ĆELÁNEN: a Journal of Indigenous Governance, vol. 1, no. 1, 2004, p. [?]
Description
Discusses recommendations that should be made to address the conflict between the Chilean state and Mapuche Nation including establishing an exchange program between the Indigenous Institute in Temuco and the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria, B.C.
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kimberly Roppolo
Description
Examines Native American traditions of interaction and speech rules in literature.
Overview of the Indian Claims Commission's activities for the year including inquiries and reports, special initiatives and plans for the next year. [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 Kahkewistahaw First Nation 1907 Surrender Claim (Mediation), Alexis First Nation Inquiry, Chippewa Tri-Council Inquiry, Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation Inquiry and the Canupawakpa Dakota 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.]
Report outlines progress made in fulfilling the department's mandate to implement the National Resolution Framework and expedite the Alternative Dispute Resolution process.
English Studies in Canada, vol. 30, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 29-38
Description
Discussion of U of S English Professor Len Findlay's exhortation to "Always Indigenize" and how universities are complacent with respect to the inequality of Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, The UN Decade: Expectations and Realities, 2004, pp. 28-31
Description
Discusses programme aimed at increasing an understanding of the United Nations among young Indigenous persons.
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Prairie Forum, vol. 29, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 1-24
Description
Explains how the authors used Métis genealogy to search for ancestors and trace them back to a French fur trader who lived in the mid-eighteenth century.
Discussion based on cases decided under the Optional Protocol to the Convent, on the Human Rights Committee's general comments and consideration of periodic report by States parties. Focuses on Article 1: the right of all peoples to self determination; and Article 27: the protection afforded under the notions of 'culture' and 'minority'.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, Fall, 2004, pp. 111-138
Description
Illustrates how legislation has historically, and currently, grappled with the rights of Maori, in terms of the right to participate in the ownership and management of mountains.