Environmental Research, vol. 80, no. 2, February 1999, pp. S213-S222
Description
Discusses a 1996-1997 study to research the health risks of contaminant exposure and the correlation to freshwater fish consumption in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake.
Report includes inquiries and responses regarding: Gamblers First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Inquiry; Nekaneet First Nation Agricultural and Other Benefit Under Treaty 4 Inquiry; Moose Deer Point First Nation, Pottawatomi Rights Inquiry. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P. E. James Prentice, Roger J. Augustine, Carole T. Corcoran, Elijah Harper, and Sheila G. Purdy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Broadcast discusses after-effects of ruling in the Donald Marshall, Jr. case and concerns about aggressive lobster fishing. Includes synopsis and "Did You Know?" section.
Duration: 7:30.
Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 101, no. 7, December 1993, pp. 618-620
Description
Contends that Québec Inuit women have the greatest body burden known to develop from exposure to organochlorine contaminants, due to their location at the top of the arctic food chain.
Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, vol. 4, no. 2, 1999, p. 16
Description
Discusses how Indigenous people in Washington State have established a new ethos in environmental management of collaborating with industry, government and environmental groups to solve their concerns.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1999, pp. 169-192
Description
Looks at changes in hunting, fishing and gathering patterns and speculates about the future of this way of life while there are also significant weather, technology, nutrition and dietary changes occurring.
RCAP 152 contains a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Vancouver, British Columbia. This portion includes presentations of individuals and groups dealing with various topics concerning health care systems and services; fishing rights; fire fighting in the Aboriginal Community; cultural advancement through writing and issues surrounding special needs citizens in the Aboriginal Community. Questions from the assembled Commissioners follow each presentation which can be viewed individually on this site.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Andy Von Busse
Description
This file contains a presentation by Andy Von Busse relating to the management of fish and wildlife resources, particularly concerning the unlimited and unregulated hunting and fishing ability of Status and Non-Status Aboriginals. The presenter recommends that individual First Nations should be given a clear authority to make bylaws concerning the management and use of fish and wildlife resources within their boundaries. A question-and-answer session with the Commissioners follows the presentation.
The file contains a presentation by Rita Corbiere. Corbiere, an Ojibwa Elder from the Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve, discusses the past of the Anishnabe people, economic and taxation issues, the state of the British Empire and Monarchy, the Chartered Lands Act, fisheries, environmental issues, Ojibwa service in the War of 1812, the 1836 Treaty on Manitoulin Island, and the Chartered Lands Act.
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.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Matthew Coon Come
Romeo Saganash
Billy Diamond
Bill Nemagoose
Description
This file contains a presentation by Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Crees of James Bay; Romeo Saganash, Deputy Grand Chief; Chief Billy Diamond; and Bill Nemagoose, Executive Director, Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec. Their presentation focuses on the proposed James Bay Phase II, consisting of two hydroelectric projects: the Great Whale River project and the Nottaway-Broadback Rupert project. The damming, flooding and construction done during the first phase of the project in the 1970s destroyed Aboriginal fishing and hunting grounds and animal migration paths.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, 1999, pp. 159-173
Description
Examines the US Federal Court Case to determine the Aboriginal treaty rights, in Washington State, to take Shellfish (in the law case shellfish were termed all marine life other than fin fish).
Presents a study that examines the unique problems and issues that effect the sustainability of nine communities that are timber-dependent, tourist dependent, subsistence dependent, and forest dependent.