International

Compares differences between non-Tsimshian documentary records and Tsimshian traditional oral accounts of the incident and the implications for present-day international relations.

Based on interviews with Indigenous women and Elders about relationships to the environment, observed changes, traditional practices on the land, and the health of their families and communities.

Discusses how global economic and political developments such as the Multilateral Agreement on Investment can affect traditional concepts of state territorial sovereignty.

Outlines the fundamental values, rights, and freedoms of Aboriginal people living in Canada.

An outline of issues and proposed solutions related to child welfare and Aboriginal children in Australia.

Book review of: Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of Indigenous Children by Sonia Harris-Short. Review located by scrolling down to page 189.

Highlights a child-centered human rights perspective with a focus on historical experiences as related to present day life.

Looks at a claim concerning the violation of the United Nations Genocide Convention in the Indian Residential Schools system, some of the effects of genocide on survivors and their families, and concludes by suggesting ways to move forward. Article located by scrolling down page.

Power point provides overview of history, facts about current situation, Constitutional rights, the Crown's duty to consult and accommodate, and Canada's international obligations.

Discusses federal laws, court decisions and specific land claims commissions in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Calgary, 2003.

Focuses of laws dealing with enfranchisement, self-government, property rights (including right to sell agricultural products), and criminal offences.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2010.

Looks at the uprising of the Mayan people against the Mexican Government over the amendment to Article 27 of the Constitution.

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

Pubic Administration Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2000.

Shows that the recognition of Aboriginal self-determination is justifiable under existing public international law.

Looks at the premise of Canadian law and policy relating to Aboriginal people and how responsibility for international human rights is not being upheld.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Alberta, 1996.

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.

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.

Document discusses issues involved in ethical access to environmental resources, ensuring their sustainability, and women's role in the process. Also reports results of survey of 36 individuals.

Sources for statistics, case law and constitutional issues, international law, rights, legislation and policy, law enforcement, prison system, access to legal information, and sociological and background information.

Explores the efforts to transform the disposition and direction of international law to become a supportive force of change in the relations between Indigenous peoples and the State.

Outlined the issues, challenges and barriers linked to the UN advisory body that aids in the promotion and protection of the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Essay in which the author summarizes a series of interviews they conducted with Zapatista cultural promoter and artist Gustavo Chávez Pavón; considers how the murals speak to Indigenous solidarity between Mexico and Palestine, and to similarities across the Global South.

Looks at the community benefits of logging and the basic issues of rights and access to forests in the Malinau area.

Looks at how livelihood systems and traditional hunting and gathering grounds are being threatened by conservation project on Cameroon's Atlantic coast. To access this article, scroll down to page 14.

Argues that the citizenship issue cannot be understood without the reference to global trends and the history of the Indigenous state.

Looks at the United Nations Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-2004) and future ways to talk about indigenous rights in global forums.

Letter from Rev. A.E. Green, 1 November 1887, relating to the exodus of Aboriginals from Metlakhatla [Metlakatla], BC, to Alaska, because of the Canadian Government's refusal to provide larger reserves and a treaty for payment for land surrendered. Letter in The Missionary Outlook newsletter.

Outlines methods used by U.S. government to acquire lands between Ohio and the Mississippi from unwilling Native Americans.

Lists ten distinct elements of the Doctrine of Discovery which all became part of Manifest Destiny and were used to justify the acquisition of foreign lands.

Discusses how the Apurinã community in Brazil create and maintain relationships with different non-human actors forms an intergenerational way of managing and relating to the land; critically examines how these relationships are protected by international law.

Looks at both the progress and the problems still facing Indigenous people in today's globalized world. Access through table of contents.

Resources divided under seven topic headings: resolutions, policy and law, protocols, case studies, intellectual property, traditional knowledges and climate change, and ethics and traditional knowledge. To accompany Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives.

Speech by Matthew Coon-Come, The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, criticizes the United Nations' Draft Declaration of the Indigenous Rights of Aboriginal Peoples and argues that Aboriginal people continue to be marginalized in Canada.

Highlights documents produced by the Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, United Nations and the UN Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Part of Families First: A Manitoba Indigenous Approach to Addressing the Issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Author draws on Vine Deloria Jr.’s work on the role that a difference in worldviews plays in communication to examine the distance between what Indigenous peoples mean by self-determination and what policy makers mean by it.

Argues customary and traditional laws of communal stewardship over land as opposed to individual land tenure systems should be recognized and protected for future land development. To access this article, scroll down to page 6.

The author, a member of the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, examines the Alaskan model of settlement claims and suggests that this model would be useful with Yukon and Northwest Territories claims, but not with southern Canadian claims, because of the dense population and existence of a reserve system. Item found within folder 'XXXII-39'.

Discusses various aspects of appropriation: historical and modern methods, justifications given, political implications, current legal framework and proposals for protection.

Article describes the Arctic Counsel as a “high-level international intergovernmental forum founded by the Ottawa Declaration of 1996” and examines its role in supporting and contributing to international laws that pertain to the arctic.