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Aboriginal Law 101
Aboriginal People: History of Discriminatory Laws
Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849-1989
Aboriginal Peoples Fact and Fiction
The Aboriginal Role in the Development of Albertan Oil and Gas Reserves
Aboriginal Title and Section 88 of the Indian Act
Access to Survival: A Perspective on Aboriginal Self-Government for the Constituency of The Native Council of Canada
An Act further to amend "The Indian Act". [Assented to 28th August, 1891.]
An Act to Amend the Indian Act. [Assented to 14th May, 1953.]
An Act to amend the Indian Act. [Assented to 4th May, 1910.]
An Act to amend “The Indian Act.” [Assented to June 23, 1887]
An Act to amend the Indian Act. S.C. 1938, c. 31 [Assented to 24th June, 1938.]
Action Plan Against Racism and Discrimination Towards Aboriginal People: Consultation Paper
Active Now: Public Policy Legitimacy and the Emergence of Idle No More
Analysis of the Positive Tax Law Affecting First Nations in the Context of Canadian Tax Policy
Assimilation, Integration or Termination?: the Development of Canadian Indian Policy, 1943-1963
B.C. First Nations Studies [Textbook]
The B.C. Indian Position Paper (Draft Copy) [before August 14, 1970]
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
[Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity]
Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity
Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights
Bill C-6: The Specific Claims Resolution Act
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: 1889 Akers Surrender
Blood Tribe/Kainaiwa Inquiry: Akers Surrender 1889 Claim, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains letters/memos, submissions, band council documents, and reports in regards to the dispute over the federal government taking over 440 acres of mineral-rich reserve land without full consent or compensation.
Blueberry River Indian Band v. Canada (Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development), [1995] 4 S.C.R. 344
Brief to the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples on Bill C-6"The Specific Claims Resolution Act"
Briefing Book: Current Federal Legislative Amendments Affecting First Nations
Canada's Idle No More Movement
Canadian Developments
Canadian Natives and Nationalism
Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Inquiry Turtle Mountain Surrender Claim
Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Turtle Mountain Surrender Claim - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, memos, reports, correspondence/letters, maps and submissions regarding validity of the 1909 surrender claim. Commissioners include: Roger J. Austine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Sheila G. Purdy. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
CAP - On Canada's Indian Act
Carry The Kettle - 1905 Surrender - Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by Carry the Kettle First Nation. Commissioners include : Sheila Purdy, Alan Holman, and Jane Dickson-Gilmore. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Carry the Kettle First Nation Inquiry: Cypress Hills Claim
Case Study of the Development of the 1998 Tribal State Agreement in Minnesota
A Case Study of the Surrendered Pheasant's Rump Reserve Land: 1901-1971
The Challenge of Governance and the Aboriginal Peoples
Challenging Legislative Infringements of the Inherent Aboriginal Right of Self-Government
Chiefs Reject Executive-Negotiated Governance Plan
Reports on the varied reasons why First Nations chiefs rejected the Indian Affairs Minister’s proposed joint governance consultation process to change the Indian Act.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.6.
Chiefs Turn Up the Heat on Treaty Rights
Comments on issues of treaty rights and fair revenues from reserve resources, and discusses a contract between Onion Lake Cree Nation and an Asian government to build a refinery on Cree land.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Comparative Governance Structures Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Discusses the self-government issues of legitimacy, power and resources, by using examples of current agreements. The article breaks the areas down in terms of: basic principles, rights through treaties, federal-provincial division of power, status of lands, legislative powers, and funding.
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