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"This is a portal of various themes related to Aboriginals"
Creator(s): INFOCOM Management | Date Published: 2005
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"Welcome to the Aboriginal Cultures and Traditions Storytelling web site."
Creator(s): Aboriginal Youth Network | Date Published: 2005
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"The Sustainable Development Strategy for 2004-2006 reflects INAC's continuing efforts to integrate the principles of sustainable development into departmental decision making and, in partnership with First Nations, Inuit and northeners, to assist communities to achieve sustainability. This is a formidable challenge and one we know may take years to achieve."
Creator(s): Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) | Date Published: 2005
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"The AYN was brought about due to the social and health issues that Aboriginal youth face due to the break down of Aboriginal Culture in Canada. With this website, we are attempting to unite youth and bring cultural identity to youth across the country."
Creator(s): Aboriginal Youth Network | Date Published: 2004
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"Sections include: Digital Publications ; Tribal & Local Histories ; Religion & Spirituality ; Law & Government ; Online Exhibits."
Creator(s): Academic Info | Date Published: 2004
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"The 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) is a post-censal survey of adults and children who reported Aboriginal ancestry, Aboriginal identity, Registered Indian status and/or Band membership on the 2001 Census."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2003-09-24
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"The APS Internet community profiles provide information for communities with 200 or more people that took part in the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey. Data for Arctic communities are aggregated to the regional level while data for Nisga communities are aggregated to the nation level, as are data for James Bay Cree communities."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2003-09-24
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"Statistical Profiles by College Region With Emphasis on Labour Market and Post-Secondary Education Issues."
Creator(s): BC Stats | Date Published: 2001
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"Percentage of Aboriginal Population 15 Years of Age or Older, by Ability to Speak an Aboriginal Language, Northwest Territories 1984-1999."
Creator(s): Northwest Territories Bureau of Statistics | Date Published: 1999
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Related Materials
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"The 22 stories that follow were told in Cree and Oji-Cree by the elders of the Omushkegowuk and Nishnawbe-Aski areas respectively. These stories, gathered from 1975 to 1993, were taken from a collection of audio tapes housed at the Ojibway and Cree Cultural Centre in Timmins, Ontario."
Creator(s): Ojibway and Cree Cultural Centre | Date Published: 1999
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"UNESCO recognizes the importance of supporting indigenous communities in recovering their dignity and enabling them to transmit to future generations their distinctive knowledge, values and ways of life."
Creator(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) | Date Published: 2006-04
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"If recent years have seen a widening interest in the contribution of different knowledge systems to the understanding of the natural environment and biodiversity management, UNESCO’s recognition of the importance of this theme dates back more than half-a-century."
Creator(s): United Nations - Department of Economic and Social Affairs | Date Published: 2005-09
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"On appointment, the Task Force received a mandate to propose a national strategy to preserve, revitalize and promote First Nation, Inuit and Métis languages and cultures."
Creator(s): Report to the Minister of Canadian Heritage by The Task Force on Aboriginal Languages and Cultures | Date Published: 2005-06
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"The Mi'kmaw people have a rich history which can often best be understood by listening to the elders of the communities."
Creator(s): Mi'kmaq Resource Centre | Date Published: 2005
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"Several thousand indigenous peoples numbering between 300 and 400 million persons worldwide clearly distinguish themselves from other segments of society by way of historical and structural features as well as their self-identification."
Creator(s): Rodolfo Stavenhagen | Date Published: 2004-05-04
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"I have chosen to use my company, The Anishinabe Experience, as an example and relate personal experiences in a discussion on how communities can define Aboriginal cultural tourism."
Creator(s): Linda Sarazin | Date Published: 2003-10-22
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"In April 2002 the Department of Canadian Heritage contracted Consilium to conduct an evaluation of the Aboriginal Languages Initiative (ALI)."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2003-05-13
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"Explores the relationship between Aboriginal people, Aboriginal communities and cities, as well as the policy implications of that relationship."
