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Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Curran
Michael M'Gonigle
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, 1999, pp. 712-774
Description
Looks at the legal and regulatory basis of forest management, and assess how new tenure systems might be developed that would uphold traditional values while providing economic and employment opportunities.
Aboriginal Peoples and Quebec: Competing for Legitimacy as Emergent Nations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Russel Lawrence Barsh
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, 1997, pp. 1-29
Description
Discusses the implications for the Aboriginal majority in Northern Quebec should the province separate from the rest of Canada.
Aboriginal Perspectives Unit Guide for the Theme Sovereignty and Resistance
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Perspectives: Thematic Unit Sovereignty and Resistance
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Michael Gatin
Description
Lesson plan for Grades 7-12 uses excerpts from four documentaries: You Are on Indian Land, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Our Nationhood, and Dancing Around the Table, Part 1.
Aboriginal Self-Determination Within Canada: Recent Developments in International Human Rights Law
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Andrew J. Orkin
Joanna Birenbaum
Constitutional Forum, vol. 10, no. 4, 1998, pp. 97-111
Description
Looks at the premise of Canadian law and policy relating to Aboriginal people and how responsibility for international human rights is not being upheld.
Aboriginal Title
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lisa Fainstein
Description
Discusses the tests used by the Supreme Court of Canada to determine whether Aboriginal title exists. Uses the Delgamuukw v. British Columbia case as example of the principle of first occupancy.
Duration: 7:17.
Advancing an Indigenous Framework for Consultation and Accommodation in BC: Report on Key Findings of the BC First Nations Consultation and Accommodation Working Group
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The First Nations Leadership Council
Description
Provides policies, decisions, and tools to develop strategies to advance the process of reconciliation between First Nations and the Crown.
American Indian Issues: An Introductory and Curricular Guide for Educators
Alternate Title
Wild Rivers Teaching American History Project
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Gayle Olson-Raymer
Anne Hartline
Sophie Huntington
David Riesenfeld]
Description
Contains links to historical overview and nine lesson plans, including: Mascots, Symbols, and Name; Federal Indian Policy: Historical Roots and 19th Century Policies; Indian Boarding Schools; Red Power; and American Indian Tribal Gaming.
The Battle over Termination on the Colville Indian Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen A. Dahl
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1994, pp. 29-53
Description
Sums up the liquidation of reservation resources and argues that, for the Colville Confederated Tribes, sovereignty is the only path to follow.
Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sarah Nickel
BC Studies, no. 191, Autumn, 2016, pp. 165-167
Description
Book review of: Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State edited by Yale D. Belanger and P. Whitney Lackenbauer.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 165.
Canada's Tibet: The Killing of the Innu
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Colin Samson
James Wilson
Jonathan Mazower
Description
Survival International report criticizing governments' treatment of the Aboriginal group from Labrador and Quebec.
Closing the Gap: Seeking Reconciliation, Advancing First Nations Well Being and Human Rights: Submission to Canada's Premiers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
Description
Lists proposed commitments to address issues.
Comparative Governance Structures Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Alternate Title
Fact Sheet (Scow Institute)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Schulze
Description
Discusses the self-government issues of legitimacy, power and resources, by using examples of current agreements. The article breaks the areas down in terms of: basic principles, rights through treaties, federal-provincial division of power, status of lands, legislative powers, and funding.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory
Alternate Title
Canadian Electronic Library. Books Collection
E-Books
p. vi, 342
Description
Proceedings of a conference held May 12-14, 1994, in Bkejwanong, Ontario.
Editorial: [Indigenous Affairs: IWGIA 40 Years On]
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Espen Waehle
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, IWGIA 40 Years On, 2008, pp. 4-7
Description
Introduction to journal issue highlighting the organizations' work done for Indigenous people in different parts of the world.
Emerging Challenges on Consultation with Indigenous Communities in the Canadian Provincial North
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dwight Newman
Northern Review, no. 39, Consultation and Resource Development in Northern Communities: Russia, Scandinavia & Canada, 2015, pp. 22-30
Description
Discusses some concerns by Aboriginal communities with the duty to consult policy framework in Saskatchewan.
Energy East and Dakota Access: Pipelines, Protest, and the Obstacles of Mutual Unintelligibility
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kyle Conway
Maude Duguay
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 53, no. 1, Winter, 2019, pp. 27-47
Description
Examines the discourse around two different contested pipeline projects; discusses rhetorical elements including the difference between “claimed” and “government sanctioned” spaces, and whether the perspectives are consistent with or counter to mainstream perspectives. Highlights the differences in worldviews, understandings of cause and effect, and conceptualizations of time and space and the role these differences play.
