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ENGL 299 / NUTR 200 Nutritional Sciences: Find Background Information
Carrie R. Matthews Autumn 2020 - Food Sovereignty
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Encyclopedias and and other reference works provide background information and can be used to identify key people, events and dates which can then be used as search terms for finding additional information.
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- American Indian Experience This link opens in a new windowReference content, primary documents, and images illustrating the histories and cultures of North American Native peoples.
- Daily Life Through History This link opens in a new window
Off-campus access temporarily requires use of Husky OnNet. Primary documents, essays, images, maps, and timelines depicting daily life around the world and throughout history
- Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part 1 & 2 This link opens in a new windowDigitized primary sources covering the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the 17th through the 20th centuries.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowFull text dictionaries, encyclopedias, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
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National and Regional Organizations
- Northwest Indian Fisheries CommissionThe Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) is a natural resources management support service organization for 20 treaty Indian tribes in western Washington.American communities.
- Washington Tribes: Sustaining the EnvironmentTribal environmental planning and natural resource programs play a critical role in efforts to restore and protect important cultural and natural resources. Tribes conduct activities across Washington's watersheds and strive to solve problems at the ecosystem level.
- US Dept. of Interior: Indian AffairsAgriculture & Range program supports the Department’s goal of Serving Communities by improving the management of land and natural resource assets. The program assists American Indians and Alaska Natives in developing conservation and management plans to protect and preserve their natural resources on trust land and shared off-reservation resources, under the authority of The American Indian Agricultural Resource Management Act, P.L. 103-177 and the Indian Self Determination Act, P.L. 93-638.
- Washington State Governor's Office: Indian AffairsWashington State 29 Federally Recognized Indian Tribes.
- Tulalip Tribe: Natural ResourcesInformation on environmental topics from Tulalip Tribes Natural Resources Department.
- Northwest HarvestNorthwest Harvest is a non-profit organization supporting food banks in Washington state.
- NW Treaty TribesThe 20 treaty Indian tribes in western Washington are leaders in efforts to protect and restore natural resources in the region. At the heart of those efforts are rights reserved by the tribes in treaties with the U.S. government. Tribes reserved rights to harvest fish, shellfish, wildlife and other natural resources in exchange for most of the land that makes up the region today.
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