Key words: Sahtu, traditional knowledge research program, barren-ground caribou, caribou-communities workshop, renewable resource councils
Key words: barren-ground caribou, traditional knowledge, population genetics, non-invasive, biological diversity
This paper is adapted from contributions by Fred Sangris at the NACW Aboriginal Talking Circle.
Key words: Barren ground caribou; Bathurst caribou herd; Canada; crisis, management history; population decline; resource management; traditional knowledge.
Key words: pedagogy, traditional knowledge, traditional ways of learning, Indigenous, education, storytelling
Key Words: aboriginal; biocultural diversity; biodiversity; caribou; collaborative research; ecology; First Nation; genetic variation; indigenous communities; population genetics; population structure; Rangifer tarandus; resource management; social-ecological systems; traditional knowledge
Key words: barren-ground caribou, traditional knowledge, Northwest Territories, distribution, habitat, population, threats and limiting factors
Key words: caribou, fall migration, hunting, harvesting, monitoring, traditional ecological knowledge, Dene, Denésǫliné, unpredictability, diamond mining, environmental impacts
In the 1990s, news stories began to circulate about declining caribou populations in the North. Were caribou the canary in the coal mine for climate change, or did declining numbers reflect overharvesting by Indigenous hunters or failed attempts at scientific wildlife management? Grounded in community-based research in northern Canada, a region in the forefront of co-management efforts, these collected stories and essays bring to the fore the insights of the Inuvialuit, Gwich’in, and Sahtú, people for whom caribou stewardship has been a way of life for centuries.
Keywords: cultural, social, environmental, education, Tlicho, caribou, monitoring program Traditional Knowledge