Comprehensive

Focused on the role of the Department in reaching and implementing claims settled up to July 1997.

Follow-up audit assessed progress in responding to 37 recommendations contained in seven reports published from October 2000 to November 2003. Federal agencies evaluated were Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing, Treasury Board Secretariat, and Industry Canada.

The audit covered the years 2002 to 2010. Audit work completed on November 1, 2010.

Discusses several strategies: improve the economic and social well-being of Aboriginal people, develop healthier, more self-sufficient communities, and participate in Canada’s political, social and economic development.

Revised version. Originally published 1999.

Includes links to laws, regulations, land claims, treaty-making, self-government agreements and rights information system.

Book review of: After Native Claims?: The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements for Natural Resources in British Columbia by Frank Cassidy and Norman Dale.

Book review of: After Native Claims? The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements For Natural Resources in British Columbia by Frank Cassidy and Norman Dale. To read review, scroll to page 94.

Indigenous Governance Project (M.A.) -- University of Victoria, 2006.

Comments on the government's "White Paper" of June 1969.

Examines projects which involved collaborations between non-Aboriginal researchers and local Aboriginal research assistants. .

Brief description of background and contents of the Bill, which address two issues: enhancement of the Cree Regional Authority's powers of governance and the inclusion of the Oujé-Bourgoumou Crees in the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement regime. Revised version.

Outlines the process that led to the conclusion of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and the current structure of the Nunavut government.

Looks at a case study of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation treaty negotiations in the Yukon Territory, and discusses a theoretical framework and findings to understand and explain other treaty negotiations involving municipal lands.

Presents various maps of Canadian provinces with the status of claims.

Explores whether cultural differences either enhance or hinder the working-group effectives or resource co-management boards established under Canada's comprehensive land claims process.

Provides background, definition and description of the claims process, as well as a list of claims settled since 1973.

Looks at what has been achieved in the four decades since the beginning of the Comprehensive Land Claims process.

Focuses on integrated resource management throughout comprehensive claim territories in the Arctic and Subarctic, with special attention on the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.

Letter to the editor commenting on the article Native Settlements and Native Rights: A Comparison of the Alaska Native Settlement, the James Bay Indian/Inuit Settlement, and the Western Canadian Inuit Settlement. by J. S. Frideres (vol. 1, no. 1, p. 59).

Comments that due to no time limits on claims that negotiation, not litigation is the preferred route to pursue.

Looks at oil and gas exploration amid regulations and changes to jurisdiction of federal, territorial and Native governments.

Discusses Nunavut residents' expectations of land claims, the trends of support for the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement, and the structure of support for the agreement.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2008.

Uses the Mohawk artist's video art installation to highlight differences in settler and Indigenous attitudes towards water in general and the Grand River in particular; explores contested agreements, and considers possibilities for a decolonized relationship between Canada and Indigenous nations.

Settlement gave groups control over 180,000 sq. km. of land, plus $500 million over 20 years. Includes synopsis. Duration: 8:03.

Based on interviews in two northern communities and looks at traditional wage economy, leadership role and impacts of Land Claim Agreement. Chapter three in book: Proceedings of the CRIAW-ICREFF Conference 1995 edited by Deborah Poff and Toni Fletcher.

Discusses the devolution of land and resource administration and control to the territory of Nunavut and the constitutional status of Nunavut.

Final project report. Examines the role of the Alsek Renewable Resource Council in Yukon’s first forest management plan, and the challenges associated with the devolution of forest management planning responsibilities.

The article discusses the dispute resolution process regarding comprehensive land claims in Canada and the power imbalance that exists between Aboriginal claimants and Euro-Canadian governments. (Part of an Australian Masters' thesis submitted by the author who is a Senior Case Manager for the Australian National Native Title Tribunal)

Looks at how Labrador’s experience with government has historically been one of benign neglect and financial appropriation.

Urban and Regional Planning Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2002.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Guelph, 1997.

Comments on the treaty which involves signatories from five First Nations, the Province of British Columbia and Canada.

Brief introduction to the two types of land claims. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Audit covered the period between 1 January 2012 and 31 March 2015.

Focuses on Minister of Indian Affairs’ decision to end ongoing negotiations with First Nations leaders largely due to time already spent and the inability to reach an agreement.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.2.

Explores the question "what ecological and social (institutional) factors affect how, when, and to what extent Traditional Knowledge holders have in decisions about key resource management issues?"

Book review of: Fractured Homeland by Bonita Lawrence.

Suggests that media's reliance on stereotypes of Indigenous peoples perpetuates stagnant Indigenous-settler relations.

Uses a process of document review and interviews with key members of governance institutions to evaluate territorial engagement with the practice of FPIC as per the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Documents Reviewed include the Umbrella Final Agreement (UFA) the Quartz Mining Act, the Placer Mining Act, the Territorial Lands (Yukon) Act, the Environment Act, the Wildlife Act, the Yukon Waters Act, the Historic Resources Act, the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Act (YESAA), the Y

Questions and answers about land claims, treaties, compensation and more.