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Revitalizing Indigenous Languages, Fostering Self‐Governance, Overcoming the Indian Act: A Case Study of Lil'wat Nation

open access: yesCanadian Public Administration, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 470-486, September 2025.
Abstract This article examines how Indigenous language revitalization serves as a foundation for self‐governance and legal resurgence, focusing on the Lil'wat Nation's efforts to reclaim Ucwalmícwts. Drawing on presentations from the 30th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium and community‐based sources, the article highlights how language encodes
Qátsya7 Mason Ducharme   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understory Plant Community Response to a Range of Restoration Scenarios in Northeast US Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) Barrens

open access: yesApplied Vegetation Science, Volume 28, Issue 3, July/September 2025.
Understory plant communities in pitch pine (Pinus rigida) barrens show distinct species abundance and structural attributes associated with different restoration strategies. We investigated the impacts of four management approaches, along with untreated control sites across four states in the Northeast United States.
Kathleen A. Stutzman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nothing to hide: How governments justify the adoption of ag‐gag laws

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 75-98, February 2025.
Abstract Mainstream practices for producing meat, eggs, and dairy raise numerous concerns regarding public health, animal welfare, and environmental integrity. However, governments worldwide have expanded anti‐whistleblower legislation that constrains informed public debate.
Anelyse M. Weiler, Tayler Zavitz
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Emotions in Ontological Conflicts : A Case Study of the Territorial Conflict Between the State of British Columbia, Coastal GasLink, and the Wet’suwe’ten

open access: yes, 2021
For almost two decades, Coastal GasLink, with the support of the State of British Columbia (B.C.), Canada, has sought to build a hydrofracking gas pipeline, which would cross a large part of Wet’suwet’en Nation’s territories.
Gálvez Campos, Byron Alejandro
core   +2 more sources

Resisting and Claiming Digital Sovereignty: The Cases of Civil Society and Indigenous Groups

open access: yesPolicy &Internet, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 739-749, December 2024.
ABSTRACT In this contribution to “Unthinking digital sovereignty,” we review some discourses and practical proposals that resist or challenge the digital sovereignty of “established states.” Our focus centers on two distinct sociopolitical groups engaged in such practices.
Stéphane Couture   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Settler news media understandings of Wet’suwet’en sovereignty and the Coastal GasLink Pipeline: Discourses of territorial sovereignty, legality, and justice

open access: yes
This thesis uses the concept of the settler imaginary to conduct a critical discourse analysis of 113 news articles covering the Wet’suwet’en-CGL conflict.
Scholte, Daniel Thomas
core   +1 more source

Resistance to Extractivism‐Induced Water Insecurity. Does Gender Have a Role in It? A Systematic Scoping Review

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 18, Issue 8, August 2024.
ABSTRACT Extractivist practices threaten water security and with it, people's health and livelihoods. Numerous communities around the world are engaged in the strenuous work of resistance against mining. Through our previous research, we matured a sense that women are a major force behind organizing for water security, particularly because they often ...
Martina Angela Caretta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate and land‐use change impacts on cultural use berries: Considerations for mitigative stewardship

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 4, Page 791-802, July 2024.
Cultural use berries are prized foods and medicines across the United States and Canada, with almost 200 different species used by Indigenous Peoples. Berries are increasingly being impacted by environmental and land‐use change. Berry habitats, how and when berry plants reproduce, and the volume of berries available for harvest each year are shifting ...
Megan Mucioki
wiley   +1 more source

Habitat modulates population‐level responses of freshwater salmon growth to a century of change in climate and competition

open access: yesGlobal Change Biology, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2024.
We examine the influence of habitat on the growth of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in nursery lakes of Canada's Skeena River watershed over a century of change in regional temperature and intraspecific competition. While growth was higher in years with higher summer temperatures, long‐term increases in growth appear largely influenced by reduced ...
Michael H. H. Price   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An alternative strategy for resource development : a Gitksan Wet'suwet'en proposal

open access: yes, 1992
The central issue addressed by this thesis is the Gitksan Wet’suwet’en proposal to use their traditional values, practices and systems as the basis of a contemporary strategy for resource management and development in the market economy.
Yellowfly, Cathrine Luanne
core   +1 more source

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