning Board, formed as part of Windigo-Shibogama-Ontario Planning Agreement; board deals with issues surrounding the development of a gold mine on traditional lands in North Caribou Lake and Cat Lake First Nations.

Provides a historical overview of the abandoned gold mine and explores some of the ecological aspects of the case.

[Prehistory and Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 1991.

Discusses historical Native land rights issues in these two novels.

Focuses on Standing Rock Sioux Water Protectors' fight against construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, United States v. Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska’s defense of Blackbird Bend.

Public Issues Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 2014.

Looks at changing policy course in oil producing provinces and territories in Canada, building a sovereign wealth fund and Norway's Government Pension Fund Global.

Looks at questions raised from the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Tsilhqot'in v. BC SSC 44.

Update on remediation activities at Colomac mine site: hydrocarbon remediation, site clean-up, water quality, health and safety, and public safety.

Looks at two examples of free, prior and informed consent evolving in Canadian law: the Saugeen Ojibway Nation in Ontario, and the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta.

Examines case where Indigenous interests were put last when permission was given by the Australian government to mine in the Kakadu National Park, a world heritage site and home to the Mirrar people.

Analyzes conversations regarding Inuit employment at the Nanisivik mine which operated from 1976 to 2002.

Book review of: Yellow Dirt by Judy Pasternak. Review located by scrolling to page 238.

Discusses the perspectives of two First Nations regarding the impacts of industrial resource extraction on their lands.