Creator(s): Evelyn Peters and Katherine A.H. Graham | Date Published: 2002-12
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"This Strategic Overview has been developed for the benefit of Aboriginal people and groups interested in developing tourism enterprises, or who are currently operating tourism products within the Wet Tropics Area."
Creator(s): Sarah Ignjic, Rainforest CRC | Date Published: 2001-12
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"The five papers collected here describe the history of the Arikara Language Project and its implementation in the White Shield School in North Dakota, the Nakoda Language Program at Fort Belknap College in Montana, and the development of tools at the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University for computer language documentation and the creation of curriculum materials for these and other projects."
Creator(s): Douglas R. Parks, Julia Kushner, Wallace Hooper, Francis Flavin, Delilah Yellow Bird, Selena Ditmar | Date Published: 1999
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"Paper Presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society, Toronto."
Creator(s): Brian Thom, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, McGill University | Date Published: 1998
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"This paper will focus on the role that linguistics plays within the multi-disciplinary approach to studying American aboriginal origins. From a purely linguistic view point, the antiquity of American aboriginal linguistic units is largely unknown."
Creator(s): Grant D. Zazula, The University of Alberta | Date Published: 1998
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"The First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres has begun a national initiative to secure recognition and resources for the preservation, maintenance, promotion and use of Aboriginal languages in Canada."
Creator(s): The First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres | Date Published: 1997-07
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"This research report is an interdisciplinary literature review prepared for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. The objective is to compile and synthesize opinions which address a variety of issues relating to oral narratives about the past. The 50-day study commenced January 15, 1996 and ended April 5, 1996."
Creator(s): Alexander von Gernet, for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada | Date Published: 1996-04
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"This article reviews research on maintaining and renewing American Indian languages."
Creator(s): Jon Reyhner of Northern Arizona University, Edward Tennant of Educational Research Associates, The Bilingual Research Journal | Date Published: 1995-05
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"Chief Richard Malloway (Th'eláchiyatel), a direct descent of the four original ancestors of the Chilliwacks; Th'eláchiyatel, Yexwpílem, Siyemchess, and Xwexwayleq, was an important and influential Stó:lo individual who lived in the Lower Fraser Valley from 1907 to 1987. Stories of his life are remembered and told frequently in the Stó:lo community today. The objective of this paper is to compile some of his stories in the voices of the people who told them."
Creator(s): Writing by: Brian Thom. Stories Narrated by: Mrs. Edna Malloway, Chief Frank Malloway, Chief Richard Malloway. Prepared for: Stó:lo Tribal Council. March 1994 | Date Published: 1994-03
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"Our elders remain guardians of this unique historical tradition, providing us with knowledge about the accomplishments and activities of earlier generations. The memories and mementos of three such Ontario residents are featured on this web site."
Lead Managing Organization: Métis Nation of Ontario Cultural Commission | Start Date: 2005
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"Welcome to the Omushkegowak Oral History Project web site. This web site explores the oral traditions and oral history of the Swampy Cree through Louis Bird's stories."
Lead Managing Organization: The Centre for Rupert's Land Studies | Start Date: 2001
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"This paper describes approaches to cultural heritage conservation and protection that emphasize local community participation and give greater attention to “Indigenous Knowledge” (IK)."
Lead Managing Organization: UNESCO Jakarta, Indonesia | Start Date: 2003
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"Aboriginal tourism encompasses all tourism businesses with a majority ownership of First Nations, Inuit, Dene or Métis people. Through tourism, visitors can learn about Aboriginal history, cultures of yesterday and today, and celebrate the First Peoples".
Creator(s): Aboriginal Business and International Trade | Date Published: 2007
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"First Nations Languages web site"
Creator(s): Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia Library | Date Published: 2006-01-11
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"The Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth (USAY) is a non-profit 100% Aboriginal youth managed and governed organization set up in the City of Calgary to assist Aboriginal youth in their quest in becoming successful in urban life."
