Canadian Government Lauds Advances in Indigenous Rights
Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Sinclair
Canadian Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3, The International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People, Fall, 2004
Description
Presents a review of succcessful negotiations on land claims and self-government agreements, in Canada, to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
Overview of development of funding formula and an outline of three funding formula options describing the benefits, restrictions and research plan for each option.
Discussion talks called for strategic investments to advance education levels and improve socio-economic conditions, which will then create greater tax revenues and recover initial implementation costs.
Discusses the resource co-management regime of the James Bay Crees in northern Québec, and looks at co-management institutions within the broader context of nation-to-nation treaty negotiations.
Excerpt from Canada: The State of the Federation 2003.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper scroll to p. 133.
Focuses on integrated resource management throughout comprehensive claim territories in the Arctic and Subarctic, with special attention on the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2004, pp. 129-222
Description
Discusses important documents regarding Aboriginal governance during the last three decades including key emerging themes, policy issues, and areas in need of further research.
Concludes that four problems must be addressed: level of commitment to self-government by other governments, clear policy and process to achieve recognition for the purpose of negotiations, issues related to funding and other resources, and the need for mechanisms for longer term relations.
Explains that the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec wished to stay in Canada in the event that Quebec seperated from Canada and questions how the Quebecers could deny the First Nations the very thing that they insist is theirs, self-determination.
Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum ; 2004
The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stephanie Irlbacher Fox
Description
Outlines government institutions and key governance issues including land claims, self-government agreements, intergovernmental processes, wildlife and resource management, institutional governance, and economic development.
Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.
Agreement signed on 19th February 2005 includes provisions regarding land set aside, land and water management, surface rights, natural resources matters, taxation, dispute resolution etc.
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Micmac 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Mikmaw 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Preventing Ecological Decline in the Bras d'Or Bioregion: The State Versus the Miqmaq 'Metamorphosis Machine'
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William T. Hipwell
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, 2004, pp. 253-281
Description
Discusses the ecological degradation of the central Bras d'Or Lakes watershed region and the active stance the Mi'kmaq people have taken to implement an integrated management approach to the issue.
Institute on Governance Roundtable Series, 2004-05
Towards a New Aboriginal Governance Agenda - TANAGA
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Institute on Governance
[Frannie Léautier
Larry Chartrand]
Institute on Governance Roundtable Series
Description
Summarizes two speakers' presentations: Can Good Governance be Nurtured: Experience from Developing and Transition Countries and Searching for Good Governance in the Aboriginal Context.
Presents an analytical tool that contains a series of criteria and related questions organized around five good governance principles that are based on work done by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).