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2008 May Report of the Auditor General to the House of Commons: Chapter 4: First Nations Child and Family Services Program--Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Aboriginal People With Disabilities
Aboriginal Women in Canada: On the Choice to Renounce or Reclaim Aboriginal Identity
Aboriginal Workforce Participation Initiative (AWPI) Awareness Kit
Addressing First Nations Governance Issues through Incremental Reform: Briefing Presentation - Draft
Alexis First Nation, TransAlta Utilities - Right of Way, Public Edition
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains statements of claim, correspondence/letters, maps and transcripts in regards to Calgary Power's (now TransAlta) access to electrical transmission right of way granted in the 1950s and 1960s. The Commissioners include: Roger J. Augustine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, Sheila G. Purdy.
Athabasca Denesuline Inquiry - Aboriginal and Treaty Harvesting Rights: Public Release - July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains correspondence/letters, submissions, and oral transcripts in regards to the claim for formal recognition of treaty harvesting rights north of the 60th parallel. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice.
Attawapiskat Students Await a New School
Relates the determined effort of International Children’s Peace Prize nominee, Shannen Koostachin, who lobbied successfully for a new school for her remote Cree community.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Battle Grounds: The Canadian Military and Aboriginal Lands
Betsiamites Band Council, Route 138 and the Betsiamites Reserve, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of bilingual annotated index, historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, Band Council documents and final reports relating to the Band's claims alleging that reserve lands taken for highway use were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include: Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [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.]
Bigstone Cree First Nation, TLE Claim Inquiry, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains interviews, presentations, statements, reports, correspondence/letters and documents regarding the Treaty Land Entitlement process for the Alberta First Nation. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
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.
Book review: Dances with Dependency: Indigenous Success through Self-Reliance
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.]
Celebrated at First, Then Implied and Finally Denied: The Erosion of Aboriginal Identity in Circus, 1851-1960
Chiefs Right to Reject CAP as a Legitimate Voice
Chippewas of Kettle & Stoney Point First Nation Inquiry, 1927 Surrender Claim, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, reports, exhibits, minutes, and submissions regarding the surrender of some of the reserve lands in 1927, 100 years after the treaty was signed. Commissioners include: Roger J. Augstine and Daniel J. Bellegarde.
Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Clench Defalcation Claim, Public Edition, July 2008
Chippewas Tri-Council Coldwater-Narrows Reservation, July 2008
Cumberland House Cree Nation, Cumberland Reserve 100A Claim, Public Edition, July 2008
USE FIREFOX FOR BEST VIEWING AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THIS RECORD. Consists of historical documents, submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, treaties, legal documents and the Final Report in English and French. [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.]
Duncan's First Nation Wrongful Surrender Claim, Public Edition, September 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents consist of historical documents, maps, reports, legal documents, transcripts, correspondence/letters, submissions and the Inquiry Report in English and French versions. [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.]
Eskasoni First Nation Governance 4 of 4
First Nations Post-Secondary Education and Training Literature Review and Best Practices: Leading Towards Recommendations for Comprehensive Post-Secondary Planning and Evaluation Framework for Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey
"A Higher Degree of Social Organization": Jan Eisenhardt and Canadian Aboriginal Sport Policy in the 1950's
Honouring the Spirit of Modern Treaties: Closing the Loopholes: Interim Report: Special Study on the Implementation of Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada
'In the Eyes of the State': Memories of Indian Agents Agency and Resistance in Kahnawake
Indian Act Colonialism: A Century of Dishonour, 1869-1969
Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada: 2008-2009 Report on Plans and Priorities
Indian Specific Claims Commission: 2007-2008 Departmental Performance Report
Indian Specific Claims Commission: 2007-2008: Report on Plans and Priorities
Investment to Strengthen Family Units Welcome
Kahkewistahaw First Nation, 1907 Surrender Claim, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contents include historical documents, annotated indexes, reports, correspondence/letters and the Final Report in both French and English. [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.]
The Key Band, 1909 Surrender Inquiry - Public Release, August 2008
"A Liberal and Paternal Spirit": Indian Agents and Native Fisheries in Canada
Matrimonial Real Property Reform Overdue
Author examines the discrepancies between the Human Rights Act and the Indian Act regarding matrimonial property laws and reserve land.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.
Memorandum of Understanding Between the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (Canada) and the State Committee on Northern Affairs of the Russian Federation Concerning Cooperation on Aboriginal and Northern Development - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Nadleh Whut'en First Nation: Lejac School Inquiry
Neskonlith, Adams Lake, and Little Shuswap Indian Bands Neskonlith Douglas Reserve Inquiry
Policy Communities and Policy Networks: The Establishment of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Education Policy in the Saskatchewan Region
Redesign of Indian Government Support
Report on the Mediation of the George Gordon First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Negotiations
Report on the Mediation of the Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation Hosford Lot and Red Bank Indian Reserve 7 Negotiations
Reports of the Auditor General of Canada to the Parliament of Canada: Independent Auditor's Report 8: Emergency Management in First Nations Communities—Indigenous Services Canada
[Reserve Pass Lesson Plan: Social Studies 8]
Uses archival material as a starting point to teach about the influence of the treaty relationship on Canadian identity and how historical events have shaped contemporary Canadian identity.