Includes Culture Areas :
Volume 1: Tribes and Traditions: Abenaki-Missouri
Volume 2: Tribes and Traditions: Miwook - Zapotec
(Be patient download is very slow)
Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.
Final report examines historical background, analyses, and recommendation from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearings on the claim by the First Nation that the amount of acreage allotted was less than they were entitled to under the provisions of Treaty 8. Due to new Treaty Land Entitlement policy, the two parties agreed to negotiate a settlement and no determination was made by the ICC. Commissioners include : Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Historical background, analysis and recommendations from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearings regarding claim that the First Nation was entitled to a reserve surveyed in the Cypress Hills. ICC concluded that no reserve had been created, but recommended that the Government of Canada acquire the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre and recognize its historical significance. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Western Canadian Protocol for Collaboration in Basic Education
Description
"...support document for schools or regions in the Western provinces and the territories wishing to develop curricula, learning resources or strategies dealing with Aboriginal languages".
Compares on-reserve "registered population" to other Canadians with respect to education, family, health, labour force participation, income and housing; based on Census data.
Reports include the Blood Tribe / Kainaiwa Inquiry, Duncan's First Nation Inquiry, Long Plain First Nation Inquiry and the Bigstone Cree Nation Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Reports include the Key First Nation Inquiry, the Walpole Island First Nation Inquiry and the Carry the Kettle First Nation Inquiry. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Presents background, issues, analysis (validity, compliance, membership, and the question of fiduciary obligations), and concludes with the recommendation that the surrender portion of IR 65 not be accepted for negotiation under the Specific Claims Policy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Historical background, submissions and recommendations from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine, if "loss of use" of entitlement lands fell within Canada's lawful obligations under the Specific Claims Policy. ICC recommended that the claim for loss of use be negotiated under the Specific Claims Policy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]