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For the past four years the people of the Yukon Territory in the Northwest of Canada have been involved in a number of activities designed to bring about a reform of their education system. The culmination of these activities is to be a new education law planned for enactment in 1990. This article provides an analysis of the Yukon's proposed new Education Act, refers to some of the recent education reform movements elsewhere, and then outlines some of the major elements of the Yukon's draft law including student and parental rights and responsibilities, a three-tiered system of local school governance, the roles of teachers and principals, a "made in the Yukon" curriculum, a comprehensive appeals procedure, and arrangements for the increased participation of the Yukon's First Nation peoples. The article concludes with critical analysis and commentary on the appropriateness of the proposed law for schooling in today's society. RÉSUMÉ Depuis quatre ans, la population du Yukon (nord-ouest du Canada) participe à un processus de réforme du système d'éducation qui a pour but l'adoption d'une nouvelle loi sur l'éducation dont l'entrée en viguer est prévue pour 1990. Le présent article analyse ce projet de loi, examine d'autres mouvements réformistes récents et décrit certains des principaux éléments du projet de loi yukonais, notamment: les droits et responsabilités des parents et des étudiants, le système de gestion scolaire à trois paliers proposé, le rôle des enseignants et principaux d'école, le programme scolaire "conçu au Yukon", la procédure globale d'appel et les dispositions visant à accroître la participation des Premières nations. L'article se termine sur une analyse critique assortie d'observations où l'auteur examine la pertinence du projet de loi compte tenu des besoins de la société contemporaine en matière d'éducation.

More recent developments in Canada's Yukon Territory draw attention to how political changes have potential for accelerating practices in education that are responsive to Indigenous People's cultural knowledge systems and practices. In contrast to other provincial jurisdictions across Canada, treaties were historically never negotiated in the Yukon. Over the past three decades the Governments of both Canada and the Yukon have moved towards actualizing policy developments with YFNs (Yukon First Nations), called Self-Government Agreements (SGAs). The SGAs have come to finalization within the last decade and set out the powers of the First Nation government to govern itself, its citizens and its land. Self-government agreements provide self-governing First Nations (SGFNs) with law-making authority in specific areas of First Nation jurisdiction, including education. With the establishment of SGFNs, each FN, with the required co-operation of Yukon Education (YE), faces the challenge of reversing assimilation and regaining a sense of identity especially within the processes that influence the education of their children, especially at the school and, more specifically, classroom level. Although this reversal draws into question the need for changes in the content or what of classrooms, it moves beyond this to reconsider the how and why of classrooms. This paper draws from a variety of data including the accounts of key stakeholders (First Nation Chief, Elders, parents, students and Education Manager; Local Teachers and Principal; Government Leader and Curriculum Director) in describing the processes contributing to this change and the tensions that remain, ultimately at the classroom level.

This paper explores a particular experience of cultural bridging between the Heritage Department of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in (TH) First Nation and academics and government funders taking part in the 2007–09 International Polar Year. The TH Heritage Department acted as lead researcher on the project entitled Documenting Traditional Knowledge in Relation to Climate Change. TH Heritage staff spearheaded and largely carried out the project work. Academic researchers, acting as contractors, collaborated in some project activities and produced academic papers summarizing the work. This collaboration provided a rare opportunity for the TH Heritage Department to share the research it has conducted for more than a decade in the broader, institutional context of university and government research. Its success highlights the fact that relationships between these partners are evolving and becoming more equitable: First Nations research is receiving more support, and the corpus of mainstream knowledge is changing, allowing different bodies of work to "count" as knowledge. This paper analyzes some of the differences between TH Heritage approaches to its mandate for gathering and sharing Traditional Knowledge (TK) and the understandings and uses of TK by other governments and by university-based academics. On the basis of project results and recent policy developments in northern governance and research, it makes practical recommendations for reconciling knowledge approaches and building mutually supportive research relationships between First Nations, academics, and government. ; Le présent article porte sur une expérience particulière relativement à l'établissement de liens entre le département du patrimoine de la Première Nation des Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in (TH) et certains universitaires et bailleurs de fonds gouvernementaux qui ont participé à l'Année polaire internationale de 2007-2009. Le département du patrimoine de la Première Nation des TH a servi de chercheur principal dans le cadre du projet intitulé Documenting Traditional Knowledge in Relation to Climate Change. Le personnel du département du patrimoine a dirigé et effectué une grande partie du projet. Pour leur part, les chercheurs universitaires ont collaboré au projet à titre d'entrepreneurs à contrat, après quoi ils ont produit des articles pour résumer leur travail. Cette collaboration a procuré une rare occasion au département du patrimoine de la Première Nation des TH de faire part du fruit des recherches réalisées pendant plus d'une dizaine d'années dans le contexte institu­tionnel plus vaste de la recherche universitaire et gouvernementale. Le succès remporté par les recherches fait ressortir le fait que les relations entre ces partenaires évoluent et deviennent plus équitables. Ainsi, les recherches effectuées par les Premières nations reçoivent une plus grande reconnaissance, tandis que le corpus de connaissances grand public est en train de changer en ce sens qu'il permet à différents ensembles de connaissances de « compter » au nombre des connaissances. Cet article analyse certaines des différences qui existent entre la méthode adoptée par le département du patrimoine de la Première nation des TH en ce qui a trait à son mandat visant à recueillir et à partager les connaissances traditionnelles (CT) et les entendements et utilisations des connaissances traditionnelles par d'autres gouvernements et par les universitaires. À la lumière des résultats du projet et des récents développements sur le plan des politiques en matière de gouvernance et de recherche dans le Nord, l'article présente des recommandations pratiques en vue de la réconciliation des méthodes de recueil des connaissances et de l'établissement de relations de soutien mutuel entre les Premières Nations, les universitaires et les gouvernements.

