Research Paper (National Centre for First Nations Governance)
Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robert B. Anderson
Bettina Schneider
Bob Kayseas
Description
Examines Roque Roldán Ortiga’s six criteria for judging the quality of a particular land and resources rights regime with regards to Indigenous governments; and looks at how those criteria can be used to measure the degree to which Aboriginal peoples in Canada have been successful with their struggle to have of their land, resource and other rights recognized.
Submitted to the Canadian Federal Government to ensure that the Inuit are involved in any Arctic strategies that would affect their destinies. Seven themes are explored, as well as key pressures and key risks.
Arctic, vol. 61, no. 5, Supplement 1, December 2008, pp. 71-85
Description
Looks at the importance of Aboriginal involvement with land-claim boards, and their influence over government decisions affecting the wildlife and environment of traditional aboriginal lands.
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. 128-134
Description
Article explores how the relationship between Indigenous peoples and nationalism as well as gender and tradition have has developed in Nunavut, Canada.
American Anthropologist, vol. 104, no. 1, March 2002, pp. 247-261
Description
Argues that since land claims force Aboriginal peoples to deal in the European concept of property, it has the effect of undermining the very principles that claimants are trying preserve.
Looks at the the social, economic, and political interplay that takes place between subsistence and wage economies, sharing and reciprocity, and regulatory regimes that mediate harvesting and distribution of wildlife resources.
Arctic, vol. 55, no. 4, December 2002, pp. 395-397
Description
Book review of: Thunder on the Tundra by Natasha Thorpe, Naikak Hakongak, Sandra Eyegetok and The Kitikmeot Elders. Presents findings from the Tuktu and Nogak Project, 2001.