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Poorer Health - #1 of 8 Key Issues for Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Destabilizing Indigenous health The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being...
Traditional Knowledge
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What is the Seventh Generation Principle?
The Seventh Generation Principle is based on an ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)* philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a...
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A Brief Look at Indigenous Star Names
As the clock runs out on the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages we wanted to take a look at the language around the stars and...
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Indigenous Knowledge and the Question of Copyright
Indigenous Peoples around the world are increasingly concerned about protecting their Indigenous knowledge (IK) and traditional cultural expressions...
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Indigenous Culturally Modified Trees
tsuu aay ‘kiing jah Looking into the heart of the cedar For thousands of years, the people went into the forest for cedar. Among the living trees, we...
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Indigenous Fire Management and Traditional Knowledge
For the last few summers news reports were dominated by coverage of raging, massive, out-of-control wildfires. The fires devastated some communities,...
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Why Is It Important to Protect & Revitalize Indigenous Languages?
Of the most spoken languages in the world, English is third after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. But English is the most commonly spoken second...
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6 Guidelines for Projects Involving Traditional Indigenous Knowledge
Traditional Indigenous knowledge (TK) and traditional resources have been managed by Indigenous communities since time immemorial. The arrival of...
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Rise of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Assessments
There are more and more articles in the news about the value of Indigenous traditional knowledge being taken into account in climate change studies,...
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What Does Indigenous Knowledge Mean? A Compilation of Attributes.
What does Indigenous knowledge (IK) mean? That’s a big question because “there are approximately 370 million Indigenous people in the world,...