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Author/Creator
Mining Association of Manitoba Inc.
Description
Lays out a sustainable mining plan on how to conduct mineral resource projects being respectful of Aboriginal communities and treaty rights in a mutually favorable way.
Aboriginal Relations: The Emergence of a New Paradigm
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Mark S. Dockstator
Description
Webinar discusses the history of Aboriginal rights and identifies current trends, focusing on the 1970s to the present.
Duration: 4:37.
Building a Resilient and Prosperous North: Centre for the North Five-Year Compendium Report
Alternate Title
Report (Conference Board of Canada) ; April 2015
[Publication (Conference Board of Canada) ; 6973]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anja Jeffrey
Adam Fiser
Natalie Brender
Brent Dowdall
Description
Summarizes the Centre for the North’s half-decade of research on Canada’s North and provides an analysis of three priority items to be addressed.
Conference Report: Gender Equality in the Arctic: Current Realities Future, Challenges
Alternate Title
Gender Equality in the Arctic: Current Realities, Future Challenges, Akureyri, Iceland, October 30-31, 2014
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Embla Eir Oddsdóttir
Már Siguròsson
Sólrún Svandal
Description
Conference highlighted the importance of diversity in gender, social realities, education, economics and cooperation between public and private sectors and living conditions of men and women in the Circumpolar North.
The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Michelle D. Stokely
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 2, 2016, pp. 148-149
Description
Book review of: The Darkest Period by Ronald D. Parks.
The Duty to Consult and Environmental Assessments: A Study of Mining Cases From Across Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Jeffrey Thomson
Description
Environmental and Resource Studies Thesis (MES)--University of Waterloo, 2015.
Emerging Challenges on Consultation with Indigenous Communities in the Canadian Provincial North
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dwight Newman
Northern Review, no. 39, Consultation and Resource Development in Northern Communities: Russia, Scandinavia & Canada, 2015, pp. 22-30
Description
Discusses some concerns by Aboriginal communities with the duty to consult policy framework in Saskatchewan.
Enabling Community Well-being Self-Monitoring in the Context of Mining: The Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robert Klinck
Ben Bradshaw
Ruby Sandy
Silas Nabinacaboo
Mannie Mameanskum ... [et al.]
Engaged Scholar Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, Fall, 2015, pp. 114-130
Description
Describes how a community tracked well-being through a number of community-engaging activities.
Exploring the Great Bear Sea: Elementary Grades 4 - 7 Resource
Alternate Title
The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jennifer Buffett
Karen Anspacher-Meyer
Description
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Exploring the Great Bear Sea: Environmental Science Grades 11 & 12
Alternate Title
The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sarah Lockman
Jennifer Buffett
Description
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Exploring the Great Bear Sea: Social Studies Grades 11 & 12
Alternate Title
The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Sarah Lockman
Jennifer Buffett
Description
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Finding Common Ground: A Critical Review of Land Use and Resource Management Policies in Ontario, Canada and their Intersection with First Nations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fraser McLeod
Leela Viswanathan
Graham S. Whitelaw
Jared Macbeth
Carolyn King ... [et al.]
The International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, January 2015, pp. 1-23
Description
Examines current provincial policies and identifies changes needed to improve relations between municipalities and Aboriginal communities.
First Nations and the Resource Future: The Path to Economic Partnership
Alternate Title
North at Trent 2015 Lecture Series
Saskatchewan First nations and the Province s's Resource Future
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Perry Bellegarde
Description
National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations discusses Saskatchewan's current resource-based boom, necessity for collaboration, and impact and benefit agreements with governments and companies.
Duration: 2:00:34.
Good Practice Guide: Indigenous Peoples and Mining
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)
IBA Community Toolkit: Negotiation and Implementation of Impact and Benefit Agreements
Alternate Title
Impact and Benefit Agreement Community Toolkit: Negotiation and Implementation of Impact and Benefit Agreements
E-Books
Author/Creator
Ginger Gibson
Ciaran O'Faricheallaigh
Description
Meant for communities considering entering into a contract with a Canadian mining company, but many of the issues and processes are also relevant to other industry sectors and contexts.
