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Aboriginal Water Rights Primer
An Act to amend “The Indian Act.” [Assented to June 23, 1887]
After Native Claims? The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements For Natural Resources in British Columbia
"All Good Things Come From Below": The Origins of Effective Tribal Government
As Long as the Rivers Run: Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada
Assessing Alternative Land and Natural Resources Management Regimes at Shoal Lake First Nation No. 40
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
Bearing the Burden: The Effects of Mining on First Nations in British Columbia
Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: 1889 Akers Surrender
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: Akers Surrender 1889 Claim, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains letters/memos, submissions, band council documents, and reports in regards to the dispute over the federal government taking over 440 acres of mineral-rich reserve land without full consent or compensation.
Canada's Tibet: The Killing of the Innu
Canadian Land Reform: An Overview of Aboriginal Rights and Land Claim Settlements
Carry The Kettle - 1905 Surrender - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by Carry the Kettle First Nation. Commissioners include : Sheila Purdy, Alan Holman, and Jane Dickson-Gilmore. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper
Changes Come to the Canadian Prairies
Focuses on the numbered treaties and their effect on First Nations and the Métis, and the causes and impacts of the North-West Resistance. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies students.
Chapter from Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity, 2nd Edition, by Michael Cranny.
Crisis on Tap: First Nations Water for Life
Cumulative Impacts to FMFN#468 Traditional Lands & Lifeways: Shell Jackpine Mine Expansion and Pierre River Mine Report for Regulatory Hearings
Current Developments in Aboriginal Forestry: Provincial Forest Policy and Aboriginal Participation in Forestry in Ontario, Canada
Diamonds are for Dogribs; Canada's First Nations
The Economic Urgency of Water Rights
Brief article discusses the issues surrounding water allocation to First Nations and the difficulties in resolving the problem due to conflicting jurisdictions.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.13.
Emerging Challenges on Consultation with Indigenous Communities in the Canadian Provincial North
Forgotten and Ignored: Special Education in First Nations Schools in Canada
Government Policy and Indian Natural Resource Development
Grade 12 Current Topics in First Nations, Métis and Inuit Studies: A Foundation for Implementation
How the (North) West Was Won: Development and Underdevelopment in the Fort Chipewyan Region
Indian Act and Treaties
Website includes links to three modules on treaties and five on the Indian Act and the reserve system.
Student worksheet for Indian Act and Treaties.
Indian Oil and Gas Act (R.S., 1985, c. I-7)
Issues and Options for a Policy on Impact and Benefits Agreements
Jurisdictional Responsibilities for Land Resources, Land Use and Development in the Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories
Lubicon Court Actions, 1973-1988
Mineral Rights on Indian Reserves in Ontario
Montana's Landless Indians and the Assimilation Era of Federal Indian Policy: A Case of Contradictions: Lessons for Grades 7-12
Title refers to the Chippewa, Cree and Métis.
Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Natural Resource Management Agreements in First Nations' Territories
Northern Public Affairs - The Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent
Ojibwa Fisheries, Commercial Fisheries Development and Fisheries Administration, 1873-1915: An Examination of Conflicting Interest and the Collapse of the Sturgeon Fisheries of the Lake of the Woods
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
The Plight of Ainu, Indigenous People of Japan
The Political Economy of Federal Resettlement Policies Affecting Native American Communities: The Fort McDowell Yavapai Case
Possessing Meares Island
Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Report: Cold Lake First Nations Rejected Claim Inquiry, Canoe Lake Cree Nation Rejected Claim Inquiry
Rapport sur L'Enquête Relative aux Revendications de Cold Lake Polygone de Tir Aérien de Primrose Lake
Reimagining History: "Righting" Treaty Wrongs
Based on the article Living Well Together by Aimée Craft and the special issue of Canada's History magazine Treaties and the Treaty Relationship Suitable for Grades 7 to 12.