It is time to stop pretending that we are not powerful, that we are just individuals beholden to law, politics, jobs, and social norms. We have made law. We have invented our politics. We defined and redefined our work and our social norms, again and again, in many places and many ti...
Helping advance health outcomes through affordable and accessible medical diagnostics, Tribal Diagnostics specializes in serving disadvantaged communities, especially those in Indian Country. The company supports Native sovereignty by creating healthcare jobs for Indigenous people and working with other Tribally...
in environmental decision-making processes and to develop their own environmental plans. By doing so, we may better include the situated knowledge of Indigenous peoples within dominant knowledge production forums and gain additional perspectives on establishing more sustainable human-environment relations. ...
Ross said his years of work towards the Kitimat liquefied natural gas export facility have produced jobs and tangible economic benefits. Ross said the “free, prior and informed consent” in UNDRIP already exists in case law. “It has already been in practice for many, many years,” Ross...
Sustainable Growth: Ontario’s Forest Sector Strategyestablishes the province’s 10-year plan to create jobs and encourage economic growth through greater local and Indigenous community involvement in forest management. OSFMI is the fourth enhanced Sustainable Forest License company in Ontario – a busin...
(single parent, on and off campus), food banks, childcare, and part-time jobs or job training opportunities’ (p. 6); ‘posters of successful post-secondary education graduates from their communities’ (p. 6); elder and cultural access information. Restoule et al. also suggest having: ...
The migration of men to urban locations in search of jobs has caused workforce shortages in rural locations and an increase in the participation of women as agri-laborers. Most men preferred to be hired as laborers in unorganized sectors. The deepening agrarian crisis also forces rural men to ...
(Kulchyski,1994). Within each of the Mi’kmaq villages, this became a point of conflict. Band Councils had the chance to help their communities financially by securing funding that would provide much-needed jobs. However, these agreements also reduced Mi’kmaq’s control over their harvesting ...
Broad determinants include those identified by the WHO and others as playing a role in creating the environments where people grow, live, and age, such as governance, community cohesion, jobs, health, and other services [16,18]. Figure 1 also elucidates the relationships between the three categ...
When new fields are developed, the oil exploitation, community relations and community compensation are all managed by a transnational oil company. These services then shift to the state-owned company, a private-to-public shift happening in other Waorani communities within oil concessions and through...