Aboriginal Title

Discussion of the "empty land lie", arguing that the fundamental issue was dispossession and that all other issues stemmed from it in some way.

Provides overview of Métis history, reviews significant agreements and legislation, indexes case law summaries and discusses new developments.

Book reviews of two books: Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada edited by Michael Asch. Treaty Talks in British Columbia by Christopher McKee. Scroll down to page 102 to read review.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1993.

Based on sample of 22 on-reserve businesses regarding structure, capital, information channels and problems.

Looks at the legal and regulatory basis of forest management, and assess how new tenure systems might be developed that would uphold traditional values while providing economic and employment opportunities.

Examines the three forms of land tenure in Western Australia, 99 year leases, small plots of land on pastoral leases, and 50 or 25 year special purpose leases, with no provision for Aboriginal or Native title.

General discussion of rights, review and comparison of cases and decisions in Canada and the United States, and a brief summary of social and legislative history in Canada.

Discusses the new federal rights of Russian Indigenous people regarding land ownership, access to natural resources, and protection of ancestral land.

Outlines a fight for more negotiation meetings, protected land claims, and equality for Aboriginal women. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section. Duration: 5:36.

Book review of: Aboriginal People and Politics by Paul Tennant.

Outlines the denial of a deal in which a land claim by the Jawoyn Aboriginal community was traded for an alcohol-rehabilitation centre and two renal-dialysis machines.

Explores three themes: hegemony, resistance, and identity.

Book review of: Aboriginal Peoples and Politics by Paul Tennant. Scroll down to page 227 to read review.

Book review of: Aboriginal Peoples and the Law edited by Bradford W. Morse.

"A paper originally prepared for the Westbank First Nation's conference 'Making or Breaking the Treaty Process: The Constitutional Status of Treaty Settlement Land', Kelowna, BC, May 31, 2006." Paper provides the basic Constitutional background for the conference.

Discusses various legal decisions relating to Aboriginal rights.

Introduction to Supreme Court of Canada decision regarding Aboriginal rights and title in British Columbia. Part one focuses on Chief Justice Lamer's judgement looking at the evidence.

Book review of Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History by Arthur J. Ray.

Gives a conceptual framework of Aboriginal title and self-government by examining case law.

Reviews decisions made by the Supreme Court which impact Aboriginal peoples in Canada.

Looks at the extent of Provincial jurisdiction to infringe on Aboriginal title for the purpose of resource development.

Examines Section 31 of the Manitoba Act, 1870 and the provisions for a land settlement scheme for the benefit of Métis people and the extinguishment of Aboriginal, or as it was then, Indian title.

Research paper discusses the long refusal to admit the reality of Aboriginal rights, title, management and allocation of the fisheries.

Discusses how giving up Aboriginal title is a valid means of reconciling relationship with the Canadian State as well as consequences of achieving self-government and the driving factors in the negotiations.

Discusses the tests used by the Supreme Court of Canada to determine whether Aboriginal title exists. Uses the Delgamuukw v. British Columbia case as example of the principle of first occupancy. Duration: 7:17.

Focuses on Aboriginal rights and title to land in light of recent decisions by the Supreme Court of Canada.

Book review of: Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples edited by Louis A. Knafla and Haijo Westra. Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 174.

Panel discussion with Jay Nelson, Krista Robertson and John Burrows on the Tsilhqot'in Nation v BC Supreme Court decision. Duration: 1:59:07.

Chapter from: Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2008 edited by Todd L. Archibald, Randall Scott Echlin. Looks at Aboriginal title, rights and legal obligations.

Argues that British Columbia had been violating Aboriginal title in an illegal and unconstitutional fashion ever since it joined Canada in 1871.

Comments on the Delgamuukw decision and how this court case addressed what Aboriginal title is, how title can be proved, and how infringements can be justified.

Looks at changes to inherent limit and extension resulting from the Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia case. Focuses on changes to provincial jurisdiction over Aboriginal titled lands and land use.

Discussion of the effects of the Delgamuukw decision.

Chapter in book: Beyond the Nass Valley: National Implications of the Supreme Court's Delgamuukw Decision edited by Owen Lippert. Focuses on definition of Aboriginal title according to the courts, as both a property and constitutional right.

Case study focuses on the relationship between the forest industry and First Nations' interests in land and natural resource in British Columbia.

Discusses Aboriginal title to land, Indigenous law and common law. Uses the cases of R. v. Marshall and William v. British Columbia for examples.

Looks into the Canadian law of Aboriginal title.

Speech given to protest the second phase of the James Bay hydroelectric project, also known as the Great Whale. . Duration 4:05.

Rejection of the Tasmanian Government's Land Rights Bill in the Upper House and the weak efforts at redress the issue of land rights.

Landscape Architecture Thesis (MLArch) -- University of Washington, 2021.

Discusses evidence presented by the plaintiffs and the crown concerning culture in the case Delgamuukw v. B.C.

Discusses the dispute as to whether Lubicons are included in Treaty Eight or live on unceded land and are therefore entitled to an external adhesion. A commentary on this article appears in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 7, 1992, pp. 207-212.