Ceremony at Yukon River seeks salmon’s return

It was at about 5:20 on Aug. 7 when 24 slightly groggy people assembled on the banks of the Yukon River to participate in a water healing ceremony. Sunrise is an especially powerful time for ceremony. The invitation had been passed only by word of mouth, in keeping with the old ways.

Supreme Court rules in favour of Yukon First Nations in Peel watershed dispute

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of Yukon First Nations in their fight to protect the Peel watershed region, overturning a decision that rolled back years of planning…

Insights from Inuvialuit Comanagement Efforts

Photo credit: Will Tyson Using social-ecological systems theory to evaluate large-scale comanagement efforts: a case study of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Ecology and Society 22(1):5. New journal article by William Tyson, Round River staff member and alumnus ABSTRACT Comanagement efforts are increasingly tasked with overseeing natural resource governance at a large scale. I examine comanagement of subsistence […]