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An Alternative Model for First Nations Involvement in Resource Management Archaeology
Rick Budhwa Canadian Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2005, pp. 20-45. Examines how the Wet'suwet'en used archaeological evidence to support their court case regarding Aboriginal and territorial rights. [Find location of Wet'suwet'en First Nation using Google Maps] More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
American Indians, American Dreams, and the Meaning of Success
Stephen Cornell American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1987, pp. 59-70. Discusses the ramifications of the February 1987 United States Supreme Court decision upholding the right of tribes to regulate gaming on their land. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Anglo-American Jurisprudence and the Native American Tribal Quest for Religious Freedom
John D. Loftin American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1989, pp. 1-52. Asserts that traditional Native American peoples and mainstream Anglo Americans embody different world views, creating problems for Native Americans who practice traditional religions. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Anomaly of Judical Activism in Indian Country
James J. Lopach American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1997, pp. 83-104. Examines the power of US tribal courts, the Indian Reorganization Act and the arguments for judical review. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Anthropological Knowledge in the Courtroom. Conflicting Paradigms
Trond Thuen Social Anthropology, Vol. 12, No. 3, October 2004, pp. 265-287. Discusses difficulties encountered when using testimony from anthropologists in land claims cases. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Are We Metis or Are We Indians? A Commentary on R. v. Grumbo
Larry N. Chartrand Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 31, 1999-2000, pp. 267-281. One of the few cases that directly addresses Metis rights analyzed in the context of the Constitutional terms and when the right to hunt may be exercised. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Arizona Supreme Court designates Reservations as Permanent Homelands and Adopts a Balancing Approach to Quantifying Reserved Rights
Debbie Shosteck Ecology Law Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 2, August 2002, pp. 449-455. Clarifies the purposes of reservations and raises issues in relation to water rights and usage by reservations on the Gila River system. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Arizona vs. California, et al.
Al Logan Slagle American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1983, pp. 87-90. Describes the legal dispute, which began in 1952, involving water rights of Native Americans situated on the Colorado River basin. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
As Long as the Rivers Run: The Impacts of Corporate Water Development on Native Communities in Canada
Frank Quinn Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1991, pp. 137-154. Investigates hydroelectric, forestry and energy corporations' relationship with Aboriginal peoples; case law provides some examples of exploitation. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
At the Court of the Strange God
Valerie Kerruish Law and Critique, Vol. 13, No. 3, October 2002, pp. 271-287. Discussion of the Australian High Court decision of Mabo (No. 2). More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Balancing Rights: The Supreme Court of Canada, R. v. Sparrow, and the Future of Aboriginal Rights
Thomas Isaac The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1993, pp. 199-219. Explores the ramifications of the landmark decision involving Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Birth of an Activist: Fred Mahone and the Politicization of the Hualapai, 1918 to 1923
Christian McMillen American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2003, pp. 33-60. Tells part of the story of the landmark Supreme Court case United States, as Guardian of the Hualapai Indians of Arizona v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Co. (1941) and looks closely at a brief period in Mahone’s life, one in which he went from student to soldier to activist. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Border Crossed Us: Border Crossing Issues of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Eileen M. Luna-Firebaugh Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 159-181. Looks at the problem of free movement over international borders for Indigenous Nations of North America. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Boundaries of the Reservation: Social, Political and Geographical Considerations for Defining the Limits of the Keweenaw Bay Chippewa Reservation
James M. McClurken Native Studies Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Advocacy and Claims Research, 1990, p. 65–80. Looks at ethnohistorical documentation and interpretation concerning reserve boundaries and the rights of the Natives to hunt, fish, and gather on the lands ceded by treaty. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Canada's Atlantic Indigenous Fishing Decision
Peter Jull Indigenous Law Bulletin, No. 82, 1999. Looks at the Supreme Court of Canada's decision that fishing rights of Aboriginals guaranteed in a 1760 British Treaty of Peace and Friendship must be honoured. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 5, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Canada's Experiment with Aboriginal Self-Determination in Nunavut: From Vision to Illusion
André Légaré International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, Vol. 15, No. 2-3, 2008, pp. 335-367. Outlines the process that led to the conclusion of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and the current structure of the Nunavut government. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Canada's Treaties with Aboriginal Peoples
D. N. Sprague Manitoba Law Journal, Vol. 23, 1995, pp. 341-351. Argues that Treaty-making has conformed to a uni-dimensional pattern of avoidance and inaction, but suggests recent Supreme Court of Canada cases will increase pressure on the Crown to live up to its promises. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Canaries in the Mines of Citizenship: Indian Women in Canada
Joyce Green Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 34, No. 4, December 2001, pp. 715-739. Explores the concept of citizenship in relation to women and discusses problems of sexist and racist policies that impair the capacity of women for full citizenship in both the colonial state and First Nations. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Capitalism and the Dis-empowerment of Canadian Aboriginal Peoples
Michelle Mann Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter, 2000, pp. 46-54. Looks at how capitalism directs the interaction between Aboriginal peoples and the state. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Case Note: Western Australia v Ward & Ors
Kate Stoeckel Sydney Law Review, No. 12, 2003. Argues that the Australia v Ward & Ors court case is an important case regarding the extinguishment of Native title under the Native Title Act 1993. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Challenging the Deficit Paradigm: Grounds For Optimism Among First Nations in Canada
J. Rick Ponting, Cora J. Voyageur Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2001, pp. 275-307. Focuses on positive developments in the areas of self-government, organizational capacity, structures of opportunity, and resistance to oppression. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Civil Liability for Sexual Assault in Aboriginal Residential Schools: The Baker Did It
Bruce Feldthusen Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2007, pp. 61-91. Uses judicial decisions to examine how plaintiffs have fared in tort actions focusing on three issues: credibility, damage assessment and vicarious liability. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Claiming Memory in British Columbia: Aboriginal Rights and the State
Fae L. Korsmo American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1996, pp. 71-90. Analyzes Aboriginal Rights in the Province of British Columbia. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Clan and Court: Another Look at the Early Cherokee Republic
Theda Perdue American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2000, pp. 562-569. Historical overview of a murder that suggests two Cherokee legal systems may have existed and not have been consistent with one another. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 3, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"A Clear Intention to Effect Such a Modification": The NRTA and Treaty Hunting and Fishing Rights
Robert Irwin Native Studies Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2000, pp. 47-89. Examines Indian Treaties and section 12 of the Natural Resources Transfer agreements. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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