Report reveals the Indian Claims Commission's recommendations to the Federal Government for 2006-2007, as well as background on the seven inquiries completed during the 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.]
Indian Claims Commission Proceedings: A Publication of the Indian Claims Commission (2007) 18 ICCP
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Indian Claims Commission
Description
Report includes background documents, articles, comments and responses regarding the following cases: Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation, Flooding Negotiations (Mediation); Peepeekisis First Nation Inquiry, Fire Hills Colony Claim; Moosomin First Nation ,1909 Reserve Land Surrender (Mediation); Thunderchild First Nation, 1908 Surrender Claim (Mediation); and the Betsiamites Band, Highway 138 and Rivière Betsiamites Bridge Inquires.
Commissioners include: Renée Dupuis, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Jane Dickson-Gilmore, Alan C. Holman, and Sheila G. Purdy.
Overview of 1991-1994 activities of the Indian Specific Claims Commission (ICC), an independent body of inquiry whose mandate includes review of rejected federal claims. The ICC focus includes, claims inquiries, research, mediation and publications, as well as review of the federal Specific Claims Policy and process. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 66-86
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Using the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin as a case study the author offers criticism of current Tribal government operations and details a step-by-step plan to non-violently seize political power.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 3, 2007, pp. 5-48
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Examines how museums respectfully display Native American clothing cross-culturally or transnationally in an appropriate context and provide educational information about regalia.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall, 2007, pp. 48-81
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Discusses the Aboriginal documentaries produced as part of National Film Board's initiative designed to give marginalized social groups a greater voice. Films include: Powwow at Duck Lake, Elliot Lake, The Indian Speaks, Ballad of Crowfoot, Cree Hunters of Mistassini, and You are on Indian Land.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 5, no. 2, Series 2: Special Issue, Summer, 1993, pp. 7-12
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Outlines four approaches to various traditional writings and discusses how critics need to understand how the literature fulfills and transcends a growing, developing tradition.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer, 1993, pp. 343-349
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Author considers different historical perspectives on the civilized vs. savage narratives that are pervasive in the frontier mythology of the United States complicating both the portrayal of Indigenous peoples and the colonial state’s relationship with them.
Argues that the state-sponsored alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process reflects a misuse of ADR because it represents the government’s attempt to pacify
residential school survivors through social control.
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat
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Website for organization responsible for out-of-court alternative dispute resolution process for claims of abuse suffered at residential schools.
Contains links to material for legal counsel and former students, statistics, publication, fact sheets, etc.
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 2017, pp. 290-321
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Argues that while school officials regarded the practice of placing male students as farm labourers during the summer months as a method of assimilation, many used their employment to serve their own purposes.
Curator of the exhibition entitled Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian discusses the exhibition about the pervasiveness of the image of the American Indian in popular culture and the controversy surrounding the validity of artist Jimmy Durham's Cherokee identity.
Duration: 58:51.
American Literary History, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 141-159
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Chronicles the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the American state through a discussion of five books and concludes increased Indigenous presence requires critical historical awareness of the state.
AlterNative, vol. 13, no. 4, December 2017, pp. 235-245
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Focuses on the experience of facilitators and leaders in the program dealing with the challenges associated with adapting Western research methods to the Indigenous context.
Topics discussed were collecting and collections management, and repatriation and initiatives for reconciliation; includes case studies, witness reflections and link to the webinar Museum Perspectives on the Task Force on Museums & First Peoples and the Recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Full report on project which looked at the effects of situating camps associated with Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline project close to small and already vulnerable communities.
Brief discussion of project which looked at effects of situating camps associated with Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline project close to small and already vulnerable communities.