Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding the unlawful surrender of 22,080 acres of reserve land. ICC concluded that Canada is responsible for the loss of use of the land since 1891, breach of Treaty and fiduciary duty, and recommends negotiation of settlement under Canada's Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis and Alan C. Holman. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Concurrent Mini-plenary Session and Oral Abstract Presentations: Oral Health
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andrew Macnab
Description
Lecture given at the 1st IMICH (International Meeting on Inuit and Native American Child Health) and 17th Annual Indian Health Service Research Conference held April 29 to May 1, 2005 in Seattle.
File contains correspondence by Ellen Fairclough and John Diefenbaker. Includes a letter from Diefenbaker mentioning a petition from the people of Mistawasis signed by members of the Dreaver family, and a letter from Fairclough to Donald Fleming protesting cuts to her Departmental Budget, stating that such cuts will hurt the Indian Affairs branch.
Uses the example of an agreement between the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations and British Columbia to demonstrate linkages between environmental and socio-political aspects of natural resources.
Cumberland House Cree Nation, IR 100A Inquiry (French Version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical backround and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding the unlawful surrender of 22,080 acres of reserve land. ICC concluded that Canada is responsible for the loss of use of the land since 1891, breach of Treaty and fiduciary duty, and recommends negotiation of settlement under Canada's Specific Claims Policy. (French language version) Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis and Alan C. Holman.
[These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
James Smith Cree Nation IR 100A Inquiry (French Version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Historical background, submissions, and recommendations from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine if Canada breached its obligations in taking an invalid surrender and in its subsequent disposition of the land. ICC found that James Smith Cree Nation was not owed any lawful obligations, but recommended that Canada's obligations dealing with the disposition of IR100A be negotiated with Cumberland House Cree Nation. (French language version) Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis and Alan C.
James Smith Cree Nation Chakastaypasin IR 98 Inquiry (French Version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Final Report regarding the James Smith Cree Nation's claim challenging the validity of the surrender and sale of the Chakastaypasin Band's Indian Reserve (IR) 98. (French language version) Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis and Alan C. Holman.
[These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Canadian Studies in Population, vol. 32, no. 2, 2005, pp. 229-255
Description
Examines the error of closure between expected 2001 and observed 2001 population counts due to census undercounts in North American Indians, Métis and Inuit.
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 29, no. 2, 2005, pp. 165-233
Description
Re-examination of the Batiscan site which was excavated in the 1960s and produced one of the largest collections of Vinette I pottery from the Early Woodlands period.
Folder containing correspondence regarding the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia's Annual Convention (Prince Rupert) and Diefenbaker's honorary Chieftainship.
Two Cross reference sheets referring to possibly restricted items in file 304-1963.1 and file 253.2PA Conf Sandy Lake School concerning building on the reserve, and the possibility of hiring Ivan Ahenakew as care taker at the Sandy Lake School.
Correspondence relating to the sale of fishing equipment, road construction, building materials, the opening of a school, a residential school, and purchase of equipment by J.R. Leach & Son.
Correspondence relating to a book entitled The "Caughnawaga Indians and the St. Lawrence Seaway", the expropriation of land for same seaway, financial difficulties, a stone quarry on the reserve, and voting rights.
The Missionary Society of the Anglican Church of Canada
Description
Articles relating to: children in non-aboriginal schools, the status of indigenous persons, Diefenbaker's honorary degree from Dalhousie University, an issue of Indian Outlook, a copy of the first bulletin of the Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada, and the work of Anglican missionaries.
Plan includes both short and long-term recommendations to alleviate problems with quantity and quality of housing and community infrastructure. Six elements: sustainable funding, institutional development, information and research capacity, financing, land management, and human resources.
Canadian Issues, New Frontiers in Our History: 100 Years of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Confederation, Winter, 2005, pp. 25-27
Description
Explores the relationships between Aboriginal women and HBC employees and the resulting expanded families of offspring.
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Discusses conflict of law arising from application of provincial law on-reserve to matters in First Nation jurisdiction, examples cited include: gambling, smoking, adoption, health, welfare regulation and education.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, 2005, pp. 155-183
Description
Discusses the debate whether the people described as Gros Ventre were Atsina or Hidatsa. Historical documents indicate the two groups Atsina and the Arapaho recognized their kinship.