'Where's the Beef?': Cattle Killing, Rations Policy and First Nations 'Criminality' in Southern Alberta, 1892?1895

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIC SATZEWICH
Keyword(s):  
Beef Cattle ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Southern Alberta

Narratives of Race Relations in Southern Alberta: An Examination of Conflicting Sporting Practices

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Robidoux
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Youth Hockey

In March 2001 a minor hockey league in southern Alberta (Foothills Hockey) voted in favor of banning a local First Nations Hockey Association (Kainai Minor Hockey) from league play as a result of various violations committed by officials, players, and parents over the course of the season. Since that time hockey and recreation officials from Kainai have been attempting to get Kanai Minor Hockey reinstated into the league but have, up until this point, been unsuccessful. This article explores the exclusionary practices that led to the removal of Kainai from organized youth hockey and examines the racialized discourse that permeates First Nations–Euro-Canadian relations in southern Alberta. The article attempts to communicate these meanings in the same way the author encountered them, as unfiltered personal reactions reflecting how First Nations and their neighbors perceive and talk about each other.

Quantity and Quality of Runoff from a Beef Cattle Feedlot in Southern Alberta

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim J. Miller ◽  
Brian P. Handerek ◽  
Bruce W. Beasley ◽  
Edith C. S. Olson ◽  
L. Jay Yanke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Cattle Feedlot

scholarly journals “I Never Read Anything Like That Before:” Mapping the Identities of Blackfoot Readers

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Erin Spring ◽  
Andrea True Joy Fox
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Visual Responses ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Our research emerges out of a concern that Indigenous readers, generally speaking, are not having opportunities to read and discuss culturally relevant fiction. Children’s literature and reader response scholarship does not fully engage with what Indigenous voices could bring to our understanding of young people's responses to and engagement with fiction. We are currently conducting a community-based, participatory project with Blackfoot First Nations young adults who live on the Kainai Blood Reserve in southern Alberta. We are looking at the ways in which our participants perceive of and represent their social, cultural and place-based identities within and beyond the text. Our participants are reading and discussing several Indigenous texts, including a graphic novel set on their reserve. We are interested in the ways in which these readers reflect on their identities while discussing culturally relevant fiction, within reading discussion groups and the creation of journals (comprised of visual responses, such as maps, sketches, and photos). Within this article, we share how using culturally relevant and local, place-based fiction is spurring Blackfoot youth to have discussions about their identities within and beyond the text. We suggest that these methodological approaches are empowering the Blackfoot youth to develop their own self-representations by relating these stories to their own lives, including their memories of growing up on a reserve. In positioning our participants as experts in their own cultures and lived experiences, they are visualizing their own diversity, complexity and importance in the world.

scholarly journals “They’d Lost Everything and Were Not Qualified”: The Legacy of the Unmet Education Promises Made in Treaty 7

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarisa Dawn Little
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Tsuu T'ina ◽  
Made In

This paper provides an analysis of the education promises made in Treaty 7 by the Crown and federal government of Canada. Signed on the banks of the Bow River at Blackfoot Crossing in 1877, the treaty was desired by both government officials and Indigenous Nations in what is now southern Alberta—the Tsuu T’ina, the Stoney Nakoda, and the Blackfoot Confederacy: Siksika, Piikani, Kainai.  As this thesis will demonstrate though, Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples viewed the meaning of the treaty in conflicting ways. This paper focuses on the creation and management of the schools in the Treaty 7 territories from 1877, the year Treaty 7 was “signed”, to 1923, the year in which industrial and boarding schools were merged to form the new category of “residential school” and the decade in which government policy for schools for Indigenous peoples began to take a new, less ambitious direction. The implementation of schools by the Department of Indian Affairs and their church partners, the type of education that was being offered to First Nations peoples, as well as First Nations responses will be examined. 

PERFORMANCE OF DAIRY CROSSES WITH THE HEREFORD IN A RANGE ENVIRONMENT

1982 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 717-724
Author(s):  
J. E. LAWSON
Keyword(s):  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Average Daily Gain ◽  
Longissimus Dorsi ◽  
Dietary Energy ◽  
Digestible Energy ◽  
Brown Swiss ◽  
Bull Calves ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Daily Gain

The performance of Brown-Swiss-, Holstein-, and Hereford-sired calves produced in a specific Hereford cow herd over 2 yr was evaluated in a southern Alberta range environment. Holstein × Hereford heifers exceeded Brown Swiss × Hereford and Hereford heifers in 200-day weight and 365-day weight, and lost less weight during the winter. Crossbred bull calves were heavier than Herefords in initial feedlot weight and 365-day weight, and had heavier and longer carcasses at the same age. Although the crossbreds consumed about 15% more digestible energy (DE) than the Herefords during the 168-day feedlot period, the three groups did not differ in megajoules (Mj) of dietary energy per kilogram of gain. Holstein × Hereford bulls had the highest feedlot average daily gain and the least fat cover over the longissimus dorsi. Brown Swiss × Hereford bulls had more lean, less marbling, and the highest cutability percent. An important aspect of the study was the demonstrated hardiness of the crossbred heifers derived from the apparently well-adapted Hereford cow herd in the tough range environment. Key words: Beef crosses, beef cattle performance, crossbreeding

Nutrient and trace element changes during manure composting at four southern Alberta feedlots

