Our Work

Recent Publications

Kenichi Matsui, Kate Berry, Teresa Cavazos Cohn, and Sue Jackson, “Indigenous water histories I: Recovering oral histories, interpreting Indigenous perspectives, and revealing hybrid waterscapes.”
Water History 8 (2016): 357-363. DOI 10.1007/s12685-016-0184-8 click here.

Kenichi Matsui, “Introduction to the Future of Traditional Knowledge Research.” International Indigenous Policy Journal 6 (2) (May 2015).
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol6/iss2/.

Kenichi Matsui, “Problems of Defining and Validating Traditional Knowledge: A Historical Approach.” International Indigenous Policy Journal 6 (2) (May 2015).
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol6/iss2/.

Kenichi Matsui, Culture and Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples in North America
(University of Tsukuba Press, 2013). 314 pages. For table of contents, click here.

Kenichi Matsui, "Water Ethics for First Nations and Biodiversity in Western Canada."
International Indigenous Policy Journal 3: 3 (2012). Retrieved from:
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol3/iss3/4

Kenichi Matsui, "Water-Rights Settlements and Reclamation in Central Arizona as a Cross-cultural Experience: A Reexamination of Native Water Policy," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 35:3 (2011): 91-118. click here.

Kenichi Matsui, Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009). For more information, click here.

Kenichi Matsui, “Waterpower Developments and Native Water Rights Struggles in the North American West in the Early Twentieth Century: A View from Three Stoney Nakoda Cases,” in Louis A. Knafla and Haijo Westra, eds., Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010).For more information, click here.

Research Projects and Activities

• Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Dispute Resolution Research (Funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Scientific Research C, 2015-2018 FY).
• Water Ethics Working Group (Sustainable Water Future Programme, Australia; 2016-present).
  https://water-future.org/people/water-ethics-working-group/
• Urban Aboriginal History and Gentrification in Melbourne, Australia (2014-2015 FY).
• Environmental Justice Atlas Project (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; 2014-present).
• The Establishment of Traditional Knowledge/ Wisdom Database for Community-based Environmental Governance (Funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Scientific Research B, 2010-2013 FY). For detailed project description, click here.
• The Creation of the New Watershed Study Field based on History and Environmental Ethics (2009-2010 FY)
• Research Trip to Canada (Victoria) and the United States (Chicago, Berkeley, Seattle), July-August 2010.
  This trip focused on water rights, watershed governance and traditional knowledge for managing the watershed in Canada and the United States. The research was conducted at the following locations:
  
  -British Columbia Archives, Victoria
  -Newberry Library, Chicago
  -Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley (moved to UC Riverside in late 2010)
  -National Archives and Record Administration, Seattle Branch
• Métis National Council Symposium, “The Powley Legacy: Mapping the History of Métis Nation Rights,” July 16, 17, 2010. For more detailed program, click here.
• Research Trip to Australia (Canberra, Sydney, Darwin, Kakadu National Park, Oenpelli), August-September, 2010.
  This research focused on water rights, watershed management and traditional knowledge in Australia. Matsui visited the following locations:
  
  -Archives of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Islander Studies, Canberra.
  -Australian National University (meeting with Professors Jon Altman and Nick Peterson)
  -University of Technology, Sydney (meeting with Professor Martin Nakata)
  -Kakadu National Park and Oenpelli Aboriginal community (Yellowwater Tour, Ranger Uranium Mine site, Jabiru, Nourlangie)
  -Charles Darwin University, Darwin
  -CSIRO, Darwin
• Field Trip to Okinawa, November 23-27, 2010. For a short report, click here.
• The International Seminar on Traditional Knowledge, December 6, 7, 2010
  For Program click here.
• The International Symposium: "Owning Inheritance: Ethical and Legal Implications of Traditional Knowledge Studies," December 14, 2011. For program and presentation abstract, click here.
• Research Trip to Hokkaido.
  For a report, click here.