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Aboriginal Forestry: Community Management as Opportunity and Imperative
Aboriginal Perspectives Unit Guide for the Theme Sovereignty and Resistance
Lesson plan for Grades 7-12 uses excerpts from four documentaries: You Are on Indian Land, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Our Nationhood, and Dancing Around the Table, Part 1.
Aboriginal Rights Position Paper [1978]
Aboriginal Rights Position Paper [1980]
Aboriginal Rights Resource Kit
The Aboriginal Role in the Development of Albertan Oil and Gas Reserves
Advancing an Indigenous Framework for Consultation and Accommodation in BC: Report on Key Findings of the BC First Nations Consultation and Accommodation Working Group
Alberta First Nations Consultation & Accommodation Handbook
As Long as the Rivers Run: Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada
Assertion of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to Land and Resources: Addressing Deep-Rooted First Nations-Federal Conflict Through Sustained Dialogue
Assessing Alternative Land and Natural Resources Management Regimes at Shoal Lake First Nation No. 40
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Inquiry, W.A.C. Bennett Dam and Damage to IR 201, Public Edition July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Document contains submissions, reports, studies, correspondence/letters and video in regards to inquiry which was trying to determine whether the Crown owes compensation in relation to the dam construction. Commissioners include: P.E. James Prentice, Carole T. Corcoran, Aurélien Gill.
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.
Athabasca Denesuline Special Report on the Treaty Harvesting Rights of the Fond Du Lac, Black Lake and Hatchet Lake First Nations
The B.C. Indian Position Paper (Draft Copy) [before August 14, 1970]
Bearing the Burden: The Effects of Mining on First Nations in British Columbia
The Berger Inquiry and the Politics of Transformation in the Mackenzie Valley
Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89
Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State
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
Canada's Tibet: The Killing of the Innu
Canadian Land Reform: An Overview of Aboriginal Rights and Land Claim Settlements
Canoe Lake First Nation, Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range Inquiry I, Public Release
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Documents consist of documents, correspondence/letters, claim submissions, and the final report in regards to the inquiry, which examined the seizure of 4,500 square miles of land for the weapons range. Commissioners include: Harry S. LaForme, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and P.E. James Prentice. [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 - 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.]
Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper
Changes in Saami Socioeconomic Institutions in Jokkmokk Parish 1720-1890
Co-Management of Natural Resources in Canada: A Review of Concepts and Case Studies
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.
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Manitoba Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. Activities align with Manitoba curriculum guides for Grade 6 Social Studies and Grade 11 History of Canada.
Consultation Guidelines
Consultation with First Nations and Accommodation Obligations
Current Developments in Aboriginal Forestry: Provincial Forest Policy and Aboriginal Participation in Forestry in Ontario, Canada
Defining Aboriginal Rights to Water in Alberta: Do They Still "Exist"? How Extensive are They?
Devolution and Resource Revenue Sharing in the Canadian North: Achieving Fairness Across Generations
Energy East and Dakota Access: Pipelines, Protest, and the Obstacles of Mutual Unintelligibility
Environmental Governance in First Nation Communities
First Nations and the Resource Future: The Path to Economic Partnership
First Nations Women and Sustainability on the Canadian Prairies
From Consultation to Reconciliation: Aboriginal Rights and the Crown's Duty to Consult
Hear Us!: Mam People of Guatemala Express Their Voices Through Community Consultations
Her Majesty in Right of Newfoundland and Labrador as Represented by the Minister of Environment and Conservation and the Minister of Transportation and Works
and The Labrador Métis ...
The Highest Right That a Man Hath': Maritime Property Rights Regimes and BC First Nations
Hunters and Bombers: [Study Guide]
Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and the Restructuring of Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon, Canada
"If the Story Could be Heard": Colonial Discourse and the Surrender of Indian Reserve 172
In Brief: Idle No More
Indian Act and Treaties
Website includes links to three modules on treaties and five on the Indian Act and the reserve system.
Student worksheet for Indian Act and Treaties.