Creator(s): Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth | Date Published: 2006
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"This website has been influenced by Our Elders and by our Ancestors. This project is about preserving history, language and culture. We hope that our Elders will educate the generations to come through their knowledge and their wisdom."
Creator(s): Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre | Date Published: 2005
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"Our FirstVoices Language Archive, launched in June of 2003, is used by many groups to record and archive their native languages."
Creator(s): First Peoples' Cultural Foundation | Date Published: 2003
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"This section contains all oral histories, video clips and learning resources in these various Métis heritage languages."
Creator(s): The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture | Date Published: 2003
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"Cultural tourism is a growing industry in Australia."
Creator(s): Wet Tropics Management Authority | Date Published: 2002
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"For Aboriginal people, the oral tradition has maintained a record of every aspect of Aboriginal peoples’ traditions, customs, and ways of life."
Creator(s): Darwin Hanna | Date Published: 2000-07-25
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"Languages of the Land was developed as a resource manual for individuals and community groups interested in Aboriginal language development work. The resource manual has three purposes: to provide background information on language development issues and the status of Aboriginal languages in the NWT; to share strategies for community-based planning for language development activities and projects; and to provide information on the resources available to support local Aboriginal language work."
Creator(s): Crosscurrent Associates, Hay River, NWT Literacy Council | Date Published: 1999
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"This report presents information on the information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure and reach in all responding First Nations schools in Canada. It uses data from the 2003/04 Information and Communications Technologies in Schools Survey."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2005-08-22
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« Population des municipalités et des MRC ayant une politique culturelle, novembre 2000; Population des communautés autochtones ayant une entente de développement culturel, 2000; Population des municipalités et des MRC ayant une entente globale de développement culturel, 1999. »
Creator(s): Culture et Communications Québec | Date Published: 2000
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"APTN - Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, is the first national Aboriginal television network in the world, with programming by, for and about Aboriginal peoples, to share with all Canadians."
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"As a part of this history, beginning in the 1960's, the Métis Nation joined with First Nation and Inuit peoples, in pan-Aboriginal political organizations, to push forward their collective agendas."
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"INAC is responsible for two separate yet equally important mandates: Indian and Inuit Affairs and Northern Affairs."
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"Inuit Heritage Trust is an Inuit organization that deals specifically with issues of archaeology, ethnographic objects and archives. Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated is the umbrella organization that gives us our core funding."
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"It is the goal of the Centre to preserve, promote and enhance the heritage of First Nations, to document current issues and events and to provide interpretation through a First Nations perspective."
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"The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is the national representative organization of the First Nations in Canada."
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"The Centre is a non-partisan, social justice, progressive Aboriginal think tank focused on the social, economic, and environmental policy and research concerns of Aboriginal people in British Columbia and Canada."
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"The First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Council (FPHLCC) was formed as a Provincial Crown Corporation in 1990 to administer the First Peoples’ Heritage, Language and Culture Program, a program established by the government of British Columbia."
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"The FNCCEC is a unified voice that leads in the preservation and maintenance of our languages, cultures and traditions as given by the Creator."
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"The Indian Claims Commission was established in 1991 as a Royal Commission of Inquiry mandated to help First Nations and the federal government settle claims."
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"The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) is the international organization representing approximately 150,000 Inuit living in the Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka, Russia."
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"the Inuit culture of Nunavik."
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"The MNOCC is a not-for-profit corporation that secured charity status in the fall of 2002. A nine-member Board of Directors that was appointed to a two-year term by the Provisional Council of the Métis Nation of Ontario in April 2000 manages the MNOCC."
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"The Secrétariat aux affaires autochtones (SAA) is the agency that has been entrusted with the prime responsibility of forging and strengthening ties between aboriginal people and the Government of Québec."
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In Focus featured from February 2006 to September 2006. In this production of In Focus, Aboriginal researchers, Yvonne Vizina and Racelle Kooy, examine benefits and challenges of developing policy concerning Indigenous Knowledge.
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