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Youth and Elders: Perspectives on Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer in Churchill, Manitoba
(2012-09-21)
This research focuses on working with fifteen local youths, one elder, and two teachers in the town of Churchill, Manitoba to document intergenerational knowledge transfer. According to Tsuji (1996) there has been a ...
Good news in food: Understanding the value and promise of Indigenous food sovereignty in western Canada
(2015)
Food sovereignty has recently emerged as a means of addressing food-related problems that confront many Indigenous and rural communities around the world. It moves beyond access to food, and is grounded in the idea that ...
Charting a new course: collaborative environmental health mapping with the Isga Nation in Alberta, Canada
(2015-01-08)
Many Indigenous communities around the world are facing a health crisis aggravated by environmental degradation and dispossession. Through community-based participatory research, we examined barriers to land use, declining ...
Assessing youth experiences of hydroelectric development in Fox Lake Cree Nation’s traditional territory
(2017)
Fox Lake Cree Nation (FLCN) is a First Nation community located in northern Manitoba, with approximately 1100 community members, of which approximately 500 reside in the traditional territory. FLCN has been highly affected ...
Traumatized Nation: how society is toxic to women and children
(2016)
A growing body of scientific evidence is uncovering how toxic stress and early traumatic experiences have profound long lasting effects on our children’s developing brains and neuro-immune-endocrine systems and are linked ...
Nipi (Water) and its pawistik (falls) in Northern Manitoba: a dive into Eurocentric policies and the effects of hydro generation on the seasonal movements of a northern Indigenous community, Nisicawayāsihk Cree Nation
(2022-02)
Perceptions of Western society and Indigenous cultures towards the caring of Askiy, the Earth, contrast dramatically with one another. On one hand, Indigenous people have intertwined their coexistence with that of Nature ...