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At a Crossroads: The Roadmap from Fiscal Discrimination to Equity in Indigenous Child Welfare
Banned Practice: The Potlatch and British Columbia, 1803-1953
Compilation of primary documents.
Barriers to Economic Development in Indigenous Communities: Report of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
Bibliography on Indigenous Rights in Canada, 1995-2022
Exhaustive list (856 pages).
A Brief History and Potential Future Vision for Additions to Reserves
Canada's MMIWG2S National Action Plan Annual Scorecard: An Annual Report Outlining the Federal Government's Progress on Implementing the Commitments Made in Their MMIWG2S National Action Plan
Caughnawaga (Kahnawá:ke): Settler Accounts to 1900
Primarily newspaper articles.
Determining the “Core of Indianness:” A Feminist Political Economy of NIL/TU,O v. BCGEU
Diefenbaker Funeral
Economic Recovery in Response to Worldwide Crises: Fiduciary Responsibility and the Legislative Consultative Process with Respect to Bill 150 (Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009) and Bill 197 (COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act, 2020) in Ontario, Canada
Discusses the consultation, or lack there of, between the Canadian government and its Indigenous populations in regards to green energy policies.
F.S.I.'s Bellegarde and Sanderson Expose Fraud and Corruption in Turn of the Century Land Surrenders
Financing Autonomy: Limits and Opportunities within Existing Funding Arrangements
Finding Our Way Home: Research on Indigenous Homelessness in Surrey: Part 1: Research Report on Indigenous Homelessness in Canada
Related Material: Part 2: What We Heard Report; Part 3: Data Summary; Executive Summary.
Homeless on Homelands: Upholding Housing as a Human Right for Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, and Gender-Diversity
Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis of Bill S-3 and the Registration Provisions of the Indian Act: Final Report
Indigenous Rights Recognition in BC: Collection of Key Policies, Laws and Standards
Indigenous Workers Receiving Canada Emergency Response Benefit Payments in 2020
International Bioresource Agreements: The Case of the Porcupine Caribou
Louis Riel: Justice Must Be Done
Argues for a posthumous pardon of the Metis leader.
Mass Media and Community Development: A Case Study of the Newspaper Natotawin, Beauval, Saskatchewan
Not Enough: All Words and No Action on MMIWG: Interim Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples
Discusses the Government of Canada's record on implementing of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls' Calls to Action.
[Orange Shirt Day (Residential Schools)]
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
Order of Canada Awarded to David Ahenakew
Historical note:
David Ahenakew (born July 28, 1933) is a Canadian First Nations politician, and former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Ahenakew is a controversial public figure in Canada due to anti-semetic comments regarding World War 2 and the Holocaust.Permission: A Blood Reserve Sourcebook Drawn from Settler Records
Public Meeting on PA Indian Student Residence
Rebuilding First Nations through Sustainable Prosperity
Report on Industrial Schools For Indians and Half-Breeds
Reports of the Auditor General of Canada to the Parliament of Canada: Independent Auditor's Report 8: Emergency Management in First Nations Communities—Indigenous Services Canada
[Reserve Pass Lesson Plan: Social Studies 8]
Uses archival material as a starting point to teach about the influence of the treaty relationship on Canadian identity and how historical events have shaped contemporary Canadian identity.
Riel Project / Bulletin / du Projet Riel - No.1. - April / Avril 1979.
Historical note:
Saskatchewan’s First Indian Agent: M.G. Dickieson
Select Bibliography on Canadian Indian Treaties and Related Subjects
Extensive list covering many primary source documents found at the Public Archives of Canada, now known as the National Archives. There are also many rare 19th century and early 20th century secondary sources that may not be readily available in libraries outside of Ottawa.
Statement on Indian Health Policy
Summary of the 2022 Federal Engagement on First Nations Police Services Legislation: What We Heard Report
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.
To Have What Is One's Own
Urban Reserves in the Context of Sustainable First Nation Prosperity
Why are Indigenous Affairs Policies Framed in ways that Undermine Indigenous Health and Equity?
Examines how the framing of speeches by three different political groups impact Indigenous populations access to health equity.