Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement Part 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs
Description
Claims Agreement signed in Fort Norman, Northwest Territories, on September 6, 1993 between Canada and the Dene of Colville Lake, Deline, Fort Good Hope and Fort Norman, and Metis of Fort Good Hope, Fort Norman and Norman Wells.
Sakawew Partnership Encourages Aboriginal Employment in Saskatchewan
Articles » General
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 12, December 2009, p. 19
Description
Discusses the commitment of a diverse group of business, community, government and First Nation officicials to increase Aboriginal employment in Saskatchewan's growing economy.
Article located by scrolling to page 19.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 13
Description
Comments on the 2009 Sakewewak Artists' Collective Storytellers Festival of which one goal was to bridge modern and traditional storytelling practices.
Article located by scrolling to page 13.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 11, November 2009, p. 10
Description
Comments on the importance, and success, of Treaty Education in Saskatchewan for kindergarten to Grade 12 students.
Article located by scrolling to page 10.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 11
Description
Discusses Métis citizens feelings of being rushed to implement Draft Duty to Consult and Accomodate policies without time to respond to the draft in a meaningful way.
Article located by scrolling to page 11.
Canada. Government of Canada and the Province of Saskatchewan
Description
Statute regarding settlement of land entitlement of select First Nations in Saskatchewan including: Keeseekoose, Muskowekwan, Ochapowace, Okanese, Piapot, Star Blanket, Yellowquill, Beardy's & Okemasis, Flying Dust, Little Pine, Moosomin, Mosquito Grizzly Bear's Head, Muskeg Lake, One Arrow, Pelican Lake, Red Pheasant, Saulteaux, Sweetgrass, Thunderchild, Witchekan Lake, Canoe Lake and English River and Nekaneet First Nation.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 6, June 2009, p. 1,2
Description
Comments on the eleventh annual SaskTel Aboriginal Youth Awards of Excellence including the nominees, the first female recipient and the necessity of role models.
Article located on page 1 and by scrolling to page 2.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 12, December 2009, p. 8
Description
Looks at the story behind the winning logo created to represent the 125th Anniversary of the Battle of Batoche.
Article located by scrolling to page 8.
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, August 31, 1981 regarding a letter of thanks to City Council from the Saskatoon Indian Metis Friendship Centre for receiving a tax rebate.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 4, April 2009, p. 12
Description
Comments on the Government of Saskatchewans' willingness to protect, preserve and promote art, culture and heritage in the Aboriginal community by creating a cultural policy for the whole province.
Article located by scrolling to page 12.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 4, 2009, pp. 139-149
Description
Comments on the imminence of the Lakota language being lost and the many decisions needed to be made in order to keep the language vibrant, including choosing which set of diacritics to use.
Canadian Diversity=Diversitié canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of contemporary Aboriginal Reality, 2009, pp. 93-101
Description
Looks at school mobility or changing schools as a contributing factor to school success. Compares kindergarten students both on-reserve and band-affiliated and non-band affiliated Aboriginal students to non-Aboriginal peers.
Scroll down to page 93 to read article.
Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming Played Role in Changing Creighton Jimmy's Life
Articles » General
Eagle Feather News, vol. 12, no. 2, February 2009, p. 13
Description
Focuses on a youth who has turned his life around through involvement in an art program which consists of community art projects, skill enhancement workshops and life skills training.
Article located by scrolling to page 13.
Examines information gathered through interviews with shelter directors pertaining to the necessary changes in the delivery of services in regards to the needs of abused Native women.
Looks at the results of three different surveys to assess what capacity-building programs currently exist for the Northern youth, and to identify the skills and experience required to move into leadership positions.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 29, no. 1/2, 2009, pp. 305-307
Description
Book review of: Seeing Beyond the Trees: The Social Dimensions of Aboriginal Forest Management edited by David C. Nather.
Scroll to page 305 to read review.
Report of the proceedings held in conjunction with the exhibition, The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odig, a Retrospective Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Sudbury in October 2007.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 22, no. 4, April 1993, p. 15
Description
Conference explores the topic and makes recommendations to be presented at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, Austria.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 1993, pp. 309-325
Description
Book review of: Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty: The Existing Aboriginal Right of Self-Government by Bruce Clark and review of the article Claims to Territory in Colonial America in the book The Law of Nations and the New World by L. C. Green and Olive P. Dickason.
[Background Paper (Parliamentary Information and Research Service)] ; PRB 09-16E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary C. Hurley
Description
"Comprehensive land claims are based on the assertion of continuing Aboriginal rights and title that have not been dealt with by treaty or other legal means".
Pimatisiwin, vol. 7, no. 1, Summer, 2009, pp. 27-47
Description
Questions whether Aboriginal children are experiencing significantly lower rates of sexual abuse than their parents did or if abuse is being underreported.
Conference proceedings (Australian Institute of Criminology) ; no. 20
Without Consent: Confronting Adult Sexual Violence: Proceedings of a Conference Held 27-29 October, 1992
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Carol Thomas
Description
Presents number of factors that need to be considered when developing appropriate strategies to deal with needs of Aboriginal women.
Presented at Without Consent: Confronting Adult Sexual Violence, conference sponsored by the Australian Institute of Criminology.
Focuses on three of the "grandmothers" of Native theatre: Eizabeth Miguel (aka Lisa Mayo), Gloria Miguel and Muriel Miguel, who now face discrimination in the theatre world due to their advanced age.