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Bill S-3: A Rushed Response to Descheneaux
Bill introduced to comply with Court's decision in Descheneaux et al., v. Canada (Attorney General), which found current <i>Indian Act</i> violated equality provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Court case involved eligibility for Indian Status.
Comments on the proposed Act rather than the final version.
Bill S-3: Addressing Sex Based Inequities in Indian Registration
The Colonial Legacy: The Legal Oppression of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Contesting the Colonial Order on the Canadian Prairies: Government Policy, Indigenous Resistance and the Administration of Treaty 6, 1870-1890
Developer's Story 3: Don't Aboriginal Peoples Want Equality? What is it That They Want Then?
Effective First Nations Governance: Navigating the Legacy of Colonization
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.
[First Nations and Canada: Seeking True Reconciliation]
First Nations Experiences with Adoption and Reunification: A Family and Community Process
First Peoples Law 2016
'A Flag that Knows No Colour Line': Aboriginal Veteranship in Canada, 1914-1939
Friends of the Michel Society Inquiry: 1958 Enfranchisement Claim
From Recognition to Reconciliation: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights
The Government of Canada's Response to the Descheneaux Decision
The Impact of Tax Exemptions for First Nations Reserves
Incentives, Identity, and the Growth of Canada's Indigenous Population
Indian Act Sex Discrimination: Enough Inquiry Already, Just Fix It
Indian Claims Commission Proceedings (1998) 10 ICCP
Jurisprudential Challenges
LEAF Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples on Bill S-3: An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration)
Media Representations of Policies Concerning Education Access and Their Roles in Seven First Nations Students' Deaths in Northern Ontario
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: A Historiographical Paper
Native Life
New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council Summary Report from Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and First Nation Citizenship
One of Many Homes, Stories of Dispossession from Stanley Park
Plain Talk 5: The Indian Act
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and Its Disruption
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.
Vision Quests and Questioning Visions: Taking on Collective Responsibility for Aboriginal Truth and Well-Being
"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.
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.