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2008-2009 Estimates: Reports on Plans and Priorities
2008 May Report of the Auditor General to the House of Commons: Chapter 4: First Nations Child and Family Services Program--Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Aboriginal Consultation and Accommodation: Interim Guidelines for Federal Officials to Fulfill the Legal Duty to Consult
Aboriginal Curriculum Integration Project
Aboriginal Participation in Mineral Development: Environmental Assessment and Impact and Benefit Agreements
Aboriginal People With Disabilities
Aboriginal Political Representation: A Review of Several Jurisdictions
Aboriginal Quality of Life under a Modern Treaty: Lessons from the Experience of the Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee and the Inuit of Nunavik
Aboriginal Rights Position Paper [1978]
Aboriginal Women in Canada: On the Choice to Renounce or Reclaim Aboriginal Identity
Aboriginal Workforce Participation Initiative (AWPI) Awareness Kit
Aboriginality, Existing Aboriginal Rights and State Accommodation in Canada
Addressing First Nations Governance Issues through Incremental Reform: Briefing Presentation - Draft
Alexis First Nation, TransAlta Utilities - Right of Way, Public Edition
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains statements of claim, correspondence/letters, maps and transcripts in regards to Calgary Power's (now TransAlta) access to electrical transmission right of way granted in the 1950s and 1960s. The Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Sheila G. Purdy.
The Anishinabek Nation Economy: Our Economic Blueprint
Apology Allows Healing to Begin
Apology to the Stolen Generations: [Questions and Answers Factsheet]
Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry - Aboriginal and Treaty Harvesting Rights: Public Release - July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains correspondence/letters, submissions, and oral transcripts in regards to the claim for formal recognition of treaty harvesting rights north of the 60th parallel. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice.
Attawapiskat Students Await a New School
Relates the determined effort of International Children’s Peace Prize nominee, Shannen Koostachin, who lobbied successfully for a new school for her remote Cree community.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Australia Apologizes To Aborigines For Stolen Generations
AWCS Host Conference to Create an Awareness
Author discusses the first World Conference of Women's Shelters arguing that governments need to understand that social problems have an economic and historical social basis.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Band Members Have Role to Play in Governance
Betsiamites Band Council, Route 138 and the Betsiamites Reserve, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of bilingual annotated index, historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, Band Council documents and final reports relating to the Band's claims alleging that reserve lands taken for highway use were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include: Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Bill C-292, An Act to Implement the Kelowna Accord: Prepared for the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, April 16, 2008
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: Akers Surrender 1889 Claim, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains letters/memos, submissions, band council documents, and reports in regards to the dispute over the federal government taking over 440 acres of mineral-rich reserve land without full consent or compensation.
Book review: Dances with Dependency: Indigenous Success through Self-Reliance
Bridging the Gap: Taxation and First Nation Governance
Canada Apologizes for Residential School Abuse
Canada's Relationship with Inuit: A History of Policy and Program Development
Canada's Residential School Apology
Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Turtle Mountain Surrender Claim - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, memos, reports, correspondence/letters, maps and submissions regarding validity of the 1909 surrender claim. Commissioners include: Roger J. Austine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Sheila G. Purdy. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
CAP - On Canada's Indian Act
Carry The Kettle - 1905 Surrender - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by Carry the Kettle First Nation. Commissioners include : Sheila Purdy, Alan Holman, and Jane Dickson-Gilmore. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Carry the Kettle First Nation: 1905 Surrender Inquiry
Carrying the Burden of Peace: The Mohawks, the Canadian Forces, and the Oka Crisis
Celebrated at First, Then Implied and Finally Denied: The Erosion of Aboriginal Identity in Circus, 1851-1960
Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region / Living in a Globalized World: Ethnic Minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion
The Changing Legal Landscape for Aboriginal Land Use Planning in Canada
Chief Asks Church's Support For Treaties
Chief Benedict of Boothroyd and the Department of Indian Affairs
Chippewas of Kettle & Stoney Point First Nation Inquiry, 1927 Surrender Claim, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, reports, exhibits, minutes, and submissions regarding the surrender of some of the reserve lands in 1927, 100 years after the treaty was signed. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augstine and Daniel J. Bellegarde.
Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Clench Defalcation Claim, Public Edition, July 2008
Chippewas Tri-Council Coldwater-Narrows Reservation, July 2008
Church Receives $9.7 Million Refund
Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality
Closing the Gap: Toward Capturing the Value of Aboriginal Cultural Industries
Common Table Report: Based upon Discussions among Canada, British Columbia and the First Nations Participating at the Common Table
Comparative Governance Structures Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
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.
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