Evolution of Rights to Self-Determinism of Aboriginal People: A Comparative Analysis of Land Rights Reforms in Australia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alex Sadler
Divya Gupta
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, Winter, 2018
Description
Article examines Australian policies around the land rights of Aboriginal Peoples considering the benefits and downsides of individual programs; considers how successful the these initiatives are in moving towards implementing the rights set out in United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Fear and Contempt: A European Concept of Property
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sidner Larson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Autumn, 1997, pp. 567-577
Description
Author highlights the ways that the United States’ Legal System has been used by the colonial state government to remove the land and rights of Indigenous peoples.
Fighting for Our Lives: #NoDAPL in Historical Context
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nick Estes
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 115-122
Description
Essay situates the #NoDAPL movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), within the historical context and the longer histories of Oceti Sakowin resistance against the trespass of settlers, dams, and pipelines across the Mni Sose, the Missouri River, and into Sioux territory.
First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun Final Agreement Between the Government of Canada, The First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun and the Government of the Yukon
Alternate Title
First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun Final Agreement
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Description
Agreement concerning Aboriginal rights and title and settlement lands.
First Nations and the Resource Future: The Path to Economic Partnership
Alternate Title
North at Trent 2015 Lecture Series
Saskatchewan First nations and the Province s's Resource Future
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Perry Bellegarde
Description
National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations discusses Saskatchewan's current resource-based boom, necessity for collaboration, and impact and benefit agreements with governments and companies.
Duration: 2:00:34.
Geography, Aboriginal Land Claims and Self-Government in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph Mensah
International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 12, Aboriginal Peoples and Canada, Fall, 1995, pp. [262]-275
Description
Looks at the role space related issues play in land claims and sovereignty. Suggests topics for future research.
Scroll down to page 262 to read article.
Indian Agency: Forming First Nations Law in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Borrows
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 24, no. 2, November 2001, pp. 9-24
Description
Overview of legal decisions significant to Aboriginal peoples.
Indigenous Activism, Community Sustainability, and the Constraints of CANZUS Settler-Colonial Nationhood.
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul R McKenzie-Jones
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 104-131
Description
Author considers different cases of Indigenous resistance; offers a critique of the process of settler-colonial nationhood citing Audra Simpson’s assertion in Mohawk Interruptus that “continued Indigenous defense undermines and corrupts the absolutism of settler-colonial nationhood”
Indigenous Community Governance Project: Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
ANU (Australian National University) College of Arts and Social Sciences
Description
Focuses on material dealing with Australia. Sub-divided by topic and current as of 2008.
Indigenous Peoples, Extractive Industries and Human Rights
E-Books
Author/Creator
Julian Burger
Indigenous Self-Determination and the State
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Shin Imai
Description
Describes why indigenous self-determination, now accepted at both the national and international level,
are hard rights to exercise due to the fact that they are not expressed in any specific institutional arrangement.
*Research paper from Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy.
Individualism or Tribalism?: The "Dialectic" of Indian Policy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel L. Boxberger
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 29-31
Description
Boxberger responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy"; highlights land title and resource extraction as a key motivator of Indian policy.
Intellectual and Cultural Property Rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Asia
E-Books
Author/Creator
Michael A. Bengwayan
Introduction: Advocacy Research and Native Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank Tough
Native Studies Review, vol. 6, no. 2, Advocacy and Claims Research, 1990, pp. 1-12
Description
Introduction to this volume of the Native Studies Review, which focuses on research strategies that support Native rights and claims.
Inventing a New Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian Craik
Native Studies Review, vol. 12, no. 2, Aboriginal Peoples and National Rights Issues in Quebec, 1999, pp. 79-92
Description
Compares the terms of the Cree-negotiated James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Inuit-negotiated Inuvialuit Agreement in the areas of provision of social services, economic development, employment and self-government.
John Collier: Architect of Sovereignty or Assimilation?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elmer R. Rusco
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 49-54
Description
Rusco responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy"; argues that Barsh’s thesis creates confusion about the Indian New Deal and is contrary to current evidence.
Labrador Inuit Harvesting and the Politics of Land Claims
Alternate Title
Inuit Studies Conference ; 17th, 2010
[Inuit People and the Aboriginal World]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andrea Procter
Description
Looks at influences regulating Inuit economic activities, the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement, and new governance arrangements.
