Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick Walker
Clarine Ostrove
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [13]-28
Description
Article outlines one possible legal response to the imminent export of a scared object under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act.
University of British Columbia Law Review, vol. 32, November 1998, pp. 23-54
Description
Argues that the Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence is making a transformation that was unlikely to happen from Charter legislation, but that most of the progress has come about due to political process and will of women.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 95, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 463-465
Description
Book review of: Contours of a People edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda MacDougall.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 463.
Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 42, no. 4, December, 2009, pp. 957-979
Description
Discusses the evolution of Aboriginal rights, concepts of identity and culture, theory of group rights, and consequences of the cultural test adopted by the Supreme Court of Canada.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 4, December 1994, pp. 543-557
Description
Discusses the development of Aboriginal rights from the outlawing of the potlatch to the rejection of anthropological evidence given at the Gitksan Wet'suwet'en land claim.
Canadian Dimension, vol. 36, no. 4, July-August 2002, pp. 29-32
Description
Describes the reaction to the 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision regarding Mi'kmaq fisherman Donald Marshall and how the media can shape public opinion.
Literary works discussed: Ceremony by Lesley Marmon Silko, In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich, and The Last Standing Woman by Winona LaDuke.
Manitoba Law Journal, vol. 21, 1991-1992, pp. 618-630
Description
Case involved an initiation ceremony for spirit dancing. Defendants claimed that their inherent right to spirit dance nullified the common law dealing with assault, battery and false imprisonment.
Provides discussion of the Powley case in which the Ontario Court of Appeal held that Métis are a people with comparable rights to those of First Nations.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 7-24
Description
Examines civil rights and sovereignty issues. The article argues that interests of anti-racists, local and state governments jealous of tax bases, corporate America and the federal government are converging in a way that even the Supreme Court will not be able to contain.
Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 39, no. 1, March 2006, pp. 97-116
Description
Looks at the Sawridge dispute, and problems associated with Bill C-31 regarding Aboriginal women’s rights within their own societies both on and off the reserves.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 149-207
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne.
As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity edited by William S. Penn.
Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E.
Documentary about a landmark discrimination case filed by the Assembly of First Nations and the Child and Family Caring Society of Canada against Indian and Northern Affairs Development Canada in 2007 about the treatment of First Nations children.
Duration: 2:42:53.