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Aboriginal Policy Reform and the Subsidiarity Principle: A Case Study of the Division of Matrimonial Real Property on Canadian Indian Reserves
Aboriginal Women in Canada: On the Choice to Renounce or Reclaim Aboriginal Identity
Addressing First Nations Governance Issues through Incremental Reform: Briefing Presentation - Draft
Bill S-3: Addressing Sex Based Inequities in Indian Registration
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.
Bridging the Gap: Taxation and First Nation Governance
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 Contains historical documents, memos, reports, correspondence/letters, maps and submissions regarding validity of the 1909 surrender claim.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 Contains historical documents, reports, legal submissions, correspondence/letters, transcripts, and maps regarding the specific land claim, concerning the surrender of reserve land, by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: 1905 Surrender Inquiry
The Colonial Legacy: The Legal Oppression of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
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.
Related Material: Fact Sheet.
The Cost of Doing Nothing: Implications for the Manitoba Health Care System
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.]
Effective First Nations Governance: Navigating the Legacy of Colonization
Eskasoni First Nation Governance 4 of 4
Examining the Provisions of Section 87 of the Indian Act as a Means to Promote Economic Participation and Treaty Implementation
Finding Solutions for the Legislative Gaps in Determining Rights to the Family Home on Colonially Defined Indigenous Lands
'A Flag that Knows No Colour Line': Aboriginal Veteranship in Canada, 1914-1939
'In the Eyes of the State': Memories of Indian Agents Agency and Resistance in Kahnawake
Incentives, Identity, and the Growth of Canada's Indigenous Population
The Indian Act and the Future of Aboriginal Governance in Canada
Indian Act Colonialism: A Century of Dishonour, 1869-1969
The Indian Act: Historical Overview
The Indian Act of 1876 Was Not Part of Treaty: A Treaty Resource Guide for Grade 4
Jurisprudential Challenges
The Key Band, 1909 Surrender Inquiry - Public Release, August 2008
Legacy of Residential Schools: Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
"A Liberal and Paternal Spirit": Indian Agents and Native Fisheries in Canada
Making Sober Citizens: The Legacy of Indigenous Alcohol Regulation in Canada, 1777-1985
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.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: A Historiographical Paper
A Narrative Description of Contemporary Negotiations Between the Canadian Pacific Railway and Five Indian Bands Regarding Land Taxation and Land Tenure Rights in British Columbia
Native Life
No Gift: Tobacco Policy and Aboriginal People in Canada
Plain Talk 5: The Indian Act
"Real" Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood
Report of the Mediation of the Sturgeon Lake 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
Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and Its Disruption
Time to Move on From Colonial-era Indian Act
Treaty Essential Learnings: We Are All Treaty People: Field Test Draft
[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.