Publications
[link] The partnerships, the productions, and the people behind the lens: Promoting youth wellness through community-based research and filmmaking (2017)
Authors: Norma Kassi, Molly Pratt, Marilyn Van Bibber, Katelyn Friendship, Jody Butler Walker, Math’ieya Alatini, Mary Jane Johnson, Roger Alfred, and Eugene Alfred
Published in: Innovations in Community Health and Wellness. Volume 5, Issue 2. Northern Public Affairs Magazine. (online & print)
[link] Stories of Yukon Food Security (2017)
Authors:Jody Butler Walker, Norma Kassi, Marilyn Van Bibber, Katelyn Friendship, Molly Pratt, Math’ieya Alatini, Mary Jane Johnson, Eugene Alfred, Roger Alfred, Kluane First Nation Lands, Resources and Heritage Department, and Kluane First Nation Youth and Elders
Published in: Food (In)Security in the North. Volume 5, Issue 1. Northern Public Affairs Magazine (online & print)
[pdf] Chapter 4: Case Studies on Training, Teaching and Learning Community Based Research; Case Study 1 - Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research, Canada (pp. 62 - 71) (2016)
Authors: Jody Butler Walker, Norma Kassi, Marilyn Van Bibber and Katelyn Friendship
Published in: Knowledge and Engagement: Building Capacity for the Next Generation of Community-Based Researchers. ISBN-13: 978-1-55058-597-1
Book Editors: Rajesh Tandon, Budd Hall, Walter Lepore, and Wafa Singh
[pdf] Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing. Edited by Barbara Helen Miller. Volume 2, Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing, Earle Waugh, Series Editor. University of Alberta Press, 2015. 220 pp. (2015)
Book review authors: Katelyn Friendship and Norma Kassi
Published in The Northern Review, Yukon College (pp. 139 - 142) ISSN 1929-6657 (Online)
[in print] Capacity Interrupted: The Kloshe Tillicum Graduate Student Training Experience (2014)
Authors: Nadine R. Caron, Sharon Thira, Rod M. McCormick, Jody E. Butler Walker, Christopher E. Lalonde, Laura Arbour, Richard W. Vedan, Eduardo M. Jovel
ublished in: Canadian Journal of Native Education Indigenizing the International Academy. Volume 37; Number 1; pp. 165 - 192.
[pdf] The Learner Becomes the Teacher: a Community-Based Diabetes Prevention Training Programme for First Nations Health Workers in Northern Canada (2010)
Authors: Jody Butler Walker [Arctic Health Research Network — Yukon], Laura Salmon & Jennifer Eskes [First Nations Health Programs], Shannon Duke [Arctic Health Research Network — Yukon], Lori Duncan [Council of Yukon First Nations,; and Karyn Cochrane [Skookum Jim Friendship Centre]
Diabetes Prevention in Practice. ISBN 978-3-00-030765-2
Reports & Contributions
Food Security & Climate Change Adaptation
Linking a Changing Climate with a Changing Traditional Diet - Mobilizing Knowledge for Adaptation (2017-2021)
[link] Stories of Food, Culture and Community Resiliency - Building Sustainable Local and Traditional Food Systems as an Adaptation to Climate Change in the Yukon (June 2020)
[pdf] Adapting to Climate Change and Building Local Food Systems - A Resource Brochure (Feb 2020)
[pdf] Map. Connect. Adapt. Mobilizing Knowledge for Northern Community Climate Change Adaptation and Food Systems Development (Dec 2019)
[pdf] Mapping Yukon Climate Change & Northern Food Systems Assets - Summary Report (March 2019) - updated Oct 2019
[pdf] The Impacts of Climate Change on Traditional and Local Food Consumption in the Yukon - Literature Scoping Review (2018)
YIC4 - Yukon Indigenous Community Climate Change Champions Training - Mobilizing Knowledge for Developing Indigenous Community Champions for Climate Change Adaptation in Yukon (2018)
[pdf] Project Newsletters
[pdf] Training Curriculum & Guide
Community-Based Climate Change Assessment Toolkit:
[pdf] Exploring Climate Change in My Community: Assessing Opportunities for Action -Youth Climate Change Community Assessment Toolkit (2018)
A toolkit to help guide communities in conducting a community-based assessment of climate change needs and opportunities
[pdf] Additional toolkit workbook sheets
Community Climate Change Assessment Reports:
[pdf] Connecting | Revitalizing: Strengthening our Connection to Who We Are as a People, as a Community and to the Land in order to Protect Our Future - Assessing Climate Change and Adaptation in Atlin, British Columbia (March 2019)
[pdf] Our Land | Our People: Protecting and Preserving Our Land, Language and Culture for Future Generations - Assessing Climate Change and Adaptation in Ross River, Yukon (March 2019)
[pdf] Our Life is in the Water | Our Breath is in the Water: Building Self-sufficiency and Preserving our Stories for the Next Seven Generations - Assessing Climate Change and Adaptation in Carcross, Yukon (March 2019)
[pdf] Protecting | Preserving: The Animals, The Land, The Waters, Our Heritage, Our Language, and Our Culture - Assessing Climate Change and Adaptation in Mayo, Yukon (March 2019)
[pdf] Northern Priorities for National Food Policy - Recommendations (2017)
[pdf] What’s Your Recipe for a Better Food System? Yukon Community Engagement – Report (2017)
A compilation of the main discussion points from various engagement activities co-hosted by Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition and Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research around A Food Policy for Canada, July - November 2017, Whitehorse, Yukon
[pdf] Putting the Community Back Into Our Food System - Article (2016)
Key Messages from Pan-Canadian Food Discussions at Food Secure Canada’s National Assembly, October 13 – 16th, 2016
[pdf] Working Together Towards a Food Secure Yukon (2016)
Outcomes from Yukon Food Security Roundtable, An Evening on Food Security and Open House. May 18 - 19th, 2016, Whitehorse, Yukon
[pdf] Adapting to Climate Change and Keeping Our Traditions (2016)
Climate Adaptation, Food Security and Cultural Survival in Pelly Crossing, Selkirk First Nation Territory, Yukon - A Collaboration between Selkirk First Nation and AICBR 2015 - 2016
[pdf] Keeping Our Traditions at the Fish Camps - Our Ancestors' Gift to Our Youth (2016)
A Fish Camp Guidebook aimed at Reconnecting Youth to the Land in Pelly Crossing, Selkirk First Nation Territory, Yukon - A Collaboration between Selkirk First Nation and AICBR 2015 - 2016
[pdf] Nourishing Our Future: Building on Kluane First Nations Community Food Security Strategy & Youth Engagement in Traditions Related to Fisheries and Fish Health in Kluane Lake - Final Report (2016)
A Collaboration between Kluane First Nation and AICBR 2015 - 2016
[pdf] Nourishing Our Future: Contaminants, Nutrients and the Traditional value of Food Fishes in Kluane Lake, Yukon - Poster (2016)
A Collaboration between Kluane First Nation and AICBR 2015 - 2016
[pdf] Indigenous Community Food Security in Yukon Territory Canada (2015)
[pdf] Nourishing Our Future: An Adaptive Food Security Strategy to Ensure the Cultural and Physical Well-Being of the Kluane First Nation Against the Impacts of Climate Change in the Yukon (2014)
A Collaboration between Kluane First Nation and AICBR 2013 - 2014
[pdf] Vuntut Gwitchin Climate Change and Health Research in Northern Yukon: What do our Changing Homelands Mean for our Health? (2011)
Phase 3: Community Action on Climate Change & Food Security Adaptation in Old Crow - Results & Recommendations
[pdf] Vuntut Gwitchin Climate Change and Health Research in Northern Yukon: What do our Changing Homelands Mean for our Health? (2011)
Poster
[pdf] Vuntut Gwitchin Climate Change and Health Research in Northern Yukon: What do our Changing Homelands mean for our Health? (2010)
Phase 2: Knowledge into Action
[pdf] Climate Change and Food Security in the North (2010)
A Literature Review 2010
[pdf] Food Security in Times of Change (2009)
A Policy Brief on Food Security for Northern Canada
[pdf] Food Security (2007)
Yukon First Nations Health Promotion Spring School 2007 Report Excerpt
Community Gardening
[pdf] Working Together to Grow More 4 (2017)
Growing a Food Secure Yukon
[pdf] Working Together to Grow More 3 (2016)
Community Gardener Gathering 2016
[pdf] Working Together to Grow More 2 (2015)
Community Gardeners & Economic Development Gathering 2015