Legal Counsel and the Navajo Nation Since 1945
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter Iverson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring, 1977, pp. 1-15
Description
An investigation of the evolving legal history of the Navajo Nation following the Second World War. The Navajo legal counsel provides legal opinions on land, resource development, employment, and the protection of sovereignty.
Manito Gitigaan Governing in the Great Spirit's Garden: Wild Rice in Treaty # 3: An Example of Indigenous Government Public Policy Making and Intergovernmental Relations Between the Boundary Waters Anishinaabeg and the Crown, 1869-1994
Theses
Author/Creator
Kathi Avery Kinew
Description
Interdisciplinary Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 1995. (Anthropology, Political Studies and Native Studies).
Mnisose / the Missouri River: A Comparative Literary Analysis of River Stories from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the #NoDAPL Movement
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Hernandez
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 72-95
Description
Examines multiple narratives—historical and contemporary—relating to the river and discusses how those narratives in combination with the privileging of text-based have been used alternately to empower and disempower Indigenous communities and nations.
"More Precious Than Gold": Indigenous Water Governance in the Context of Modern Land Claims in Yukon
Theses
Author/Creator
Nicole J. Wilson
Description
Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2018.
Native Americans and Nuclear Power
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothy Nelkin
Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 6, no. 35, Spring, 1981, pp. 2-13
Description
Discussion of uranium mining, questions of sovereignty, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, cultural integrity, radiation hazards and the anti-nuclear movement.
Native Studies 20: Case Studies and Readings Package
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Learning
Description
Supplemental and alternative material to enhance delivery of Grade 11 curriculum.
Can be used in conjunction with Native Studies 20: Student Resource Guide.
Native Studies 20: Student Resource Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Learning
Description
Compilation of readings from various sources.
Can be used in conjunction with Native Studies 20: Case Studies and Readings Package.
Nordic Saami Convention
Alternate Title
Nordic Sami Convention
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Expert Committee of the Draft Nordic Saami Convention?]
Description
Text of the Convention in English (unofficial translation).
Northern Public Affairs - The Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joshua Gladstone
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 4, no. 2, The Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent, May 2016, p. [?]
Description
Video by Northern Public Affairs Magazine introducing content in volume 4, number 2 edition.
Duration: 6:28.
Old-Time Origins of Modern Sovereignty: State-Building among the Keweenaw Bay Ojibway, 1832-1854
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Doherty
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 165-187
Description
Article examines how the Anishinaabe of Lake Superior' act of asserting Nation/Statehood as an assertion of sovereignty continues to affect contemporary relations and sovereignty movements.
Our Generation: A Study Guide
Alternate Title
Screen Education
E-Books
Author/Creator
Robert Lewis
Description
To accompany to award-winning film about violations of Aboriginal rights in Australia.
Political Inclusion of the Saami as Indigenous People in Norway
Alternate Title
Political Inclusion of the Sami as Indigenous People in Norway
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nils Oskal
International Journal on Minority & Group Rights, vol. 8, no. 2/3, Special Issue on Sami Rights in Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden, 2001, pp. 235-261
Description
Discusses Sami rights to land and water in Norway.
Preparatory Report from the Sami Parliament in Sweden/Sámediggi/Sámedigge/Saemiedigkie/Sametinget for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ms.Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Prior to Her 2015 August visit to Sápmi and Sweden
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
India Reed Bowers
Description
Some of issues discussed are women's rights and circumstances, resource extraction, lack of legal-political structures for self-determination and Sweden's Race Biology and eugenics programs.
Putting Anti-Indian Violence in Context: The Case of the Great Lakes Chippewas of Wisconsin
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Perry
Linda Robyn
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 590-625
Description
Authors articulate the relationship between Indigenous resistance to state appropriation of lands and anti-Indigenous violence enacted by the public.
Reclaiming the Reservation: The Geopolitics of Wisconsin Anishinaabe Resource Rights
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven E. Silvern
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 24, no. 3, 2000, pp. 131-153
Description
Provides background and potential resolution to struggles of the Anishinaabe of Wisconsin which emerged in 1910-1953 and have continued over rights and control their lands and resources.
Recognising Rangatiratanga: Sharing Power with Māori through Co-management
Alternate Title
Recognizing Rangatiratanga: Sharing Power with Maori through Co-mangement
Theses
Author/Creator
Samuel George Wevers
Description
Explores the issues surrounding treaty and co-management structures for the shared administration of natural resources in traditional territories.
Bachelor of Laws (Honours) dissertation.