The overall health of First Nations women and their families continues to be impacted through assimilative action taken by the federal government to disconnect communities from their traditional lands and knowledge systems.
Canada is a large nation with forested ecosystems that occupy over 60% of the national land base, and knowledge of the patterns of Canada's land cover is important to proper environmental management of this vast resource.
Their world view is tied up in their land, and their knowledge is linked to that.
We propose a learning-centered participatory approach that links land management assessment and knowledge exchange and integrates science-based data and stakeholder perspectives on both biophysical and socio-economic attributes.
Indigenous communities have also undertaken innovative initiatives for sustainable development by producing their own maps detailing customary land use, occupancy and knowledge of natural resource management.
Clifford maintains that "it would be hard to find a route in this country that offers a more extensive immersion in time travel"; and while he knows plenty about the land, and shares this knowledge judiciously, his main goal is to come into contact with a Western way of life that has survived for centuries in the forbidding terrain near the divide.
PES schemes offer opportunities to recognize and support Aboriginal communities' land and sea management knowledge and practices, and there is strong evidence that Indigenous communities are seeking to engage with such schemes.
The New Alliance is already forcing small-scale farmers off their land, and replacing farmers' knowledge and skill with expensive technology and fossil fuel inputs.
Although they are called pioneers, all but a few lacked specific skills and experience for traveling through mountains and arid land, and had little knowledge about how to deal with Native Americans.
Kaczynski worked odd jobs and received financial support from his family, which he used to purchase his land and, without their knowledge, would later use to fund his bombing campaign.
The sea has been far less studied than the land, and our taxonomic knowledge of many groups remains fragmentary (Hilchey 2003).
