Self-Government

Book review of: Aboriginal Self-Government in Urban Areas: Proceedings of a Workshop, May 25 and 26, 1994 edited by Evelyn Peters.

Book review of: Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference edited by Michael Asch.

Book review of: Hawaii Returns to Nationhood edited by Otto Hasager and Jonathan Freeman.

Book reviews of: The Politics of Minor Concerns: American Indian Policy and Congressional Dynamics by Charles Turner. Taking Charge: Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975-1993 by George Pierre Castile.

Book review of: Indigenous Peoples edited by Henry Minde in collaboration with Harald Gaski, Svein Jentoft, and Georges Midre.

Book reviews of: Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period by Drew Lopenzina. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Jodi A. Byrd. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Andrew Newman. Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies by Chadwick Allen.

Book reviews of 4 books: Treaties on Trial by Fay G. Cohen. The Canadian Prairies: A History by Gerald Friesen. New Native American Drama: Three Plays by Hanay Geiogamah. The three plays are entitled Foghorn, 49, and Body Indian. A Homeland for the Cree by Richard F. Salisbury.

Book review of 6 books: Our Son, A Stranger by Marie Adams. Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 by Sarah Carter. Trusteeship in Change: Toward Tribal Autonomy in Research Management by R. Clow and I. Sutton (Editors). In the Shadow of Evil by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump by Gordon Reid. Blessing For a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe by Robin Ridington.

Book reviews of: Legends of our Times: Native Cowboy Life by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America by Conlin Callway (Editor). Women in Trouble: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their Histories of Abuse by Elizabeth Cormack. Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon: Critical Edition by Ives Goddard (Editor). White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring.

Book reviews of: Living Relationships: The Treaty of Waitangi in the New Millennium by Ken S. Coates and P. G. McHugh. Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government: The Canadian and Mexican Experience in North American Perspective edited by Curtis Cook and Juan D. Lindau. Tribal Honors: A History of the Kainai Chieftainship by Hugh A. Dempsey. The Myth of the Savage, and the Beginning of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason. The Pawnee Mythology by George Dorsey.

Book reviews of 11 books: Kwakuitl String Figures by Julie Averkieva and Mark A. Sherman. Food and Spirits by Beth Brant. Aboriginal Governments and Power Sharing in Canada by Douglas Brown. A First Nations Province by Thomas J. Cochene and Lisa M. Powell. Victims of Benevolence: Discipline and Death at the Williams Lake Indian Residential School, 1891-1920 by Elizabeth Furniss. The Ojibwa of Berens River, Manitoba: Ethnography into History by A. Irving Hallowell. Tales of the Anishnaubaek by Basil H.

Review of: Surviving as Indians: The Challenge of Self-Government by Menno Boldt.

Book reviews of: Public Administration Questions Relating to Aboriginal Self-Government by C. E. S. Franks. Future Issues of Jurisdiction and Coordination between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Governments by Ian B. Cowie. The Political and Legal Inequalities Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada by Delia Opekokew. Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: A Bibliography 1986 by Evelyn J. Peters.

Book reviews of: Citizen's Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Nation State by Alan Cairns and First Nations? Second Thoughts by Thomas Flanagan.

Examines the genocidal mentality of the settler population and argues that if the current status quo remains we will continue down a deadly course.

Discusses a unique governance system and challenges facing tribal governments and communities. Duration: 41:32. Includes textual transcript. Requires creation of a free account to access materials.

Overview of development of funding formula and an outline of three funding formula options describing the benefits, restrictions and research plan for each option.

Includes case studies of the Community Council Project, Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto and the Hollow Water First Nation's Community Holistic Circle Healing Project.

Authors critique the arguments put forward in Alan Cairns' Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State.

Looks at Canadian tax policies and the link to First Nations sovereignty.

Highlights provisions made in treaties and agreements ranging from the Peace and Friendship Treaties to the Charlottetown Accord and lists important court cases in chronological order.

Discusses topics of general laws, case laws, treaties, self-government, fiduciary obligations, and Aboriginal rights.

Analysis of Bills C-45, C-48, C-27, S-8, S-2, S-6, and S212, some of which resulted in the formation of the Idle No More movement.

Brief historical background of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation; looks at the social and economic change in remote hunting and trapping communities in Northwestern Ontario; and examines how the First Nations have increased the ability to address health and social service problems locally by assuming control of their health services.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1998.

Argues that select traditional practises have a contribution to make to contemporary governance.

Discusses how the treaty process has successfully evolved through a series of institutional changes which include the development of effective working relationships between Canada, British Columbia and the First Nations Summit.

Follow-up to the Transformative Change Accord: First Nations Health Plan (TCA: FNHP). Outlines basic commitments and processes needed to develop an administrative structure which would enable First Nations to exercise greater control over the delivery of services.

Outlines the progresses made to advance all aspects of the new First Nations health governance structure and the actions needed to improve health services in BC.

Minister of Indian Affairs states that the Trudeau government has done more "than any other government to give natives control over their own affairs."

Summarizes the Centre for the North’s half-decade of research on Canada’s North and provides an analysis of three priority items to be addressed.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2002.

Identifies a lack of infrastructure as contributing to the high cost of doing business on First Nations' land.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2005.

History of the struggle by the Inuit to achieve sovereignty over a portion of the Northwest Territories.

Looks at the Inuit vision of creating a 'public' government, structured and operated according to Inuit ways and values.

Recounts the achievements of Wendy Grant-John, the recipient of the 2006 National Aboriginial Achievement Award for community development.

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Examines issues related to quality education for First Nations learners; factors which are associated with First Nations control and jurisdiction; overview of how First Nations are looking to build their governments; provisions for education in their treaties; and education provisions in modern day treaties.

Policy report explores expanding role of Tribal Colleges and Universities serving local communities in five areas: pre-school, elementary and secondary education, health and nutrition, faculty role models, agriculture and natural resource management and preservation of culture and language.

Discusses the strategic plan that includes enhancing capacity within First Nation governance, encourages access to education, assists British Columbia First Nations to protect and revive their languages and cultures, supports initiatives that engage youth and elders, and advances economic development opportunities.

Discusses ways for new Aboriginal governments to shape understandings of accountability with other levels of government.

Looks at universal principles of good governance and how they are applied to business ventures. Includes business development cases.

Recommondations for policy changes to reduce infrastructure gaps and redtape.

Public Policy Thesis (MPP)--University of Regina, 2019.

Paper examines the stages of the Life Long Learning continuum from a Métis perspective. The roundtable on this topic was held November 13th and 14th, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba and November 18th and 19th, 2004, Ottawa, Ontario.

Examines the contradiction between nationalism of the state and nationalism of Canada's internal nations, that of Quebec and the First Nations.