Lucky Man

Includes a number of treaty land entitlement inquiries including: Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation, Kahkewistahaw First Nation, Lucky Man Cree Nation, Mikisew Cree First Nation and Fishing Lake First Nation. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Reports include: Kahkewistahaw First Nation 1907 Reserve Land Surrender Inquiry, Moosomin First Nation 1909 Reserve Land Surrender Inquiry, Chippewas of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation 1927 Surrender Inquiry, Sumas Indian Band 1919 Surrender of Sumas Indian Researve No. 7 Inquiry. This issue also includes responses regarding Lucky Man Cree Nation, and Kahkewistahaw Inquiries. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Includes the reports on Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation 1903 Surrender Inquiry, Lower Similkameen Indian Band Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway Right of Way Inquiry, Fort Pelly Agency Pelly Haylands Claim (Mediation), Lucky Man Cree Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Phase II Inquiry, Muskoday First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement (Mediation), Metepenagiag Mi’kmaq Nation Hosford Lot and Indian Reserve 7 (Mediation), George Gordon First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement (Mediation), Sturgeon Lake First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement (Mediation) and the Esketemc First Nation Wright’s Meadow P

Historical background, submissions and recommendations from the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine the appropriate date to use for the population count for Treaty land entitlement purposes. ICC found the date of first survey (1887) to be the appropriate date and recommended the two parties pursue research to determine the population figure. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Phase two looks at local cultural knowledge and visual ways of thinking about a healthy body weight and image from First Nations women. Part of a larger project "The Cultural and Visual Context of Healthy Body Weight and Body Image Among Aboriginal Women in the Battlefords Tribal Council Region".

Describes the staff and activities of the school from its opening in 1923. Prepared from the notes and writings of Reverend Canon Edward Ahenakew; includes editorial notes. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 55.

Comments on the River People, their adherence to Treaty 6, and how the 1885 resistance scattered most of the band.

Found that Canada owes an outstanding lawful obligation to provide land to the Lucky Man First Nation under terms of Treaty 6 and recommended that the treaty land entitlement claim be accepted for negotiation under Canada's Specific Claim Policy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]