John Bosco Acharibasam
Biographic Data
| ID | 244465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Bosco Acharibasam |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Bosco |
| FAMILY NAME | Acharibasam |
| SIGNATURE | ACHARIBASAM J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2727-7910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indigenous community-led energy governance as environmental sustainability
Indigenous energy sovereignty allows First Nations to reshape energy systems to align with their lands, cultures, and collective futures. In Ministikwan Lake Cree Nation, however, energy sovereignty is hindered by systemic barriers: limited infrastructure, technical capacity gaps, and persistent exclusion from regional decision-making. This paper argues that community-led governance, the exercise of local authority over energy decisions, is the p…
Reclaiming Indigenous Water Governance
This paper examines Indigenous community-led water governance at Star Blanket First Nation, emphasizing the critical role of traditional land-based knowledge, cultural teachings, and decolonial frameworks in advocating for Indigenous water governance and self-determination. Through collaborative research, Indigenous Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and youth outline culturally embedded water protection practices that ceremonial responsibilities, land-b…
Kihci-Ministik
Protecting our sacred water has never been more important given the impacts of climate change. Although the importance of Indigenous Knowledge is increasingly recognized and valued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it is often dismissively fragmented and packaged into western science concepts of adaptation. This article recounts Indigenous Knowledge shared at a land-based camp using a decolonial Indigenous relational methodology i…
Health Programming to Support Remote Indigenous Older Adults with Technology Use in Saskatchewan
Colonial legacies have left Indigenous older adults in remote communities vulnerable to health challenges that impede healthy ageing in place. Access to culturally safe health programming and support for using ageing technology remains a significant challenge for these older adults. Our previous research projects within the Star Blanket Cree Nation introduced older adults to new technologies, including blood glucose monitors, blood pressure monit…
Meaningful climate change communication
Access to climate change information can play a critical role in helping rural women adapt to climate change. Our research investigates the communication channels used for climate education among female dry-season farmers in the Kuliyaa community of northern Ghana. Particularly, we address access to climate change information among smallholder female farmers. We adopted a community-based participatory approach to guide the study. To achieve our r…
Rethinking Water Governance in the Saskatchewan River Delta Through Indigenous Relational Worldviews
This study critically examines the implications of integrating Indigenous relational worldviews into the water governance framework of the Saskatchewan River Delta. Using a relational theoretical framework and community-based participatory research methodology, both Indigenous community members and non-Indigenous researchers collectively examine the negative impacts of Western water governance policies and practices on the Métis community residin…
Community-led water governance
Access to safe drinking water remains a significant challenge for many Indigenous communities in Canada, particularly for remote communities. This stems from historic colonial practices of water governance that have relied on Western worldviews and excluded Indigenous Peoples. Using an Indigenist research framework and a Community-Based Participatory Research design, we, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaborative research team wanted to learn…
Connecting children to nature through the integration of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge into Early Childhood Environmental Education
In this paper, we draw on the ontology and epistemology of the local Kasena ethnic group in Northern Ghana to explore Early Childhood Environmental Education. The study, taking place in Boania Primary School, drew on the concept of two-eyed seeing, where both western and Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies were taught. In this way, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge was integrated into the Early Childhood Environmental Education programme for t…
Where past meets present
In Canada, colonisation, both historic and ongoing, increases Indigenous vaccine hesitancy and the threat posed by infectious diseases. This research investigated Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in a First Nation community in Saskatchewan, ways it can be overcome, and the influence of a colonial history as well as modernity. Research followed Indigenous research methodologies, a community-based participatory research design, and used mixed methods. …
Enhancing community resilience to climate change disasters
Enhancing community capacity towards resilience is key to reducing climate disaster risk, especially in Black immigrant communities in Canada. While there are many extreme climate change events occurring, such as hailstorms, floods, snowstorms, forest fires, droughts, and heat waves in western Canada, there is no known study that has explored resilience within sub‐Saharan African immigrant communities to climate disaster risks in western Canada. …
Indigenous knowledge mobilization
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, Indigenous peoples in Canada, have long experienced racism within health services resulting in a health service system that many Indigenous people in Canada do not want to access. Research informing Indigenous health services must consider how findings and analysis happen within the community, what information is shared, and how it improves access to health services. Information shared in Indigenous research metho…
Assessing the impact of strategic environmental assessment
This paper examines the impact of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) – its direct impact on policies, plans and programs (PPPs) and its indirect and longer-term impacts. Criteria for assessing SEA's impact are developed and applied in the Canadian context based on a survey of SEA practitioners, and the perceived opportunities and challenges to realizing the full impact of SEA explored. Results indicate that SEA does have a direct impact on …
Community-led water governance
Access to safe drinking water remains a significant challenge for many Indigenous communities in Canada, particularly for remote communities. This stems from historic colonial practices of water governance that have relied on Western worldviews and excluded Indigenous Peoples. Using an Indigenist research framework and a Community-Based Participatory Research design, we, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaborative research team wanted to learn…
Where past meets present
