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2008 May Report of the Auditor General to the House of Commons: Chapter 4: First Nations Child and Family Services Program--Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Aboriginal Political Representation: A Review of Several Jurisdictions
An Act Respecting Indians. [Assented to 20th May, 1951.]
Beatty's Move to Join Grits Not Hard to Fathom
Betsiamites Band Council, Route 138 and the Betsiamites Reserve, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of bilingual annotated index, historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, Band Council documents and final reports relating to the Band's claims alleging that reserve lands taken for highway use were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include: Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [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.]
Carrying the Burden of Peace: The Mohawks, the Canadian Forces, and the Oka Crisis
Chief Asks Church's Support For Treaties
Common Table Report: Based upon Discussions among Canada, British Columbia and the First Nations Participating at the Common Table
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.
Finding Solutions for the Legislative Gaps in Determining Rights to the Family Home on Colonially Defined Indigenous Lands
First Nations Post-Secondary Education and Training Literature Review and Best Practices: Leading Towards Recommendations for Comprehensive Post-Secondary Planning and Evaluation Framework for Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey
Gov't Needs to Step It Up and Improve Aboriginal Housing
Study, entitled Social Housing and the Role of Aboriginal Organizations in Canadian Cities, examined the quality of housing available and concluded more funding is necessary to improve the current situation.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.12.
The Governance and Fiscal Environment of First Nations’ Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations in Comparative Perspectives
Intersection and Integration of First Nations in the Canadian Forestry Sector: Implications for Economic Development
Jordan's Principle Remains in Limbo
Let Voters Decide Beatty's Fate
Literature Review on Participation of Aboriginal Students in Postsecondary Health Education Programs in Saskatchewan
Muskoday Signs TLE Agreement
Navigating Neoliberalism: Self-Determination and the Mikisew Cree First Nation
Oka: A Convergence of Cultures and the Canadian Forces
Responses of Canada to the List of Issues and Questions with Regard to the Consideration of Canada's Sixth and Seventh Reports on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
The Social Economy of Canada's Aboriginal North
[To Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of the Dominion of Canada: From the Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau Tribes of British Columbia, Presented at Kamloops, B.C. August 25, 1910]
Text of letter protesting the misappropriation of land, failure to create treaties, and the policies of the B.C. government. Site also includes information on laws and customs, historical and political context, and timeline from 1763 to 2009.