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'.
Abstract: The territorial aspirations and achievements of Aboriginal minorities in the common-law jurisdictions of North America, Australia and New Zealand can be divided according to three varieties of political-legal situations; those in areas of initiation, enhancement and omission. In the first of these, to which attention is here confined, there has been no legally defined and protected land-base, and Aboriginal land claims are or have been the subject of recent litigation, negotiation and settlement.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 27, no. 3, Autumn, 1974, pp. 108-114
Description
Recounts the founding and history of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) fur trading post; discusses the post’s relationship with surrounding Indigenous communities.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 108.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 26, no. 3, Autumn, 1973, pp. [81]-102
Description
Draws on historical documents retrieved from Libraries and Archives Canada to reconstruct the narrative of the mass murder that occurred in 1873 near Battle Creek. Challenges the sources which name the date as May 1, asserting that it was June 1 based on trial testimony; examines press coverage following the event.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.
Saskatchewan History, vol. 27, no. 2, Spring, 1974, pp. [41]-50
Description
Article examines several historical documents and first-hand accounts in an attempt to piece together a sword duel, and preceding events, at Fort Chipewyan between a Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), employee, James McVicar, and a North West Company (NWC) employee, Hector McNeil.
Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 41.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 4, no. 5, May 1974, p. 29
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Education Minister Gordon MacMurchy announced Saskatchewan's first Indian school district board of trustees to be elected to the Govan school district unit.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 3, no. 8, September 1973, p. 11
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In a reversal from the 1969 White Paper, the Federal Government now says that it wants the Provinces to work along side the Federal Government to settle land claims.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 4, no. 5, June 1974, p. 18
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At Chiefs' conference in Prince Albert, Indian Land Claims Commissioner, Dr. Lloyd Barber, advises on the research and procedures for effective land claims.
This article is a collection of Father Renaud's observations relating to "the possible insertion of Indian populations within the fabric of the nation" [Canada]. He sees aboriginals as both an ethnic group in Canada, and an ethnic minority as well.