This conference highlighted information exchange and partnerships in research. Issues addressed: climate warming; contaminants; forestry; fisheries; petroleum and mineral extraction; wilderness allocation and wildlife migration; resource development, co-management and sustainability; colonization; land claims; devolution; self-government and ethnic relations; traditional knowledge; land use; health concerns; empowerment issues; and food and nutrition studies. Welcoming Remarks by Clifford G. Hickey. Opening and Keynote Addresses by: Harriet Johnlein; Stewart J. Cohen; Noel Broadbent; Stephen R. Edwards; and T. Kue Young. Papers by: S.Y. (Joe) Ahmad, Jaida Edwards, and Alexandra Thomson; Helen Fast and Fikret Berkes; David G. Malcolm and Ross W. Wein; Richard Langlais; Mark V. Prystupa; Gurston Dacks and Marina Devine; Steven Smyth; Ivar Jonsson; Christopher Hannibal-Paci; Wendy Parkes; R. Wesley Heber; Bruce J. Slusar; Sophie Morse; Nancy Gibson and Ginger Gibson; Leslie Main Johnson; Timothy W. Lambert, Colin L. Soskolne, Vangie Bergum, John Dussetor, and Steve E. Hrudey; Sandra Malcolm and B.A. Hainstock; Lia Ruttan; Cornelius Ballentyne and Sandra Malcolm; Cornelius Ballentyne and Sandra Malcolm; John Jaychandran, Helga Madsen, and Eddie Kolausok; Michael Kim Zapf; David Malcolm and Colin Bonnycastle; Vivian Manasc; Jaqueline Pruner; Jim Webb; Claudia Notzke; David J. Parks and Theresa A. Ferguson; Lois Edge, C. Weber-Pillwax, D. Makokis, and B. Beatty; and David Malcolm and Heather Acres.

Denis Wall has been involved in teaching, research, and consulting on Aboriginal issues over the past three decades. He received the first Ph.D. in Intercultural Education from the University of Alberta in 1987. After working initially at the Alberta Vocational College in Grouard, Alberta, he moved to the Alberta Department of Advanced Education and the Department of Education's innovative "Native Education Project". He taught courses for the School of Native Studies (now the Faculty) at the University of Alberta and Concordia University College, both in Edmonton. Since 1990 he has operated a consulting firm that concentrates on educational and Aboriginal issues.

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Patricia A. McCormack is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on Aboriginal peoples of the northwestern Plains, northern Canada, and Scotland, in the contexts of the fur trade and the expansion of state. She has published extensively about Fort Chipewyan, including a new book to be published shortly by UBC Press.

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Michael Payne is Head of Research and Publications for the Historic Sites and Archives Service, Alberta Community Development. He is author of The Most Respectable Place in the Territory: Everyday Life in the Hudson’s Bay Company Service York Factory, 1788 to 1870 and articles on the fur trade and Western Canadian history. A graduate of Queen’s University, the University of Manitoba, and Carleton, he lives in Edmonton.

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