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.
Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.
Interview includes a biographical account of Antoine Lonesinger's life that includes stories about farming, trapping, house construction and the making of charcoal and lime. He also tells of the murder of an Indian Agent at the hands of a Blackfoot named Owl Eyes.
Interview with Mr Lonesinger who tells stories of Indian agents both good and bad. He also tells of the Battle of the Cut Knife Hill and the banning of the Sundance.
Interview relates to understanding of Treaty #8 promises; the establishment of Wabasca Reserves; and the loss of treaty status by many people in the area.
A discussion of Land rights under Treaty #7; trade of furs for goods; and the dispersal of the Blackfoot people and eventual return to the Blackfoot Reserve under Crowfoot.
Interviewee recounts stories told to him by his father about the signing of Treaty #8;denial of Indian requests for reserve; and traditional lifestyle.
Mr. Trindle, aged 78, has spent most of his adult life in the Trout Lake/Peerless Lake area and is a former chief--talks about promises of a reserve in the area; surveying of boundaries; duration of occupation of area; and traditional lifestyles.
Discussion of the signing of Treaty 8 at Fort Chipewyan, and treaty promises; relationship between Crees and Chipewyans; and how the location of schools has forced people to settle in areas where they are unable to pursue traditional lifestyles.
An interview which discusses the negotiation of Treaty 8 at Fort Chipewyan, and promises made ; problems of insufficient land for trapping on Chipewyan Reserve ; and alcohol abuse among native people.
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.
An Act to approve, give effect to and declare valid certain agreements between the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, Reed Inc., Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd., the Islington Indian Band and the Grassy Narrows Indian Band
Grassy Narrows and Islington Indian Bands Mercury Pollution Claims Settlement Act,1986, C. 23, G-11.4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Settlement agreement legislated between the Canadian Government, the province of Ontario, Reed Inc., Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd., the Islington Indian Band and the Grassy Narrows Indian Band.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, 1986, pp. 15-40
Description
Focuses on the possibility that acceptance of the legislation didn't necessarily mean appropriateness nor did it mean that it was embraced whole heartily.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 3, May 1986, pp. [12-21]
Description
Discusses the rapid social change and long-term effects that undermined traditional self-sufficient Alaskan lifestyle including factors such as welfare dependence; and stresses strategies about education and community development are essential.
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 38, 1974, pp. 243-249
Description
Examines the Indian Act in light of the Canadian Bill of Rights, the access to status by a non-Aboriginal woman when marrying a status Aboriginal man, and the old section 12(1)(b) about permitting the protest of status on the illegitimate child of a status woman.
Saskatchewan Law Review, vol. 38, no. 1, 1974, pp. 45-62
Description
Looks at federal and provincial laws regarding Indian hunting rights on and off reserve, natural resources transfer Agreements, permitted methods and purpose of hunting, and Inuit and non-status Indian rights.
Native Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 2, 1986, pp. 1-45
Description
Paper attempts to provide an overview of Indian policy
developments in context of recent policy initiatives of the Minister of Indian Affairs, Concludes with with observations on the current status of policy reforms.Part I appeared in NSR, Vol.2, no.1
Jim Shot Both Sides, Head Chief of the Blood Reserve, Alberta tells his father's account of the signing of the Treaty #7and the promises made at that time.
Interviews with 13 residents of the Chipewyan Lake area of northern Alberta.- Stresses need for establishment of a reserve in this area, and promises made to them about this.- Describe various lifestyles including farming, trapping and fishing.- Shows how settlement patterns in remote areas have been influenced by the location of schools and stores.
An interview discussing various topics: evidence given to the Office of Specific Claims and Research by Jim Black; signing of Treaty #7; an account of the CPR line being taken through Blackfoot Reserveterritory; a description of two murders: Frank Skynner killed by Scrapings, and Charcoal's murder of Medicine Pipe Stem; the surrender of Blackfoot Reserve land; and an understanding of land rights.