Forestry

Provides evaluation of how forestry-related research involving Aboriginal peoples has responded to shift in Aboriginal research in Canada. Chapter two from Voting, Governance, and Research Methodology edited by Jerry P. White, Julie Peters, Dan Beavon, and Peter Dinsdale, which is vol. 10 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.

Goal of research was to review history and current program of timber management as it relates to self-government.

History of sharing forest resources, including agreements, opportunities, problems, case studies and exceptions, and recommendations.

Outlines two projects that focused on establishing mechanisms to apply Aboriginal knowledge to industrial forest management by providing community training and involvement.

Discusses territorial rights and the need for increased community based control of forest resources.

Discusses the shortcomings of the current natural resources management policy, which has resisted change; cites illegal logging as one reason for change.

Describes methods used in assessing the potential for sustainable community economic development (CED).

Brief news updates on the Oka Crisis, James Bay environmental battle, rainforest logging, and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, to be held in Brazil.

Brief updates on developments on negotiations, judgments and court cases including Gitskan and Wet'suwet'en land title claim, aftermath of Oka conflict, James Bay controversy and more.

Brief news updates including opposition to an expansion of low-level military flights over Newfoundland and Labrador, lobbying to prevent the issuance of logging permits by the Algonquin of Barriere Lake, a spill of radioactive contaminated water in Saskatchewan, and opposition to pulp and paper mills in Alberta.

Brief updates on the proposed expansion of the Goose Bay air base, reprieve in the issuance of forest license agreements for the Algonquin of Barriere Lake, mercury contamination at James Bay and more.

Looks at the placement of a military training facility that would impact the Innu people of Labrador, logging in Barriere, Quebec, the James Bay dispute, and the demands of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai of northern Ontario being met.

Discussion of indigenous political issues in Canada including Meech Lake Accord and the Oka standoff.

Looks at two joint ventures ability or inability to contribute the extra dimensions of development in forest management desired by Aboriginal communities.

Discusses collaborative research with the Office of the Wet’suwet’en Nation on their traditional territories in north-central British Columbia.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2004.

Presents a study where interviews were conducted with members of 6 northern Ontario Aboriginal communities to obtain their views on how to define and protect Aboriginal values during forest management.

Book review of: A Voice on the Land: An Indigenous Peoples' Guide to Forest Certification in Canada, by R. Collier, B. Parfitt, and D. Woollard.

Article discusses conflicts that have arisen from community relocation and conflicting priorities between the national government and local villagers. To access this article, scroll down to page 48.

Summarizes the author's perspective on the impacts of globalization on the sustainability of Aboriginal communities.

Presents a study that explores the meaning of social networks for environmental movement participants in British Columbia.

Looks at a First Nation that formed the first Aboriginal Economic Development Commission (EDC) in Canada focused on business attraction, retention and facilitation.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2009.

A photo of tree remains (from a forest fire) taken from the wagon of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay during their 1919 trek from Prince Albert to La Ronge, Saskatchewan.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Helsinki, 2012. Examines Sami Paadar brothers settlement case.

Special report by a law firm that specializes in Environmental, Aboriginal and Energy case law focuses on recent Canadian Aboriginal court rulings.

Book review of: Winning Back The Words by Mary Richardson, Joan Sherman and Michael Gismondi.

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

Geography and the Institute for Environmental Studies (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

A photograph of the woods behind the Hudson's Bay Company Post at Montreal Lake. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.

Explores the long history of participation in the resource-based economy of British Columbia by this First Nations group.

Discussion of issues related to forestry management and recommendations to improve current situation.