The Canadian Northland embraces both the Yukon and the North West Territories, a total area of 1,516,758 square miles. The Yukon Territory, which forms the extreme north-west portion of the mainland of Canada, extends northward from British Columbia to the Arctic Ocean and eastward from Alaska to the District of Mackenzie. The North West Territories, which have diminished in area time and again during the last seventy-five years, today embrace the vast mainland portion of Canada lying north of the sixtieth parallel of latitude between the Yukon Territory on the west and Hudson Bay on the east, together with the islands in Hudson and James Bays and in the Arctic Archipelago.

In a community-directed forest management context, research is needed that will help both the managers of forest resources and the community residents who set forest management directions to consider climate change in their decision making. Specific research needed in light of climate change to support implementation of the forest management plan for the Champagne and Aishihik Traditional Territory, southwest Yukon, was identified through 1) sessions with local forest practitioners and 2) a community climate change workshop. Local residents highlighted the importance of formalizing a monitoring network based on local knowledge as part of a broader adaptive management framework. They also wanted an important role in any discussion on adapting existing forest management plans, practices, and policies to incorporate climate change considerations. Forest practitioners expressed a need for research to identify forest management tactics that would enable them to achieve community-directed forest management objectives in light of climate change. Addressing these research needs will have benefits beyond just adapting forest management to climate change. Climate change is providing the impetus and a forum for discussing a broader issue: the need for a more comprehensive research and monitoring program to support the sustainable management of forest resources. ; Dans le contexte de l'aménagement forestier communautaire, il y a lieu de faire des travaux de recherche pour aider les gestionnaires des ressources forestières et les habitants des collectivités qui donnent le ton à l'aménagement forestier à tenir compte du changement climatique lorsqu'ils prennent des décisions. La nécessité de faire des recherches spécifiques à la lumière du changement climatique dans le but d'appuyer la mise en oeuvre du plan d'aménagement forestier du territoire traditionnel des Premières nations de Champagne et d'Aishihik, dans le sud-ouest du Yukon, est ressortie : 1) de séances avec des spécialistes en aménagement forestier de la région et 2) d'un atelier communautaire sur le changement climatique. Les habitants de la région ont fait remarquer l'importance d'officialiser un réseau de surveillance s'appuyant sur les connaissances locales dans un cadre plus large de gestion adaptative. Ils désirent également jouer un rôle important dans toute discussion sur l'adaptation des pratiques, des politiques et des plans actuels d'aménagement forestier pour tenir compte des considérations en matière de changement climatique. Les spécialistes de l'aménagement forestier ont également mentionné que la recherche doit déterminer les tactiques d'aménagement forestier qui leur permettraient d'atteindre des objectifs d'aménagement forestier communautaire à la lumière du changement climatique. Le fait de s'acquitter de ces besoins en recherche aura des incidences qui iront au-delà de l'adaptation de l'aménagement forestier au changement climatique. Le changement climatique fournit en fait l'élan et la tribune nécessaires à la discussion d'un enjeu de plus grande envergure, soit la nécessité de se doter d'un programme de recherche et de surveillance plus complet pour appuyer la gestion durable des ressources forestières.

