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.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1986, pp. 333-349
Description
Indian reservations were surveyed regarding their consumption of wildlife. Calls for increased joint management efforts between provincial and Indian governments to identify all forces affecting wildlife populations and to create equitable conservation programs.
An interview discussing various topics: evidence given to the Office of Specific Claims and Research by Jim Black; signing of Treaty #7; an account of the CPR line being taken through Blackfoot Reserveterritory; a description of two murders: Frank Skynner killed by Scrapings, and Charcoal's murder of Medicine Pipe Stem; the surrender of Blackfoot Reserve land; and an understanding of land rights.
Discusses the American Indian Movement in Canada and its U.S. origins. The broadcast also discusses housing in BC, people against the expansion of Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, and criticism over the Mackenzie Valley pipeline.
Includes synopsis.
Duration: 43:33 (this topic begins at 19:00)
Native Studies Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 1986, pp. 45-67
Description
Focuses on Commission's recommendations for dealing with, "The Indian people in the North of Ontario" and suggests circumstances and time may have eliminated any impact the recommendations could have achieved.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, 1986, pp. 75-94
Description
Studies the economic experiences of a energy resource rich Native American community and finds that President Reagan's New Federalism didn't have a positive impact.
A total of 136 elders' interviews were read for reference to treaty mineral rights. Of these, 58 were either not concerned with an Indian understanding of treaty or did not deal specifically with minerals.
Author uses various anthropological and historical sources to throw some light on the way in which the Indians of the Treaty 6 and 7 regions might have interpreted the treaty promises.