Looks at "modern approach" to interpretation, reviews last three decades of judicial interpretation, and discusses an alternate procedure based on Anishinabe legal principles and Indigenous understandings.
Comprehensive website intended as a resource for American Indian and Alaskan Native Nations and people, tribal justice systems, victims and tribal service providers, and the improvement of justice.
Contains links to: tribal law, federal law, state law, and other resources.
Results from consultation talks by the Department of Education with Indian/Alaskan Natives in response to 2009 presidential memorandum. Concerns were expressed regarding funding shortages and fragmentation of the systems providing education.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, 2013, pp. 210-214
Description
Book review of: Tribal Libraries, Archives, Museums edited by Loriene Roy, Anjali Bhasin, and Sarah K. Arriaga.
Review located by scrolling to page 210.
Website links to out of print works by American Indians, Alaska Natives and First Nations people in Canada, the American Native Press Archives and serials list, The Trail of Tears Through Arkansas, and Trail of Tears Primary Sources.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 4, C, Winter, 2011, pp. [13]-47
Description
Examines both Vizenor's nonfiction and constitutional writing and looks at a functional approach to interpreting his work.
Scroll to page 13 for article.
Provides summary on commitments and principles of the agreement and progress towards implementing capacity for governance of First Nations health information.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 1, no. 3, 2011, pp. 53-69
Description
Contends that a diverse economy framework shows that companies are not capitalist or non-capitalist but contain many forms of labour, resource and property ownership.
Provides a detailed look into progress in Canadian policy and law in addition to the Swedish model.
Public and International Affairs Major Research Paper (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2013.
Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes, Session 7
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Murray Sinclair
Description
Session Seven from public conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation and Settlement Processes held Friday, January 18, 2013 at the University of Toronto. Murray Sinclair, chair of the TRC, speaks about the commission's mandate and reconciliation going forward.
Duration: 35:53.
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, Truth and Reconciliation, August 31, 2011, pp. 1-12
Description
Suggests that educational policy and media initiatives are fundamental to creating awareness, developing public interest and support in the whole process of truth and reconciliation.
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences ; 2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Wilton Littlechild
Description
Video of speech given at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Commissioner from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission discusses the history of residential schools, their impact on Aboriginal society, and the role of the Commission.
Duration: 1:1:56.
"This articles examines how Kanak youth have used a structure of French governance, the association loi de 1901, to subvert the cultural and political hegemony of French settler society".