Issues in the North: Volume I

Health and healing; Traditional Aboriginal education; Cross-cultural methods of learning and identity; Self-government and the northern cooperatives; Wildlife management and environmental issues; and, Research policy issues. Papers by: Lyle Longclaws; Donna Martin and David Gregory; Betty Tomlinson, Nellie Erikson and Richard Packo; Eleanor Wein; Patricia McCormack; Jeff Reading; Gary Raven and Betson Prince; Ann Charter; Ida Bear, Gary Merasty, Rudy Okemaw, and Mary Richard; Jill Oakes and Rick Riewe; Shannon Ward; Joseph Kaufert, Margaret Lavallée, Skip Koolage, and John O'Neil; Marian Campbell, Ruth Diamant, Margaret Grunau, and Judy Halladay; Daniella Demaré, Victoria Moose, Hilda Spence, Marian Campbell and Ruth Diamant; Emma LaRocque; Fred Shore; Audreen Hourie; Sharon Blady; Philip Fontaine; Catherine Bell; Bill Lyall; Harvey Payne and Harvey Nepinak; Milton Freeman; Larry Reynolds; Stewart Cohen; and Professor G.S.H. Lock.

Dr. Oakes is Professor in the Department of Environment and Geology at the University of Manitoba. She studies the relationships between people, belief systems, and the environment. She is also interested in the meaning and importance of traditional activities, and works to document the traditional knowledge of First Nations elders.