The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, September 2019
Description
Study interviews 20 Indigenous and non-Indigenous medical leaders in health and health policy to determine what constitutes meaningful involvement of Indigenous peoples in health policy making. Results suggest that attention to the underlying power dynamics and decolonization of the system itself is a necessary step. Authors use the results to develop a framework for meaningful involvement.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 3, Autumn, 1977, pp. 209-224
Description
Discusses the history of the American Indian Movement, it's focus on Indian identity, nationalism, and sovereignty, and the protest activities it has engaged in.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rodney Gold
Description
File contains presentations by Rodney Gold, Tribal Chief, and Eric Burt, Executive Director, of the Confederation of Tribal Nations. Gold presents on self-governance and self-determination issues, specifically with regard to placing them within the context of the treaty relationship. Following this, Eric Burt delivers a presentation on the Canada Round talks leading to the Charlottetown Accord with reference to self-governance, and explains how he views those developments going forth in the aftermath of its rejection via referendum.
File contains a presentation by Mireille Sioui, Michel Gros Louis (Tare Dan Deh), and Annette Vincent (Wat Ron Yon Non Nen) of the Akiawenrak Long House. The three deliver a presentation discussing the structure of the Long House, its place in Huron society, its spiritual and cultural significance. A dispute is mentioned between the Huron-Wendat and the City of Lorrettville over the territory on which the longhouse is.
File contains a presentation by Chief Remy Kurtness, Yvon Parent, and Pierre Gill of the Montagnais Council of Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The presenters discuss their organization's view of Montagnais self-governance, their inherent rights, land issue, and related matters. Following their presentation the assembled Commissioners engage them in a discussion on these issues.
"...that the several Nations or Tribes of Indians with whom We are connected, and who live under our Protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the Possession of such Parts of Our Dominions and Territories as, not having been ceded to or purchased by Us, are reserved to them. or any of them, as their Hunting Grounds..."
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.
Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy Public Lecture
JSGS Public Lecture
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Perry Bellegarde
Description
Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations outlines Canadian First Nations governance structure and highlights major events, legislation, and court decisions which form the framework for future negotiations.
Duration: 1:31:59.
Presentation Slides
American Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, December 2018, pp. 741-754
Description
Author discusses the violent social media response Tanya Tagaq received after having posted a photo of her daughter next to a harvested seal; uses the incident to illustrate how colonial violence disproportionately targets Aboriginal women.
Annual McDonald Lecture in Constitutional Studies; 2013
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Pamela Palmater
Description
Speaks about the impact of section 35 which promised protection of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights for Aboriginal People under the constitution.
Duration 1:00:44.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 24, no. 2, Native Feminism, Fall, 2009, pp. 131-148
Description
"... examines the conflation of American and Navajo nationalisms by scrutinizing the intersections of war, gender, and Diné tradition and the ways in which the Diné have drawn upon tradition to support U.S. militarism ...
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; November 2010
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 11-120]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bjorn Rutten
Description
Examines security challenges of Arctic including consequences of climate change, natural and man-made disasters, sovereignty-related issues, and sustainability and resiliency of communities.
American Indian Law Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 1984, pp. 39-96
Description
Discusses the legal source and theoretical basis of the right of autonomy and whether this autonomy can be reconciled with the laws and institutions of the larger state.
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.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3, Self-Determination, 2001, pp. 36-41
Description
Describes the transformation of Home Rule from it's conception in 1979 to the appointment of a self-government commission in 1999.
To access this article scroll down to page 36.
Discusses the five realities of self government: historical reality, legal reality, political reality, economic reality, and one First Nation's reality.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 379-407
Description
Author asserts that in settler-colonial contexts, Holocaust memory tends to obscure historic colonial violence; cites the 2017 unveiling of the National Holocaust Monument (NHM) in Ottawa, noting that the narrative surrounding the NHM erases Indigenous peoples from the land and indigenizes the settler state.
American Literature, vol. 84, no. 4, December 2012, pp. 691-714
Description
Analyzes the autobiography A Son of the Forest in terms of the author's references to the reservation and what this says about the tribe's political identity and sovereignty.
Natural Resources Forum, vol. 34, no. 2, May 2010, pp. 106-123
Description
Identifies perceptions of the risks and benefits of the shellfish aquaculture tenuring system, and presents the results of 56 interviews conducted with individuals involved
in shellfish production in BC.
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 1, March 2017, pp. 35-42
Description
Looks at Indigenous people as political actors enacting change through dissensus within the liberal democracies of Canada, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States.