Northern Communities Working Together

Northern Communities Working Together highlights the innovative ways in which Northerners are using the social economy to meet their economic, social, and cultural challenges while increasing local control and capabilities.

The concept of community-led research has taken off in recent years in a variety of fields, from archaeology and anthropology to social work and everything in between. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia, this book considers what it means to participate in community-led research, for both communities and researchers. How can researchers and communities work together well, and how can research be reimagined using the knowledge of First Nations peoples and other communities to ensure it remains relevant, sustainable, socially just and inclusive?

This collection examines historical and contemporary social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining on Aboriginal communities in northern Canada. Combining oral history research with intensive archival study, this work juxtaposes the perspectives of government and industry with the perspectives of local communities.

This collection of profiles describe the community planning experiences of First Nations, Inuit, and Northern communities. It is intended to serve as a reference tool for other communities, documenting the lessons learned in community relocations and land base expansions; northern, rural and urban communities; First Nations Land Management Act communities; and self-government communities. Organized according to these themes, the booklet includes a primer on comprehensive community planning, as well as maps and aerial photographs.

Papers from a workshop given at the Knowing the North Conference which assess the prospects for the greater empowerment of the smaller, primarily aboriginal communities of the North.