Saturday, December 31, 2005
So many of my recent posts have been about the Inuit and the Canadian far north. Here’s another story from cbc.ca. Titled ‘New Project Tackles Inuit Nutrition’, the story describes a reserach project in Cape Dorset (Baffin Island) aimed at increasing the amount of country foods eaten locally. It is supported by [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
There has been a string of climate change stories recently, particularly in light of the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference. I enjoyed particularly this story from cbc.ca: ‘Changing climate has more Inuit shopping for food.’ The emphasis here is less about the impact of climate change on hunting and, instead, on the [...]
Monday, December 12, 2005
Lorenz at Anthropologi.info has picked up on a story from The Australian about the reluctance of the National Native Title Tribunal to accept the testimony of anthropologists it deems to have close relationships with aboriginal groups. Quoting the article:
Mr Neate [Tribunal President] said anthropologists and historians had a pivotal role in native title claims, [...]
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
The Hupacasath First Nation (Vancouver Island) is claiming victory over the issue of consultation between the provincial government and First Nations communities. A decision rendered yesterday from the BC Supreme Court says that the government has a responsibility to consult with native people about the transfer of ownership of private lands.
From the [...]
Professor John Lutz of the University of Victoria Department of History has published a neat piece on the Chilcotin war in the Winter 2005 issue of British Columbia Magazine (excerpt here). Titled ‘The War That Nobody Won,’ Prof. Lutz’s article is the story of soldier John Brough and the diary he kept on his [...]
The Walrus, self-described as Canada’s general-interest magazine with an international outlook, has published a lengthy article on the development and mining disputes in the Tahltan communities at Telegraph Creek and Iskut Village, British Columbia (no on-line version, but see here). Written by Monte Paulson, the article is rich and offers a detailed accounting of [...]
News stories about arctic climate change, with an Inuit focus, continue to circulate. Another from the Vancouver Sun coming out of the United Nations World Climate Change Conference. Of note:
“If anyone knows about climate change, it’s people who live their lives outside,” said [the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, an organization representing the [...]
Thursday, December 1, 2005
Canadian University Press reporter Bryna Hallam has written a lengthy piece (here, via the York University paper) about the land use agreements on the British Columbia Central Coast made between communities, governments, resource extraction companies, and environmentalists. The area in question has become know as the Great Bear Rainforest and is described by Hallam [...]
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