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.
Consists of an interview where Adam Solway talks about being orphaned at 8 years and adopted by the Blackfoot Reserve, Alta; his attendance at a residential school; becoming a councillor and then chief of the reserve. He comments on the issues he had to deal with as well as providing comments on contemporary lifestyles and leadership.
Riverboats have sailed from Fort McMurray, Alberta, to Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan, for almost a century. The article describes today's system of tug-boats and barges, and traces the history of riverboats from early times.
Results from public meetings of persons interested in the development of Batoche, site of an important battle during the Northwest Resistance. Aspects of development that are favored include a visitor's centre, preservation of nearby buildings relevant to the Battle of Batoche, and preservation of the landscape as native vegetation.
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.
An interview where Chief One Gun tells of his father's recollections of the signing of an unspecified treaty. He also tells of a Brave Dog Society prayer meeting.
Christine Adam, one of the first residents of Uranium City, reflects on life in the old days. Page one: portrait of Christine Adam. Page Two: portrait of Christine with her mother and friend Adele Whitedeer.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1993, pp. 43-73
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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.
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
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.