AbstractThe Canadian government recently concluded a series of land claim and self-government agreements with many First Nations in the Yukon Territory. A result of First Nation claims to land and sovereignty in the region, these modern treaties grant First Nations some real powers of self-governance. They are framed in the idiom of sovereignty, but they also compel First Nation people to accept—in practice if not in theory—a host of Euro-American assumptions about power and governance that are implicit in such a framing. This article focuses on a central premise of the sovereignty concept: territorial jurisdiction. The Yukon agreements carve the Yukon into fourteen distinct First Nation "traditional territories." Although many assume that these territories reflect "traditional" patterns of land-use and occupancy, indigenous society in the Yukon was not composed of distinct political entities each with jurisdiction over its own territory. Thus, the agreements do not simply formalize jurisdictional boundaries among pre-existing First Nation polities; rather, they are mechanisms for creating the legal and administrative systems that bring those polities into being. The powers these agreements confer come in the territorial currency of the modern state, and territorialization processes they engender are transforming First Nation society in radical and often unintended ways. One significant aspect of this transformation is the emergence of multiple ethno-territorial identities, and corresponding nationalist sentiments. I examine these processes by focusing on two cases of contemporary boundary making among Yukon First Nations.

"The Northwest Boreal (NWB) Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) was formed in 2012 to bring together conservation and resource managers in boreal Alaska and northwest Canada with the central purpose of sharing interests and resources to collectively address landscape level issues that are common among resource managers, educators, and the public. As outlined as part of the NWB LCCs strategic plan (http://nwblcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/NWB-LCC-Strategic-Plan-V1.pdf) this document will provide a foundation by which members of the LCC and other interested parties can find baseline information regarding physical and ecological aspects of the region, as well as potential drivers of landscape change in an area that spans over 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres) across Alaska and Canada. This work is the culmination of more than 60 contributing authors engaged in a wide spectrum of study, including physical and biological aspects of the region; natural disturbances; social-ecological drivers; interactions among the natural and anthropogenic characteristics; and engagement among and between scientists and public. This document may well serve as a baseline through which future meaningful engagement with the LCC can take place"--

In A Quiet Evolution, Christopher Alcantara and Jen Nelles look closely at hundreds of agreements from across Canada and at four case studies drawn from Ontario, Quebec, and Yukon Territory to explore relationships between Indigenous and local governments

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Abstract. Since their introduction in 1973, comprehensive land claims (CLC) agreements have become important mechanisms for Aboriginal peoples to achieve their political, social, cultural, and economic goals. Although the literature on CLC negotiations is a rich and varied one, it has tended to ignore the role that municipal governments have on influencing negotiation outcomes. This lacuna is surprising since a number of treaty negotiations in the Yukon Territory and BC involve lands located in major municipalities. This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding the influence that municipal governments can have on treaty negotiation outcomes. Using a case study of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation treaty negotiations in the Yukon Territory, we find that institutional and milieu factors are important. However, leadership was the most important and decisive factor.Résumé. Depuis leur apparition en 1973, les ententes portant sur les revendications territoriales globales sont devenues des mécanismes importants pour les peuples autochtones dans l'atteinte de leurs objectifs politiques, sociaux, culturels et économiques. Bien que la documentation sur ces ententes soit volumineuse et variée, elle tend à ignorer le rôle influent que jouent les administrations municipales lors de telles négociations. Cette lacune est surprenante, dans la mesure où plusieurs de ces traitésconcernaient des territoires situés dans des zones urbaines d'importance de la Colombie-Britannique et du Yukon. Cet article vise à développer un cadre théorique pour mieux comprendre l'influence des administrations municipales dans le dénouement de négociations territoriales. En utilisant l'étude de cas des négociations de la Première nation de Kwanlin Dün au Yukon, nous constatons l'importance de la structure institutionnelle et communautaire. Cependant, le leadership demeure le facteur le plus crucial lors d'un tel processus.

The Yukon is the most westerly of Canada's 3 territories, located north of British Columbia and bordering Alaska in the United States. The territory is sparsely populated with the majority of its population residing in the capital city of Whitehorse. The remainder of the population is distributed across 14 communities, most of which are represented by a different language-based and, more recently, politically defined self-governing First Nation. These geo-graphic, demographic, and political elements have historically impacted edu-cation in the Yukon, both negatively and positively. The continuing implica-tions of these influences on science education in the Yukon are important considerations addressed in this chapter.

THE CANADIAN SENATE HAS 104 MEMBERS, APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL ON THE ADVICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER. NEWFOUNDLAND HAS SIX SENATORS, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND FOUR, NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK TEN EACH, QUEBEC AND ONTARIO 24 EACH, MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN, ALBERTA, AND BRITISH COLUMBIA SIX EACH, THE YUKON TERRITORY AND THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES ONE EACH.