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Mar 15 2010
Warmth of Love DVD
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Author Jacks, Terry.
Title The warmth of love [videorecording] : the four seasons of Sophie Thomas / written by Terry Jacks.
Imprint [Vanderhoof, B.C.] : Sophie Thomas Foundation, 2000.

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Elders, Health, Environment, Sustainability, Eco-cultural Restoration
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Mar 15 2010
Carrier Sekani Family Services: Community Linkages Soup Bus Project
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Community Linkages Soup Bus Project

Designed to provide mobile food distribution, support, education, and referrals to Aboriginal individuals and families with multiple barriers, including limited access to other community kitchen programs in the community of Prince George, BC.

Objectives of the Project

1)Improve Health & Nutrition:

a)Community Linkages serves 575 meals per week to program participants from the Friendship Centre’s Smokehouse Kitchen. Each meal consists of: Soup, sandwich, bannock, juice, and fruit or vegetables.

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Nutrition
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Mar 15 2010
Canada's Food Guide for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis
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Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis.

Here is a link to the website where PDF versions are available. Also there are links to view the document in Inukitut, Ojibwe, Plains Cree, and Woods Cree.

You can order hard copies of these Guides FOR FREE! Up to 100 copies, free postage.

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Nutrition, Lifestyle
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Mar 4 2010
APTN Brings Viewers Perspectives on the Environment
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"APTN BRINGS VIEWERS “PERSPECTIVES ON THE ENVIRONMENT”

March 1, 2010 - APTN National News will premiere Perspectives on the Environment, a week dedicated to environmental issues affecting communities across Canada. The stories, which will be featured during APTN National News March 8 to March 11 at 6:00 pm ET on APTN East/MT on APTN West/CT on APTN North/ET on APTN HD, and will culminate in an hour-long special season finale edition of APTN InFocus March 12, will focus on the major issues in every region of Canada: North, South/Central, East and West.

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Land Management, Land Title and Rights, Infants and Children, Health, Environment, Food Related Illness and Disease
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Mar 2 2010
Indigenous Mapping Network
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The Indigenous Mapping Network is a group of Indigenous Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping technicians that help native organizations, governments, and small non profits create compelling maps that affect policy.

They'll have a conference in June in Washington. That looks interesting.

If you want to learn about community mapping tools, or need some GIS analysis done. Then contact the group.

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Land Management
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Feb 15 2010
Memorial to Sir Wilfred Laurier, Premier of the Dominion of Canada
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The Sir Wilfred Laurier Memorial outlines the history of the relationship between the Secwepemc (original inhabitants of the Shuswap geographic region in the southern interior of B.C.) and the European settlers up to the period of 1910.

Dawn Morrison
Land Access/Distribution, Land Grab, Land Management, Land Title and Rights, Environment, Sustainability, Responsibility and Relationships, Economics
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Feb 11 2010
My Big Fat Diet Website
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Supersize Me meets Northern Exposure in My Big, Fat Diet when the Namgis First Nation of Alert Bay gives up sugar and junk food, returning to a traditional style of eating for a year to fight obesity and diabetes.

Dawn Morrison
Health, Nutrition, Lifestyle, Food Related Illness and Disease
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Feb 11 2010
Vandana Shiva Talk in Kelowna.
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Follow this link to visit 91.1 Secwepemc Radio website for a podcast that includes background information on colonization and how it relates to what the food sovereignty guru - Vandana Shiva says at her talk in Kelowna in 2009. Background information and recording done by Rebecca Kneen and Illona Trogub.

Dawn Morrison
Land Management, Health, Environment, Sustainability, Conservation Ecology, Protection and Direct Action, Responsibility and Relationships, Eco-cultural Restoration, Economics
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Feb 9 2010
Pollution, Diabetes and Indigenous People
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Diabetes may be linked to pollutants
Published: Jan. 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM - UPI

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- There is growing evidence diabetes -- especially among indigenous people -- may be linked to environmental pollutants, U.S. and Canadian researchers say.

One-out-of-four indigenous adults living on reserves in Canada have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, The Dominion reports.

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Health, Environment, Food Related Illness and Disease
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Feb 2 2010
Indigenous Food Coooperatives - Indigenous Diet Challenge
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The Indigenous food cooperatives initiative was suggested by 3 Indigenous women at the 2009 BC Food Systems Gathering, as a mutual challenge to revitalize bioregional or local Indigenous food systems, security and sovereignty, by supporting, revitalizing or recreating Indigenous hunting, fishing, gathering, farming and trade practices in our local areas.

Dawn Morrison
Generations and Youth, Health, Sustainability, Protection and Direct Action, Responsibility and Relationships, Eco-cultural Restoration, Economics, Bioregional Economics, Household Economics
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