Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, July/August 2000, pp. 27-28
Description
Reports on Australian Federal Government initiatives to improve access to eye care in rural and remote New South Wales for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
Native Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 1, 2000, pp. 1-17
Description
Discusses how giving up Aboriginal title is a valid means of reconciling relationship with the Canadian State as well as consequences of achieving self-government and the driving factors in the negotiations.
Provides a list of bands in each region according to geographic and economic situation for the funding of Indian government support, education and social assistance. Includes remoteness and environmental indices.
Final report examines historical background, analyses, and recommendation from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearings on the claim by the First Nation that the amount of acreage allotted was less than they were entitled to under the provisions of Treaty 8. Due to new Treaty Land Entitlement policy, the two parties agreed to negotiate a settlement and no determination was made by the ICC. Commissioners include : Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T. Corcoran.
Historical background, analysis and recommendations from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearings regarding claim that the First Nation was entitled to a reserve surveyed in the Cypress Hills. ICC concluded that no reserve had been created, but recommended that the Government of Canada acquire the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre and recognize its historical significance. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Author/Creator
Don Avison
Description
Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, argues to have the confrontational, adversarial and antagonistic conventional justice system change and include control by Aboriginal peoples in select areas.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Western Legal History, vol. 7, Winter/Spring, 1994, pp. 113-141
Description
Analyzes proposals regarding self-government in the Charlottetown Accord, and asses the impact of the defeat of the accord on future relations between aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state.
Canadian Geographer, vol. 44, no. 2, Summer, 2000, pp. 114-134
Description
Paper argues that in five decades hunting and gathering has diminished but economic development policies and funding have failed to develop a viable wage economy.
The Key First Nation Inquiry 1909 Surrender Claim (French Version)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Claims Commission
Description
Final Report examines whether the claim of the Key Lake First Nations discloses a breach of Canada's "lawful obligations" to the First Nation under the Specific Claims Policy. (French language version) Commissioners include: P. E. James Prentice, Carole T. Corcoran, and Roger J. Augustine.
[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.]
Final report examines historical background, analyses, and recommendation from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearings on the claim by the First Nation that the amount of acreage allotted was less than they were entitled to under the provisions of Treaty 8. Due to new Treaty Land Entitlement policy, the two parties agreed to negotiate a settlement and no determination was made by the ICC. [French language version}
Commissioners include : Daniel J. Bellegarde, P.E. James Prentice, and Carole T.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Author/Creator
Gordon Shanks
pp. 102-106
Description
Article from a 1993 Conference proceedings, discusses the federal position on self-government stating it recognizes the need for consultations with First Nations, and flexibility to accommodate diversity.
Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.
Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
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Author/Creator
John H. Hylton
pp. 150-170
Description
Article discusses past governmental approaches, and cost-benefit considerations in implementing self-government versus social and economic costs of not moving ahead and doing things differently.
Chapter from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, and Roger Carter.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 4, Indochina, October/November/December 2000, pp. 56-65
Description
Analyzes demographic, environmental and economic changes that have impacted the indigenous people of Vietnam's Central Highlands.
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