In Canada, colonisation, both historic and ongoing, increases Indigenous vaccine hesitancy and the threat posed by infectious diseases. This research investigated Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in a First Nation community in Saskatchewan, ways it can be overcome, and the influence of a colonial history as well as modernity. Research followed Indigenous research methodologies, a community-based participatory research design, and used mixed methods. …
Enhancing community resilience to climate change disasters
Enhancing community capacity towards resilience is key to reducing climate disaster risk, especially in Black immigrant communities in Canada. While there are many extreme climate change events occurring, such as hailstorms, floods, snowstorms, forest fires, droughts, and heat waves in western Canada, there is no known study that has explored resilience within sub‐Saharan African immigrant communities to climate disaster risks in western Canada. …
Assessing the impact of strategic environmental assessment
This paper examines the impact of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) – its direct impact on policies, plans and programs (PPPs) and its indirect and longer-term impacts. Criteria for assessing SEA's impact are developed and applied in the Canadian context based on a survey of SEA practitioners, and the perceived opportunities and challenges to realizing the full impact of SEA explored. Results indicate that SEA does have a direct impact on …
Connecting children to nature through the integration of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge into Early Childhood Environmental Education
In this paper, we draw on the ontology and epistemology of the local Kasena ethnic group in Northern Ghana to explore Early Childhood Environmental Education. The study, taking place in Boania Primary School, drew on the concept of two-eyed seeing, where both western and Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies were taught. In this way, Indigenous Ecological Knowledge was integrated into the Early Childhood Environmental Education programme for t…
Where past meets present
In Canada, colonisation, both historic and ongoing, increases Indigenous vaccine hesitancy and the threat posed by infectious diseases. This research investigated Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in a First Nation community in Saskatchewan, ways it can be overcome, and the influence of a colonial history as well as modernity. Research followed Indigenous research methodologies, a community-based participatory research design, and used mixed methods. …
Enhancing community resilience to climate change disasters
Enhancing community capacity towards resilience is key to reducing climate disaster risk, especially in Black immigrant communities in Canada. While there are many extreme climate change events occurring, such as hailstorms, floods, snowstorms, forest fires, droughts, and heat waves in western Canada, there is no known study that has explored resilience within sub‐Saharan African immigrant communities to climate disaster risks in western Canada. …
Indigenous knowledge mobilization
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, Indigenous peoples in Canada, have long experienced racism within health services resulting in a health service system that many Indigenous people in Canada do not want to access. Research informing Indigenous health services must consider how findings and analysis happen within the community, what information is shared, and how it improves access to health services. Information shared in Indigenous research metho…
Rethinking Water Governance in the Saskatchewan River Delta Through Indigenous Relational Worldviews
This study critically examines the implications of integrating Indigenous relational worldviews into the water governance framework of the Saskatchewan River Delta. Using a relational theoretical framework and community-based participatory research methodology, both Indigenous community members and non-Indigenous researchers collectively examine the negative impacts of Western water governance policies and practices on the Métis community residin…
Community-led water governance
Access to safe drinking water remains a significant challenge for many Indigenous communities in Canada, particularly for remote communities. This stems from historic colonial practices of water governance that have relied on Western worldviews and excluded Indigenous Peoples. Using an Indigenist research framework and a Community-Based Participatory Research design, we, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaborative research team wanted to learn…
Kihci-Ministik
Protecting our sacred water has never been more important given the impacts of climate change. Although the importance of Indigenous Knowledge is increasingly recognized and valued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it is often dismissively fragmented and packaged into western science concepts of adaptation. This article recounts Indigenous Knowledge shared at a land-based camp using a decolonial Indigenous relational methodology i…
Health Programming to Support Remote Indigenous Older Adults with Technology Use in Saskatchewan
Colonial legacies have left Indigenous older adults in remote communities vulnerable to health challenges that impede healthy ageing in place. Access to culturally safe health programming and support for using ageing technology remains a significant challenge for these older adults. Our previous research projects within the Star Blanket Cree Nation introduced older adults to new technologies, including blood glucose monitors, blood pressure monit…
Meaningful climate change communication
Access to climate change information can play a critical role in helping rural women adapt to climate change. Our research investigates the communication channels used for climate education among female dry-season farmers in the Kuliyaa community of northern Ghana. Particularly, we address access to climate change information among smallholder female farmers. We adopted a community-based participatory approach to guide the study. To achieve our r…
Indigenous community-led energy governance as environmental sustainability
Indigenous energy sovereignty allows First Nations to reshape energy systems to align with their lands, cultures, and collective futures. In Ministikwan Lake Cree Nation, however, energy sovereignty is hindered by systemic barriers: limited infrastructure, technical capacity gaps, and persistent exclusion from regional decision-making. This paper argues that community-led governance, the exercise of local authority over energy decisions, is the p…
Reclaiming Indigenous Water Governance
This paper examines Indigenous community-led water governance at Star Blanket First Nation, emphasizing the critical role of traditional land-based knowledge, cultural teachings, and decolonial frameworks in advocating for Indigenous water governance and self-determination. Through collaborative research, Indigenous Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and youth outline culturally embedded water protection practices that ceremonial responsibilities, land-b…
Indigenous (8 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Traditional knowledge (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works)