Discusses how Crown and Indigenous governments can engage with each other on the basis of a nation-to-nation relationship to develop regimes for management of resources which ensure mutually beneficial outcomes.
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Terry Mitchell
Description
Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens.
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Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt.
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Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 142-163
Description
Based on analysis of transcripts of Hirsekorn case in which judges had to render a decision on the Métis identity of the accused and his membership in a rights-holding Métis community.
Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, vol. 3, no. 2, Fall, 2012, pp. 43-66
Description
Comments on the unacceptability of the high rate of food insecurity, the lack of safe drinking water, the need for healthy, and other necessary infrastructure for healthy living.
Comments on board responsibilities including regulating the use of land and water, and the deposit of waste, through the issuance and management of land use permits and water licences.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, Defending Life First, September 2012, p. [?]
Description
Discusses how the government neglected cultural rights by illegally licensing an oil company to do business on traditional lands without community consent.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 120-131
Description
Focuses on development of doctrine of Aboriginal rights by the courts since the 1982 amendment and defining who constitutes the "Métis people" in section 35.
Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association ; 2012
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dwight Newman
Description
Analyzes the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples related to consultation with Indigenous groups and its formations of customary international law.
Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, 12-15 June 2012, Edmonton, Alberta.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, Water and Indigenous Peoples, 2012, pp. 1-15
Description
Studies the challenges to Indigenous water rights in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru due to hydro-power development, diverted water for mega cities, and large scale irrigation projects.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 65-92
Description
Analysis of rhetoric used in news coverage of 1998 referendum on the Nisga'a Treaty and 2002 BC Treaty Referendum in the National Post, Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, The Province, Abbotsford Times, Chilliwack Times, and Kamloops Daily News.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter, 2012, pp. 3-23
Description
Looks at features of Native American Catholicism and the differences between traditional religious customs and strategies used to cope with the requirement of ecclesial exclusivity.
Teacher's guide for use with documentary which looks at the Iroquois Nationals, a lacrosse team from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, their efforts to win a gold medal at the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship, and the controversy which erupted when they traveled with Haudenosaunee Confederacy passports.
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 132, April 11, 2012, pp. 1-28
Description
Reviews policy papers, reports and self-governance agreements to show the present state of First-Nations rights to control education as well as forms of institutional arrangements and agreements for educational self-determination.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 1, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 1-17
Description
Examines a conceptual framework used with food security movement that helps young people understand their social context and values and engages them in social justice work.
Canadian Journal of Human Rights, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012, pp. 94-125
Description
Assesses cultural harm under international law and human rights authority by looking at recovery in the colonial context, restoration of land-based and water based cultural practices, and regenerating Indigenous nationhood.
Cumulative Impacts to Fort McMurray First Nation #468 Traditional Lands & Lifeways: Shell Jackpine Mine Expansion and Pierre River Mine Report for Regulatory Hearings
FMFN #468 - Shell Hearing
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sherri Labour
Beth Dickson
Description
Existing effects and disturbances analysis prepared for a regulatory hearing for Shell Canada's Jackpine Mine Expansion and Pierre River Mine proposals on Fort McMurray First Nation traditional lands.
Harry Daniels and the Daniels Case: A Son's Perspective on the Man, His Legacy and Vision for a United Métis Nation
Threading the Constitutional Needle with Sinew of Métisland and Métis
[What Brought It On - and Did We Get What We Wanted?]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tony Belcourt
Elmer Ghostkeeper
Gabriel Daniels
Maria Campbell
Description
Speakers discuss struggles for Métis rights and recognition which led to Daniels case and the Supreme Court's ruling that Métis and non-Status individuals fall within the definition of "Indian" in section 91(24) of the Constitution Act,1867; Maria Campbell reminisces about leader Harry Daniels, who initiated the court action.
Duration: 1:59:52.
Presentations are part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Presenter discusses how the decision aligns with or fails to meet some of the standards set out in international law and human rights instruments, the issue of Indigenous self-definition and membership, and implications in terms of right to traditional lands, territories and resources.
Duration: 49:23.
Presentation is part of the conference "Daniels: In and Beyond the Law" held at University of Alberta, Jan. 26-27, 2017.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 26-47
Description
Discusses case involving Métis and Non-Status Indians. Plaintiffs sought three declarations: that the two groups are "Indians" as defined by the Constitution Act, 1867; that the Crown owes a fiduciary duty to them; and they have the right to be consulted and negotiated with as to their rights, interests, and needs.
Discussion on the performance-based budgeting process for tribal administration and program service delivery that focuses on strategic planning.
Duration: 23:19. Includes textual transcript.
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Aboriginal Rights Litigation, Negotiation, and Practice among the Metis of BC: Community Perspectives on Creating Legal Change
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kerry Sloan
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 48-86
Description
Case developed requirement that s. 35 rights be vested in "historic" communities (existed before European control) and there must be continuity with present-day communities. Author interviewed 23 people about problems with application of the decision in three cases: Howse, Nunn, and Willison.
Journal of Rural and Community Development, vol. 7, no. 1, Human Resources and Remote Indigenous Communities, 2012, pp. 93-109
Description
Looks at the Finnmark Act in 2005, the establishment of Finnmark Estate and contemporary Sami nature practices.
Follows two local women and their families.
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 17, [Indigenizing and Decolonizing Environmental Education], 2012, pp. 148-158
Description
Argues that place-based education can promote greater cross-cultural understanding between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians, promote social and ecological justice, and act as a site for Indigenous resurgence.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, Defending Life First, September 2012, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the community resistance to a hydroelectric project in Guatemala, the death of a community leader, President Molina's response, and military retaliation to the conflict.
Environment and History, vol. 18, no. 4, pecial Places and Protected Spaces: Historical and Global Perspectives on Non-National Parks in Cana, 2012, pp. 529-559
Description
Examines the interactions between British Columbia's provincial officials and the Sliammon Indigenous group regarding their land rights and cultural interests in the Desolation Sound Marine Park.
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue of Indigenous Policy: Anthropology, Archaeology and Litigation - Alaska Style, Spring, 2012, pp. 1-19
Description
Comments on opinions presented as fact in a court case and questions if guidelines need to be established for the use of anthropological and archaeological data in court testimony.
Includes sections on historiography and colonialism in the context of Africa, South and East Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Central Steppes, and North America.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 115-122
Description
Uses the ideology of manifest destiny to connect the policies and political practices of Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and Adolf Hitler; focuses on the removal of one people or race to make living space for another.