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B.C. First Nations Studies [Textbook]
Bill C-6: The Specific Claims Resolution Act
Bill S-3: Addressing Sex Based Inequities in Indian Registration
Brief to the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples on Bill C-6"The Specific Claims Resolution Act"
Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Inquiry Turtle Mountain Surrender Claim
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
The Colonial Legacy: The Legal Oppression of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Conflicting Discourses in Canadian Aboriginal Politics : A Case Study of the First Nations Governance Initiative
Effective First Nations Governance: Navigating the Legacy of Colonization
Enquête sur la Revendication de la Première Nation Dakota de Canupawakpa Relative à la Cession des Collines Turtle
Examining the Provisions of Section 87 of the Indian Act as a Means to Promote Economic Participation and Treaty Implementation
First Nation Land Surrenders on the Prairies 1896-1911
Comprehensive study of the extensive occurrence of reserve surrender drawing attention to patterns revealed through policies and practices of the Crown.
'A Flag that Knows No Colour Line': Aboriginal Veteranship in Canada, 1914-1939
Friends of the Michel Society Inquiry: 1958 Enfranchisement Claim
Government Termination Policy and Canadian Indians: A Fourth Policy Reality
A Hard Bed to Lie In: Matrimonial Real Property on Reserve
Incentives, Identity, and the Growth of Canada's Indigenous Population
Income Tax Rules for Aboriginal People
Research paper analyzes Section 87 of the Indian Act and finds that only 5.6% of Aboriginal people could potentially qualify for income tax exemption.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
Indian Claims Commission Proceedings (1998) 10 ICCP
Indian Governance Law Doomed to Failure
Indigenous Peoples and Fiscal Relationships: The International Experience
Jurisprudential Challenges
Mi'kmaq Women and Our Political Voice
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: A Historiographical Paper
Myths and Realities in American-Canadian Studies: Challenges to Comparing Native Peoples' Experiences
Native Life
New Agenda for Strengthening Canada's Aboriginal Population: Individual Treaty Benefits, Reduced Transfers to Bands and Own-Source Taxation
One of Many Homes, Stories of Dispossession from Stanley Park
Plain Talk 5: The Indian Act
Political and Fiscal Accountability of Band Governments
[Presentation from the Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians to the Senate on Bill C-6, Specific Claims Resolution Act]
Presentation to the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs Regarding Bill C-6, Specific Claims Resolution Act
Reforming the Indian Act: First Nations Governance and Aboriginal Policy in Canada
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and Its Disruption
Spirit of Law Ignored?
Discusses issues surrounding one Alberta band's efforts to control its membership numbers.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Sturgeon Lake First Nation Inquiry: Red Deer Holdings Agricultural Lease
[The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Recommendations and a Return to the Original Intent of the Treaty Relationship]
Understanding the Indian Act
Speakers discuss how the Act has defined the government's and Crown's relationship with First Nations peoples; how it has impeded development of communities; and how fundamental changes are needed to give First Nations' control over governance and the ability to develop mechanisms to improve access to capital.
Duration: 1:09:15.
"We Must Teach the Indian What Law Is": The Laws of Indian Residential Schools in Canada
Chronology of the laws that created and enforced Indian Residential Schools.
What Is It About Us That You Don't Like?
White by Definition: Status, Identity and Aboriginal Rights
Examines the issue of Aboriginal identification and inherent rights of Aboriginal peoples, and looks at how government policies fail to meet the concerns of specific groups. Uses case study of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation.