Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program, AAEDIRP
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tom Cooper
Terry Hickey
Leon Sock
Gerald Hare
Description
Purpose of study is to help guide First Nations communities in developing policies, procedures and controls that will ensure effective fisheries management.
Arctic Review on Law and Politics, vol. 1, no. 1, 2010, pp. 82-107
Description
Looks at characteristics and meaning of Aboriginal fishing rights within context of in Canadian law and goals of effective management and fair distribution.
Analyzes responses from interviews conducted by Reindeer Herder's Association. Those who self-identified as ethnic Finns focused on financial capital while those who self-identified as Sami were more concerned with social, cultural and human capital.
This file contains a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Elizabeth Metis Settlement, Alberta. This portion includes a presentation for Elizabeth Metis Settlement by Wilfred Collins concerning education, philosophy and spiritual believes in the Metis community.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bruce MacIntosh
Description
This file contains a presentation by Bruce MacIntosh relating to tourism opportunities with the communities of Restigouche and Pointe a la Croix, Quebec. Sport fishing and a local ski facility are tourism hotspots and MacIntosh wishes to partner with these communities to create further employment and other economic opportunities. James Blanchard, First School District 14, Campbellton, New Brunswick, is introduced as the next speaker.
The file contains a presentation by the Concerned Fishermen, Chairman Robert Ross. Chairman Ross discusses his Aboriginal fishermen's organizational viewpoint regarding the environment, conservation harvesting, marketing of their own fish, and tourism. Ross makes a variety of complaints regarding the fishing operations of the Freshwater Fish Corporation on Great Slave Lake, alleging serious environmental and labour abuses.
This file contains a transcript of a part of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This part includes a presentation for the Lower Fraser Valley Fishing Authority by Ernie Crey and Ken Mallory concerning issues pertaining to the economic independence for the Aboriginal fishing industry in the British Columbia. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow the presentation.
This file contains a transcript of a part of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This part includes a presentation for the Lower Fraser Valley Fishing Authority by Ernie Crey and Ken Mallory concerning achievement of economic independence for the Aboriginal fishing industry in the British Columbia. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow the presentation.