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Aboriginal Water Rights Primer
Assessing Alternative Land and Natural Resources Management Regimes at Shoal Lake First Nation No. 40
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 Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by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.]
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
Current Developments in Aboriginal Forestry: Provincial Forest Policy and Aboriginal Participation in Forestry in Ontario, Canada
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.
Forgotten and Ignored: Special Education in First Nations Schools in Canada
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)
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
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
Possessing Meares Island
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.
Representing Aboriginal Self-Government and First Nations/State Relations: Political Agency and the Management of the Boreal Forest in Eeyou Istchee
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Grand Falls Band, Exploits Native Band Council
Safe Drinking Water Standards for First Nations Communities
Study Guide: Shannen and the Dream for a School
To accompany book about the young activist from Attawapiskat, Ontario who campaigned for a new school to replace one that had been contaminated by a massive diesel leak in the late 1970s.
Related material Still Waiting in Attawapiskat video.