Crime & Offences
White Man's Law and the American Indian Family in the Assimilation Era
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Linda J. Lacey
Arkansas Law Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 1986, pp. 327-379
Description
Compares and contrasts the social and mores existing in American Indian societies of the nineteenth century with those of the Anglo-Europeans. The article also discusses the effects of assimilation and post-assimilation policies on those social structures.
Whither Restorativeness? Restorative Justice and the Challenge of Intimate Violence in Aboriginal Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane Dickson-Gilmore
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 56, no. 4, Essays to Honour the Life and Work of Dr. Carol LaPrairie / Essais pour honorer ..., July 2014, pp. 417-446
Description
Discusses how the context of reserves affects viability of the process because communities are small and isolated, with interconnected populations. Issues include: coercion to conceal the problem, competing loyalties, lack of alternatives and resources, and keeping the family intact.
Who is on Trial? Teme-Augama Anishnabai Land Rights and George Ironside, Junior: Re-Considering Oral Tradition
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David T. McNab
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 1998, pp. 117-133
Description
Explores evidence that suggests that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai did not sign the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850 and discusses the legal implications .
Who Lies Buried in Satanta’s Tomb? Co-memorating a Kiowa Warrior
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Drew Lopenzina
Travis Franks
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 2019, pp. 249-280
Description
Authors re-examine the discourse surrounding the life and death of the Kiowa leader Satanta; discuss how even contemporary perceptions of Indigenous historical figures are rooted in colonial narratives of conquest which sought to diminish the humanity of Indigenous peoples and extinguish Indigenous title in favour of white settler expansion.
Who Owns the Problem?: Crime and Disorder in James Bay Cree Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol LaPrairie
Eddie Diamond
Canadian Journal of Criminology, vol. 34, no. 3-4, July-October 1992, pp. [417]-434
Description
Compares methods of dealing with crime on-reserve (communities with a majority Aboriginal population) which may not involve formal processes and off-reserve (communities with a minority Aboriginal population) which are dealt with through the criminal justice system.
Why Did It Take So Long for Residential School Claims to Come Court? The Excruciatingly Gradual Civilization of Canada's Legal System
Alternate Title
50 Years of Gradual Civilization of Canada's Legal System
Fifty Years of Gradual Civilization of Canada's Legal System
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Thomas L. McMahon
Description
Highlights key events that finally resulted in a measure of recognition, compensation and protection for Indigenous children.
Will the Circle be Unbroken? Aboriginal Communities, Restorative Justice, and the Challenges of Conflict and Change ; First and Other Nations
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Roy Todd
British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, May 2007, pp. 168-169
Description
Two Book reviews: Will the Circle be Unbroken? by J. Dickson-Gilmore and C. La Prairie.
First and Other Nations edited by M. Shackleton and V. Supinen.
William & Helen Trudeau 2
Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
William Trudeau
Helen Trudeau
Tony Snowsill
Christine Welsh
Ernest Debassigae
Indian History Film Project
Description
William and Helen Trudeau discuss the traditional ways of gathering, preserving and storing food. They also talk about the origins of some traditional stories. Interpreter : E. Debassigae ; transcribed by J. Greenwood.
Windspeaker News Briefs
Articles » General
Windspeaker, vol. 28, no. 6, September 2010, p. 9
Description
Outlines three stories: an agreement with Brokenhead Ojibway Nation's chief and Manitoba's minister of conservation to protect petroform sites, an outcry for a public inquiry into the murders of convicted killer Robert Pickton and a request for a ban on the bulldozing of important Native sites without the consent of Ontario First Nations people.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.
Witch Accusations in Jharkhand, India: A Few Recent Cases
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Samar Bosu Mullick
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Indigenous Women, July/August/September 2000, pp. 18-23
Description
Findings indicate little change after the proclamation of the Prevention of Witch Act in 1999.
To access this article scroll down to page 18.
Women and the Canadian Legal System: Examining Situations of Hyper-Responsibility
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS)
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 94-104
Description
Paper asserts that the state must take positive and progressive action to eliminate discrimination against marginalized women.
Women and the Criminal Justice System
Alternate Title
Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tina Hotton Mahony
Joanna Jacob
Heather Hobson
Description
Statistics on violent crime, criminal and violent victimization, childhood assault, spousal violence, homicide, and females charged with violent offences.
Women's Marches Demand Justice For the Disappeared
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David P. Ball
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 12, March 2013, pp. 8-9
Description
Comments on Canadian wide annual marches that advocate increased support services for Aboriginal women.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Working Alliance and Its Relationship With Treatment Outcome in a Sample of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Sexual Offenders
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Danielle R. DeSorcy
Mark E. Olver
J. Stephen Wormith
Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, vol. 28, no. 4, 2016, pp. 291-313
Description
Examines the impact of and relationships between therapeutic providers and Indigenous sexual offenders. Therapists provided through the Working Alliance Inventory.
"Wouldn't Piss on Them If They Were on Fire": How Discrimination Against Sex Workers, Drug Users and Aboriginal Women Enabled a Serial Killer: Report of Independent Counsel
to the Commissioner of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jason Gratl
Description
Five topics: police failure to protect women at risk, how discriminatory attitudes, biases and stereotyping undermined investigations, suppression of information about risk of a serial killer, and Crown counsel's decision to stay attempted murder charge against Robert Pickton in January 1997.
"You Need to Tell That True Albert Johnson Story Like We Know it": Meanings Embedded in the Gwich'in Version of the Albert Johnson Story
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leslie McCartney
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 201-235
Description
Discusses how cultural differences affect interpretations of events surrounding the 1931 shooting of the "Mad Trapper of Rat River".
Youth Crime Rates and the Youth Justice System
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane B. Sprott
Anthony N. Doob
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 50, no. 5, September 2008, pp. 621-639
Description
Examination of variations across provinces in regards to self-reported violent crimes and property offences by Canadian youth.
The Yukon Relief Expedition and the Journal of Carl Johan Sakariassen; Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923; Arctic Migrants, Arctic Villagers: The Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Peter Collings
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 85, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 367-372
Description
Book reviews of 3 books:
The Yukon Relief Expedition and the Journal of Carl Johan Sakariassen edited by V.R. Rausch and D.L. Baldwin.
Arctic Justice by Shelagh D. Grant.
Arctic Migrants, Arctic Villagers by David Damas.
Zero Tolerance Policing: Implications for Indigenous People
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Commission
Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, vol. 4, no. 3, 1999, p. 114
Description
Discusses how 'zero tolerance policing' may generate more police Aboriginal contacts and in doing so might potentially increase Indigenous incarceration rates
Zuya Wicayuonihan = Honoring Warrior Women: A Study on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in States Impacted by the Keystone XL Pipeline
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sovereign Bodies Institute
Brave Heart Society
Description
Looks at historical and current data for the Dakotas, Montana, and Nebraska; of the 411 cases examined, 69% have occurred since 2000 and from 2017 through 2019 30-40 cases have been reported annually.