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Land Entitlement Under Treaty 8
Robert Metcs and Christopher G. Devlin Alberta Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, April 2004, pp. 951-997. Analysis of land entitlement provisions and the federal treaty land entitlement policy in the Lac La Ronge judgment. Concludes there's been a shift away from the historical intentions of the original parties to Treaty 8. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Land Ownership, Population and Jurisdiction: The Case of the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe v. North Dakota Public Service Commission
David J. Wishart, Oliver Froehling American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1996, pp. 33-58. Follows the case that questions the authority of North Dakota and the North Dakota Public Service Commission to regulate public utilities within the Fort Totten Reservation. The final ruling states that the Devils Lake Sioux have the right to contract for utility services on land owned by them, or held in trust, without regard to the regulations of the North Dakota Public Service Commission. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Law, Theory and Aboriginal Peoples
Gordon Christie Indigenous Law Journal, Vol. 2, Fall, 2003, pp. 67-115. Argues that since the theoretical underpinings of Canadian law are Western liberalism, there is a fundamental conflict with the viewpoint of Aboriginal people. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
A Legacy of Assimilation: Abuse in Canadian Native Residential Schools
Julie Cassidy Southern Cross University Law Review, Vol. 7, 2003, pp. 154-219. Provides an overview of key events relating to residential schools, and discusses the issues determined by Canadian courts in four specific cases:Blackwater v Plint (No 1), Blackwater v Plint (No 2), and Mowatt and A(TWN) v Clarke. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Legal Resources Library Established for Indians
Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 12, No. 1, October 1972, p. ?. Discusses the National Indian Law Library (NILL) and how it is being developed by the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) as a clearinghouse for legal materials and resources. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Legal Significance of Treaties Affecting Canada's Indians
L. C. Green Anglo-American Law Review, Vol. 1, 1972, pp. 119-135. Argues that whether the Treaties are valid in international law or municipal law their implementation will be determined by Canadian, and not the international, courts. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Legalizing, Decolonizing, and Modernizing New York State's Indian Law
Robert B. Porter Albany Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 1, Fall, 1999, pp. 125-200. Argues that most of the state law concerning First Nations' are not valid and require reform to appropriately deal with the Haudenosaunee (the Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy). More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Legalizing Oral History: Proving Aboriginal Title in Canadian Courts
Lori Ann Roness, Kent McNeil Journal of the West , Vol. 39, No. 3, 2000, pp. 66-74. Examines some of the difficulties Aboriginal people encounter when they rely on their oral histories. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Letter
H. Russel Holland American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1996, pp. 167-170. Response to the article, ""Ethnicity, Not Culture? Obfuscating Social Science in the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill" which was in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 19, No. 4, 1995, at pages 1-124. This response letter discusses the misconceptions in the original article. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Lightning Boldts and Sparrow Wings: A Comparison of Coast Salish Fishing Rights in British Columbia and Washington State
Daniel L. Boxberger Native Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1993-1994, pp. [1]-13. Discusses the impact of the Boldt decision in the United States, which allocated Aboriginals a share of the salmon fishery, and what this may mean in Canadian terms. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Lost Promise of Mabo: An Update on the Legal Struggle for Land Rights in Australia with Particular Reference to the Ward and Yorta Yorta Decision
Janice Gray Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2003, pp. 305-348. Examines the Mabo decision from the High Court of Australia and its importance as a precedent concerning land claims and Aboriginal title. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Mabo case: A Radical Decision?
Janice Gray Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1997, pp. 33-74. Discusses the landmark Australian case, the Mabo decision in the historical context of race relations and reviews issues such as separation of powers doctrine, terra nullius, sovereignty, and Native title. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Making Peace with Crow Dog's Ghost: Racialized Prosecution in Federal Indian Law
Steve Russell Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 61-76. Examines controversial U.S. Supreme Court decisions that deprived Native American nations of their sovereignty. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Making Sense of Federal Indian Law
Sidner Larson Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 9-21. Examines the uncertainty and inconsistencies in regards to federal Native American law in the United States. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Manipulation of Culture and History: A Critique of Two Expert Witnesses
Paula Pryce Native Studies Review , Vol. 8, No. 1, 1992, pp. 35-46. Compares testimonies of Drs. Sheila Robinson and Wayne Suttles in the Heiltsuk herring roe fisheries case attempting to show how scholarship can manipulate histories. [Find location of Heiltsuk Nation using Google Maps] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Maori Retribalization and Treaty Rights to the New Zealand Fisheries
Steven Webster The Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall, 2002, pp. 341-376. Looks at the continuing struggle of Maori to keep, or regain, treaty rights, with today's lucrative commercial fisheries. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Marshall and Bernard: Ignoring the Relevance of Customary Property Laws
Nigel Bankes University of New Brunswick, Vol. 55, 2006, pp. 120-134. Argues that the majority opinion in Marshall and Bernard is flawed as it undermines the significance of aboriginal laws as a way of proving Aboriginal title. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Marshall and Bernard: Treaty Rights and Treaty Table
John McEvoy University of New Brunswick Law Journal, Vol. 55, 2006, pp. 105-119. Examination and interpretation of the "truckhouse" clause in the Peace and Friendship treaties by the Supreme Court of Canada. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Métis Aboriginal Rights and the "Core of Indianness"
Mark L. Stevenson Saskatchewan Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 1, 2004, pp. 301-313. Argues that Metis should be included in the definition of "Indians" in the Constitution Act and therefore fall under federal jurisdiction. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Metis Are People with Rights
Catholic Insight, Vol. 9, No. 4, May 2001, p. 24. Prorvides discussion of the Powley case in which the Ontario Court of Appeal held that Métis are a people with comparable rights to those of First Nations. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Métis Claims to "Indian" Title in Manitoba, 1860-1870
Darren O'Toole The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2008, pp. 241-271. Examines the history and validity of claims made based on derivative title. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Métis Harvesting Rights in Canada: R v Powley
Jean Teillet Indigenous Law Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 12, October 2001, p. 72. The Ontario Court of Appeal hears a case regarding the Métis right to hunt, as protected in s. 35 of the Canadian Constitution. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Mi'Kmaq Land Claims and the Escheat Movement in Prince Edward Island
Rusty Bittermann University of New Brunswick Law Journal, Vol. 55, 2006, p. 172. Discussion of the history of property rights in PEI and includes the petition of Oliver LeBone to the Colonial Office in London in 1838. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians
Kari Krogseng Ecology Law Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 3, August 2000, pp. 771-797. 1998 United States Supreme Court decision ruling in favour of Mille Lacs Band's right to co-manage wildlife resources with state agencies. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Mississippi Choctaw: A Case Study of Intercultural Games
L. Brooks Hill, Philip Lujan American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1983, pp. 29-42. Examines the characteristics and implications of the Smith John case as an extended example of intercultural games. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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