Exploring Diversified Strategies for Co-operative Management of Forests by a First Nation and the Province of Alberta ...

• Main Author: Hayashi, Naotaka
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Alberta Library 2004
• Subjects: Canada; Little Red River; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7939/r3-rf8w-4237; https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/58cf9f51-9814-46be-8738-9ef07cb3e48d

While the boreal forests in northern Alberta have rich natural resources, which assure economic development for regional and provincial finances, for Aboriginal people living there, the forests have played a pivotal role in continuing their traditional subsistence based on hunting and gathering. In Canada, about eighty percent of Aboriginal people live in forested areas; therefore, forests are indispensable for sustaining Aboriginal cultures and societies. Among First Nations in northern Alberta, the Little Red River Cree Nation (LRRCN) was the first to begin the management of their boreal forests in the form of cooperation with governments and the forestry sector. With this, the Nation has gained a timber harvest permit and runs a forestry operation along with private forest companies within their traditional territories. Aboriginal participation in the global capitalist economy will be a means to create job opportunities within the community, to regain control over their traditional relationship with the ...