Talks about governance and not losing any of the privileges and rights from the Royal Proclamation to the Indian Act and getting out from its legacy. Answers questions about what will happen to Indian Affairs funding of initiatives already in place. (7 minutes).
Looks at the Choctaw Nation in Mississippi with an unemployment rate of zero percent and a language retention rate of 90 %. It describes how things could change in Eskasoni and looks at the process of economic development.
Duration: 9:00.
Indian Claims Commission: Esketemc First Nation: Wright's Meadow Pre-Emption Inquiry
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
p. 103
Description
At issue is the pre-emption of a meadow used by the Esketemc First Nation or as it was then known the Alkali Lake Band. The inquiry found that Canada breached its fiduciary duty by not protecting the meadow, which was clearly in the band's settlement lands. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Nordlit, no. 15, Special Issue on Northern Minorities, 2004, pp. 105-119
Description
Saami scholar discusses issues of Indigenous methodology important to Indigenous researchers. Originally written for a doctoral seminar held at the University of Tromsø.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 43, no. 2, August 2010, pp. 199-222
Description
Looks at review of research that has attempted to measure levels of rape and examines National Crime Victimization Survey for context of differences between ethnicities.
Report commissioned to assess the social, political, economic and cultural ramifications of a new set of laws governing membership in the Anishinabek Nation of Ontario.
Related material: Excerpts.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and the University, 2008, pp. 72-83
Description
Looks at the differences between mainstream and Indigenous concepts of knowledge. The author also takes a look at ethical space in academia from a personal, family, and community point of view.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 59-76
Description
Relates the events leading to the forced relocation of the residents of Island Cache in Prince George B.C. in the early 1970s and how community research needs to be ethical.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 67, no. 1, 2008, pp. 99-115
Description
Findings from over 12,000 individual surveys found that the Sami and Kven population experience discrimination and bullying more often than ethnic Norwegians.
Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum ; 2004
The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amy Wiita
Description
Provides introduction to the research topic, methodology, and research questions.
Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. ix-xxxii
Description
Author discusses the way that the ethnographic approach to captivity narratives such as Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, etc., in the Captivity of John Gyles and A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson promotes several assumptions about Indigenous culture and portrays them as foreign.
Social Science History, vol. 34, no. 2, Summer, 2010, pp. 113-128
Description
Examines the study of ethnographic cultures and Indigenous customs as it developed in the American Indian communities in the era of the Indian Claims Commission.