Focuses on seven topics: eight principles of Indigenous child welfare, understanding the overrepresentation of children in care, legal context, root causes, discrepancies in delivery of services, current approaches and recommendations in the area of family violence, current approaches and recommendations in the area of substance use, and improving financial supports for families.
[Métisland: Métis Settlements and the Daniels Decision]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Will Goodon
Gerald Cunningham
Description
President of the Métis Settlements General Council discusses its involvement in the Daniels case and actions of the Council since the decision. Second speaker discusses the political and historical context of the case, analyzes the court's judgement, and suggests possible future actions.
Duration: 1:15:01.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Tracks progress in policies, programs and regulations that impact energy systems at the federal, provincial, territorial, regulatory and utility levels. Each section includes information on jurisdiction's total number of communities, and population and diesel consumption as a percentage of national total. Based on the most recent data available in the Remote Communities Energy database.
The Act provides support for First Nations' authority over child and family services. Document discusses national legal principles, positive principles, standards and norms, restricting or constraining provisions, the interplay between elected Indian Act Band Councils and traditional governance structures, and the applicability of First Nations laws.
Act asserts Indigenous peoples' jurisdiction over child and family services and establishes national standards. Paper examines issues related to national standards, jurisdiction, funding, accountability and data collection.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, Espaces-Lieux-Noms / Spaces-Places-Names, 2004, pp. 203-209
Description
Brief outline of efforts by such international organizations as International Labour Organization, the United Nations and the World Intellectual Property Organization to protect scared sites and place names.
Includes: overview of important concepts including rights to cultural heritage and Australian and international legal and policy protections; ten guiding principles and their accompanying protocols; numerous case studies; and project checklist and templates.
Discusses general characteristics of Indigenous-led assessments and highlights two projects: the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation's Review of KGHM-Ajax-Abacus Mine proposal and the Squamish Nation's Assessment of Woodfibre LNG Plant.
Presents the case for establishing an Indigenous-led organization that can address gaps in legislation and policy, and support initiatives in Indigenous communities which will achieve measurable goals which would ensure that cultural heritage can be managed, protected and revitalized in meaningful and substantive ways.
Discusses current legislative regime governing access to moneys derived from reserve lands which are held in trust in the Consolidated Revenue Fund and mechanisms available through optional legislation, and makes recommendations which would enable Bands to receive funds directly and in a timely manner.
Makes recommendations under four themes: traditional foods, local food production, Federal subsidy and support programs, and project funding coordination and promotion.
Focuses on funding agreements used in different levels of government including: land claims/modern treaties, territorial formula financing, international agreements and treaties, block funding, transfer payments, municipal transfer payments, and institutional authorities.
Institute on Governance Roundtable Series, 2004-05
IOG Roundtable Series
Notes on the 3rd TANAGA Roundtable: Environmental Management On-Reserve
Towards a News Aboriginal Governance Agenda - TANAGA
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Moffat
David Nahwegahbow
Institute on Governance
Institute on Governance Roundtable Series
Description
Summarizes two presentations: one on the project "The Environmental Management Gap on Reserves: Overview and Assessment Options"; the other on how issues can be dealt with in the context of self-government.
Historical Resilience: The Story of Violence against Native Women
More Than Seven Times for the Next Seven Generations
Save Our Sisters: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Sovereignty of Our Nations, in the Law and Over Our Bodies
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Sarah Deer
Mary Kathryn Nagle
Jaime Black
Marita Growing Thunder
Cherrah Giles
Description
Videos of talks given at a symposium sponsored by the National Museum of the American Indian.
"Historical Resilience: The Story of Violence against Native Women" by Sarah Deer.
"Sovereignty of Our Nations, in the Law, and Over Our Bodies" by Mary Kathryn Nagle.
"Dancing Myself Home" by Jaime Black.
"More Than Seven Times for the Next Seven Generations" by Cerrah Giles.
"Save Our Sisters: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls" by Marita Growing Thunder.
Panel Discussion.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, 2004, pp. 425-445
Description
Reviews the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and adequacy of food security including law and policy, which impede food production and acquisition, and provides recommendations for achieving food security.
Statistics on the Implementation of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement: Information Update on the Common Experience Payment (From September 19, 2007 to March 31, 2019)
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)
Description
Reports latest information on payments to be paid to all eligible former students who resided at a recognized Indian Residential School.
Reviews literature about family-centered services and family preservation services. Concludes with recommendations for "best practices" for policy makers.
A Syllabus for History After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Historical Association
Description
Goal of document is to "gather together materials on Indigenous history in and around Canada that might be useful for people teaching, researching, writing history or working in public history".
Current as of 2019.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 1-23
Description
Discusses the tribal reaction to U.S. government termination policies, as somewhat polarized on and off-reservation, and the efforts to take control of their own affairs.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, October 21, 2019
Description
Article draws on a multi-year collaborative community study to articulate Indigenous understandings of and perspectives on the practice of FPIC in a Canadian Context.
Presents an analytical tool that contains a series of criteria and related questions organized around five good governance principles that are based on work done by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).