Frameworks for Indigenous Environment and Health
This theoretical framework for Indigenous environment and health was created by veterinarians
What is One Health?
This large marine mammal can be butchered in a manner to more easily construct rope out of its skin
What is bearded seal?
This country has markets for traditional foods that may be used as a model by other Indigenous communities
What is Greenland?
This program has been criticized for its lack of transparency and 'leakage' or 'pass-through'
What is Nutrition North Canada?
This concept describes how environmental changes and associated loss of local knowledge triggers deep sadness and distress
What is ecological grief?
This framework for understanding environment and health brings in the importance of social justice and inequities
What is EcoHealth?
Consultations are under way to consider whether this animal should be listed as a Species of Concern under the Species at Risk Act
What is ringed seal?
This sect of religious missionaries unsuccessfully discouraged Inuit food sharing practices in Labrador
What is Morvian missionaries?
This international human rights legislation is often used as the basis for reclaiming Indigenous governance over land
What is UNDRIP?
This hydroelectric project in Labrador has come under scrutiny for its potential to increase methylmercury in the Inuit food supply
What is the Muskrat Falls Project?
This framework builds on the idea that there are environmental boundaries that humanity must not cross
What is planetary health?
This animal requires careful preparation due to concern about avian influenza
What is goose?
What is Canada's Food Guide?
This Act is an increasingly common way for First Nations to take over the management of their land
What is the First Nations Land Management Act?
This concept encompasses the broader idea of self-determination and self-governance over food production, distribution, and consumption, while also recognizing the importance of cultural and ecological sustainability.
What is food sovereignty?
These Indigenous ways of being take into account the sacred relationship between the Earth and all of her inhabitants
What is Natural Law or First Law?
This herbivorous large mammal holds cultural and spiritual importance to the Anishinaabe and continues to be an important part of the diet as a traditional and subsistence food
What is moose?
The skin and fat of this large marine mammal is an excellent source of Vitamins C and D
What is beluga?
This form of First Nation land management was the least common but was associated with the highest community wellbeing score
What is self-government land management?
When all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life
What is food security?