Report outlines progress made in fulfilling the department's mandate to implement the National Resolution Framework and expedite the Alternative Dispute Resolution process.
Prepared in 1996 and revised in 2003 for the Political and Social Affairs Division, Parliamentary Library; provides historical background of federal legislative control of "status" and "membership."
Comments on some great Saskatchewan athletes like Paul Acoose and Alex Wuttunee Decoteau. Also discusses the 1996 Indian Summer Games at Ahtahkakoop Reserve in Saskatchewan.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, 1996, pp. 87-129
Description
Examines the 1896 law case Ward v. Race Horse which brought in new doctrines that constricted treaty rights, elevating State's rights above Federally sanctioned treaty rights.
Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 15, no. 4, Summer, June 1, 1996, pp. 53-59
Description
Book review of:
The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter,
A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and its Peoples by Michael C. McConnell,
The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the Era of Revolution by Tom Hatley,
The Founders of America: How Indians Discovered... by Francis Jennings.
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 23-50
Description
Examines the past and present relationship between academics and the Aboriginal community and discusses the issue of repatriation of cultural property and human remains.
Book review of: The Indians of Puget Sound edited with introduction by George Pierre Castile, afterword by William W. Elmendorf.
Scroll down to page 70 to read review.
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.
To access this article, scroll down to page 28.
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.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3/4, Summer/Autumn, 2004, pp. 634-648
Description
Discussion of aboriginal efforts to improve their socioeconomic status through entrepreneurship and business development fuelled by land claims settlements.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3/4, The Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge, Summer/Autumn, June 1, 2004, pp. 411-434
Description
Explains the relationship between nutrition and geographic distribution of diseases, increase in obesity rates and diet-related diseases and impact of physical activity on obesity prevention.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3/4, The Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge, Summer/Autumn, 2004, pp. 604-617
Description
Explores the difficulties in incorporating oral traditions into classrooms where learning is primarily textual and presents a model which brings first hand learning to course work.
Discusses computer and electronic networking projects addressing education, development and self-determination that Australian Aboriginal and Native American people are doing.
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.