Focuses on opportunities in hard-rock and placer mining. Sources of information include literature review and interviews with Aboriginal leaders, territorial and federal government mining department staff, and industry representatives.
Brief which was submitted to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) outlines the thought process in creating the report and provides a summary of consultations.
23 Elizabeth II. Chapter 15. An Act Respecting Oil and Gas in Indian Lands
Indian Oil and Gas Act
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Description
Cited as Indian Oil and Gas Act. Section 7 provided for consultation, on a continuing basis, with Indian bands most directly affected by oil and gas activities.
Antoine Lonesinger discusses different methods of earning a living that included making charcoal and lime. Also included is the story of a boy saved a camp from starvation with the help of the raven spirit.
Interview includes stories about a ghost priest and a non-existent camp. Also included is a story of how a lame boy's skill as a medicine man won him a chieftainship and a wife.
Abstract: The territorial aspirations and achievements of Aboriginal minorities in the common-law jurisdictions of North America, Australia and New Zealand can be divided according to three varieties of political-legal situations; those in areas of initiation, enhancement and omission. In the first of these, to which attention is here confined, there has been no legally defined and protected land-base, and Aboriginal land claims are or have been the subject of recent litigation, negotiation and settlement.
A discussion of Land rights under Treaty #7; trade of furs for goods; and the dispersal of the Blackfoot people and eventual return to the Blackfoot Reserve under Crowfoot.
Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs.
Description
Paper discusses fur trade issues including: trap research, standards development, trapper education and trap replacement, all in an attemp to ensure that Canadian wild fur products will continue to have access to the European Market.
Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.
Discusses the creation and accomplishments of the Kitsaki Development Corporation, an economic development and investment arm of the La Ronge Indian Band.
Discusses five key elements needed for self-sufficiency: land and natural resources, capital and financing, human resource development, governmental environment, cultural and social environment, and organizational structure. Concludes with recommendations.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1993, pp. 43-73
Description
Analysis of the Choctaw, who live in the southeastern Oklahoma timber region, and how they survive in the face of land alienation and economic challenges to their traditional strategies, in order to maintain a livelihood.
This study describes what aboriginal attitudes to the concept of development in the Mackenzie District of Canada. It shows "there are different ideas in different groups as to what 'development' is, as well as different enthusiasms about development."
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer, 1993, pp. 329-340
Description
Article discusses the different understandings of property and ownership that exist in United States law and in the treaties with Indigenous peoples; examines the different implications of property rights and how they are exercised with regards to mineral rights and hunting and fishing rights.
Frank Cardinal (aged 68), chief of the Sucker Creek Reserve, discusses Treaty #8 and its interpretation, the establishment of the reserves around Lesser Slave Lake, and problems facing a chief in modern times.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 209-225
Description
Article examines the meanings and significance of the Snoqualmie Falls to the Snoqualmie people; considers historic, political, and spiritual/traditional contexts. Examines a current conflict surrounding the falls which involves the Puget Sound Power and Light Company.
Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories and Metis and Non-Status Native Association of the Northwest Territories
Description
Press release relating to the first Joint General Assembly of the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories and Metis and Non-Status Native Association of the Northwest Territories. Ten resolutions were passed concerning land claims, economic development, local government and education.
Interviews with 13 residents of the Chipewyan Lake area of northern Alberta.- Stresses need for establishment of a reserve in this area, and promises made to them about this.- Describe various lifestyles including farming, trapping and fishing.- Shows how settlement patterns in remote areas have been influenced by the location of schools and stores.