[pdf] Working Together to Grow More (2014)
Yukon Community Gardening Gathering 2014
Healthy lifestyles
[link] Healthy Living in My Community
Teacher Unit Package
Stories
Program Asset Inventory
[link] Working Together to Achieve Healthier Lifestyles in Yukon and Northwest Territories’ Communities (A Story Map)
[pdf] Working Together to Achieve Healthier Lifestyles in Yukon and Northwest Territories’ Communities (2015)
[pdf] Celebrating Our Stories (2012)
Building a Healthier Yukon Together
[pdf] Achieving Health Weights for Children (2011)
Deliberative Dialogue 2 - December 8 2011
[pdf] Achieving Health Weights for Children (2011)
Deliberative Dialogue 2 - December 8 2011 - Collected Notes
[pdf] Working Together to Achieve Healthier Weights in Yukon Communities (2011)
DIABETES
[pdf] Do It Yourself Diabetes Manual 2008 (2008)
Diabetes Prevention Activities - A Manual for Everyone
[pdf] Diabetes (2007)
Yukon First Nations Health Promotion Spring School 2007 Report Excerpt
General
[pdf] Arctic Institute of Community Based Research Highlights Report 2015-2016 (2016)
[pdf] Arctic Institute of Community Based Research Highlights Report 2012- 2014 (2014)
[pdf] AICBR First Annual Conference Report 2012 (2012)
[pdf] Doing Good Health Research in Northern Indigenous Communities (2012)
A guide to Research Review
[pdf] Arctic Health Research Network Yukon Highlights Report 2007-2011 (2011)
[pdf] Knowledge Synthesis and Translation Workshop Final Report 2008 (2008)
[pdf] Promising Practices in Knowledge Translation for Research Users (2008)
A Review of the Literature
OTHER
[pdf] Increasing Awareness and Education of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) in Yukon (2012)
[pdf] Mind Body Spirit (2010)
Promising Practices in First Nations and Inuit Home and Community Care
[pdf] Checklist and Action Plan ("Fall Prevention Checklist") (2009)
Yukon First Nations Version
[pdf] Yukon First Nations Health Promotion Spring School 2007 Report (2007)
Videos & Documentaries
Ä si Keyi, means "Our Grandfather's land." This dramatic sub-arctic land is changing. The film tells a story about how climate change and the history of food insecurity have affected Kluane First Nations people and the land they call home. It portrays strategic adaptation by embracing their past as the foundation towards prioritizing their culture and traditional values, practices and knowledge. Ultimately, it is a story of resilience of a peoples in the wake of a changing world.
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83w3iBDK684
This video by Robert Joe was created for Selkirk First Nation's Keeping Our Traditions project (2015-2016), in collaboration with the Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research in Pelly Crossing, Yukon Territory. The project was an initiative of the Selkirk First Nations government to find strategies for keeping traditional Southern Tutchone practices, values and knowledge amidst the challenges of a changing climate and reconnecting youth to the land.
This is a preview of Norma’s Story, a powerful animation less than 6 minutes long, that depicts a story about Vuntut Gwitchin' Elder Norma Kassi and what it was like growing up in the 1950s in her community of Old Crow, Yukon. Created by brother and sister, Alex and Karen Hawley it is the first in the First Hand Climate Stories series. It is a story about climate change, about food security and about cultural survival. The full documentary can be purchased from National Film Board of Canada with the accompanying educational package (here: https://www.nfb.ca/film/normas_story/). The film has been shown and recognized at a variety of film festivals around the world, including the Montreal First Peoples Film Festival, the Chicago International Social Change Film Festival, the 18th Annual United Nations Association Film Festival in San Francisco, and the Annual Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival in Toronto, at which it won the title of "Best Canadian Short". See where else it's being shown by following Norma's Story on Twitter.