Canadian Public Policy, vol. 20, no. 3, September 1994, pp. 297-317
Description
Recommends ways to keep Aboriginal people in their communities by offering support for sustaining hunting, fishing and trapping through co-management of renewable resources, better use of under utilized resources, training and support for wildlife harvesters and more support for entrepreneurship.
Includes discussion of historical context, contemporary (1994) population and socio-economic conditions, funding arrangements and jurisdictions, and recommendations for facilitating movement towards self-government.
This address deals with three aspects of the Canadian Branch of Indian Affairs: the history and role of the Indian Affairs Branch, the special position of the Indian Canadian relating to treaties and the Indian Act, and with Indians and Indian Affairs in Saskatchewan.
Case studies of five sets of negotiations: federal self-government, federal health care transfer, Aboriginal Fishing Strategy, bilateral processes with British Columbia, and with third party stakeholders. Each analyzed in terms of will, policy coherence, mandate, and process.
File contains correspondence relating to low voting rates among indigenous peoples, and Diefenbaker's message to them in the next election; Indian Affairs, and the establishment of an Indian Claims Commission.
Research Program of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Benita Cohen
Description
Discusses the community's experience with controlling health care delivery beginning with administration of its health centre in 1980 and during the three-year period after signing a health transfer agreement with the federal government.
Reports include:
Cold Lake and Canoe Lake (Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range) Inquiries, Interim Ruling: Athabasca Denesuline,
Treaty Harvesting Rights Inquiry, Related Materials on Specific Claims, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada / Outstanding Business: A Native Claims Policy - Specific Claims, First Nations Submission on Claims, Response of Minister Siddon, March 21, 1991. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
File containing a press release regarding the introduction of the Estimates of the Indian Affairs Branch to the Department of Citizenship and Immigration
Examples were chosen based upon geographic representativity, types of natural resources, aspiration, and success or lack of it. Looks at agreements from Saskatchewan, Ontario, British Columbia, New Mexico, Northwest Territories, and one that is general to the United States.
Argues that Aboriginals of the North-West Territories entered the treaty making process seeking to ensure cultural survival, while the government had the goal of assimilation.
Historical background and report on mediation by the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) to resolve dispute over 192 acres wrongfully alienated in 1831. Proposed Settlement Agreement was negotiated and ratified. Chief Commissioner : Harry LaForme. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Historical background and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC)regarding Horse Island. ICC recommends that the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) write to all the First Nations whose claims were rejected because of the policy against the pre-Confederation claims so they can be reconsidered. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1994, pp. 391-393
Description
Review of the video: Sayisi-Dene First Nation: Nu Ho Ni Yeh (Our Story) produced by Alan and Mary Code. This video is about the relocation of the Duck Lake, or Churchill, Band of Caribou-eater Chipewyan (the Sayisi-Dene) from the bush to the port town of Churchill, Manitoba in 1958.
Politics and Program: A Case Study of a First Nations Child and Family Service Agency
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Joyce B. Timpson
Pete Hudson
Description
Examines internal and intergovernmental relationships through review of documents produced by the agency, its governing body and non-First Nations governments, and key informant interviews.
Historical background, analyses and submission to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding the unlawful surrender of their reserve. ICC recommended further research be conducted on their membership. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]