Contains information on: project analysis; preparing for negotiations and establishing negotiating position; conducting negotiations; reaching and implementing agreements; and maintaining relationships.
"Summer 2015 edition."
Impact and Benefit Agreements: Key Issues for Communities and Industry
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Ben Bradshaw
Description
Webinar provides an overview of agreements between mineral resource developers and Aboriginal communities with limited government interference. Also leads a discussion with participants about Aboriginal community signatories’ expectations, community consent, and the possibility of standardizing IBA negotiations.
Duration: 1:01:00.
Incorporating Indigenous Forms Of Governance In The Management Of Natural Resources: The Case of South Africa's Royal Bafokeng
Theses
Author/Creator
Shingirai Lenon Taodzera
Description
Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2015.
LAND | MINE
Theses
Author/Creator
Tsēma Tamara Skubovius
Description
Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design Thesis (M.F.A.)--OCAD University, 2016.
Legal Position of the Sami in the Exploitation of Mineral Resources in Finland, Norway and Sweden
Theses
Author/Creator
Giuseppe Amatulli
Description
Human Rights and Democratisation Thesis (E.MA)--Åbo Akademi University, 2015.
Mi'kmawe'l Tan Teli-kina'muemk: Teaching about the Mi'kmaq
E-Books
Author/Creator
Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre
Description
Mining and Aboriginal Rights in the Yukon: How Certainty Affects Investor Confidence
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Malcolm Lavoie
Dwight Newman
Description
Looks at crowning legal uncertainty about Aboriginal land claims and the resource sector investment.
[Mining Capitalism: The Relationship Between Corporations and Their Critics]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Walker
Fern Brunger
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, 2015, pp. 254-255
Description
Book review of: Mining Capitalism by Stuart Kirsch.
Pipelines, Climate and "Indigenous Consent"
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Russ Diabo
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, Winter 16, 2016, p. [?]
Description
Article republished from The Eastern Door no. 37, September 16, 2016. Questions raised by the Standing Rock Sioux about the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Mohawk to Energy East Pipeline.
Post-Frontier Resource Governance: Indigenous Rights, Extraction and Conservation in the Peruvian Amazon
Alternate Title
International Relations and Development Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter Bille Larsen
Preparatory Report from the Sami Parliament in Sweden/Sámediggi/Sámedigge/Saemiedigkie/Sametinget for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ms.Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Prior to Her 2015 August visit to Sápmi and Sweden
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
India Reed Bowers
Description
Some of issues discussed are women's rights and circumstances, resource extraction, lack of legal-political structures for self-determination and Sweden's Race Biology and eugenics programs.
Regulating for Resilience: Principled Flexibility and Environmental Co-Management in the Mackenzie Valley
Theses
Author/Creator
Heather L. Potter
Description
Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Western Ontario, 2016.
Rewriting the Narrative of American History: American Indian Identity and the Process of Recovery
Alternate Title
Contemporary American Indian History
[Yale National Initiative National Seminars]
Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the the Yale National Initiative ; 2016 Volume 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jo Anne Flory
Description
Unit looks at how the authors of Tulsa: From Creek Town to Oil Capital (Angie Debo), Custer Died for Your Sins (Vine Deloria, Jr.), and Winter in the Blood (James Welch) repond to certain crises in Native American history. Designed for 11th grade Advanced Placement Language and Composition classes. Some focus on Oklahoma history.
Sovereignty for Survival: American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Andrew Curley
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, 2016, pp. 229-233
Description
Book review of: Sovereignty for Survival by James Robert Allison III.
Understanding UNDRIP: Choosing Action on Priorities over Sweeping Claims about the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Canada and the Natural Resource Economy Series ; 10
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ken S. Coates
Blaine Favel
Description
Discusses UNDRIP's origins and evolution and how its key articles might interact with Canadian laws and policies. Looks at a selection of 46 articles.