Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 12, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su12197888
Keywords
fishing livelihoods; subsistence fishing; Great Bear Lake; climate change; traditional knowledge; oral histories; Canadian subarctic; Mackenzie River Basin; Dé lį ne; Sahtú Got’ ine
Funding
- Northern Scientific Training Program and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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Climate change is among the greatest challenges facing Indigenous peoples. The impacts of climate change cannot be understood as only ecological or through models and projections. In this study, narratives from Indigenous peoples provide lived experience and insight of how social and ecological impacts are interconnected. Through collaborative research with the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board in the Northwest Territories Canada in the period 2018-2019, this paper shares the stories of the Deline Got'ine peoples of Great Bear Lake (GBL), and how warming temperatures in the region impact fishing livelihoods. Specifically, we address the question, What are the impacts of climate change on the fishing livelihoods of the Deline Got'ine people? Narratives from 21 semi-structured interviews reveal insights on six dimensions of fishing livelihoods. Analysis suggests the specific indicators of ecological change of concern to fishers and how those impact livelihoods over the short and long term. Given that the majority of research on climate change involving Indigenous peoples in Canada has focused on the high arctic and marine environments, this work is unique in its focus on the subarctic region and on freshwater ecosystems and livelihoods.
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