Compares how two well-known Aboriginal works challenge limiting definitions of Aboriginal peoples and shows how the legal system manipulates these definitions to take away land or rights.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
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International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 2012, pp. 1-23
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Explores the lack of consultation of Bill 191 beginning in 2009 and concludes that minimum standards and protocols are not being met and there has been little improvement in process.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, 1990, pp. 1-18
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Analysis of the Indian Self-Determination Act (1975) concludes that achieving self-determination is seriously compromised by declining levels of funding in real terms.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 127-165
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Discussion of the 1933 removal of the Timbisha Shoshone from Death Valley and then the 1994 legal requirement of the Department of Interior to study the ancestral lands within and outside of Death Valley National Park with the purpose of identifying lands suitable for a reservation.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, 1997, pp. 131-154
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Discusses the impact of various legislation including the Jay Treaty of 1794, which assured border crossing rights, the 1891 Immigration Act deeming them neither USA nor Canadian citizens, and the Alien Registration Act of 1940 that classified First Nations as aliens.
Discusses how federal Indian law has developed in the United States from the arrival of Columbus through to the self-determination era of today, and looks at the future of the Indian tribes.
Discussion on the injustice of the federal government's actions regarding Indian land rights and the class action lawsuit regarding the federal government’s failure to fulfill its fiduciary duty for assets held in trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.