Aboriginal Horizontal Framework: Programs and Spending Overview
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Treasury Board Secretariat
Government of Canada]
Description
Overview of Aboriginal-direct programming and spending offered by the Government of Canada. The 360 programs and services are arranged under seven thematic headings: Health, Lifelong Learning, Housing, Safe and Sustainable Communities, Economic Opportunities, Lands and Resources and Governance and Relationships.
23 Elizabeth II. Chapter 15. An Act Respecting Oil and Gas in Indian Lands
Indian Oil and Gas Act
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Cited as Indian Oil and Gas Act. Section 7 provided for consultation, on a continuing basis, with Indian bands most directly affected by oil and gas activities.
[Aboriginal Law and Resource Development Conference]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lorraine Land
Description
Argues that numerous legal and policy decisions are setting the stage for massive confrontations over approval of developments unless appropriate consultation processes are put in place.
A ledger containing a detailed calendar of outgoing correspondence from the [Duck Lake Agency.] Correspondence subjects include medical and school admissions, building and housing construction, and grocery, stationery and agricultural purchases. This ledger contains information relating to private and legal matters of individuals, therefore only a small sample of pages is available for viewing.
Historical note:
Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.
Discusses proposed changes to the law covering oil and gas activity on First Nations reserves which will enable more bands to get involved in the petroleum industry.
Frank Cardinal (aged 68), chief of the Sucker Creek Reserve, discusses Treaty #8 and its interpretation, the establishment of the reserves around Lesser Slave Lake, and problems facing a chief in modern times.
Discussion on the effectiveness of a number of agreements negotiated directly between mineral resource developers and Aboriginal communities in support of three northern Canadian diamond mines.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 1983, pp. 1-21
Description
Describes the unique legal status and events leading to the passing of the Pueblo Lands Act, signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on June 9, 1924.
Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in United States Sacred Land Law
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam Dunstan
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 23-43
Description
Uses two court cases involving protection of the sacred San Francisco Peaks from ski-resort development to highlight how phrases in the American Indian Religious Freedom Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act lend themselves to judicial interpretations which undermine protection of sacred sites.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 49-61
Description
Discussion of public domain trust allotments, a class of specific lands, for individuals, created by the General Allotment Act of 1887 and the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act (NIFRMA).
Natural Areas Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, July 2012, pp. 310-315
Description
Looks at the protection of land in northern Ontario and the role of First Nations communities in land-use planning in development with the Government of Ontario.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1-2, First Year of Evo Morales Presidency, 2007, pp. 36-56
Description
Looks at rural development policy based around "Community Renewal of the Agrarian Reform" establishing a model more in keeping with a process of socio-economic change enabling the state to gain more control.
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Ecological Economics, vol. 55, no. 2, November 2005, pp. 173-186
Description
Discusses an approach to valuation that employs concepts and methods of decision analysis, informed by behavioral decision research, in an applied context.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, 1990, pp. 127-181
Description
Book reviews of:
Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast edited by Peter Wood.
Navajo Textiles: The William Randolph Hearst Collection by Nancy J. Blomberg.
Utmost Good Faith: Patterns of Apache-Mexican Hostilities in Northern Chihuahua Border Warfare, 1821-1848 by William B. Griffen.
The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles by W.