2008 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis J Larney ◽  
Andrew F Olson ◽  
Paul R DeMaere ◽  
Brian P Handerek ◽  
Bonnie C Tovell
Keyword(s):  
Trace Elements ◽  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Trace Element ◽  
Application Rate ◽  
N Losses ◽  
Total Mass Loss ◽  
Fresh Manure ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
End Use ◽  
Cattle Feedlots

Interest in composting as a means of handling the large volumes of manure generated by southern Alberta beef cattle feedlots has increased in recent years. We measured concentrations of 19 elements (C, N, P, Na, Ca, Mg, K, S, Al, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Cr, Ni, P b , Co, Mo and Cd) in fresh manure, interim-composted manure and finished compost, at four commercial feedlots. Thirteen elements showed increased concentrations (by 26–73%) with composting, while four (C, Cr, Ni and Mo) showed concentration declines. Of the remaining two, the trend in N concentration was feedlot dependent, while Pb was largely unaffected. Total mass loss during composting averaged 54%, which represents a substantial decrease in haulage requirements. Overall average C losses were 61% and N losses 33%. On an equivalent wet weight basis ("as-is"), composting allowed haulage of 56% more N, 84% more P, 91% more Zn, and 76% more Cu than fresh manure, which is advantageous in terms of moving nutrients and trace elements from high to low-loading areas. Our study quantifies nutrient and trace element behaviour during composting, provides comparative data with fresh manure, and helps tailor end-use decisions (e.g., haulage distance, application rate) on the compost product. Key words: Manure, compost, beef cattle feedlots, nutrients, trace elements

scholarly journals Subtype-Specific Selection for Resistance to Fluoroquinolones but Not to Tetracyclines Is Evident inCampylobacter jejuniIsolates from Beef Cattle in Confined Feeding Operations in Southern Alberta, Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Webb ◽  
L. Brent Selinger ◽  
Eduardo N. Taboada ◽  
G. Douglas Inglis
Keyword(s):  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Nalidixic Acid ◽  
Campylobacter Jejuni ◽  
Antimicrobial Agents ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Ideal Situation ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Selection For ◽  
High Density Housing

ABSTRACTCampylobacter jejuniwas longitudinally isolated from beef cattle housed in four confined feeding operations (CFOs) in Southern Alberta, Canada, over 18 months. All of the cattle were administered a variety of antimicrobial agents (AMAs) nontherapeutically and metaphylactically during their time in the CFOs. In total, 7,966C. jejuniisolates were recovered from cattle. More animals were colonized by the bacterium after >60 days in the CFO (interim) than were individuals upon entry at the CFO (arrival). Subtyping and resistance to seven AMAs were determined for 1,832 (23.0%) and 1,648 (20.7%) isolates, respectively. Increases in the proportion of isolates resistant to tetracycline were observed at all four CFOs between sample times and to ciprofloxacin and nalidixic acid at one or more CFOs. The vast majority of isolates resistant to tetracycline carriedtetO, whereas ciprofloxacin resistance was predominantly attributed to mutations in thegyrAgene. Although considerable diversity was observed, a majority ofC. jejuniisolates belonged to one of five predominant subtype clusters. There was no difference in subtype diversity by CFO, but the population structure differed between sample times. Selection for resistance to ciprofloxacin and nalidixic acid was subtype dependent, whereas selection for resistance to tetracycline was not. The findings indicate that a proportion of cattle entering CFOs carry resistantC. jejunisubtypes, and the characteristics of beef cattle CFOs facilitate transmission/proliferation of diverse subtypes, including those resistant to AMAs, which coupled with the densities of CFOs likely contribute to the high rates of cattle-associated campylobacteriosis in Southern Alberta.IMPORTANCEA small proportion of cattle entering a CFO carryCampylobacter jejuni, including subtypes resistant to AMAs. The large numbers of cattle arriving from diverse locations at the CFOs and intermingling within the CFOs over time, coupled with the high-density housing of animals, the high rates of transmission ofC. jejunisubtypes among animals, and the extensive use of AMAs merge to create an ideal situation where the proliferation of diverse antimicrobial-resistantC. jejunisubtypes is facilitated. Considering that Southern Alberta reports high rates of campylobacteriosis in the human population and that many of these clinical cases are due toC. jejunisubtypes associated with cattle, it is likely that the characteristics of beef cattle CFOs favor the propagation of clinically relevantC. jejunisubtypes, including those resistant to medically important AMAs, which constitute a risk to human health.

scholarly journals A First Nations Framework for Emergency Planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Montesanti ◽  
Wilfreda E Thurston ◽  
David Turner ◽  
Reynold Medicine Traveler
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Emergency Planning ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

In June 2013, a severe flooding of the Bow and Elbow Rivers affected southern Alberta, a province in Canada. The flood was subsequently described to be the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history. Among the hardest hit communities was the Siksika First Nation, located on the Bow River banks about 100 kilometers east of the city of Calgary.A community-university partnership was formed to document the Siksika First Nation community-based response to the health and social effects to their community from the flood. Our qualitative case study sought to: (1) document Siksika First Nation’s response to the health and social impacts resulting from flood in their community; and (2)develop a culturally appropriate framework for disaster and emergency planning in First Nations communities. The Siksika’s work to mitigate the impact of the flood followed a holistic or socio-ecological model that took the determinants of population health into consideration.

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